Apple has settled a lawsuit filed by a Vermont-based company called Contois Music Technology, which alleged that the iTunes user interface violated a 1996 patent for a "Computer Control System and User Interface for Media Playing Devices. http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/03/apple-settles-itunes-interface-lawsuit/
I give Apple credit where credit is due... Marketing and Sales! However as for them inventing... well, sorry.
Apple creates very good hype around their products, releases it to the market, and all of a sudden everybody gets amnesia as towards what UI or design style are/were available!
Have you ever actually used an LG phone? The UI is spectacularly AWFUL. It is hands-down the worst UI design of all major phone manufacturers and that's saying a lot when you consider Motorola is a major phone manufacturer. If your UI makes Motorola seem good, you're doing something wrong.
The interface of the LG that you show is actually pretty crappy. The screens Engadget chooses to show in those pictures make it look like they are similar but it's a total lie. How is a touch-screen supposed to dial numbers? Telepathically? A keypad has to be there.
As for your patent-lawsuit comments, they don't hold any water at all. Any jackass can cry foul and go to Texas to file a patent lawsuit. Just read Engadget on any given day and you'll see 3 of those. Apple takes what exists, evaluates it against their own R&D, puts it all on the line with a way no one has done it before, and then everyone gets their panties in a bunch because they couldn't think of it or do it themselves. Hence the lawsuits.
Well I appreciate *your* opinion on my opinion. My opinion on Apple copying other designs could be opinion or could be fact depending on who's looking at it. I only posted links to articles, they are not *MY* opinions or lawsuits or my designs in anyway. Yes I have used the LG Prada. I wouldn't call it the BEST UI however I wouldn't call it the WORST as well. It does have a very interesting UI, it breaks away from the normal, traditional UI on most phones. Isn't that something that Apple did with the iPhone? That is *my* opinion. Your opinion is that it is AWEFULL UI. Please do remember that it did win the International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007! If it were Apple winning that award some people might be doing backflips!
Your comment "Apple takes what exists, evaluates it against their own R&D, puts it all on the line with a way no one has done it before, and then everyone gets their panties in a bunch because they couldn't think of it or do it themselves. Hence the lawsuits"
I don't know how Apple can take, "whatever exists/iPhone" and then evaluate it against their R&D when the product is not in existence? Apple dose copy a lot of stuff, however they don't claim that they invented it. That would pour lawsuits in their direction. It is their FAN-BASE that claim that they invented these products hence most of the discussion in most forums. I don’t think I have heard of one company suing another company because that company thought of and idea, “not copying and idea, or implementing an idea” before another company?
And as for me being a MAC Hatter... I have 1 G5 2.5gig dual core Power Mac, 3 G4 Power Mac’s, 1 G4 Cube and a iPod. I am OS X 10.3 ACTC certified! I call things how I see it. If Apple copied something then they copied something. End of story!
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You must have never heard of LG KG850 and/or seen the UI on it!
Oh by the way... it was out a year in advance of the iPhone and it won the International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007! Perhaps it may have *INSPIRED* other companies to take notice?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separated-at-birth/
When looking up the name Noel Rubin & iPod you will find out that he created a flash-base website interface that looks remarkably similar to the iPod's UI. However he created his website a year in advance!
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/apples-ipod-patent-not-thinking-differently-enough-9001.php
Apple has settled a lawsuit filed by a Vermont-based company called Contois Music Technology, which alleged that the iTunes user interface violated a 1996 patent for a "Computer Control System and User Interface for Media Playing Devices.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/03/apple-settles-itunes-interface-lawsuit/
I give Apple credit where credit is due... Marketing and Sales! However as for them inventing... well, sorry.
Apple creates very good hype around their products, releases it to the market, and all of a sudden everybody gets amnesia as towards what UI or design style are/were available!
Have you ever actually used an LG phone? The UI is spectacularly AWFUL. It is hands-down the worst UI design of all major phone manufacturers and that's saying a lot when you consider Motorola is a major phone manufacturer. If your UI makes Motorola seem good, you're doing something wrong.
The interface of the LG that you show is actually pretty crappy. The screens Engadget chooses to show in those pictures make it look like they are similar but it's a total lie. How is a touch-screen supposed to dial numbers? Telepathically? A keypad has to be there.
As for your patent-lawsuit comments, they don't hold any water at all. Any jackass can cry foul and go to Texas to file a patent lawsuit. Just read Engadget on any given day and you'll see 3 of those. Apple takes what exists, evaluates it against their own R&D, puts it all on the line with a way no one has done it before, and then everyone gets their panties in a bunch because they couldn't think of it or do it themselves. Hence the lawsuits.
Hater.
Well I appreciate *your* opinion on my opinion. My opinion on Apple copying other designs could be opinion or could be fact depending on who's looking at it. I only posted links to articles, they are not *MY* opinions or lawsuits or my designs in anyway.
Yes I have used the LG Prada. I wouldn't call it the BEST UI however I wouldn't call it the WORST as well. It does have a very interesting UI, it breaks away from the normal, traditional UI on most phones. Isn't that something that Apple did with the iPhone? That is *my* opinion. Your opinion is that it is AWEFULL UI. Please do remember that it did win the International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007! If it were Apple winning that award some people might be doing backflips!
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"Apple takes what exists, evaluates it against their own R&D, puts it all on the line with a way no one has done it before, and then everyone gets their panties in a bunch because they couldn't think of it or do it themselves. Hence the lawsuits"
I don't know how Apple can take, "whatever exists/iPhone" and then evaluate it against their R&D when the product is not in existence? Apple dose copy a lot of stuff, however they don't claim that they invented it. That would pour lawsuits in their direction. It is their FAN-BASE that claim that they invented these products hence most of the discussion in most forums. I don’t think I have heard of one company suing another company because that company thought of and idea, “not copying and idea, or implementing an idea” before another company?
And as for me being a MAC Hatter... I have 1 G5 2.5gig dual core Power Mac, 3 G4 Power Mac’s, 1 G4 Cube and a iPod. I am OS X 10.3 ACTC certified! I call things how I see it. If Apple copied something then they copied something. End of story!