Palm CEO: “I’ve Never Used an iPhone”∞
I call bullshit. First of all, to have never used one of your biggest competitor’s products doesn’t strike me as a particularly smart decision if you’re trying to make something better. Second of all, he worked at Apple from the time they acquired NeXT until 2006, which includes at least a year that Apple was working on the iPhone. He was also one of the leads working on the iPod.
The thing about this that feels most wrong to me, though, is that so much of webOS’s interface is clearly heavily inspired by the iPhone. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing—if Apple designs an interface well (and they do often) then it’s better for everyone if competitors take a page out of their book. But there is no way you can look at, for example, the interface for editing videos on webOS and tell me that they developed that without ever seeing an iPhone.
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Palm CES 2010 Presentation Video∞
Video of the Palm keynote from yesterday.
