Apple stole idea for iPhone from Amiga DE?

[kickstart]

Nope - He is not wrong... The Sony Ericsson T68 was the first "real" phone with a color screen... Before that there where some things from Siemens, but those was more PDA's... Nokia's 3510 was later released as 3510i with a color screen but after the T68 (2001)

I've been working there since 1998 :-)

3650 and 7650 are older than 3510i i think.

iphone is a underpowered and overpriced hardware with limited functions but hey!... its from apple and its "cool"... ironic.

[jj]

Did'nt answer the question. Have you used it DE? Do you have any supported hardware (windows mobile phone or others). If you haven't then you can't make a valid comment on it.
The DE player's probably outsold OS 3.9 and 4. We also already know (from Hyperion) that Amiga Inc had them port OS 4 to some phones/PDa's. This plus something DE like might attract new users. At least Apple had sense and went for users with deep pockets. Commodore went low end (... for quick $$) now we're stuck with users that just complain.

 
I know what has happened here you have read things that Amiga Inc announced, that never transpired, and believed it as truth.
 
Way way way back in time OS4 was supposed to have a DE player.   Did it happen ?

[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.

[persia]

Well-known name?  Maybe if it's business were Spanish Lesbians, but it's hardly a well known name in computers....

[jutrem]

Back from from the Christmas/New Year break.  

The new X1000 Amiga One hardware been annouced, and the specs look good (just hope it actually comes out). At least Hyperion's going high end.  Off to that thread now.