Jon Rubinstein, the company's former CEO Palm and director within HP after purchase Palm, says that iOS 7 contains multiple technologies that were initially available in WebOSlaunched many years ago. Rubinstein states that the multitasking and task switcher from iOS 7 were borrowed from WebOS, but together with them the tabbed browsing system available in the new version of the browser would have been borrowed Safari. The truth is that everything we see now at Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), we have seen in multiple operating systems over the years, the functions being so innovative that most manufacturers implemented them at any risk just to offer them to users.
It's not just mobile platforms. If you look at the notifications on Mac OS X, it looks just like webOS, too. We did a lot of things that were very, very innovative. Obviously, multitasking, notifications, Synergy, how we handled the multiple cards. There's a long list of stuff we did that has been adopted by Microsoft, Apple and Android. Our over-the-air updates and mechanism have been updated by everyone. Our whole Synergy concept is now becoming much more common. I don't think anyone has implemented it as well as we did yet, but clearly they're all heading down that direction.
However, the statements of the former Palm CEO are not only directed against the Apple company, he stated that both Microsoft and Google did the same with Windows Phone or Android OS> Notification systems, over-the-air update systems and many others have initially appeared in WebOS, but they slowly found their place in most operating systems for mobile terminals, but now the ingenuity of those from Palm matters less.
