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As the owner of an HP TouchPad, I could never figure out what people found so appealing about WebOS - it was slow, not really that polished (more than Android,
by jonhohle 14y ago
As the owner of an HP TouchPad, I could never figure out what people found so appealing about WebOS - it was slow, not really that polished (more than Android, significantly less than iOS), unintuitive (menus hiding actions in many apps), and had a terrible on-screen keyboard. Cards made me feel like I had manage apps in a way that iOS and Android don't. The hardware was heavy and bulky. The only way to make the device reasonably usable was to spend a significant amount of time installing hacks to bump the CPU speed, turn off logging, and a host of other things that end users shouldn't have to deal with for a device of this type.
Maybe the experience was better on phones. The only thing redeeming about the TouchPad was it's great screen for the time and price ($99 for 1024x768 10" IPS display).
- clauretano 14y agoOn phones, webOS was pretty slow and not all that smooth, until the Pre 2 came into existence with about twice the processing power and webOS 2. Unfortunately, webOS was already floundering at this point and Verizon was the only U.S. carrier to launch the Pre 2, so very few people ever got to experience it. There was the HP Veer on AT&T as well, but that was quite the niche offering. Despite webOS being around for two years before the launch of the HP TouchPad, the device was less refined because so much of webOS 3 was new. It was the first webOS device without a hardware keyboard, for instance. It was also the first without a gesture area, the first with that new notification system, etc.