With all the hoopla over Apple's release of their iPad, and with all the speculation about it being a Kindle-killer, you'd think that their outright theft of the reader user interface might have garnered a bit of play in the major media. Of course, you'd think wrong.
Wil Shipley, the maker of the popular Delicious Library applicationnotes, accurately, that Apple has stolen his UI for their iBooks app.
They didn't contact him, nor did they cut him a check. They just stole his company's intellectual property, figuring that if anybody noticed, they could simply portray the similarities between the interfaces as some sort of cosmic coincidence. It's kind of hard to make that fly, in light of the fact that they hired several of the folks from Shipley's staff to work on the iPad application.
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