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		hedgehog on April 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS webOS was really nice, a lot of ideas that didn't come to iOS and Android until much later were present and nicely implemented back in 2010 or so.

ianburrell on April 8, 2024 [–]

I had a Palm Pre, and Treo before that. One problem is that webOS needed resources, and Palm chose limited hardware.

I think webOS could have been the iPhone if Apple didn't exist. I think they could have taken the second spot from Android if had been earlier, open, and released conventional hardware.

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