Amaya Toman Lots of people like nostalgia, and Apple users are no exception. Who wouldn't want to remember the brightly colored iMac G3, the original Macintosh or perhaps the iPod Classic? It is the last-named device that one developer recently managed to transfer to the iPhone display. Thanks to the created application, iPhone users will see a faithful copy of the iPod Classic user interface, including the click wheel, haptic feedback and characteristic sounds.
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Developer Elvin Hu shared his latest work twitter account through a short video, and in an interview with The Verge magazine, he shared details regarding the creation of the application. Evlin Hu is a design student at New York's Cooper Union College and has been working on this project since October.
He created his app as part of a school project on the development of the iPod. "I've always been a fan of Apple products, ever since I was a kid," Hu said in an email to The Verge editors. “But before my family could afford one, I was drawing iPhone user interface layouts on Ferrero Rocher boxes. Their products (along with other products such as Windows Vista or Zune HD) greatly influenced my decision to pursue a career as a designer," he confided to the editors.
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The click wheel from the iPod Classic, along with the Cover Flow design, looks really good on the iPhone display, and according to the video, it works great too. In his own words, Hu hopes to complete the project later this year. But there is no guarantee that Apple will approve his finished application for publication in the App Store. "Whether or not I release [the app] depends on whether Apple approves it," Hu says, adding that Apple may have strong reasons for disapproval, such as patents.
However, Hu has a backup plan in case of disapproval – he would like to release the project as open source, depending on the response from the community. But the fact that Tony Fadell, nicknamed the "father of the iPod" liked it, works in favor of the project. That's what Hu tagged in a tweet, and Fadell called the project a "nice throwback" in his reply.
Source: 9to5Mac, source of screenshots in the gallery: Twitter
