Ars found the fundamentals of Palm Pre

[clevin]

Sorry i open a new thread for this, I found Ars has some lines that really identified the revolutionary importance of Palm Pre, the things that "others are bound to follow".

Articles are
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...-new-handset-pre-operating-system-at-ces.html
and
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090111-of-clouds-palms-webos-and-cutting-the-cord.html

The importance as I see it, and as I agree with Ars are

by ditching the app + window paradigm in favor of a card paradigm, Palm was able to invent a truly task-based interface that lets you use the interface to do things, instead of using apps to do things.

and

Palm's webOS does not presume any sort of tether at all. The company has totally ditched the idea that you will use this phone in conjunction with a specific "main PC" that contains the canonical, authoritative repository of your data.

This is a deep, fundamental break with both the iPhone and previous, repository-based smartphone usage models, and it's important enough that other smartphones are bound to follow.

I read many reviews and opinions, Zdnet, Cnet, AllthingsD, Gizmodo, engadget, etc. everybody focuses on the one of more aspects of the whole package. But nobody stated as deep as Ars did.

The fundamental forward progress of the WebOS is very important, IMHO, as it materialized a truly desktop like environment on a handset. (think about it, if it can be connected to a bigger display, it behaves like a real computer, multi-tasking, no interruption of multiple work-flows of users)

iPhone has a powerful hardware combo and a capable OS. But at the current stage, its still in the old playfield, and its basically a glorified app launcher. I don't know if apple could or would follow the Pre, but I know it SHOULD.

 

[olternaut]

Sorry i open a new thread for this, I found Ars has some lines that really identified the revolutionary importance of Palm Pre, the things that "others are bound to follow".

Articles are
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...-new-handset-pre-operating-system-at-ces.html
and
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090111-of-clouds-palms-webos-and-cutting-the-cord.html

The importance as I see it, and as I agree with Ars are


and





I read many reviews and opinions, Zdnet, Cnet, AllthingsD, Gizmodo, engadget, etc. everybody focuses on the one of more aspects of the whole package. But nobody stated as deep as Ars did.

The fundamental forward progress of the WebOS is very important, IMHO, as it materialized a truly desktop like environment on a handset. (think about it, if it can be connected to a bigger display, it behaves like a real computer, multi-tasking, no interruption of multiple work-flows of users)

iPhone has a powerful hardware combo and a capable OS. But at the current stage, its still in the old playfield, and its basically a glorified app launcher. I don't know if apple could or would follow the Pre, but I know it SHOULD.

Ouch.

And here everybody thought that the iphone would have Apple in front of the pack for a good 5 years before they competition caught up.
It took only 2 years it seems.

Apple better BRING it at their next major event announcement.

 

[Dejavu]

Jon Rubinstein did address this new paradigm in his keynote, where information is smartly combined and presented in a unified UI. I do think this is revolutionary, and a step beyond Apple's implementation with their approach.