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While we're talking about apps, I have one for Mac only called Delicious Library. How many books do you guys have? I’m at 180.Anyone out there use anything? I don’t have a massive personal collection but I’m also a photo teacher and have a pretty good sized classroom library and would love to find a solution where students could search by theme or photographer. There’s a few iPhone apps and web based options I’ve come across in a quick google search. Does anyone use a database or app to catalog their collection? Just saw this Tik Tok by Alec Soth who uses Delicious Library.You have to say, ‘Ok, this was such a good idea, other people took it and ran with it. So when your designs do change the world, you have to accept it. So it stinks when I feel like Steve might get the fame for my innovation. I don’t work for Apple, or Google (I’ve been offered jobs & buyouts) because I want the fame myself. “ As a creator, part of what I seek is recognition, immortality. “ So their official policy has to be, ‘No, of course it’s a crazy coincidence that these shelves look almost entirely like Delicious Library’s shelves.‘,” he concludes
And if they got value, the lawyers would ask, how much was it? How was it determined?,” he continues They are a public company - they can’t write someone a check unless they got some value in return. Even a token one would be an admission (in their lawyers’ eyes) that they were copying something. “ Now, of course Apple couldn’t contact me ahead of time and say, ‘Hey, we’re taking your idea, thanks.’ Their lawyers would worry they’d open themselves to a huge lawsuit, for one, and they’d also be leaking a secret. ‘Look and feel’ is kind of an outmoded concept, I think.” “ Although Delicious Library was the first to do it, we didn’t try to copyright the idea of wooden shelves, or of showing books photo-realistically. So, of course they looked around, found the best interface for displaying books (Delicious Library’s shelves), and said: yup, this is what we’re doing,” he went on to say. “ But the thing about iBooks is, it’s a book-reader. Notably, he says, “ Mike Matas was a UI designer on the iPad, Lucas Newman is an iPhone / iPad engineer, and Tim Omernick was an iPhone / iPad engineer but left a while ago to work on games independently.” Update: Shipley has responded with some lengthy comments. You may wonder why Apple didn’t just hire Shipley if they poached his whole team? “ They couldn’t afford to hire me,” he writes.
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We’ve reached out to Shipley to confirm those hires and will update if we hear back.īack in July, you may recall that Shipley had to kill the Delicious Library iPhone app because of a change to Amazon’s APIs for pulling product data. But if Apple really did hire much of Shipley’s team then just re-create the look, that’s a little shady. Still, as Shipley notes, iBooks is only for eBooks while Delicious Monster is for all types of media, and has much more functionality. Not only that, but it’s not like this is a little-known app that Apple may have missed: it has won the Apple Design Award twice, and been a runner-up one other time. I mean, the bookshelf view in iBooks is nearly identical to the main bookshelf view used in Delicious Library. Flattery?” While Shipley tries to play it off as not that big of a deal, clearly he’s pretty upset about it. Later, he added, “I guess it’s not enough Apple has hired every employee who worked on Delicious Library, they also had to copy my product’s look.
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“ No, Apple didn’t license iBooks from me. In fact, Shipley was quite vocal on Twitter during the keynote today about the situation. The only problem? His shop didn’t make it.
I’m not the only one who thought that either. Delicious Monster founder Wil Shipley thought the same thing.
When Apple was demoing its new iBooks application for the iPad today during their keynote address, I just kept thinking to myself: this simply must have been designed by Delicious Monster, the shop behind the brilliant Mac app Delicious Library.
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