On: Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake

[rbanffy]

I miss WebOS, which was criminally cancelled by the imbecile HP hired.

It took years for any other mobile platform to catch up to the convenience of my beloved Palm Pre.

[pjmlp → rbanffy]

I use it every day on my TVs.

[rbanffy → pjmlp]

Can't make phone calls, or carry my TVs in my pocket.

[pjmlp → rbanffy]

Irrelevant for the fact that WebOS is still around.

[rbanffy → pjmlp]

All the things that made WebOS interesting and a competitor to both iPhone and Android (and Blackberry, and Windows) are gone and not usable in the TV interface.

I remember some people did have a half-working port to the PinePhone, but I don't know how far did it go.

[pjmlp → rbanffy]

If it was a worthy competitor it would have stayed around in mobile devices, I was never impressed with the Web based UI in the Psions.

Nokia had already tried it a couple of years before with the Web runtime for Symbian, and it wasn't great either, nor the failed Firefox OS.

It lives on as TV OS, and actually the experience is much better than Android TV, regarding the UI junk (less of it), hence why I got it.

And yeah, there are people still shipping apps for it to run on TV, if one feels so inclined to do so.

[rbanffy → pjmlp]

> Nokia had already tried it a couple of years before with the Web runtime for Symbian, and it wasn't great either, nor the failed Firefox OS.

IIRC, WebOS was the first mobile to rely on WebKit for the whole UI presentation layer. Prior to that, nothing was fast enough.