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2009 - 2011
Palm webOS
“Cards before cards were cool.”
- Birth year
- 2009
- Shutdown year
- 2011
- Lifespan
- 2 years
- Peak era
- 2009-2011
- Company
- Palm
- Category
- Mobile
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What Was It?
Palm webOS imagined phone multitasking as a deck of cards and gathered a devoted audience around its graceful interface.
Cards made running applications feel like objects that could be moved between and dismissed. The interaction gave multitasking a visible shape, helping the phone feel like a small workspace rather than only a launcher for separate full-screen apps. That design remains central to how the original mobile experience is remembered.
This entry focuses on the Palm smartphone era. The webOS name and technology have had other lives, so the end of that phone platform is different from saying that every later use of webOS disappeared.
Things You Probably Forgot
- Card multitasking
- Gesture area
- Synergy contacts
The Story
- 2009 Palm introduced webOS with the Pre.
- 2011 HP ended webOS hardware development.
How It Died
Poor sales and corporate changes ended Palm's original mobile platform.
What Replaced It?
Memories
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