Amazon has Acquired Touchco - A Multi-Touch Company

[kdarling]

I grant you, that Apple was, likely, working on iPhone OS several years before the July, 2007 release.

Apparently not. From several articles on iPhone history it seems that Apple didn't start on mobile OSX until January 2006, just one year before Jobs showed it off. Before that, they were using modified iPods as idea mules.

The short development period explains why, in Fall 2006, Jobs was still telling his crew they didn't have a viable product yet. They had to do a lot in a short time.

The Commodore Pet and the Trash-80 (Radio Shack TRS-80) were "complete" computers (fully functional as-is)-- they contained the computer as well as keyboard, display and tape deck I/O (cassette recorder).

The Apple ][ was a computer and a keyboard in a case. You had to separately purchase/add:

The Apple ][ was very expensive at the time, and took years to sell as many as the TRS-80 and others did within months. At over $1500 in useful form, it simply was not a "personal computer" for the masses, like the $500 competition. (In 1978, minimum wage income was less than $100 a week after taxes.)

(Being a relatively poor veteran at the time in college, I homebrewed my first computer using a 6802 cpu with a custom 32x32 dot oscilloscope vector/pixel display output, and just 256 bytes of RAM, later upgraded at huge cost to 4K.)

 

[HarryPot]

i see. So you pick the biggest possible categorization. By that argument no one has ever invented anything. The guy who built the first computer deserves no credit, since matter had already been invented.

So, who invented matter?

 

[cmaier]

So, who invented matter?

I'd tell ya, but it doesn't matter.

 

[TennisandMusic]

Not true.
The User Interface of Windows 7 is a big rip off from KDE 4

So microsoft can more then rip off Apple.
The lawsuits with the Open Source community have showed them that there is more to rip off from.

Isn't Windows 7 actually a rip off of...Windows 1?

 

[mikes70mustang]

Amazon really oughta avoid going head-to-head with iPad.

It wont be head to head b/c it will be in a different category. The category will be the useful category. While the iPad is in the cool but not so useful category.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Isn't Windows 7 actually a rip off of...Windows 1?

Windows 1 and Windows 7 has no relation apart form a name.

Not true.
The User Interface of Windows 7 is a big rip off from KDE 4

So microsoft can more then rip off Apple.
The lawsuits with the Open Source community have showed them that there is more to rip off from.

Windows 7 uses elements from Mac OSX and KDE 4.

I'm the first one who pointed out that KDE 4 and WIndows 7 are similar in the first place.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Dp

 

[TennisandMusic]

Windows 1 and Windows 7 has no relation apart form a name.



Windows 7 uses elements from Mac OSX and KDE 4.

I'm the first one who pointed out that KDE 4 and WIndows 7 are similar in the first place.

Whoa there...first off...nice way to entirely miss a little humor. Don't take this so seriously. The point was merely to show that a taskbar with icons for programs has existed since Windows 1...

Secondly...I would hope anyone at all knows that Windows 7 and 1 aren't sharing code...

Lastly...you were the first to point out similarities between KDE4 and Windows 7? On planet Earth? Really?

All OSes are similar these days. You have a taskbar/dock like device, you can run apps, and you can perform file operations while managing the settings of the OS. They operate a little differently, sure, but to start talking like one OS is outright stealing from another, seems a bit misguided.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Don't take this so seriously.

Computing is my Passion.

Lastly...you were the first to point out similarities between KDE4 and Windows 7? On planet Earth? Really?

On This Forum yes, the major posters were a little bit shocked by the statement.

All OSes are similar these days.

So Shallow.

You have a taskbar/dock like device, you can run apps, and you can perform file operations while managing the settings of the OS. They operate a little differently, sure, but to start talking like one OS is outright stealing from another, seems a bit misguided.

Umm, Microsoft literally did steal code form Apple. Look up Quicktime vs Media Player law suits. Microsoft was found guilty even, and could've been shutdown by Apple.

Microsoft was also found guilty of stealing the look and feel of Mac OS Classic.

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Linux was built upon Minix and still uses a lot of baseline features of Minix in its file system.

Gnome was a KDE Rip Off - literally. That was their Goal in the first place, To make a GTK clone of KDE.

To spin a phrase made by Steve Jobs himself.

Good Artists Copy. Great Artists Steal. Timeless Artists Create.

 

[cumanzor]

Umm, Microsoft literally did steal code form Apple. Look up Quicktime vs Media Player law suits. Microsoft was found guilty even, and could've been shutdown by Apple.

hahaha

 

[sal rodriguez]

Amazon's new acquisition says two things. One, the next Kindle will definitely look more like a tablet computer and probably start mingling with video. And two, if this doesn't show the influence of Apple and why it's entrance into tablet computing was so necessary for the medium to launch then I don't know what does.