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You'll find, if you dig far enough, that almost all of the big 'killer' UI features on smartphones originated elsewhere. Inertial scrolling for example, was a Palm thing long before Apple even thought of the iPhone.
The same is true of a lot of tech though. The ancient Greeks had steam engines, but only ever thought of them as a curiosity instead of putting them to practical use.
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You'll find, if you dig far enough, that almost all of the big 'killer' UI features on smartphones originated elsewhere.
This is kind of Apple's whole thing, though.
The idea of a mouse, having tiled windows on a desktop, a few other ideas... All came from Xerox's teams. They gave Jobs a tour and showed him what they were working on and Apple put all those ideas into their "made for the home" computers.
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You'll find, if you dig far enough, that almost all of the big 'killer' UI features on smartphones originated elsewhere. Inertial scrolling for example, was a Palm thing long before Apple even thought of the iPhone.
The same is true of a lot of tech though. The ancient Greeks had steam engines, but only ever thought of them as a curiosity instead of putting them to practical use.
This is kind of Apple's whole thing, though.
The idea of a mouse, having tiled windows on a desktop, a few other ideas... All came from Xerox's teams. They gave Jobs a tour and showed him what they were working on and Apple put all those ideas into their "made for the home" computers.