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The video he presents as evidence does exactly the opposite! That is the video we all point to when we say the whole interface was lifted from iPhone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1FJHY...

That is the exact old skool interface that was so terrible.

That is Android pre-iPhone.

His only argument is 'well look later, there's some touch too'. But that's even more damning as the touch was so badly designed and clunky.

Watch the whole thing if you want. Notice the use of right-click menus. Notice the zoom had to use buttons. The program switcher is lifted from Vista and looks nothing like what actually happened, which was a iPhone copied home button.

What the video shows is that Android had an interface and it was nothing like the one that came out 6 months later which was wholesale lifted from the iPhone.

Windows Mobile showed you didn't have to do it anything like Apple did, so why did android look so much like the iOS?



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