>>105964296>Christie says that even in 2004 the idea of Apple's product was clear - to have a touchscreen handset which incorporated music-playing functions. He says that the team "banged their head against the wall" in determining basic behaviour such as the ideal speed for list scrolling and how to get the right feel for the "bounce" when the end of the list was reached.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/26/steve-jobs-gave-iphone-engineers-two-week-deadline-in-2005
>Westerman co-founded a company called FingerWorks in 1998 that developed a number of multi-touch input devices. Apple acquired FingerWorks and all of its intellectual property in 2005, Westerman now works at Apple as a Senior Engineerhttps://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2009/02/piano-inspired-the-iphone.html
>During development of the iPhone, Appleโs industrial designers created numerous concepts, including this one dated August 2005โa rectangular shaped phone with evenly rounded corners, a band running around the midpoint of its body, a centered display on the front face, a menu button centered below the screen, and a speaker slot centered above the screen. https://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1264978/Motion_to_kill_Sony_Jony_phone_evidence.pdf
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