Apple stole idea for iPhone from Amiga DE?

[tone007]

Could it be that a certain Mr. Jobs reads OSNews, came across Mike's post and decided to invent the iPhone? What do you think?

The iPhone is nothing new, PDAs could do much of that stuff before 2001, and:

In October, 2001 Handspring unveiled the Palm OS Treo smartphone, utilizing a full keyboard that combined wireless web browsing, email, calendar and contact organizer, with mobile third-party applications that could be downloaded or synced with a computer.

The iPhone is just another generation of "smartphone," and far from being the first to offer integrated GPS and videochat, etc.

[tone007]

The iPhone is nothing new, PDAs could do much of that stuff before 2001, and:



The iPhone is just another generation of "smartphone," and far from being the first to offer integrated GPS and videochat, etc.

edit: hey, the iPhone couldn't offer two-way videochat anyway, could it, since the camera is facing the wrong way.  Maybe a little clip-on mirror would help...

[tone007]

Amiga Inc. predicted the success of an iPhone like device but some in the amiga community could not see it.

It really doesn't matter what the Amiga community saw or didn't see.  If Amiga Inc's implementation and marketing were worth a damn (obviously the marketing wasn't, and I don't plan to waste my time looking at the software,) it should've opened up new business outside of the Amiga community.  Selling crap with a well-known name on it generally doesn't open up new business, it likely only attracts people familiar with the old name and most likely turns them right off if the product has very little to do with the original use of the name.

[tone007]

Amiga Inc. predicted the success of an iPhone like device but some in the amiga community could not see it.

It really doesn't matter what the Amiga community saw or didn't see.  If Amiga Inc's implementation and marketing were worth a damn (obviously the marketing wasn't, and I don't plan to waste my time looking at the software,) it should've opened up new business outside of the Amiga community.  Selling crap with an old, well-known name on it generally doesn't open up new business, it likely only attracts people familiar with the old name and most likely turns them right off if the product has very little to do with the original use of the name.  Apple seems to have broken this barrier, with a combination of current market viability of the brand and a complete hardware and software solution in the iPhone.

[tone007]

Amiga Inc. predicted the success of an iPhone like device but some in the amiga community could not see it.

It really doesn't matter what the Amiga community saw or didn't see.  If Amiga Inc's implementation and marketing were worth a damn (obviously the marketing wasn't, and I don't plan to waste my time looking at the software,) it should've opened up new business outside of the Amiga community.  Selling crap with an old, well-known name on it generally doesn't open up new business, it likely only attracts people familiar with the old name and most likely turns them right off if the product has very little to do with the original use of the name.