LG Prada Is iPhone Prequel
Yesterday LG Electronics, the number four cell phone maker, announced the LG Prada Phone. It looks like an iPhone. Same form factor. No buttons. Touch-screen. Designed jointly by Korea-based LG and Milan-based fashion house Prada, it is targeted at the well-heeled phone-as-fashion-statement set and will be priced at about $800 when it becomes available in Europe next month. No US availability has been announced yet.
So who copied what from whom? Who innovated? Serendipity?
The vaunted Mac interface was largely inspired in the '80s by work done at Xerox PARC, the infamous lab where Xerox researchers made many technology advances that Xerox never figured out how to take advantage of. Steve Jobs did. He also apparently found inspiration for iPhone from a tablet PC. One now wonders where else the Apple folks found inspiration.
The LG Prada demonstrates that the iPhone design will not be limited to Apple products, Apple's 200 patents notwithstanding. Regardless, the iPhone will still provide the ceiling for the mass market, as discussed in my last post.
Copyright © 2007 Philip Bookman
Technorati: Business Strategy, Apple, LG, Prada, iPhone.
So who copied what from whom? Who innovated? Serendipity?
The vaunted Mac interface was largely inspired in the '80s by work done at Xerox PARC, the infamous lab where Xerox researchers made many technology advances that Xerox never figured out how to take advantage of. Steve Jobs did. He also apparently found inspiration for iPhone from a tablet PC. One now wonders where else the Apple folks found inspiration.
The LG Prada demonstrates that the iPhone design will not be limited to Apple products, Apple's 200 patents notwithstanding. Regardless, the iPhone will still provide the ceiling for the mass market, as discussed in my last post.
Copyright © 2007 Philip Bookman
Technorati: Business Strategy, Apple, LG, Prada, iPhone.
Labels: Apple, Business Strategy, iPhone, LG Electronics, Prada
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