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Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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btipling wrote: post #35
jarin wrote: post #32

I just wanted to chime in and say that webOS is pretty cool to develop for. I went to a developer outreach event in San Diego a while back, and managed to make a fully-functional FMyLife app in less than 3 hours (not knowing anything about webOS beforehand). Developing for webOS is a lot like developing Flex applications (which I had done previously), except the API is way less complicated than Flex's API, and it's a…

The OS is promising but the phones are ugly. Those keyboards are just weird looking. I hope webOS takes off though, a trio of iOS, Android and webOS would be pretty cool.

The keyboard may be weird-looking, but more importantly it's pretty easy to use and way more efficient than on-screen keyboards.

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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mdasen wrote: post #29
mgkimsal wrote: post #24

I dearly hope the offer a decent tablet that is inexpensive and not tied to a mobile carrier. I think one of the things that killed Palm/Pre was that they tried to play the 'mobile phone' game, when they could have gone 'retro' with the "pda without a mobile phone" and done much better. Lots of geeks and non geeks would be willing to give a device a spot in their lives that doesn't displace their current mobile phone…

I think to be successful, Palm would have had to offer both a PDA and a smartphone. I think the problem was that Palm didn't have the resources to do both. Even when you look at something like the Palm Pre 2, you can kinda see that Palm hasn't been able to keep up. At a time when only the really low-end devices have 320x480 screens and 3.1" screens, the Palm Pre 2 gets introduced with those specs. Apple has shown tha…

> iPod touch's display doesn't have IPS, it's rear camera is a paltry 1MP

Wow, I totally missed that, and I have a 4G iPod (my first Apple product). Apple must have evaded this fact really well; I assumed that those specs are the same as in iPhone. How did you know that?

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