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"The cards UI for switching between apps in webOS is such an idea. I don’t think I need to elaborate." Well that really sucks for people reading the article wh

• generalk 15y ago
  The idea is that you can view all open applications as a row of "cards". You can easily swipe between them and select a different one, or flick one away to close it.
• masklinn 15y ago
  The whole task switcher of WebOS looks like (iOS) Safari's tab-switching (with apps instead of pages of course), except with more goodness: the applications stay live (à la Android) and can be seen updating in the switcher, you flick applications off-screen to close them, it's possible to group application cards to make switching between a group faster, etc... It's all very neat, and very easy to understand. You can see the WebOS 1.0 cards demo here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUSui3rH1a8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUSui3rH1a8
  • ernesth 15y ago
    Is app switching different on other smartphones? I only have a symbian which does quite the same.
    • zbuc 15y ago
      On iOS the app switching is handled via a list of recently open applications accessed by double tapping the home button. You don't get a view of the app's window contents like you do in WebOS. Probably because 1) it wouldn't visually fit with the way the app switching is laid out on iOS and 2) iOS doesn't let apps run in the background, their state is frozen to disk and their process terminated when you switch. edit: it looks like this http://cloud.addictivetips.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Lock-Screen-Multitasking.jpg http://cloud.addictivetips.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Lo... -- the app contents push up and the bottom of the screen gets a list of apps inside it.
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