I'm Getting Really Annoyed with Not Having Multi-Tasking (Idea)

[thalazy]

I hope

that eventually they will bring it to their plus line of phones. If there is one thing Samsung can ridicule Apple for is the lack of true multi-tasking. I think Apple will do it when they can do it right and when they decide to go with more ram.

 

[mercuryjones]

This just means nobody wanted to pick up the pieces that HP left behind. Frankly, I really can't blame anybody. Apple already had their own OS. So did Google. Microsoft could have gone for it, I guess, but they would have wanted to rebrand it as Windows, at the very least. Maybe Blackberry could have taken it but they were still too stubborn at that time thnking they could still keep going with Blackberry OS (then called something else, don't even remember what lol).

I think the reality is that it is/was a good OS that simply got run into the ground. Nobody wanted to take the risk with damaged goods.

Apple, Google or Samsung could have picked it up for a steal, most likely. Apple and Google could have easily integrated a lot of the tech into their respective OS'. Samsung simply could have had a solid OS with which to move away from Android, if the competition got too rough (as it is now).

 

[lordofthereef]

Apple, Google or Samsung could have picked it up for a steal, most likely. Apple and Google could have easily integrated a lot of the tech into their respective OS'. Samsung simply could have had a solid OS with which to move away from Android, if the competition got too rough (as it is now).

Didn't they officially make webOS open source? They can already incorporate whatever they want under those grounds.

I seriously think the WebOS name was sullied so bad (first company who owen it failed, then another company with a big name in computing ran it into the ground) that nobody wanted it. BUT, I guess that is neither here nor there at this point. For whatever reason, webOS is far more dead than anything else at this point.

 

[mib1800]

Didn't they officially make webOS open source? They can already incorporate whatever they want under those grounds.

I seriously think the WebOS name was sullied so bad (first company who owen it failed, then another company with a big name in computing ran it into the ground) that nobody wanted it. BUT, I guess that is neither here nor there at this point. For whatever reason, webOS is far more dead than anything else at this point.

It is not so easy just to buy and use it. I think by that time most of the developers and designers of the webos have already moved on. It may be easier to start everything from scratch. I think the most difficult of any os is the core hardware interface layer and not the UI.

 

[kdarling]

I don't really miss multi-windows on my phone, but I sure miss it every day on my iPads.

A lot of times I want to be able to half-watch TV in the top half of portrait mode, while reading news sites and forums in the bottom half.

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Yahoo had an article today about a new Samsung video about using multi-windows. It's a meta story about a a video being made about a businesswoman who's unable to fly home because of a snowstorm.