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It wasn't just touch. The icons were placed differently. The resolution was different. The screen size was different. The touch interface was different (you
by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It wasn't just touch. The icons were placed differently. The resolution was different. The screen size was different. The touch interface was different (you can't just say touch because Windows Phones had touch way before the iPhone but it wasn't anywhere near the same thing).
As for screwing up their platform I'm not saying they should of. The patent system is screwed up and I'm glad Android stole from the iPhone because it means there's actual competition.
But there's a difference between saying "Yeah, Google stole from the iPhone but its the fault of a bad patent system" and denying Google stole from Apple at all.
- CJefferson 15y agoIs it not possible that someone, deciding to make a touch phone at about the same time would look at: What is a good physical size for the screen. What is the kind of resolution we can get on a LCD of that size? How many icons can we fit on that screen, which can be easily manipulated by users (there aren't that many options, as you can't fit that many icons on the screen). It seems to me many of these kinds of things fit into into a set of "only one real option", once you've decided (and this might be the 'big copied thing') to have a phone which is just a touch screen + a single button (or 3 on android)).