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Windows Phone apps were absolutely mostly shovelware, which had a not insignificant contribution to it's failure I feel.

Never used PalmOS to comment.

I think third place these days is Tizen which is in a worse place than the two big ones for apps, and then fourth might genuinely be GNU/Linux but there's massive dropoffs between third and fourth, and between second and third.

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>I think third place these days is Tizen which is in a worse place than the two big ones for apps,

iirc third place is KaiOS, a proprietary fork of the discontinued FirefoxOS [0]. It's primarily used on feature phones though. As for app support, an official youtube and whatsapp app are available on KaiOS.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

But you may have used the Palm OS successor, webOS, which is used by LG smart TVs. It blew me away that Palm OS is still around in some form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS

There is also LuneOS [0], its sort of a successor that is built using a combination of Open webOS components and android components, and uses a web rendering engine (Qt WebEngine) for UI and app development.

It's available on a few devices (I have it running on a pinephone; also tried running on a galaxy 4 but got stuck in a boot loop). The wiki is a bit out of date, but there is an active community on their IRC [1].

[0] https://www.webos-ports.org/wiki/About

[1] https://www.webos-ports.org/wiki/Contributors

Palm is back now too. They make ear buds and a mini phone.

https://palm.com/

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