A lot of fun
After we publish some videos (the keyboard and the scrolling) I lost a little bit of my time reading some comments on the sites that posted something about it, and I got really impressed by the way the people:
1. Really think we are doing or we want to do some kind of Iphone copy
2. Really believes everything that is in the IPhone was invented by apple, thus using it is copying apple.
Again folks, sorry to disappoint you, but apple is not the god of innovation. Even the click wheel or other nice things were not done by them (like the ipod ui). So please stop bothering yourself to post about:
“apple invented the error correction”
“apple invented the kinetic scrolling”
“apple invented the multi touch”
“apple invented the pinch gestures”
“apple invented __________________(just write whatever feature in the iphone here)”
It’s just not like that. Apple’s made a good job of putting a lot of features together in a simple, very intuitive ui. But did not invented the actual pieces of it. Deal with that. I sometimes get really pissed about people that are blinded in the matters of religions, but getting blind in the matters of what apple excels (marketing) is really out of this world. Get a little bit of knowledge.
Just to close: there was user who said this, when asked about the ability to use the keyboard on the horizontal position in more situations than the safari browsing:
“I have an iphone so I can say: yes you can”
Ok, show us then.
Thanks for that! Echos my thoughts, exactly. Why is it that anything with a touchscreen has to be compared to the iPhone?
Just ignore the fanboys and continue the great work - the current Canola is just amazing, the coming one looks fantastic and all the other work like the keyboard or the scrolling experiments look cool too!
August 5th, 2007 at 2:56 amHey Marceleza,
To let the blind Macfans knows that Apple was sued for patent infrigiment over iphone virtual keyboard.
Just check it here
August 7th, 2007 at 5:51 amI understand your irritation, Marcello, but consider: the people who think Apple invented everything are very likely just young and uninformed. Heck, even Apple once believed they invented everything– and lost a big case against Microsoft because they forgot the Gods at Xerox. ; )
August 21st, 2007 at 9:11 pmTextrat :
Yeah, and of course they are now in dangerous grounds. Other people holds the GSM patents, and also mobile phone related patents are in the hands of the old players. I think this time the shot can be backwards. But it’s good at least to see that this has moved everyone a little bit towards better user experience.
Br
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:08 am