Steve Jobs on iPhone design October 5, 2005
[This document is from Apple v. Samsung (2012).]
@TechEmails I feel validated seeing another person use parentheses inside a parentheses to make a point lol
@TechEmails This isn’t the first time Apple stole/inspired by @BangOlufsen The iPod wheel was a direct copy of the Becom 6000 handset “wheel”.
@TechEmails Sounds like Steve had seen, but likely not used the Nokia 3650. I had one in 2004 and it was pretty solid smartphone, but the keypad sucked.
@TechEmails wow all the bad iterations behind the curtain
@TechEmails How can this be only 15 months before the unveiling of the touchscreen iPhone??
@TechEmails OMG 😄 This is the other prototype that took an iPod as its base. Obviously (and luckily) that design was disregarded
David Lewis invented this type of design in the 60s for @BangOlufsen. He went on to design the Serenata, in addition to the Serene with @Samsung using that dimpled click wheel. I'm not a patent attorney, but those designs along with the Beocom 6000, Beocom 5, and Beosound 3 are tough to sue B&O on… they literally invented that interface and weren't stopped from manufacturing these items. Irony…Apple Stores uses the Beocom 5 phones. More info philpatton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012…
@TechEmails This showed the magic of iteration from this to iPhone. Steve Jobs' greatness is that he set a really high bar and allowed his team to iterate.
@TechEmails And then they just saw LG prada released and stole the design
@TechEmails Saving this for the next time someone says “Jobs would never have approved X”
@TechEmails There's no way he was this far off just two years before launch
@TechEmails Mobile designs were will back then, companies were trying everything. Now they all kind of look the same
@TechEmails He was just a regular idiot like everyone till his team showed him a better way
@TechEmails Was the screen meant to be upside-down??
