What the iPhone X borrowed from the Palm Pre

I have become the unofficial standard bearer for webOS, the operating system created by Palm for the Pre and its successive devices. It was a wildly innovative and smart foundation for a smartphone done in by performance problems, mediocre hardware, and most of all by US carriers who acted as kingmakers for other companies.So as the bearer of a thoroughly-tattered banner, Iive been hearing a lot of people ask what I thought about the iPhone X and how it borrows many of the ideas first introduced by Palm. Hereis what I think: itis great, and also itis silly compare the state of tech in 2017 with the state of tech in 2009. Just because Palm did some stuff first doesnit take away from Apple is doing them now. Context matters, and our context today is very different.WebOS had some great ideas, but on a technical level, the operating system was a mess. It was a major battery hog, slow, and basically nothing more than a tech demo made in WebKit on top of a largely unmodified Linux kernel, running on mediocre hardware. WebOS wasn't a product worthy of the Palm name.