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Samsung Z5 Gets Help from iPod Designer

Monday, February 27th, 2006 at 9:30 AM - by Staff

Samsung's new Z5 portable digital music player interface was developed by Paul Mercer, the same man that was responsible for the original iPod's software design. Mr. Mercer's company, Inventor Inc., was contracted by Samsung in an effort to bring some of the iPod's innovation to the Z5, according the The New York Times.

Mr. Mercer previously worked for Apple before starting his own software development company called Pixo. Apple tapped Pixo for the software interface for the iPod before Mr. Mercer sold his company to Sun Microsystems in 2003. He started up Inventor to carry on with his application design work.

He commented "My whole vision has been to take Macintosh-class technology and to move it into new places."

The Z5 MP3 player is scheduled to arrive in stores on March 5.

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Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:52 pm

Paul Mercer is brilliant. It's too bad his Swatch project failed - it was a pocket Macintosh (Mac OS on a Sony palmtop) which might have dramatically changed the PDA world. Newton, though a long way from shipping, was more advanced, and the Newton guys killed off Swatch, but imagine what it would have been like if people could have used off-the-shelf development tools to port Mac programs to a PDA which ran the Finder, HyperCard, AppleShare, Word, Excel, etc..

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Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:34 am

ipods are $#!%. die apple die. ppl r too fukin ignorant to check out tons of other mp3 players that are much better than shitty ipod. they wanna just show off.. fukin losers.

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Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:53 pm

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ipods are $#!%. die apple die. ppl r too fukin ignorant to check out tons of other mp3 players that are much better than shitty ipod. they wanna just show off.. fukin losers.

Yeah, whatever. Interesting that you felt compelled to come here and post that drivel.

Who's the loser?

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