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Originally Posted by Jmac
I'm aware of QNX's background.
The QNX system in the Playbook is new and, while it operates differently in the lower levels of the system compared to WebOS, it nonetheless has much of the same features, functionality, and a very similar interface that was not present prior to the Playbook. The Playbook's QNX OS is adapted from the OS they've been using for BMW's iDrive system. Are you going to tell me that iDrive is similar to WebOS ?
I'm not going to say it's a bad thing because, IMO, WebOS is the best mobile OS on the market right now (attached to some of the crappiest hardware and worst advertising). QNX on the Playbook might be better, I haven't used it yet. The guys at our head office I talked to used both (albeit the TouchPad was in an Alpha version of WebOS 3.0) and they liked the Playbook better.
I still haven't been able to get any info from anywhere as to whether or not the Playbook uses an IPS-based LCD panel, which can also be a deal breaker, IMO. BB's rep and retail hotline couldn't tell me and our HO guys had no clue what I was talking about.
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QNX is far better than WebOS. WebOS is basically based off a Linux kernel. While that's not a bad thing, nothing can compete with the core of QNX. There's a reason why medcial devices in hospitals (like life support) and nuclear plants rely on QNX to run their systems. QNX never hangs up, never crashes and is extremely robust. In the rare cases where a problem does arise it can fully recover and continue working without requiring a reboot.
It's also a RTOS (real time operating system) and is used in devices where instant response to events is required. Ever had to wait, even for a second, while Windows sits there and does some background process before it responds to your mouse click? QNX
never does this, and its response time can be measured in
milliseconds (or even less). Again, this is why it's used in mission critical devices - you can count on it to respond when needed without worrying about some process "hogging" all the resources and making another critical process "wait" before it can respond.
People can argue the Playbook looks like WebOS, but the truth is almost every type of user interface has been used at one time or another in an operating system, web page layout, game interface or phone. It's pretty damn hard to claim you "invented" something when your interface is made up of components that have been in use for years. Putting those components together in a different fashion isn't really "inventing".
Wait, did I just sound like an Apple hater? "Apple never invents things, they just steal others ideas and market them as their own." Guess Apple isn't the only company that does that.
