mocoNews.net (paidContent.org) has issued a retraction to an April 9, 2009 article in which reporter Tricia Duryee incorrectly claimed that RIM had hired “one of the original masterminds behind the iPhone user interface.”
We pointed out the fallaciousness of mocoNews’ “report” that same day:
Simply put, Tricia, working on Mac OS X’s “Aqua” UI through version 10.3 does not mean that Lindsay “helped develop the iPhone interface” at all. Since iPhone’s development took 30 months (2.5 years) and Steve Jobs unveiled it in January 2007, it’s quite likely that Don — who departed Apple in 2003 years before Apple even started the iPhone project — never even heard of the iPhone, much less “masterminded” its user interface.
mocoNews.net now reports, “In a previous version of this story, we said Don Lindsay was ‘the mastermind’ behind the iPhone user experience. That is incorrect. An Apple spokesman got back to us today and said Lindsay left the company in 2003. The iPhone was introduced much later, in 2007.”
Full corrected article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
