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A lot of what's in today's mobile OSes came from webOS. Cards for multi-tasking. The full-screen gestures introduced with the iPhone X basically came exactly fr
by codepoet80 4y ago
A lot of what's in today's mobile OSes came from webOS. Cards for multi-tasking. The full-screen gestures introduced with the iPhone X basically came exactly from webOS. Samsung copied its Touch2Share years later. It even had some advanced sync features that no one has yet to properly copy.
Now-a-days, Android and iOS kinda take turns copying each other and mobile webOS is mostly a relic -- but it was from a time when phones didn't exist to suck up your data for advertisers, so it remains charming and delightful.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoA lot of the WebOS UI/UX DNA ended up in Android generally and in Material Design specifically because Matías Duarte went to Google as Palm imploded. He was a VP at Palm and is now VP of design at Google.
- dylan-m 4y agoOr that was the hope, but unfortunately a lot of what made WebOS good was the synergy between his team's excellent design thinking and the clean, practical, well designed platform underlying it. Android is a mess because it tried to reinvent the wheel everywhere from day one, and then Google took over. Which means barely 15 years later it carries multiple Windows' worth of legacy garbage. They've done some lovely UI design, but they have been unsuccessful making that type of work anything more than skin deep.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoOh sure, I agree in general. Though I think I'd have a hard time going back to WebOS now. The memory is likely better than the reality.