You're completely right, I have it backwards [red face]. It was an iPhone which I saw and thought that it would make a sweet iPod if they just removed the phone

You're completely right, I have it backwards [red face]. It was an iPhone which I saw and thought that it would make a sweet iPod if they just removed the phone. Nevertheless, though I agree that there were no devices out there with the same design, the idea was ripe. Surely the concept of manipulating the screen directly rather than through a stylus or buttons is abstract enough to stop calling it 'copying'. In other words, it's such an obviously natural interface that someone was eventually going to do it first, so we can stop saying that anyone after the winner of that race is copying.