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Originally Posted by enzo1
were the HTC phones (UI) any good before Apple came out with the iphone..... no, because none of the touch screen phones operating systems were any good,(they sucked), then Eric schmidt ( womanizing adulterer with no scruples) ripped it off, instead of giving his own engineers the task of coming up with their own fricken system , just easier to steal it .
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Are you under some notion that Apple invents
everything in their product? ...that they pull the ideas out of some Apple-proprietary aether? Or are you saying that it's easier for Apple engineers to simply 'steal' ideas? --because that is exactly what they do.
Understand; Apple's strength is in the BALANCE of features that they package, and the marketing machine that popularizes it. IMO, Steve Jobs is central to Apple's product feature-set choices. (and he knows his marketing too.) --He seems to be the 'Martha Stewart' of that organization. (maybe techweenie can set me straight on that)
Anyway...Back to the "idea" thing... I design products for a living. -Lots of hand-held electronics. This is one reason why
I follow so much of what the industry is doing.
-Just as the designers and engineers at Apple do. So, from my perspective, Apple isn't pushing anything new, other than a new balance of features. ...features from a vast pallet of existing ideas.
Take the G-sensor; as that is the only feature that I can think of that is a
technology push from Apple. Thing is that well over a year before Apple had that in their phone, we had a rep in the design studio demonstrating that tiny chip. We all shrugged, as it was cute, but
our designs of hand-held display devices really wouldn't benefit enough from the novelty. OTOH, 'E-ink' had obvious benefit, and I design a nice product using that technology.
--btw (screen flipping) HTC touch phones of the day flipped the screen (portrait/landscape) with the slide(in/out) of the keyboard. --So did Apple also "steal" that portion of the idea?
