The Palm Pre Is The Reason You Love Your Phone

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MrMobile (Michael Fisher) looks back at the Palm Pre and its webOS, arguing that it shaped the phones people use today. The video revisits what the Pre introduced to smartphone interfaces.

HN people submitted it as a retrospective on how webOS and the Palm Pre influenced modern phone design.

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