Time Inc’s Sports Illustrated Tablet Demo Looks Like an Android Interface to Me

YouTube video courtesy of thewonderfactoryny

AllThingsD.com has an interesting article about the tablet app Time Inc. is developing and hinting (from both the article and Time) that it is intended for the as-yet unannounced Apple tablet product…

Game On: Time Inc. Shows Off a Tabletized Sports Illustrated

However, if you take a look at the icons that appear under the virtual keyboard that makes its appearance at the 1 minute 44 second mark in the video above, you’ll see that these icons look like icons we see on Android phones. The design and gray colors are telltale signs…

Of course, this is just a mocked up demo. So, it may be that the lead designer is simply an Android phone owner and used its icons for this mock demo. Still…

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