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palmOS and nokia n9 are the most promising and the most failed projects in the last decade i think. it had so much potential but failed miserably.. I would really want to live in alternate reality where these two projects are successful :(

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> palmOS and nokia n9 are the most promising and the most failed projects in the last decade i think.

Palm OS came out 25 years ago.

Maybe thinking of Palm webOS (I had a Pre in 2009, it was way ahead of its time)

That and RIM's BlackBerry OS 10. It was fantastic and remarkably consistent across the board, even third-party apps like WhatsApp. Android's and iOS's swipe-up-to-go-home feature may have originated in BB10, but BB10 did it way better.

yes, was talking about webOS and palm Pre devices

The first time I SSH'ed into my Pre and saw it was basically just another RedHat-based Linux was /so cool/. I thought for sure it was the future of mobile operating systems.

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