Palm UI Chief Departs for Google
Matias Duarte, Palm's VP of Human Interface and User Experience, has left the company according to a digital daily report this morning. Originally hired in Sept '07, Mr. Duarte was one of the leads on the webOS project and was responsible for much of the overall design and user interface. Readers may remember him from the initial unveiling of webOS at CES in Jan 2009.
Reports have now been confirmed that Duarte is taking a new spot at Google, where he will become the new User Experience Director for Android.
Thanks to The Poster Formerly Known As Seldomvisitor for the tip.
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WebOS is better than the current crap of smartphone rubbish UI ( BB, Android, WM 6.x) but still far below the gold standard of iPhone and of course classic Palm OS. Too much wasted screen real estate in some WebOS elements and its not nearly as finger-friendly as 320x480 should/could be. Of course, Android looks like it was slapped together by a group of mentally challenged kids with ADD, so anything is an improvement. Google is ONLY about flash & eye cands over substance, so I don't expect much to change in that regard. Google continues adding nifty transitions & UI effects to the OS while doing NOTHING to improve the core PIM functionality of Android.
Duarte was probably "gone" ages ago (like Colligan was last year and Marc Blank before that) but is just making the Google relationship official now.
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RE: Let loose the dogs of war!
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I have had many opportunities to purchase a WebOS device and I chose not to do so. We're all entitled to our own opinion and I think WebOS' UI elements are far better suited to larger screens that are higher resolution than the 320x480 (or less), 3.1" (or less) displays on Palm's current lineup.
Let me throw out the tantalizing tidbit that IMHO Garnet remains a superior OS to both WebOS AND iPhone OS as far as speed/ease of inputting & recalling info one-handed as well as the critical aspect of PIM functionality.
Any OS that lacks a full-featured document editing (not just viewing) package such as DTG cannot be taken truly seriously for power users. Dataviz's lack of faith in WebOS to date speaks volumes.
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Positive Palm news: Ben Combee returned to Palm!
I just hope he stays on (and takes on more responsibility) when HP officially assumes ownership of Palm. Those of us who have followed Palm for a while will remember that Big Ben was one of the main cogs in the Foleo's development. If only the rest of he development team had been as talented as Ben, today we all might have been toting around Foleo IIIs instead of iPads.
The Foleo Story is a sad tale that deserves to be told in public. Someday...
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All this user interface angst is B.S.
Palm has lost its way and is now run by marketing types rather than software people. THAT is the explanation for Palm's decade-long decline into oblivion. Amazing that Hawkins' original ideas (Palm Pilot and Treo) have kept the company in business for so long despite the near-criminal mismanagement that Palm has had to endure.
Brand new 128 MB Centro 2 are now available for $90 - $110 on eBay. I just picked up another one for $90. This is probably the last Palm branded device I'll ever buy, but it makes a hell of a PDA - even without activation. Turn off the cell phone radio and battery life is better than most recent Palm PDAs.
While i like the Sprint HTC EVO hardware, I think itssize may be a bit too big for me and I also don't like the disarray that the Android platform is in. I'm embarassed to realize that my next phone could be an iPhone 4G...
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Also, I wouldn't be surprised if there was not much interest keeping him after the HP buyout. There are a lot of UI people at HP on a salary and consulting basis that perhaps didn't see eye to eye with him.
The real perceived gem of the HP buyout is the webOS kernel that can go into hundreds if not thousands of HP product that now have royalty payments connected to them. The User Interface, IMO is considered secondary.
has anyone tried Pocket Mirror for WebOS?
'if you see a wire - they blew it.'
i'm so over wire usb syncing. OTA sync is a beautiful thing. automagically sync everything to the cloud. no more fumbling with cables, cradles, and clumsy usb doors.
RE: has anyone tried Pocket Mirror for WebOS?
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RE: has anyone tried Pocket Mirror for WebOS?
RE: has anyone tried Pocket Mirror for WebOS?
Awaiting the day when The Cloud goes POOF! and automagically sends all of Gekko's Cloud-only-synced data to Electron Hell.
Probably sooner than that, The Cloud will develop the vapors and Gekko will go temporarily (more) insane when he can't get to what he's socked away in The Cloud.
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RE: has anyone tried Pocket Mirror for WebOS?
RE: has anyone tried Pocket Mirror for WebOS?
RE: has anyone tried Pocket Mirror for WebOS?
that's what auto scheduled backups layered with checkpoints to the microSD card are for.
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Many told me that Mobile Division was constantly loosing talent to the desktop groups to get Windows 7 finished and out. This reorganization and house cleaning is like getting rid of a Fire Lieutenant cause the house he was rescuing burned down cause the Fire Chief was taking all of his water away.
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It's Gekko's thread Mike ;-)
E-T, I gave you a contact where you could actually do something with your life besides hanging out here pissing off people.
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There is no we-com virtual wallet. There are interfaces not an actual wallet. I can not use digital currency made by artisans of currency. I can show you digital currency it is not legal tender... Yet.
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Once I put a reply in a thread, it becomes MINE. I'm sick of this demented bastard ruining thread after thread with his running psychosis. One lunatic just went away. He should have taken this other one with him.
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Let loose the dogs of war!
Well, it's good for Android, I suppose. Although it will wreak havoc when HTC phone users find out they get Sense instead of the Cool Duarte stuff, for example. Good luck to him all the same.