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Photoshop 1.0 Recreated On iPhone

Posted by timothy on from the when-time-loops-collide dept.

Dotnaught writes "Photoshop co-creator Russell Brown asked Ansca Mobile to re-create Photoshop 1.0, originally introduced in 1990, for the iPhone. The resulting app, created in three days using the Corona SDK, was distributed to 50 attendees of an event celebrating Photoshop's 20th anniversary. Programmer Evan Kirchhoff in a blog post explains that Ansca took the project on to prove its claims about how Corona makes iPhone development faster."

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  1. Photoshop without patent problems! by H4x0r+Jim+Duggan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Photoshop from exactly 20 years ago - the only way to reliably avoid software patent problems!

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    1. Re:Photoshop without patent problems! by SCPRedMage · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Poorly.

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    2. Re:Photoshop without patent problems! by toriver · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You forgot the other way:

      1. You write a confusing patent application that will take two years to process. You submit it in year X.
      2. You keep amending and altering that application every year so the process starts anew. It still shows the X year of filing.
      3. Someone who is actually innovative invents something. You rapidly amend your patent so that it describes that invention.
      4. The patent is eventually awarded, and you sue the actual inventor for infringement because as everyone can see, you held a patent since year X on that particular idea.