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Apple Executive Says Samsung Copied the iPhone and Simply 'Put a Bigger Screen Around It'

Andres Cantu said:
Copied yes, but Apple crippled their first large screen iPhone by using the same amount of RAM (1GB) for what was the third year in a row, since they knew they would still sell incredibly well.

The 6s then turned out to be a much better phone. I don’t recall Samsung crippling their devices in that manner. Plus, thanks to them, we have larger screens.
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Always gotta wonder if this were the bean counters from Apple at work. I generally don't care about specs for a phone nor tablet, but when issues like RAM crop up, such as having more of it would've alleviated issues people are having, this is where you groan, and wonder why you paid a premium for a supposedly "premium device".

iDento said:
As a customer, I am happy they did, competition is good for me.
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Agreed. As an Android user (although I do have an iPad), I also have to say I'm glad Apple is competing with Android. I can easily see either company degrading into an "Internet Explorer 6" syndrome were it not for that.
 
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ThomasJL said:
Samsung’s smartphone strategy has evolved: it went from merely copying Apple to first making fun of Apple for illogical design choices (like the elimination of the headphone jack and the inclusion of a notch) and then copying Apple’s illogical design choices.
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And Apple's going to return the favor by copying Samsung's illogical pill shaped front facing camera. 🤣
 
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contacos said:
And now they all copied Apples price ranges
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Well, to put a positive Apple spin on that, they unapologetically copied Apple there ;)

cocky jeremy said:
I'll never understand how they sold any of those junk ass phones to even stay in business long enough to get where they are today.
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Have you used them before? I'm convinced people who say Windows 10 was garbage never tried it. Just stuck only knowing MacOS or Linux. Likewise, I'm convinced that people who knocked MacOS never tried that. Granted, there are use cases where somebody wants a better gaming system, so MacOS is not the way to go about that.

Android is a joy to use. The experience. The sheer choice of hardware means if Samsung doesn't make things you like, you can always look to other manufacturers.
 
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lostPod said:
Didn't Jobs copy a lot from Xerox ? LOL ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’
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Xerox gave Jobs permission to visit PARC and access to look at their tech since Xerox had no idea what to do with their tech. In exchange Apple gavce Xerox a lot of stock shares. Apple took concepts like the GUI and made them significantly better. For example, Xerox windows could not be moved on top of each other. Or, Xerox's mouse could move X and Y but not X and Y simultaneously.
 
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I loved my OG iPhone, it truly was way more user friendly in some respects than anything I'd had before.

But Apple likes to pretend as if they produced the first smartphone in human history, the first touchscreen phone etc etc etc.

They didn't. Apple equally improved on ideas and concepts that were already there. Yes they made them better and implemented them in a way that made sense, but at the end of the day that's the steady process of progress.

I used early versions of Android and yes, they had icons in a row on a rectangular touchscreen. But they weren't really alike any more than what you would expect from a new way of interacting with devices taking hold.

Apple is really good at what they do, but they really need to get over themselves.
 
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Andres Cantu said:
Copied yes, but Apple crippled their first large screen iPhone by using the same amount of RAM (1GB) for what was the third year in a row, since they knew they would still sell incredibly well.

The 6s then turned out to be a much better phone. I don’t recall Samsung crippling their devices in that manner. Plus, thanks to them, we have larger screens.
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They didn't cripple the device to have a larger screen, it was cripple from the beginning. I remember looking at a friends new Samsung when the iPhone 6 came out, and couldn't figure out why it couldn't even swipe on the Home Screen as smoothly as my iPhone 3G could.
 
ackmondual said:
Well, to put a positive Apple spin on that, they unapologetically copied Apple there ;)


Have you used them before? I'm convinced people who say Windows 10 was garbage never tried it. Just stuck only knowing MacOS or Linux. Likewise, I'm convinced that people who knocked MacOS never tried that. Granted, there are use cases where somebody wants a better gaming system, so MacOS is not the way to go about that.

Android is a joy to use. The experience. The sheer choice of hardware means if Samsung doesn't make things you like, you can always look to other manufacturers.
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I've had several Android phones. I get bored of them within two weeks and get rid of them. I think the longest one lasted 3-4 weeks. That was a OnePlus 8 Pro.
 
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Andres Cantu said:
Copied yes, but Apple crippled their first large screen iPhone by using the same amount of RAM (1GB) for what was the third year in a row, since they knew they would still sell incredibly well.

The 6s then turned out to be a much better phone. I don’t recall Samsung crippling their devices in that manner. Plus, thanks to them, we have larger screens.
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Ugh the 6 was revolutionary when it came out, whereas the 6S had literally no new features apart from that stupid Live Photo thing. In fact it was the first bad iPhone, and paved the way for several more mediocre updates, most glaringly the 11 over the XR
 
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lostPod said:
Didn't Jobs copy a lot from Xerox ? LOL ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’
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And the myth lives on…

www.mac-history.net

Did Steve Jobs steal everything from Xerox PARC? - Mac History

It is claimed again and again that in the course of the Macintosh’s development, Apple just resorted to the ideas the research laboratory Xerox PARC had hatched before. Fact or Fiction? The myth entwines about a late 1979 visit to Xerox PARC by a group of Apple engineers and executives led by...
www.mac-history.net
 
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KOTN91 said:
Ugh the 6 was revolutionary when it came out, whereas the 6S had literally no new features apart from that stupid Live Photo thing. In fact it was the first bad iPhone, and paved the way for several more mediocre updates, most glaringly the 11 over the XR
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I disagree. There was nothing revolutionary about the 6 other than it was the first larger-screen iPhone (not counting the taller 5/5s).

The 6s was by no means revolutionary either, but it had a much sturdier design, 12MP camera with 4K video recording (both firsts for iPhone after years with 8MP), 2GB of RAM, a much faster SoC (the A8 on the 6 was a minor update from the A7), etc.
 
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