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Apple also took about a decade to clone Palm's induction charger with magnetic alignment gadget. A shame the first Pre was just unusably slow. Innovator's curs
by sbierwagen 6y ago
Apple also took about a decade to clone Palm's induction charger with magnetic alignment gadget.
A shame the first Pre was just unusably slow. Innovator's curse, as usual.
- hajile 6y agoThat was their own fault. No ndk when Qt literally shipped on the device. In addition, the QtWebkit and v8 versions were woefully out of date being slower and using more memory than necessary. They also seemingly didn’t optimize their Linux kernel or boot sequence either.
- bayindirh 6y agoI think some of the problems could be traced to performance and power profile of TI OMAP. It was underclocked AFAIK. Probably due to too much heat or power or both.
- sbierwagen 6y agoIt was a widespread delusion. The original iphone didn't support native third party apps until iOS 2. For whatever reason, a bunch of people thought that web-only was the future for mobile.