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by scarface74 2951 days ago
The LG Prada had a touch screen. But did it have A full HTML browser? A music/video store ecosystem? Would LG have been able to create an operating system on par with iOS? Within a year would they have had a development environment and a platform to create what became the App Store? Would they have been able to dictate to the carriers that they were going to upgrade their own OS and not be beholden to them?
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CamperBob2 2951 days ago
None of those things were the subject of this patent suit.
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scarface74 2950 days ago
The original statement that I was replying to was:

The iPhone was always going to happen as soon as capacitive multitouch technology became feasible at the consumer level.

The LG Prada being a touch screen and therefore would have evolved into the iPhone is as unrealistic as thinking whatever the knock off touch screen phone that Sprint released in late 2007 was going to evolve into an iPhone.

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CamperBob2 2950 days ago
This assertion is valid only if you think that products "evolve" in the absence of demand-side market pressure.
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