2024-04-26 14:20:21
It could be said that in the technological world everyone ends up “copying” each other, some being more noticeable than others, but the truth is that large technology companies have been inspired by their rivals to launch their successful products.
Being inspired is not plagiarism, but rather taking an idea and adapting it to your own, and this is what large technology manufacturers have always done, and for example Samsung and Apple are no exception.
In fact, before Apple launched its first iPhone in 2007, Samsung was already on the market with different mobile devices.
Obviously, at that time, Apple had to be inspired by the best to bring its first smart mobile phone to the market in the form of the iPhone.
And although the story is not new, it is worth remembering that Steve Jobs himself was inspired by a specific Samsung phone for the first iPhone, as evidenced by a leaked email from years ago that has come to light again.
This email from Steve Jobs It dates back to 2005, a couple of years before the release of the first iPhone, and at that time Apple’s CEO had set his sights on the Samsung SGH-E910.
This internal message is part of the conversation with former head of design Jony Ive, although luckily for the brand, in the end they took very little inspiration from this Samsung device.
Basically what Steve Jobs wanted with this email was to be interested in the numeric keypad that was seen on this Samsung.
“We could put the numeric keypad around our click wheel. Of course, we should orient it like a clock, with 3, 6, 9 and * in the purely horizontal and vertical positions […] “We could also orient the keys to make them easier to read from a normal position.”
In fact, in the subject of the email itself, you can read in English “Samsung’s SGH-E910 Bang & Olufsen «fashionphone». Be that as it may, Steve Jobs finally changed his mind, and they managed to launch the iPhone into the market, and take a different path.