Dissecting Apple's iPhone 4.0's sources of 'me-too' inspiration

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Apple launched its iPhone 4.0 OS today and the big news is that it now multitasks. Why didn’t I jump out of my chair? Because other mobile operating systems can do that. In fact, many of the iPhone 4.0 buzz revolves around technologies I vaguely recall elsewhere.

Let’s recap the highlights:

Multitasking: Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted that the company wasn’t to the multitasking bandwagon first, but will be the best. In any case, Google Android, RIM’s BlackBerry, Nokia’s Symbian and Palm’s WebOS also do the multitasking shuffle.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=32892&tag=wrapper;col1

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