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The lost secrets of Palm webOS (2014)
- michalpleban 1y agoI still miss my HP Pre3, it was a great phone for that time...
- dredmorbius 1y agoLikewise for the Centro.
- NonEUCitizen 1y ago(2014)
- dang 1y agoAdded. Thanks!
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- krackers 1y agoYou can sort of see some of the motifs in the original material design.
- DaOne256 1y agohttps://archive.is/RPoAn https://archive.is/RPoAn
- classichasclass 1y agoMy Prē 2 and Veer are still going strong, and I still really love the Veer's size.
- iszomer 1y agoHow are you still using it? I still have my Pixi+.
- marklubi 1y agoIt's too bad that nobody's figured out notifications as great as the Pre had
- mosdl 1y agoThe entire experience (other than the peed issues you sometimes got) was so much better, but it did also much less(which is not a negative thing)
- supportengineer 1y agoI loved my Handspring Visor and PalmOS Treo phones - they had every smartphone feature, back in 2004.
- transpute 1y agoA decade later, LG's version of webOS continues to ship on TVs, based on OpenEmbedded/Yocto, https://www.webosose.org https://www.webosose.org
- pjmlp 1y agoAnd a much better user experience than using Android TV.
- FlyingSnake 1y agoI bought an HP Touchpad in the $99 fire sale and I still have it. The UX was so far ahead of its time that I was blown away by it. It’s still chugging along without hiccups. I miss the days of such lovely and unique devices.
- damnitbuilds 1y agoThey rather ridiculously discuss an OS as if all that mattered was the UI.
- nottorp 1y agoIt matters a lot, it's one of the reasons we're still waiting for the year of Linux on the desktop? And on small screen devices with the sole input a fat finger it matters even more if you ask me.
- damnitbuilds 1y agoUI is a layer on top of the OS. It is not the OS.
- pjmlp 1y agoOnly on the UNIX world. On the desktop world, the UI is a component of the OS, and is responsible of the whole OS experience. Hence why the successful OSes that happen to have UNIX internals, those internals are not exposed to the users, and are not optional for most development scenarios. Hence why GNU/Linux on the desktop failed, while Linux kernel on the mobile and TVs with prescribed user and developer experience has succeed.
- damnitbuilds 1y ago"UNIX" should be "Posix", I think. Not sure I agree with the last sentence, but an interesting point. Also, to what extent is the UI part of, for example, Windows 11 ? I think Windows can run headless ?
- pjmlp 1y agoYes as the Server Core configuration it can, but you don't get to replace Win32 puzzle piece that goes on top with something else, you might augment it with alternative UI frameworks, but ultimately it is Win32 at the bottom layer. Just like on macOS, while UNIX on the bottom layer, you don't get to plug something else instead of WindowServer and related low level APIs. Even with XQuartz, it builds on top of it, just like they build on top of Win32 on Windows.
- AStonesThrow 1y agoThe best thing about Palm Prē [for non owners] was their Tamara Hope spokeslady/ad campaign by Modernista! https://youtu.be/q3OfYkJbyLw https://youtu.be/q3OfYkJbyLw