Looks like those 5 million patents Steve was talking about didn’t stop one clever wag from creating a fully function iPhone shell for Windows Pocket PC. This guy has done everything — except make Windows look like less of a piece of crap after you get past the sexy initial UI. It’s like walking into a brand new home and finding oily rags and offal piled up in every room.
Watch the iPhone interface running on a Pocket PC [TechDigest via Giz]
That’s a lot of JoJo songs ;-)
I wonder who did it, though. This looks like someone has done a pretty good job in recreating even tiny details, something like this could definitely be worth money when sold as an “add-on”.
I would like to point out, though, that creating a skin for an operating system that makes it look like another one is hardly illegal. There are millions of OS X skins for Windows XP etc. without any legal issues, so why not do the same on a mobile phone. Don’t they always say imitation is the highest form of flattery ;-)
Why bother? There is nothing special about Apple’s interfaces.