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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.35s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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manmal ◴[12 Oct 25 09:22 UTC] No.45556751[source]▶
WebOS, the palm smartphone OS. It was beautiful at the time and predicted many of the swipe gestures iOS and Android adopted much later.
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1. heavyset_go ◴[13 Oct 25 07:03 UTC] No.45565557[source]▶
WebOS premiered with true multitasking using the card metaphor for apps.

It took years for Android to adopt it, and then iOS, and even today, it's a copy of what WebOS did, but somehow worse.