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What's even more interesting is how much Apple copied from Palm and others. Like the whole device with a big screen and a grid of icons copied from the Palm Tun
by JohnTHaller 15y ago
What's even more interesting is how much Apple copied from Palm and others. Like the whole device with a big screen and a grid of icons copied from the Palm Tungsten TX (debuted in October 2004) which was something Apple was suing Samsung about. Or did they copy that from Windows 3.1?
- leon_ 15y agoThey just copied back. First Palm copied from the Newton.
- JohnTHaller 15y agoRight. But Newton copied the grid of icons from Windows and the general concept of a tablet computer from the GRiDPad which launched a full two years before the Newton.
- leon_ 15y agoYeah, but Windows copied icons from ... We could play that game all day long. Let's just save our energy for something constructive ;)
- pazimzadeh 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)
- JohnTHaller 15y agoLook up GRiDPad. That's where Apple took the idea for the Newton from (it launched a full two years before the Newton).
- r00fus 15y agoSilly example aside, as a Treo user migrating to an iPhone in 2007, I was absolutely thrilled that Apple "copied" so many good ideas from Palm... the concept of the device profile (backups were effectively a system image of the device). About the only thing I missed from my Treo was a) Bookworm app which showed up later in 18 months, and the customizable "home area code" (unfortunately still not here).