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Design District which is filled with Prada stores was a historically poor black neighborhood.

But don't worry, his assistant Julio Prada literally has a blood pressure cuff in his office for when he gets too stressed and angry.

I'd argue that the LG Prada beat the iPhone in terms of the first capacitive phone with a touch-centric UI.

No consumer would confuse the LG Prada with Apple iPhone.

And you only have to look at the LV, Prada etc of the world to know they are willing to spend huge amounts of money on it.

The LG Prada was the first modern smartphone.

However I can't comment on how good it's browser was; but even the Prada aside, you make a very good point about how other handsets had terrible web browsers.

When tax authorities recently surveyed the returns of 150 doctors with offices in the trendy Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki, where Prada and Chanel stores can be found, more than half had claimed an income of less than $40,000.

To me it just reminds me a bit too much of people who buy clothes and accessories with the brand name printed really really large so that they can be sure that everyone knows they are wearing Prada sunglasses.

Meaning, for instance, that apple would not be able to enforce it's design patent against the Prada (if it had come out subsequent to iPhone), or most of the Android phones, including the Galaxy line.

The LG Prada was an impressive piece of hardware and certainly pointed in the same direction, sure, but it was essentially a feature phone -- a smaller, lower-resolution, grayscale display with no Internet capability to speak of.

They don't only own the Lens Crafters peddling Chanel and Prada frames, but also Sears and Target Optical selling "discount" versions with only slightly reduced margins.

You reaffirmed this by quoting that "They sued samsung over a number of combined similarities:" and then listing design features that the iPhone copied from the LG Prada.

"[A long irrelevant rant about copying]" Technically, the LG Prada pioneered the UI and interaction model you're talking about, but that's not the point.

It’s the hours of labor.” This is a flawed, Marxist labor theory of value that can't explain why an artisanally-made handbag that takes 120 man-hours to produce still is valued less than a Coach/Prada/LV handbag that was machine-manufactured with no human labor.

Prada also makes $200 handbags, so one of your examples is flawed.

First touchscreen phone was the LG Prada, not the iPhone, fyi.

Even though LG has claimed that Apple copied there designs, the general look an feel of the iPhone was fixed in 2005, long before the LG released the Prada.