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There's also a decade or so of PDA's with grid of icon interfaces that predate the iPhone.
by zumu 8y ago
There's also a decade or so of PDA's with grid of icon interfaces that predate the iPhone.
- threeseed 8y agoAnd do those PDAs have the same style and layout of icons as the iPhone ? No. Because I still own a Treo 650 and it looks completely different. This is a design patent remember.
- zumu 8y agoYour anecdote is valid, but there are A LOT of PDA's out there. Many of them have a grid of icons layout. For instance, consider the Sharp PDA's GUI -- it's a grid of rectangular icons broken up into pages (albeit with named tabs). That being said, there may be something unique to Apple's patent, but on its face, "grid of icons" as a UI pattern predates the iPhone considerably.
- threeseed 8y agoYou know we are talking about design patents. In which case Apple's patent is completely legitimate since the home screen remains unique to this very day. And Apple never patented a grid of icons.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoAnd the samsung design is different. The rounded rects have different curvature, and there is no home square. Apple's design looks the same as Windows 3.0
- sbuk 8y agoIronically, most ‘copied’ the Apple Newton. Go figure...