The entire idea is ripped off from Huawei though, https://www.huaweicentral.com/apple-stolen-dynamic-island-feature-from-huawei/
Apple does it better, but it is NOT an Apple original idea!
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Apple does it better, but it is NOT an Apple original idea!
Of course the DI will go away once Apple comes up with something better. Thats how tech works.
As I have replied to others, this is not an Apple original idea. It was Huawei first https://www.huaweicentral.com/apple-stolen-dynamic-island-feature-from-huawei/
Apple does it better without a doubt though!
They should have called it . Dynamic hole.
Missed opportunity
Missed opportunity
This app is exactly that. A slap in the face to Apple and anyone who thinks the dynamic island is some sort of super selling point on the new iPhone. It’s a freaking cosmetic snap on to cover up and embarrassingly awkward/asymmetrical hole punch camera system.
The point of this exercise is to show how trivially easy it is to duplicate this “feature” that Apple is trying to pawn off as revolutionary.
Next thing we will see is Apple changing the color of the mouse cursor on MacOS and calling it the Magic Mouse…. Oh wait…..
really didn't apple copy Android phone makers is bigger phones? even after Jobs made fun of bigger phones and saying the iPhone 4 was the perfect size? then to be honest apple again copied and followed Android tablets in creating mini tablets? then they copied copy and paste as well.
Then again my whole point is Apple copies Android phones and Android phones makers copy Apple.
Guess what? THEY ALL COPY FROM EACH OTHER.......
This is actually sad. Let's think for a moment... iPhone has FaceID ja front camera hardware that need to be somewhere and previously there was a notch, now there are screencutouts. Both of these are NOT COOL, they are REQUIRED. Would we like to have that part of screen to ourselves? Yes we would, but we can't have it. So to make it bearable Apple gave us the Dynamic Island, which although is a cool solution, still would be unneeded if there would not be any screencutouts. So Android people now look at this. Oh look, what Apple is doing, lets do that too for no real reason. And that is sad.
It's like Apple is feeding dead rats to its users and Android looks, oh dead rats, cool, must be good if Apple is doing it, let's do that too.
It's like Apple is feeding dead rats to its users and Android looks, oh dead rats, cool, must be good if Apple is doing it, let's do that too.
My understanding is that application and others like it work by turning off the actual dock and putting something else over it. That’s not bad, and I’m happy that we have options like that on the Mac, but it’s not as nice as actually removing that part of the operating system and replacing it with another native solution. You can do that on Linux; I’m not sure about Android. If all the fancy launchers that I see on Android are floating on top of the native UI, I doubt they feel nearly as fluid to use. And if that’s the case, I don’t see why anyone would want to it.Uhh, you can tear the dock out of macOS and put a 3rd party replacement though. It's called uBar https://ubarapp.com/
I never truly understood why people tend to hate any unfamiliar name that gets presented to them. I can't think of any Apple product that has not been laughed at the name when first announced, including the iPhone. And then they become completely normal. Same with iPad. Does name really matter that much in a Universe where Apple can call it a crap and it can still become popular?
I bought the original AirPods the day they dropped. I was ecstatic. Cordless headphones at the office. There was 2 people (one chick) one guy who made some jokes. We’re friends so it’s all good. But within 6 months, their shameful asses both bought some haha
they realsed the iPad in 2010 and Steve Jobs said it was the perfect size and a smaller tablet was not needed. But only when smaller Android tablets were selling did Apple indtroduce the iPad mini.
Same with smaller iPhones....Jobs said the iPhone 4 was the perfect size and people made fun of the bigger Android phones......until they were selling and capturing markets share. Then came the iPhone 6 to copy bigger Android phones.
This is all useless banter....they all copy from each other.
Sure and Android was going to be a Blackberry/Moto Q clone until Apple demoed the iPhone.
sure and Apple was going to do Always on Display....oh wait Android phones have had that since like 2010.
Oh and Apple was going to do widgets on the lockscreen....oh wait yep Android phones have had that since well around 2010 again.
We can do this all day but in the end Apple has copied and followed Android phones lead for some time.
Then to be fair Android phone makers have also copied from Apple.
Next thing you know we will have an iPhone with a USB C port......
How many people developing vs how many people in the world does NOT matter.
Please stop with your basic math and Reddit type answers and come up with something more fruitful and meaningful.
Everything I wrote is irrelevant, to you maybe not the topic so much. Care to back that up with real precedence or a much more intellectual rebuttal?
The fact you're not going to waste your time shows your inability to hold a decent debate nor the curiosity to improve your insight into such matters.
Obviously I'm an Apple Fan but not blind I've heavily considered android before - check 15 or close to that of my most recent posts you should see a significant hint of that again recently. Unlike you I'm not arrogant to seeing another point of view/choice if its been made relevant or intellectually put forth vs typical lazy 1 sentence remarks that are petty.
And the so many Android user in general was accurate. You failed to look up the context of that statement. Just do a search here, or on XDA forums I'm sure you'll find a significant number
this is my observation, do you have an observation of Android users here that love Apple? lol. I'll bet you really do lol.
I mean it's clear from the start that I wasn't interested in your petty assumptions regarding patents, trials, suing people or anything like that so yeah, most of what you wrote is pointless.
LoL, you are amusing. Of course I'm not going to waste my time with the irrelevant direction you tried to set for your arguments as you were completely unable to address the actual point I made. You made a cheap accusations in case you forgot.
Well if telling people they should have the decency of understanding the subject, so basically to read(at least the title because even in the title it clearly says Android app) before making cheap accusations is arrogant, than maybe I am arrogant, and this is just because I care for the truth
Its accurate only in your mind. I don't have to search XDA for anything, I'm a member of their forum.
If I look at the XDA thread about this specific app(which was opened by the developer of the app itself) I can see 120 posts(and most of the discussion there is technical in nature), that's less than this forum, isn't that ironic? And XDA has 10 million members vs half a million for Macrumors. Also very popular Android apps have over 5 billion installs and according to recent statistics, there are over 3 billion active android users. This is just so you can understand how popular apps that Android fans really want can get.
Nope, the only "significant" number I can find is of people correcting apple fans that can't properly read.I'm sure you'll find a significant number
Yeah "your observation" doesn't have a leg to stand on.
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