Palm Pre (2009)

What happened to Palm in all of this? Palm’s personal assistant technology was popular in the 90s and early 2000s, but the company struggled to combine its tech with mass-market phones especially when faced with growing competition. The Pre and Pre Plus were the last significant attempts by Palm to compete in the smartphone world, and the reasons it ultimately couldn’t. Its OS was innovative for the time, although a bit buggy; and it highlighted just how good Android and iOS were. Although after Palm relinquished its market share, iOS would eventually borrow a few of WebOS’ highlight features that we still use today (like card-based multitasking).