Steve Jobs Thinks Google Stole The iPhone Look And Feel

[Joe Mezzanini]

Isn't this like Ford saying Chevy stoles the look and feel of the car??

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-thinks-google-stole-the-iphone-look-and-feel-2010-3

[David Moskowitz]

When Jobs and Gates both admit the source for the modern GUI was Smalltalk running on the Xerox Star workstation!

Actually, it could also be called "selective memory"  :-)

David

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-thinks-google-stole-the-iphone-look-and-feel-2010-3 --

[Joe Mezzanini]

I did not know that

that's great info

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[RBL]

That's true (the Smalltalk story). The concept of the iPad, e-reader, and notebook PC can also be tracked back to one of Smalltalk's developers, Alan Kay. He called it the Dynabook.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook

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[David Moskowitz]

Yep...  in fact when John Scully was still around Apple as CEO, he called the Newton and updated/modern Dynabook.

Btw, Alan Kay is an Apple Fellow.  Small world!  :-))

[RBL]

i had a newton. used it regularly. learned all the ink gestures. the gesture code eventually found it's way into the palmpilot.

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