UPDATE 1/16/2007:
As the rest of the Internet knows by now, Apple’s look-and-feel lawyers are on the bandwagon, sending "cease & desist" emails to anyone and everyone with a link to or a bitmap of the infamous iPhone UI skin for Pocket PC. In reflection, I can understand why Apple’s got their panties all bunched up: If the UI becomes commoditized, it’s no longer a trademark, much in the same way that we have to protect the word "Windows" from being used improperly by our competitors – i.e. Lindows.
To be honest – I haven’t been contacted. I’m probably either a) too small a blog that no one in Apple’s legal dept really cares, b) gone basically unnoticed by Apple’s legal department and therefore "under the radar" of their email barrage to the blogosphere, or c) I have no actual contact information publicly available on my site for their legal "cease & desist" spammers to send to and thus they have no way to actually contact me.
While I have no doubt, I fall into options A & B, I’ve been pinged by enough people, both external & internal to Microsoft, that do know how to contact me that are "concerned" enough for my well-being enough that I’m taking down the bitmap showing what the UI is. Instead, I think it’s safe to say that anyone that’s heard this is probably interested in trying to build User Interfaces for the Pocket PC themselves using some simple bitmaps and the cLaunch tool.
So basically, here’s a link on how to "create your own UI experience" on Pocket PC with just a few bitmaps and the UI skinning tool, cLaunch:
HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN CLAUNCH USER INTERFACES:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=289523&highlight=
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And now for something completely different…
Here’s a bitmap I found for your reading enjoyment. Take a look. Save it. Print it on your work printers. Leave a copy lying around. After all, everyone can use a good laugh here and there, ‘eh?:
Original PDF available here for download:
http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/images/
Announcing_the_Apple_iProduct.pdf
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ORIGINAL POST:
In a demonstration of how simple it is to configure & program the Pocket PC, the guys over an XDA Developers retooled the UI on Pocket PC to look like an iPhone interface.
And it’s all free.
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