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That's interesting -- I was only vaguely aware of that. The deal that nearly happened between PalmSource and Symbian when Palm was moving to Arm processors is
by lproven 3y ago
That's interesting -- I was only vaguely aware of that.
The deal that nearly happened between PalmSource and Symbian when Palm was moving to Arm processors is one of the great might-have-beens of the IT industry.
Symbian was a superb OS, with a choice of UIs not of which matched its greatness.
Palm had a very good, widely-loved UI, but a poor kernel underneath.
The combination could have been industry-beating, but the deal never completed.
Now Symbian is FOSS but nobody cares, and PalmOS is buried inside Access Corp, never to be seen again.
I think WebOS survives as the UI of some LG smart TVs...
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoThe WebOS UI in the LG TVs doesn't have much connection to the phone OS's UI at this point, though it's from the same code base originally, yes. From my understanding, same idea of building apps in an HTML/JS stack, and using some of the original SDK.