Since apple first brought up 'design', I thought LG Prada's design should be brought up.
LG Prada won a design award the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006. About 4 - 5 months before iphone was first released.
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Since apple first brought up 'design', I thought LG Prada's design should be brought up.
LG Prada won a design award the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006. About 4 - 5 months before iphone was first released.
its called setting the record straight.
previous user i was replying to was saying that the iPhone was the FIRST TOUCH SCREEN out on market. That is a false statement.
Just because a phone is crap, doesn't mean the underlying technology behind it is crap, in this case, the first 'capacitive' touch screen for mobile phones.
Just because a phone doesn't sell much, doesn't mean it should be 'forgotten,' neither. Your argument is weak.
So again, NO, the FIRST TOUCH SCREEN mobile device was the LG Prada, NOT the iPhone.
Yeah and there were capacitive touch screens after the iPhone as well. Dozens actually. All failed until android. The look and feel and software is important. If you copy the champ and survive you'll gladly take second place. Samsung is copying apples final exam. Time to tell the teacher. Took apple long enough.
Just examine why the other capacitive phones failed and why these iPhone clones haven't and you have your answer.
If Spoony is somehow trying to say LG Prada shouldn't count because it didn't ship in volume, well 1 million units in 18 months sounds like a lot to me.
Sometimes I just dont understand
I've read this board since the first post of this Lawsuit.
There is one glaring difference that no one has mentioned about iOS and TouchWiz/Android.
The collapsable app tray, Yes the app shells are the same shape as iOS but the icons themselves are different. But that tray will be the big difference just wait and see
There are enough differences between the products that this Lawsuit will fall through and get lost amongst the rest of the failed who's is bigger contests
I've read this board since the first post of this Lawsuit.
There is one glaring difference that no one has mentioned about iOS and TouchWiz/Android.
The collapsable app tray, Yes the app shells are the same shape as iOS but the icons themselves are different. But that tray will be the big difference just wait and see
There are enough differences between the products that this Lawsuit will fall through and get lost amongst the rest of the failed who's is bigger contests
Something else Apple will have invented/innovated on every Mac board on the web ....
..truth is they don't invent or innovate.
They buy or copy....same as nearly everyone else.
People like you really don't get it. Just because Apple buys SOME things, you try to argue that they do that for EVERYTHING and haven't made one single innovation.
Get a grip. You don't understand design at all. It's not about features, there's so much more to these things. Apple innovated in their design of cocoa touch. Inertial scrolling, accelerometer to detect orientation, multitouch/finger friendly user interface, the slide to unlock gesture. All these things relate to design, which is where Apple makes the most innovation. To argue that Apple bought certain technologies, therefore have never made a single innovation, is so incredibly short sighted.
Its a thin laptop. So other companies can't make thin laptops now?
exactly what i was gonna say.
i guess Apple holds patent rights to 'thinness' as well.
Million units in 18 months is considered a failure?
So Xerox can now sue apple for stealing the look and feel of GUI and mouse?
Think About It
Those phones were not necessarily the first. iOS was in development for years.
Don't you think when other companies got word that Apple was in the phone market and the rumors were touch screen... don't you think companies released phones that were not ready to try to jump the gun and beat Apple to it? e.g. Prada.
Just because it was the first to launch does not mean they were developing it before Apple. As you can tell from the UI Apple was obviously first to the concept behind the scenes, because of the final product. It was in development for a long time.
LG should have held back and finished their UI so it actually worked good. Instead they drop a half ass unrefined product with a completely laughable UI.
Those phones were not necessarily the first. iOS was in development for years.
Don't you think when other companies got word that Apple was in the phone market and the rumors were touch screen... don't you think companies released phones that were not ready to try to jump the gun and beat Apple to it? e.g. Prada.
Just because it was the first to launch does not mean they were developing it before Apple. As you can tell from the UI Apple was obviously first to the concept behind the scenes, because of the final product. It was in development for a long time.
LG should have held back and finished their UI so it actually worked good. Instead they drop a half ass unrefined product with a completely laughable UI.
Hey now they gave those concepts to Apple, because they thought they were worthless. That's Xerox's bad.
