Convince an Android fan, to use a WP7 more

[disolitude]

trasharmdsister12 said:

disolitude said:

I think its an absolute shame that Meego or Palm OS couldn't become this massive open source OS that everyone adopted as back in 2010 they were both a lot more elegant and efficient than Android 2.2. Imagine where they would have been if they got the hardware and software attention Android got since.

I don't want to take things too off topic but I simply must echo this sentiment. I have an N900 running Maemo5 and was following the development of Intel's Moblin (installed quite a few different builds of it on my Atom based netbook years ago) before Nokia partnered with Intel to make Meego. The Nokia N9 remains the only "current" device on the market that I feel compelled to purchase, but Nokia shamefully killed off the platform before the device was even released. Now I'm stuck waiting to see what Nokia does with the next iteration of Windows Phone before I make any sort of upgrade move.

PalmOS was the other platform I was looking at when I bought my last phone but rumblings of Palm's instability came up as I was making my decision so I landed on the N900 rather than the Pre. Still, WebOS was an incredibly well thought out platform. It was immensely efficient, did some amazing pioneer work in multitasking on mobile platforms, and was totally open to developer draw and support from day 1 given its commitment to leveraging web technologies. It's just a shame that the ad campaigns for it ranged between pointless and creep-you-out and everyone had Apple on the... "mind". 

I think its safe to say that WebOS = Dreamcast of smartphone OS's :)