I find it funny that lots of people comment before actually reading the history of the device.
The deeda pi is the only mobile phone in the line-up. the Kiku is a media player and the Menx is capable of VOiP, but is not a celluar phone. The Pi has been worked on since 2004, over a year before the iPhone, even confirmed by an iPhone specific faq page [www.iphonefaq.org]
I will admit I am thinking there will be an IP fight concerning this one, if it makes it to market, but did anyone consider that Google seems to have also been planning a phone and this may be it? Google an Apple work pretty close to each other and isn't it possible that one or the other may have been talking about ideas, and.....
Sort of like Paul McCartney talking to Michael Jackson about owning the Beetles catalog......and then Michael went right out and bought it!
These ideas are not new and have been in the pipeline for a while. Hell, I came up with night vision in cars in 1991, and Cadillac had it a few years later. Of course I was in highschool in '91, so it's not like people were prone to listening to teenagers back then.....
Came up with the flying squirrel suit around the same time. about ten years later you see it in a tomb raider movie......
As I said, these ideas are not new. even when the concept of the multi-touch screen debuted with the iPhone, apple admitted they weren't the first ones to come up with it.
That's the nature of technology and that's how things work, so pay attention, deal with it, and STFU.
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I find it funny that lots of people comment before actually reading the history of the device.
The deeda pi is the only mobile phone in the line-up. the Kiku is a media player and the Menx is capable of VOiP, but is not a celluar phone.
The Pi has been worked on since 2004, over a year before the iPhone, even confirmed by an iPhone specific faq page [www.iphonefaq.org]
I will admit I am thinking there will be an IP fight concerning this one, if it makes it to market, but did anyone consider that Google seems to have also been planning a phone and this may be it? Google an Apple work pretty close to each other and isn't it possible that one or the other may have been talking about ideas, and.....
Sort of like Paul McCartney talking to Michael Jackson about owning the Beetles catalog......and then Michael went right out and bought it!
These ideas are not new and have been in the pipeline for a while. Hell, I came up with night vision in cars in 1991, and Cadillac had it a few years later. Of course I was in highschool in '91, so it's not like people were prone to listening to teenagers back then.....
Came up with the flying squirrel suit around the same time. about ten years later you see it in a tomb raider movie......
As I said, these ideas are not new. even when the concept of the multi-touch screen debuted with the iPhone, apple admitted they weren't the first ones to come up with it.
That's the nature of technology and that's how things work, so pay attention, deal with it, and STFU.