On Aug 21, 10:03 pm, Karsten Silz <karsten.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tor: "Android didn't copy the iPhone" > If we can believe Gizmodo, then the first Android prototypes looked > like Blackberries before Android started following the iPhone (http:// > random.andrewwarner.com/what-googles-android-looked-like-before-and- > after-the-launch-of-iphone). To me, there's nothing wrong with being a > "fast follower" as Google is - and Apple certainly copies from other > sources, too (iOS 5 is full of this). Bonus point: Tablets didn't all > look like that certain tablet either (http://twitpic.com/67ykpa).
Very little technology is "invented". Most of it evolves from ideas inspired by or derived from existing stuff that is already out there. The idea that there is a group of people out there in the mobile/smart phone market who are above this reality is fantasy. > Dick: "How many different ways are there to present icons and buttons > and pixels on a screen" There are certainly a lot of ways to do it badly. > Dick: "Apple started the smartphone patent wars" > Nokia started it... I assume you're being ironic here (Karsten). If we treat smart phones as just another form format of personal computing then I don't think that there has been any kind of recent halcyon period where none of the big boys refrained from suing any of the others. http://www.cultofmac.com/infographic-whos-suing-whom-in-mobile-as-re-imagined-by-a-competent-designer/61951 > http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MTAxNTAzfENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1 (I can't get to this link. Does it have restricted access?) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
