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> grid of icons that iPhone pioneered What? Every color screen phone I have ever owned has had a grid of icons.
by parbo 17y ago
> grid of icons that iPhone pioneered
What? Every color screen phone I have ever owned has had a grid of icons.
- nailer 17y agoIt may be harsh but this alone made it worth flagging the article for me. It is patently ridiculous to suggest the grid of icons is something new when every Symbian Series 60 (including quite a few with a KHTML based browser and 3G connectivity) did this before the iPhone.
- destraynor 17y agoSorry guys, I really meant "grid of icons" in the iPhone touch screen sense. Basically since the iPhone it has been the only way to display apps. I don't think saying that is "patently ridiculous" If you think of the grid design, what it basically says, visually is that all apps are of equal importance. Which is weird, when you think about it. Surely on a phone, ringing someone is a more important task than , say , Settings, yet the grid style (whether Apples or indeed a Symbian KHTML based) says they're of equal importance
- sounddust 17y agoI'd say that Apple's grid style does place a higher importance on essential apps: The phone, mail, Safari and iPod icons are not only in a special highlighted region at the bottom, but never scroll away no matter what page of apps you're navigating to.
- warfangle 17y agoAnd you can edit which apps show up here - I, for example, almost never make outgoing calls on my phone - at least, compared to previous phones. I don't know if that says something about me.. or if it attests to the saneness of the iPhone's SMS app.
- nkassis 17y agoIt's not because the iPhone made it the default that they pioneered it. I believe the OpenMoko had this interface, most windows mobile phones had this style, Android look like this since the beginning.