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I have been using an iPhone 2G for 2 years and I recently recommended a Palm Pre to my mother. The Pre itself sucks, but WebOS is just gorgeous! It's certainly not better than iPhoneOS, but definitely well designed. And it has multitasking.
Now, usually I don't really need multitasking on a phone, at least as long as apps save their last state and start as quickly as on the iPhone (on the 3GS it's said to be even faster). But there are a few situations in which I'd like to have it. First of all, music streaming. Last.fm, Pandora, you name it. On the iPhone not all music is equal, so I can't do anything else while listening to streaming music. I understand that this would quickly drain the battery, but still.
Second, if I want to share information between two apps, I have to press Home in the first app, navigate to the right home screen, tap the other app I want, and do the same if I want to switch back to the former app. I don't necessarily have to have both apps running at the same time, I just want to switch directly between the two apps without hassling with the home screen.
WebOS lets me do both those things in a very elegantly manner. True, most WebOS apps are simple HTML/Javascript programs that don't use much power anyway, but nevertheless I'd kind of like to have that on the Phone too. If not, it should at least be included in the more powerful iPad. It's certainly not a dealbreaker for me, but it gives me a feeling that something is missing.
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