Johnny Ive known as the iOS should look like in 2005

Want proof that Scott Forstall let translate design ideas Quince in iOS? Pozhaluytsa. Before you an early iPhone prototype that was made in the Industrial Design Jonathan Ive laboratory. Behind has written «iPod», because the design of the prototype based on the iPod mini. You think that this design is very archaic? We suggest you look at the icons on the screen. Nothing like?

Pay attention to the level of signal reception icon dock, and Music Phone application icons. They are devoid of any frills and very similar to what we see in iOS 7. It turns out that Johnny Ive long been known yet, should look like iOS.

In those years, in operating system development for the future of Apple phone, participated Ive, Jobs and several other top managers of the company. Remarkably, when designers from Quince units did not know how to look mobile operating system, because they were busy with the design of the device. To give them a rough idea of ​​how it will look like iPhone front, were created fake home screen with icons primitive.

Much of the design process and the creation of the first iPhone, we have seen only during the legal battle between Apple and Samsung. One of the most interesting things associated with these prototypes - is how often Ive recycles its ideas. Early prototypes include projects that are very similar to the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 4, which Apple released a few years later.