Just met with a good friend of mine. He has an iphone 3g and he really likes it, without being an Apple f@nboy (why is the word censored?) though. He knows about webOS and has read good things about it. He asked me to give him my Pre 2 to see what webOS is all about. I asked him his iphone in order to play with it, now that I have my Pre and to really find out why the iphone is considered that good.
After a couple of minutes I was just thinking that I'd like to have a better built quality in my Pre (and a less wobbly slider) and some more apps. On the other hand, I was wondering how in the hell I could get out of an application because no gestures or swipes could do it for me and I found the "one big key that does it all" a bit stupid. It felt like I had an obsolete UI in my hands.
At the same time, my friend was saying "my phone can't do that" seeing how real multitasking works and how the cards and stacks really rule the world.
This made me happy and a bit sad in the same time. Are we the last people in a dying OS that really deserves much more?
HP-Palm have a real gem, have all the hard work done for them. They just have to get out there and shout "there is a better OS, try it". While this seems easy, I find it hard to believe that webOS will indeed manage to get a respectable market share. A market share which personally doesn't mean anything to me (I don't have any HP stocks), but would also mean much more interest and chances to see this thing improved with developers spending time with it.
Sorry for the long post, just felt like it
