The Ottawa Citizen’s James Bagnell, who knows Nortel as well as anyone, has a really interesting angle on the iPhone: could Nortel have invented it.
The reality is Nortel was working on a phone in the early-1990s called the Orbiter that featured a graphics display. The developers of the Orbiter’s user interface was Don Lindsay, who joined Apple in 1994. His team created the OS X operating system. Later, the team he built crated the UI for the iPhone.
Could Nortel Have Invented the iPhone?
The Ottawa Citizen’s James Bagnell, who knows Nortel as well as anyone, has a really interesting angle on the iPhone: could Nortel have invented it.
The reality is Nortel was working on a phone in the early-1990s called the Orbiter that featured a graphics display. The developers of the Orbiter’s user interface was Don Lindsay, who joined Apple in 1994. His team created the OS X operating system. Later, the team he built crated the UI for the iPhone.