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thats more a personal comment from Jobs...... Apple isnt charging anyone with theft. before thi ihone, no app store no multi touch, litte integration outside o

• fpgeek 15y ago
  > no app store I wonder what Andy Rubin would say about that...
• greggman 15y ago
  There were app stores in Japanese phones from 1999. We're not forgetting that they sucked. We're pointing out Apple didn't invent this stuff. Touchscreens, had those for years. Multi-touch? Lots shown in the ARS article. Here's some http://tactiva.com/demo.html http://tactiva.com/demo.html. Includes pinch to zoom, 2 finger rotate objects. Also includes tactile feedback, something no tablet has introed yet AFAIK. Apps, had those too for years. Oh look, it's instructions from 2001 on how to write apps for phones http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/1621/ http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/1621/ App stores? Did you ever bother to look? There's been app stores since at least 2001. None of them were that popular but they did exist. Oh look, my WinCE box boots into a grid of icons in 2001 http://blog.greggman.com/japan/ce/dsc03224.jpg http://blog.greggman.com/japan/ce/dsc03224.jpg Maps, I had 3d first person maps on my 2004 feature phone, something still missing from any iPhones I know of. They had 2d maps in 2000 Games, Yep, last 5 phones I owned before my iPhone all had downloadable games. Here's me playing mappy I just purchased from an online app store in 2001 http://blog.greggman.com/blog/what_s_this_/ http://blog.greggman.com/blog/what_s_this_/ Cameras? Here's pictures from my 2001 cellphone camera http://blog.greggman.com/blog/pictures_from_cell_/ http://blog.greggman.com/blog/pictures_from_cell_/ Facetime? Here's Facetime on a P2101V from 2001 http://blog.greggman.com/blog/more_cellphone_madness/ http://blog.greggman.com/blog/more_cellphone_madness/ Front and back cameras? 2002 http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2002/11/15/my-new-p504is.html http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2002/11/15/my-new-p504is.html Airtime, i.e. TV playback? 2003 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XWLG-6qPwo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XWLG-6qPwo Webpage browsing? Yep. Wrote my first blog post from a phone in 2001. Maybe Apple can claim full browsing first on iPhone though I suspect people have earlier examples. I could certainly view full pages through Opera Mini before iPhone. Music? Several of the phones I owned has music stores built in and some phones advertised how awesome a movie player they were. Synced to PC and everything. Want an iPad? How about the Sony Airboard, 2001. Wireless internet browsing touchscreen tablet http://www.sony.jp/airboard/indexpc.html http://www.sony.jp/airboard/indexpc.html Did Apple take all those features and make them super awesome? YES. The point is THEY TOOK EXISTING FEATURES. They didn't invent them. They just made them way better. Awesome. It's the little details they did well. It's the sum of the parts. It's pretty hard to pick any one thing for which there is no precedence. Cut and Paste? old. Zoom under pointer? Old. Slide to Unlock? Old. Email? Old. Pages of icons? old. They brought awesome style and design but even my old B/W WinCE machine linked above I didn't need or use any of the buttons except POWER and I could use my finger to control everything else.