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HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion

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Re: HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion

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"Palm’s unparalleled webOS platform" Question: is Palm's web os platform really unparalleled? Or is it quickly falling behind the race that is now dominated by iPhone and android?

afaik webos has the best multi-tasking system out there and the easiest entry point (since it's just js, css & html)

Re: HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion

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Very good news for WebOS since HP doesn't have their own competing mobile OS.

Weren't they the last major Windows Mobile player? This sounds like the last nail in WM's coffin.

HTC makes Windows Mobile/Phone devices. They just recently came out with the HD2 in the US.

Re: HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion

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I view 'Sent from my BlackBerry / iPhone' as a way of explaining why the email is so short.

Did BlackBerry start putting those messages in first, before Apple did the iPhone?

Article from Jan 2007 telling you how to remove that message from Blackberry's: http://www.bbhub.com/2007/01/02/how-to-banish-your-sent-from...

iPhone came out in June 2007 so .. looks like BB's did it first.

Re: HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion

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It's funny, even though Apple has resisted messing up the hardware, there is still that "Sent from my iPhone" message which always struck me as having no taste at all. It is different because you can remove it, but still.

True! I hate that bleepin' message. (I didn't know you could delete it.)

Yeah, it's the default email signature for iPhone and many others and you can change it under Settings->Mail, Contacts-> Signature. I'm not sure who added it first, but I find it obnoxious regardless of what company does it.

Re: HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion

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post #22

"Palm’s unparalleled webOS platform" Question: is Palm's web os platform really unparalleled? Or is it quickly falling behind the race that is now dominated by iPhone and android?

afaik webos has the best multi-tasking system out there and the easiest entry point (since it's just js, css & html)

"Best" in what sense?

Android's life-cycle and Bundles makes a developer think about saving app state information from day one. Something as simple as a configuration change, rotating orientation, recreates your Activity.

Since creating and destroying your activity is such a common occurrence you are forced to save the state info.

When the OS needs to kill a background activity to free up space it tends to work.

Really good YouTube video explaining this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6gSd4ugSI

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