Interactive iPhone interface developed for the PocketPC

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Link: Interactive iPhone interface developed for the PocketPC (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20070303154947)
Description:: Live the dream...well, come somewhat close...while you wait for the real McCoy.

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[Analog Kid]

Wow, Apple killed that in a hurry. I wonder if YouTube puts up any resistance at all to having stuff pulled off their site-- was this really a trademark violation?

[nagromme]

Well, I don't know if trademark is the relevant part, but it was stealing Apple's interface design and associated artwork.

[Lucy Brown]

Yeah, the icons are copyrighted arent they. Touch screens arent though.

Youtube sucks now. I knew it wouldnt last for long. The old youtube was great. Youtube is the new napster.

[nagromme]

Now, MULTI-touch screens are patented--and without that, and the orientation sensorc., even piracy or illegal cloning could not reproduce the iPhone. It's software AND hardware.

For instance:

* Pinch-zooming of Web pages

* Quick photo zooming

* Auto-sensing wide view of web pages/emails/photos

* Using the device without having to be careful that the hand holding it doesn't touch the screen edges

* Gesture-scrolling a list and then being able to hit a button without it mattering whether you lift your scrolling finger or not

* Thumbing through CDs in coverflow and then choosing a song without lifting your thumb away

* Shift-key and special symbols on virtual keyboard can presumably work as modifiers, not just as toggles

* Future game uses

[Peace]

Apple has every right to have these iPhone wannabes pulled.