![]() And that mimicking real world interfaces doesn't actually make sense on a digital device all the time. I mean, what better way is there to display books? Now if I know Apple fanatics like I know Apple fanatics, they're going to turn on Shipley immediately and say that a bookshelf is an obvious idea. “ 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. “ 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.” ![]() 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. “ No, Apple didn’t license iBooks from me. In fact, Shipley was quite vocal on Twitter during the keynote today about the situation. Separated a birth: Apple's iBooks and Delicious Library The only problem? His shop didn’t make it. Delicious Monster founder Wil Shipley thought the same thing. I’m not the only one who thought that either. When Apple was demoing its new iBooks application for the iPad during their keynote address, I just kept thinking to myself: this simply must have been designed byDelicious Monster, the shop behind the brilliant Mac app Delicious Library. Secondarily, I wonder if readers will know to tap it without a lot of instructive text.In yet another example of Apple ripping off user interface, the maker of the popular Delicious Library application notes, accurately, that Apple has stolen his UI: Now I must implement it in a pleasing way in my actual book where it will hopefully reference a series of books, not just one. To test I previewed the page on my iPad and tapped the graphic. I acquired the graphic by clicking on the second part of the link text, copying the graphic that appears, and pasting it on my page. I placed the invisible text on top of the link button graphic. I made the text invisible by reducing its opacity to zero.ĥ. I also made the text a smaller size for neatness. I reduced the link text to just that bit which links to the book in Apple iBookstore. I opened iBooks Author to a blank page and pasted the link text.ģ. This is a double bonus actually, because anyone who goes through your link, if they purchase anything from iTunes, you’ll get a commission. I selected and copied the Large Button HTML link text.Ģ. BONUS: If you are an iTunes affiliate, and you grab your link from the iTunes Linkmaker while you are logged into iTunes, the URL that you use for your subscribe button will contain your affiliate code. Using Apple LinkMaker in my browser, I found a book, A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole.
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