It’s weird seeing tech people complain “Android Queue is lifting the multitasking gestures straight from the iPhone!” when these features in fact originated in webOS on the Palm Prē way back in 2009, and came to the modern form in the Prē 2 in 2010 - bar indicator included!

@ticky I used a borrowed Pre 1(?) for a while just before their app store shut down and it's the only time I ever felt like my phone was an actual computer

@noiob they were, genuinely, extremely fucking good phones

@ticky @noiob I still miss my Pre 2... the oob experience wasn't perfect, but with some creative modifications, it was a dream to use, and the linux chroot/X support was really well implemented

@limni @noiob I never really got the X stuff working - I got as far as fumbling around in Xterm a bit - what else did you get up to in there?

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@ticky @limni I didn't even know it could do X stuff, I think the wildest thing I had was a terminal and that wonderful package manager

for some reason the screenfetch script always reported it as running "walm webOS"

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