Mr. Mossberg is correct with his assessment on this "me too" product. Comparison to the iPhone is proper. After all these devices are nothing more but a flawed shadow of the iPhone. These devices are all trying to copy a product born out of true innovation. Mr. Mossberg is not being bias, he is being true and accurate with his review. Apple leads as always, while MS and it's soon to be screwed partners just follows.
So you're saying that the MS Surface isn't inovative at all? Even though MS started designing it before the iPhone was even announced? No, not every phone is a knock off of the iPhone. I have an iPod touch, but i hate it sometimes (Read: Most times since firmware 2.0). At least Microsoft fixes the problem once their users tell them about it. Apple on the other hand, just says that's normal, or takes a milloin years to fix it. I had a mac for 3 months, and i HATED IT. Apple is innovative, but so are many other companies.
Look at these silly responses. Sure WinMo has been around for years. HTChas been around for years. What do they have to show for? Substandard OS. Substandard UI. Substandard Apps. Thank goodness the Windows monopoly fueled their sales. Along comes Apple and your crappy hardware and software maker immediately starts to copy Apple. How pathetic is that. How pathetic are your arguments of these players being in the market years before the iPhone and producing nothing but boring products. These "me too" player unable to produce anything like the iPhone. Now they are scrambling to copy or slap on a bad copy of the UI to a crappy OS. Laughable.
@ Matt: I agree. Sure the iPhone is a lot slicker than Palm, but the basic "pages of app icons" interface has been around since the B&W 160x160 PalmPilots.
As for Jubei, calling HTC a 'me too' company just displays Jubei's ignorance. :D
Apple was second to make a GUI (and the first to successfully sell commercially). Xerox's Star was first, failing miserably by selling a meager 25,000 in all.
I think we can all agree that Apple did not steal anything from Palm, of all people (which is what this conversation was all about).
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Mr. Mossberg is correct with his assessment on this "me too" product. Comparison to the iPhone is proper. After all these devices are nothing more but a flawed shadow of the iPhone. These devices are all trying to copy a product born out of true innovation. Mr. Mossberg is not being bias, he is being true and accurate with his review. Apple leads as always, while MS and it's soon to be screwed partners just follows.
How can MS be following here, do you have any idea how long Winmo 6 has been out?
do you know how long HTC's been making products?
So you're saying that the MS Surface isn't inovative at all? Even though MS started designing it before the iPhone was even announced? No, not every phone is a knock off of the iPhone. I have an iPod touch, but i hate it sometimes (Read: Most times since firmware 2.0). At least Microsoft fixes the problem once their users tell them about it. Apple on the other hand, just says that's normal, or takes a milloin years to fix it. I had a mac for 3 months, and i HATED IT. Apple is innovative, but so are many other companies.
The precious iPhone is trying to copy PalmOS and Toshiba's M200 tablet PC.
The iPhone's UI is a polished and animated version of PalmOS's UI. Am I really the only one that sees this?!
My Toshiba M200 was released before the iPhone and has many of those silly little hardware features (gyro) that the iPhone has.
Apple = decorative copycat
You hide your bias so well, I think from now on I will use your opinion as law.
Look at these silly responses. Sure WinMo has been around for years. HTChas been around for years. What do they have to show for? Substandard OS. Substandard UI. Substandard Apps. Thank goodness the Windows monopoly fueled their sales. Along comes Apple and your crappy hardware and software maker immediately starts to copy Apple. How pathetic is that. How pathetic are your arguments of these players being in the market years before the iPhone and producing nothing but boring products. These "me too" player unable to produce anything like the iPhone. Now they are scrambling to copy or slap on a bad copy of the UI to a crappy OS. Laughable.
@ Matt: I agree. Sure the iPhone is a lot slicker than Palm, but the basic "pages of app icons" interface has been around since the B&W 160x160 PalmPilots.
As for Jubei, calling HTC a 'me too' company just displays Jubei's ignorance. :D
@ Matt:
Read below.
@ Alan Strangis:
The "pages of app icons" has been around since Apple started using it in the first commercial computers with a GUI:
"The Macintosh, released in 1984, was the first commercially successful product to use a GUI" - Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_GUI#Apple_Lisa_and_Macintosh_.28and_later.2C_the_Apple_IIgs.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Apple_Macintosh_Desktop.png
These are all facts, given to you in as plain a format as possible. If I get low ranked, it just means that someone couldn't accept the truth.
wow you sure do like to talk about "me too" products
http://www.engadget.com/profile/1384422/
someones been tuggin on jobs' unit if ya know what i mean
Sick. Ew. Eww. Stop. No more. Yuck!
Before you misguided WinMo users continue to post more silliness of who did what, go here and learn something not from a silly made for TV docudrama.
http://www.folklore.org
@Jubei
The way you self-righteously defend Apple and it's products is incredibly disturbing (Your profile is enough evidence in itself to prove that).
Go away you FREAK.
Let the rest of us enjoy these devices. We don't need some weird gadget-preacher telling us what to buy.
@who:
And Apple stole the gui idea from Xerox.
@ Imran
Finally! Someone with a brain!
Apple was second to make a GUI (and the first to successfully sell commercially). Xerox's Star was first, failing miserably by selling a meager 25,000 in all.
I think we can all agree that Apple did not steal anything from Palm, of all people (which is what this conversation was all about).
Xerox = maybe, Palm = never.
@Imran
Wrong! Learn to read. This Apple stole from Xerox myth is perpetuated by these postings.
http://www.folklore.org
Voteban Jubei Oh! Crap! Wrong game...
Wow, Pink... I wish...