Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance
by kyleslattery on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @11:55AM
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No. Equark is accusing them of stealing the ideas from the Mail app from the iPad.
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Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance
by dannyr on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:03PM
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Two-pane email browsing was been around for more than a decade. It was used by Outlook and in other email clients as well.
Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance
by drats on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:09PM
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No. It was invented by Steve Jobs shortly after he designed the wheel.
Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance
by equark on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:10PM
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I'm just pointing out that they seem to have copied UISplitView exactly, including how it adopts to smaller screens and landscape vs. portrait orientation. Split screens have been around for a while, but this implementation is very specific.
Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance
by natrius on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:47PM
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If you don't want your ideas to be "stolen", keep them to yourself.
Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance
by brownleej on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @01:00PM
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You put the word "stolen" in quotes. Whom are you quoting? The post to which you replied did not say that Google had stolen the ideas, it said that Google had copied the ideas.