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I would say their relationship to touch interfaces is similar to their history with mouse-based GUI: they didn't invent it from scratch, but they innovated upon
by lukifer 15y ago
I would say their relationship to touch interfaces is similar to their history with mouse-based GUI: they didn't invent it from scratch, but they innovated upon the existing ideas in ways that helped the technology reach mass market.
- eftpotrm 15y agoOnly if you've got a short memory. Think back to 1999-2000ish. Palm Pilots were The Next Big Thing, Microsoft were pushing Windows CE handhelds of which every OEM had to have their own. Psion had their wonderful but sadly disregarded Series 5. There was a large ecosystem of handheld touchscreen devices that was frankly pretty close to mass market many, many years before the iPhone, and from which I'd suggest iOS and Android borrow a number of interface concepts.
- lukifer 15y agoAdmittedly, what qualifies as "mass market" is highly subjective. But I think it's fair to say Apple's innovations greatly accelerated adoption in both areas, opening up the technology to large numbers of people who would have never used it otherwise.