Hands-on with Aigo's iPhone-ripping, Menlow-based MID
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted January 8th 2008 3:51PM
posted January 8th 2008 3:51PM
posted January 8th 2008 3:51PM
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See, if the original POST is a troll, you don't even make it past the first comment before the entire thread becomes drool-saturated...
Now rather than spend hours debating who did what first and who copied whom... how about something interesting and useful - like a feature and ease of use analysis?
Because *I* don't care who thought of it first - I care about who did it better.
THE MID GUI was around before the iPhone- even gizmodo covered some of the early prototypes. So to all the fanboys...Just because its cool, doesn't mean Mac invented it. Believe it or not, Mac has grown up and plays the same Microsoft games all the time. Let's make proprietary devices and lockout the competition. oooh Intel's interface is shiny let's steal it. You think the interface is iPhone like because the iPhone has had more distribution and press. In reality- Intel's MID devices and interfaces have been floating around for over 3 years. Intel is working to pursue a google state and coming back to the consumer front- not just in hardware but software side as well. They foresaw the need for a more efficient mobile platform and chose Linux-and made it pretty. Through their partnerships and new mobile designs their MIDs are superior to the iPhone and UMPCs. Why? 1. Mobile 2. Open 3. 3G 4. Efficient 5.True web experience-web 2.0- not broken into channels of content through applications.
Bottom Line- It's like an iPhone but minus the subscription slavery of consumers-and with more features and possibilities to boot. :)
Hmm... those guys at Aigo didn't get arrested... Jack Wong and Meizu, you can come out now!
@L.M. LOYD; All right well here goes,
USB mouse: "Cnet; In all fairness, it did have one redeeming innovation -- the puck was the first mouse to use the USB standard as its method of connectivity." http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49293700-6,00.htm
Wifi iBook: MSN; "In 1999, Apple introduced Airport--a ground-breaking technology that enabled the company's iBook to become the first laptop capable of sending e-mail and surfing the Internet wirelessly. Apple beat other notebook makers to the punch by more than a year with its implementation of the 802.11b Wi-Fi standard." http://tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=5004769&page=3
Trackpad: MSN; "After its introduction on the PowerBook 520, the touchpad set a new standard that lives to this day." http://tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=5004769&page=2
I could only put 3 links so read next post
EDIT: I MEANT TO REPLY TO THE FIRST COMMENT IGNORE THIS POST.
Just because I still feel like playing, you say:
First 64 bit computer: Entrepreneur; Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has introduced the Power Mac G5-featuring the world's first 64-bit desktop processor and the industry's first 1 GHz front -side bus http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/105474486.html
You maintain this was the first 64-bit computer, because the press, and Apple tells you it was, but wait, what it this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indigo%C2%B2_and_Challenge_M
Why it is a whole line of 64-bit computers from SGI in 1992!
And this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dec_Alpha
Why it is another 64-bit processor and computer from 1992!
I guess you can't believe everything you read in Entrepreneur Magazine. That is unless you would really like to argu that SGI and DEC never existed, and never put out any product.
@LM Loyd let's not forget
the apple II; the first sucessfull personal computer
the newton; way ahead of its time, first PDA that paved the way for pda's we have today.
the quicktake; one of the first consumer cameras.
oh and the iPod hmmm that one must have slipped by you...
and let's not forget the iPhone.
its been nice playing but I think its game over ; )
Look ez17, what you need to understand is that almost 200 years later, there is still healthy academic debate over who invented the bicycle! History is never the simple "my team won" proposition you try to make it out to be. Your insistence that the entire computer industry was created by Apple, because their stock holders, cult members and press releases say it was, is childish and make you look ignorant. Apple was one of many companies making contributions in the early days of the commercialization of personal computing. You will find that very little of the actual creation of any of the technology happened there. They hold very few of the patents, and they have always put less money into research and development than most of their peers. Yes, they have made some contributions (though an order of magnitude fewer than you seem to think), but mainly Apple's primary strength has always been packaging and marketing preexisting technologies that they did not develop.
You really need to do more research before you authoritatively start declaring Apple the king of all innovation, and you will realize that most of the innovation, especially in the early days of the personal computer, came from small companies your average reporter has never even heard of, because they were quickly bought up or crushed by larger companies who had the funds to dominate them. That, or went out of business because they were innovators, but not good businessmen. Ultimately, the history of the computer industry won't be written by breathless hyperbole churned out by shills and lazy journalists looking to fill a page with exciting headlines, but by people who spend the time to research. If you really believe that any one company is responsible for the computer as we know it, or that any one brand has a lock on all the innovation, then you are the very definition of an ignorant fanboy.
I dont really know who invented all that crap, and I honestly don't give a shit, all these guys look like sunite VS shiites on the mac VS windows... is that WWIII, not muslims VS world, but nerd-freak tech personell from Best Buy hitting each other to death with scanners?!?! Fuck me man, i'll be hiding from those nerds!
And in other news, it seems like Apple will have 2000000 lawsuits to make to all the guys who are copying their OS X on their phones, although they look exactly like the iPhone's (or ipod touch) interface, when people see you with the chinese replacement for the iPhone you'll look like a bum.
I'm not going to read responses to my comment, so to all those idiots arguing who invented USB or who used it first, GET A FUCKING LIFE!!!!!!
Can we get a life.....my dad's bigger then yours.....
Thank you L.M. Lloyd!!