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