Apple iPad's iBook rips off indie dev's creation

Re:Apple iPad's iBook rips off indie dev's creation by earl on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:28PM (#1083012)

Yes. Who would possibly think of a bookshelf as a metaphor for your collection of books.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple iPad's iBook rips off indie dev's creation by dcurtis on Thursday January 28, 2010 @01:05AM (#1083142)

To be fair, there are two other things at play here.

* 1. No app had ever displayed books on a bookshelf in this way until Delicious Monster did.

* 2. The designer who designed the bookshelf UI at Delicious Monster was poached by Apple to work on the iPad team.

(And because I'm irritated by comments on Hacker News lately, I just want to point out that sarcasm is the simplest form of humor.)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple iPad's iBook rips off indie dev's creation by jstevens85 on Thursday January 28, 2010 @03:26AM (#1083327)

"The designer who designed the bookshelf UI at Delicious Monster was poached by Apple to work on the iPad team."

If you're referring to Mike Matas, the co-founder of Delicious Monster, he left DM to join Apple back in 2005. While I imagine he's probably working on the iPad, he wasn't poached specifically to work on the device.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple iPad's iBook rips off indie dev's creation by nudist on Thursday January 28, 2010 @04:40AM (#1083420)

He mentioned somewhere that he designed elements of the iPad's Maps UI.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple iPad's iBook rips off indie dev's creation by jstevens85 on Thursday January 28, 2010 @05:29AM (#1083468)

Yeah, according to this twitter post http://twitter.com/mike_matas/status/8292208676 he also worked on the Photos app.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple iPad's iBook rips off indie dev's creation by krtl on Thursday January 28, 2010 @04:18AM (#1083388)

How do you know the iPad wasn't 5 years in the making?

[ Parent | on HN ]