On: Apple iPad's iBook rips off indie dev's creation

[earl]

Yes. Who would possibly think of a bookshelf as a metaphor for your collection of books.

[dcurtis → earl]

To be fair, there are two other things at play here.

* 1. No app had ever displayed books on a bookshelf in this way until Delicious Monster did.

* 2. The designer who designed the bookshelf UI at Delicious Monster was poached by Apple to work on the iPad team.

(And because I'm irritated by comments on Hacker News lately, I just want to point out that sarcasm is the simplest form of humor.)

[jstevens85 → dcurtis]

"The designer who designed the bookshelf UI at Delicious Monster was poached by Apple to work on the iPad team."

If you're referring to Mike Matas, the co-founder of Delicious Monster, he left DM to join Apple back in 2005. While I imagine he's probably working on the iPad, he wasn't poached specifically to work on the device.

[nudist → jstevens85]

He mentioned somewhere that he designed elements of the iPad's Maps UI.

[jstevens85 → nudist]

Yeah, according to this twitter post http://twitter.com/mike_matas/status/8292208676 he also worked on the Photos app.

[krtl → jstevens85]

How do you know the iPad wasn't 5 years in the making?