Those phones were not necessarily the first. iOS was in development for years.
Don't you think when other companies got word that Apple was in the phone market and the rumors were touch screen... don't you think companies released phones that were not ready to try to jump the gun and beat Apple to it? e.g. Prada.
Just because it was the first to launch does not mean they were developing it before Apple. As you can tell from the UI Apple was obviously first to the concept behind the scenes, because of the final product. It was in development for a long time.
LG should have held back and finished their UI so it actually worked good. Instead they drop a half ass unrefined product with a completely laughable UI.
Yes, of course. There is absolutely zero chance apple was inspired by the prada. No way! A multi billion dollar company would never do that!
Its a thin laptop. So other companies can't make thin laptops now?
It's not just thin! The design and look and everything totally resembles the
Air... you know it does
Mr.Contrary! At this point it's easier to make a list of companies apple isn't suing...
I liked the old think different days of apple, not the isheep generation apple now caters to.
I liked the old think different days of apple, not the isheep generation apple now caters to.
Those phones were not necessarily the first. iOS was in development for years.
Don't you think when other companies got word that Apple was in the phone market and the rumors were touch screen... don't you think companies released phones that were not ready to try to jump the gun and beat Apple to it? e.g. Prada.
Just because it was the first to launch does not mean they were developing it before Apple. As you can tell from the UI Apple was obviously first to the concept behind the scenes, because of the final product. It was in development for a long time.
LG should have held back and finished their UI so it actually worked good. Instead they drop a half ass unrefined product with a completely laughable UI.
great now folks like this guy here ^^ are making wild assumptions.
YEAH MAN, LG already KNEW Apple was gonna come out with a multitouch smartphone, so they rushed ahead and created the 'LG Prada,' therefore Apple had the first capacitive touch screen before LG! YEAH! /sarcasm.
Give me a break kid. If you're gonna make an assumption, at least back it up with some kind of source.
Yep. Unfortunately most people are not able to see things beyond what's on the surface. People don't understand details, and in Apples products it's always been the details that set them apart. People view things in such absolute terms. They think "oh well the iPhone wasn't the first touch screen phone, therefore it didn't do anything innovative"
It's really quite sad people's inability to go beyond the surface of things and understand the finer details in design and implementation.
Regardless of LG's "quality", they were the first to produce a product.Those phones were not necessarily the first. iOS was in development for years.
Don't you think when other companies got word that Apple was in the phone market and the rumors were touch screen... don't you think companies released phones that were not ready to try to jump the gun and beat Apple to it? e.g. Prada.
Just because it was the first to launch does not mean they were developing it before Apple. As you can tell from the UI Apple was obviously first to the concept behind the scenes, because of the final product. It was in development for a long time.
LG should have held back and finished their UI so it actually worked good. Instead they drop a half ass unrefined product with a completely laughable UI.
And Apple was originally developing the iPhone as a tablet, not a phone.
It wasn't until mid/late 2006 before the rumors started to have some shred of legitimacy.
All mock-ups and assumptions as to exactly "what" Apple was planning on releasing looked NOTHING like what they actually released.
It's not just thin! The design and look and everything totally resembles the
Air... you know it does
Side profile of both would kind of say otherwise.
My point is watch the prada UI in action on YouTube and after that watch the iPhone in action. Prada is yes innovative. I'm not saying it's not it's just feels and looks mechanical. You may think that's not important but it is. These subtle differences are what make a product fail or succeed.
Prada was a newish idea stuck with old mechanics and design. The iPhone has always felt and operated in a silky smooth way. Like an extension of yourself. You didn't have to battle with it.
Android finally figured this out and samsung just took it full circle and copied it 100%
But there were plenty of touch screen interfaces before iPhone, which looked nothing like iOS.
Have you not seen the Samsung 'customisations' for the Galaxy 7"? Guess not, because if you had you wouldn't be telling Apple to get a grip.
Because Apple could never ever find anyone else to make their chip designs.
The netbook was a small PC, covered by lots of other IP. And the UI wasn't innovative either.
Good Insight. It's easy how quickly people forget the past.