“Tzywen” has posted a video on YouTube of a “custom ‘iPhone-like’ interface running on a Eten M600 PocketPC:
Direct link to YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpP1_79rhQ8
Via Tzywen’s blog:
When I posted the video of my iPhone interface clone I wasn’t exactly expecting this much interest. Since then I’ve gotten a lot of requests to release it, a few job offers (3 claiming they are from Microsoft), people wanting to beta test it and people wanting to know how to use PPL… No, I haven’t gotten any emails from Apple yet if you’re wondering (wink)
Haven’t had much time to blog since my last post so I’m here to clear things up a bit. A lot of people have asked me to send them the iPhone software that was featured in the video. The short answer is no. I cannot do that because I’ll get sued. By not releasing the software to the wild, Apple cannot do much to me. All they can do is ask me to remove the video and my post. That’s going to save me a lot of trouble so I hope you all understand. Trust me, I would have released this if I wasn’t that concerned about Apple’s legal team. Who wouldn’t want to see their software running on other people’s devices? (wink)
I wrote this interface as a challenge to see if I can actually replicate the iPhone interface. I cannot devote all my time to developing this for a public release because I have a day job. Again, if there are no legal issues involved I would gladly release the source to the comminity [sic] and I’m sure that in no time, it will be able to COMPLETELY imitate the iPhone. IF there is time I will continue developing this and hopefully, someday somehow there will be a release.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iBulb” for the heads up.]
i love the smell of “dude you’re doomed for this” in the morning… its like the awaking aroma of coffee.
He sure seems to like Jojo.
That’s just so, so wonderful.
Today I made a wheel. Tomorrow, I’m going to grind up wood pulp and make paper.
After I make a pencil I’m going to write a letter to congratulate myself…and maybe,
….I’ll ask myself if I have any more ideas.
It’s amazing the lengths some people will go to take Bill’s piny little pecker up their ass…
anti-creative cretin: That’s just so, so wonderful.
Today I made a wheel. Tomorrow, I’m going to grind up wood pulp and make paper.
After I make a pencil I’m going to write a letter to congratulate myself…and maybe,
….I’ll ask myself if I have any more ideas.
LOL!!!!
Oh, P.S. I meant Bill’s tiny little pecker, not piny… damn uneditable posts!
It will lack the full featured apps, and the sweet multi-touch technology…but hey, it at least it LOOKS a heck of a lot better than the standard PocketPC interface!
The reason he didn’t linger on the TCP/IP button is because he didn’t feel like demonstrating Window’s newest RINBOT virus, just released this week!
I guess PC means photo copy?
I have no taste for painted cakes!
It’s a skin. Big deal. Haven’t we seen this already? Am I missing something?
Too bad for him that a lot of the UI elements he wants to copy are patented by Apple.
MW: taken, as in, too bad those ideas were already taken by apple!
I use to mock up things I wish were real too!!
Haven’t heard from Apple Huh
Well if it becomes commercially or shareware available instead of a cute little project,
YOU WILL..And their lawyers of 12 Billion to play with and patents.
Hey JoLO what you got.
Keep your day job!!
Just a legal thought
This is just great. The market is being tested for Apple without any involvement from Apple.
Just read the comments on YouTube and you’ll get a feel of the pent up demand for the iPhone. The iPhone is going to so HUGE when it hits the shelves.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to wait and buy the real thing? And where’s the coverflow art?
What’s with all his winks that make no sense in his blog posting?
Gotta say it… he did an excellent job re-creating the iPhone interface with Pocket PC. Did you see the scrolling? That is not just skinning.
Sadly, IF he ever released this, or it got in the wild, it would do major damage to the iPhone sales. Check how many YouTube comments are from people who want the installable files.
I mean, if you can get 75-80% of the functionality of an iPhone with the apparent same ease-of-use, I can’t see spending the $500 for the first gen iPhone. Very Interesting indeed. And I am ecstatic about the iPhone and can’t wait to get one.
MW: fact. It’s a fact that thing operates and looks EXACTLY LIKE the iPhone!
It just shows how Microsuck fanbois fail to understand the difference between the holistic integration between interface, software and hardware delivered in the Apple platform experience and the rag-tag, “parts bin”, lipstick-on-a-pig-with-botox approach offered by Microsuck and its fellow-travellers.
He thinks because he’s designed a skin, he’s as smart as Apple’s platform experience engineers. He doesn’t understand consistency and he doesn’t understand the value that multi-touch brings to the experience.
What a waste of time and effort.
Yes, I know it’s not legal, but neither is running Mac OS X on a Dell box, but I do it every. single. day. at work and home. (Sadly, OSX86 runs FASTER on my 4-year-old Dell 2.2Ghz P4 that it does on my last-gen PPC G5 iMac. They say it can’t be done, but oh, my friend, it can!
SO MUCH of a waste of time, in fact, that, according to the article, he’s had three job offers from Microsoft. So.. no… not a complete waste of time.
While I agree with you whole-heartedly, take a look at how many people are begging for the files.
You are correct that it’s a “rag-tag, “parts bin”, lipstick-on-a-pig-with-botox approach offered by Microsuck”, but unfortunately, you just described 94% of all the personal computers in the entire fscking world. Apparently people don’t care about “The Real Thing”, otherwise, they’d already have Macs. Close is already good enough. This can be seen in every store in America where EVERY SINGLE PRODUCT has an off-brand, generic version. People are obviously buying those, too.
I always read any posts at MDN but this post made me sleepy!
Interesting.
This guy did a nice job. Unfortunately, you still have to deal with Windows Mobile and the style of the apps that lie underneath the main screen’s nice clickable buttons.
Also, he only has point and select functionality and scrolling. No zooming, which I’m sure is MUCH harder to develop and would tax the processor too much.
Wow – wow,
How do you know that it operates exactly like an iPhone.
Are you and Steve buddies? Does he ask you how fast your Dell is running on pirated Apple software?
Or are you another Window-LOVING @sshole whose only job is to piss me off.
Damage to iPhone sales? Your the only one who is damaged…
Do you know why the iPhone will kill PocketPC, because it’s OSX…
Hardware can be duplicated, but innovation is Genius($500,00.00 for this one
Steve, same accounts)
They didn’t sat it can’t be done, We asked WHY would you,,,
Just an exactly like the iPhone thought.
What in God’s name are you talking about?
So, a skin with functionality copied in two areas: Unlock (big deal) and scrolling, implemented in a very, very limited way. No bounce-back on scroll stop. No jump-to-letter. No clicking.
People who say this works exactly like the iPod, what on earth are you talking about?
To “to Fanatic Realist”…
Wow, an offer to go and “develop” (or copy, you choose) software for one of the most derivative companies on the planet where an original thought would die of loneliness.
Impressive would have been getting a job offer from Apple or Xerox PARC or any genuinely innovative entity that takes an idea from a clean sheet of paper and constructs a complete product.
If you don’t see how this is a waste of time, you’d probably enjoy my new version of “The Godfather” with Tony Danza in the Michael Corleone role.
I know people who make Windows XP *look* exactly like OS X.
Is this supposed to be a big deal?
-c
MW: ‘trouble’not (trouble… NOT)