"Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in iOS 6"

Re:"Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in i... by alecco on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @11:52AM (#4101040)

  > Remember when the first iPhone was announced? The bullet list after
  > it was announced had touchscreen at the top of the list

No, the LG Prada was ripped off by the iPhone. Don't let apple fanboys rewrite tech history. Same with the iPod. Sure, it was a more polished product, but they were not the first with the feature set. Apple rarely is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada_(KE850)#iPhone_controv...

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Re:"Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in i... by hcurtiss on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @12:34PM (#4101271)

"Sure, it was a more polished product * * * ."

That's exactly his point. Even if others offered the feature first, it's what's behind the bullet list that makes it a successful product (polish, if you will).

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Re:"Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in i... by ceejayoz on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @12:26PM (#4101219)

As @abruzzi said, it wasn't until the iPhone that other manufacturers started putting "touchscreen" at the top of their features lists.

Apple wasn't first with the iPhone or iPod, but they sure as hell changed the product landscape after they released them.

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Re:"Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in i... by eevilspock on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @12:51PM (#4101370)

So Apple saw some photos of the LG Prada and then in a few short months designed touch screen-only hardware and all the software?

This assumption that before-after implies cause-effect is one of the worst logical fallacies.

Microsoft was first to mass market tablets. So Apple "copied" them 10 years later, and somehow succeeded where Microsoft failed? Microsoft invented the idea of a tablet-like computing device?

Google invented the idea of a notification system? Of turn-by-turn navigation?

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