A battle of scavengers

At least if this trial is not shortened: Samsung has ignored the ban on Koh judge and his lawyers have communicated to the press documents showing she was working on large-screen smartphone before the presentation of the iPhone. What cause the ire of the judge, already quite annoyed by the inability of both parties to find common ground. Attorneys would notably include the Samsung F700 - this phone has been many montages supposed to show that Apple had copied the iPhone on Samsung.

You've probably crossed this image.

Problem: this image is absolutely not the reality. The F700 has actually been presented for the first time one month after the iPhone in February 2007. Its home screen is not the grid of icons, which also differs greatly from that of IOS, but a screen widgets. Moreover, it is a slider phone horizontally!Some do not hesitate to say that Judge Koh was a gift to Samsung F700 include the amount to go in the direction of Apple on the subject of the diversity of forms.

The F700, as it was in fact promoted at the time. This time we have struggled to find a resemblance to the iPhone.

In response to the unauthorized publication of these documents, Apple has asked the court to sanction Samsung in closing the case by a decision declaring that the Korean company violates industrial property of the Cupertino company, and that patents are Apple valid - in short, Apple asks for the procedural defect. Samsung has already been sanctioned for destroying evidence and was called to order by Judge Koh after sending to the press, once again, this time the documents belonging to Apple. Because the damage is already done: even if Samsung should lose this case, for procedural or regular, small Apple secrets were revealed. Samsung had managed to obtain documents showing an iPhone inspired by the 2006 Sony style , to cast doubt on the famous "Apple ID. "In doing so, she simply forced Apple to reveal the Purple prototype, codenamed Project iPhone, dating from 2005 - and thus prove that the design of the iPhone 4 was already in the pipeline.

The iPod brand? The term iPhone came a little later, and was rarely used on the prototypes, in order to test them without arousing suspicion. We understand better the chronologies of rumors about the iPod touch, which preceded those of a few years around the iPhone.

In all, more than 40 prototypes of the iPhone and iPad that were revealed in this process. They provide insight into how the process design of Apple, especially since many designers have had to testify. We know for example now that Apple has always worked on an iPhone to both sides of glass - and therefore that the first three generations of iPhone were transition models, also developed late in the development cycle. It was learned that the glass surfaces were originally to be curved to facilitate handling and slips of the finger, an option rejected address issues of cost and production capacity.

The prototype 0355.

The iPhone mini? Apple has explored this track, starting with the iPod mini. Eventually abandon it, fearing that the size is too small to be really comfortable to use, the components are properly integrated and that connectivity is ideal.

Two preproduction iPhone mini.

Better still, observing closely the published literature, we realize that the operating system of the first prototype was actually a kind of dashboard where applications were developed with web languages. Operation that was found at Palm with webOS, headed by Jon Rubinstein ... a former senior executive of Apple. What was later known as Mac OS X Mobile, iOS today, only appears late in the development cycle, and to better understand the chronology of the emergence of third-party applications: tools and the idea of ​​an App Store probably existed in 2007, but they were not necessarily ready.

Observe these icons: You find in your Dashboard. Core OS, the heart of OS X, is there, in the lowest layers (network, power), but the idea was to provide a common development platform around with Dashboard and Dashcode web languages. The idea of ​​third-party apps developed with Xcode and Objective-C did not come until later, probably when the components have reached sufficient power.

We finally learned more about the design process at Apple, meetings of a team of 15 people around Jon Ive and a kitchen table - in short, part of the veil surrounding Apple has been lifted by Samsung . The Korean firm plays big in the business, but its strategy of scorched earth admits already paid off: the secret, the most sacred Apple, a component of this sacrosanct identity Apple, has been trampled feet. This public humiliation in the press is well worth the $ 2.5 billion that Samsung could pay if convicted - and find it on the other hand in order components.

Source: iGeneration