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I agree. Competition is healthy but I'm sick of companies trying to jump on a bandwagon just to scrape whatever profit they can. It's so uninspired. It does not

I agree. Competition is healthy but I'm sick of companies trying to jump on a bandwagon just to scrape whatever profit they can. It's so uninspired. It does nothing but clutter the market with things we really don't need. Now, if HP were truly doing something new and innovative, that would be different. But all they're doing here is leaching and creating more trash for landfills.

mikelbring 15y ago
Have you seen WebOS? I find it rather interesting and thinks its better for a tablet than iOS is.
- CamperBob 15y ago
  Mostly what I'm seeing (watching the video) are what look like garbage-collection hitches, and instances where the demonstrator has to repeatedly hit the same spot on the screen to make something happen. It doesn't look anywhere near as smooth as a first-gen iPad. This stuff matters, as it turns out. As for the rest of the demo, well -- shrug -- it looks like iOS. I tend to agree with the downvoted grandparent: bring something new to the table, or don't waste my time. My guess is that few people other than patent attorneys will end up making any money from this product.
  - smackfu 15y ago
    The task switching is nothing like and far better than iOS. Unless you like that hacky double-tap home thing.
    - CamperBob 15y ago
      Well, no, the task-switching UI is better than iOS, I do agree with that. It's perplexing that someone at Apple of all places thought the double-tap home thing was a good idea. In any case, if someone at Apple were to load up on Red Bull and pizza and camp out in their office for a weekend, iOS's task-switcher could look and work exactly the same. They apparently believe they're doing it the right way now, though, for whatever reason.
metamatt 15y ago
I'll echo the other reply to your post -- have you any experience with webOS? I've gone back and forth between webOS and iOS phones over the past couple years, and while webOS is not better in every way, and is significantly handicapped in some ways, it's also significantly better than iOS in some ways. I really don't see webOS phones as poor attempts to jump on a bandwagon just to scrape whatever profit they can. This is much more a case of healthy competition. I too expect Apple will eventually adopt a similar multitasking paradigm for iOS (you could call it Exposé-inspired, or webOS-inspired, as you wish), negating webOS's most obvious advantage. Which you could attribute to the effects of competition. Or maybe Apple would have inevitably done it once the hardware got powerful enough -- who knows.

mikelbring 15y ago

Have you seen WebOS? I find it rather interesting and thinks its better for a tablet than iOS is.

CamperBob 15y ago
Mostly what I'm seeing (watching the video) are what look like garbage-collection hitches, and instances where the demonstrator has to repeatedly hit the same spot on the screen to make something happen. It doesn't look anywhere near as smooth as a first-gen iPad. This stuff matters, as it turns out. As for the rest of the demo, well -- shrug -- it looks like iOS. I tend to agree with the downvoted grandparent: bring something new to the table, or don't waste my time. My guess is that few people other than patent attorneys will end up making any money from this product.
- smackfu 15y ago
  The task switching is nothing like and far better than iOS. Unless you like that hacky double-tap home thing.
  - CamperBob 15y ago
    Well, no, the task-switching UI is better than iOS, I do agree with that. It's perplexing that someone at Apple of all places thought the double-tap home thing was a good idea. In any case, if someone at Apple were to load up on Red Bull and pizza and camp out in their office for a weekend, iOS's task-switcher could look and work exactly the same. They apparently believe they're doing it the right way now, though, for whatever reason.

metamatt 15y ago

I'll echo the other reply to your post -- have you any experience with webOS? I've gone back and forth between webOS and iOS phones over the past couple years, and while webOS is not better in every way, and is significantly handicapped in some ways, it's also significantly better than iOS in some ways. I really don't see webOS phones as poor attempts to jump on a bandwagon just to scrape whatever profit they can. This is much more a case of healthy competition. I too expect Apple will eventually adopt a similar multitasking paradigm for iOS (you could call it Exposé-inspired, or webOS-inspired, as you wish), negating webOS's most obvious advantage. Which you could attribute to the effects of competition. Or maybe Apple would have inevitably done it once the hardware got powerful enough -- who knows.