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Apple Executive Says Samsung Copied the iPhone and Simply 'Put a Bigger Screen Around It'
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So what was the innovation that they copied, desktop with icons? What a unique concept, never seen anything like it before on my computer.
Agree competition is good for consumers, but out right copying is not good for industry, they won't have $$$ to invest in R&D.
Because they make all their money off refrigerators and 1000 other random things with the Samsung name on it. Unlike iPhone which by itself would be one of the most successful businesses in history, none of the other Android smartphone makers would even be in business if they were relying on smartphone profits.
it is like saying all cars have 4 wheels, so Tesla is same as hind civic all have 4 wheels.
Samsung phones with 1GB RAM would be unusable, tripped should be defined by can we use the phone not by amount of RAM.
Copying is good ? why do we need patents then ? everything should be open source so that any one can copy anything.
Agreed. I had both a 6 and a 6s, and the 6 would constantly reload apps whereas the 6s kept them much more frequently.
Even the 6 being dropped after iOS 12 and the 6s after iOS 15 shows that the 6 could have benefited from more RAM and would have gotten as much support as the iPad mini 4 did (same A8 chip but 2GB of RAM).
Although right now the iPhone is at a great place I still can't understand how the first iPhone was able to capture the world's attention let alone become such a big deal. And this is coming from someone who was obsessed with iPods. The device I owned in 2005 had more features than the original iPhone, a 3G antenna, could shoot videos, was not contract bound and cost less then half. To this day I find the original iPhone release underwhelming, the only thing the iPhone did better was the screen size/quality and the built in browser which was useless as a mobile browser since you could only use it over WiFi. I genuinely though that the iPhone project was gonna fail, it took 3Gs to make me reconsider.
I can still pull it out of my jeans pocket, but it’s not as surprising anymore when he did it.
Maybe so, but which company gave up their 80% market share to a competitor, as they were too busy locking down their phones and removing user choices
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I can't remember the name of the company—escapes the mind at the moment—but they were even more unscrupulous.
Terrible really.
They copied the iPhone down to every last pixel of the OS.
And they put it on a 9.7" display product.
They pretended it was an entirely new product category.
But it was almost literally like iOS. They stole it, down to the code base.
Was called something like the iTablet.
Terrible really.
They copied the iPhone down to every last pixel of the OS.
And they put it on a 9.7" display product.
They pretended it was an entirely new product category.
But it was almost literally like iOS. They stole it, down to the code base.
Was called something like the iTablet.
First rate propaganda lie. 2012 Galaxy Note II split window multitasking phablet with Wacom pen was so far ahead that Apple hasn't figured out how to copy it yet. Such a relief on the eyes coming from "you don't need more than 3.5 inch" iPhone 4 and 4S. Apple has only managed to copy the non-pen Galaxy S phablet but without split screen multitasking.
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Huh. Before the Surface, the iPad was relegated to a media consumption device.
After the SP3, Apple seemed to realize the potential of the form factor and began releasing bigger iPads, the Apple Pencil, first-party keyboards, and augmenting the OS to support more substantial workflows.
While the OS is still drastically different from MacOS, imo opinion it seems inevitable that iPadOS will eventually more closely resemble the multi-window support of the MacOS experience than what has gradually been introduced.
And at that point, ~MacOS on a tablet with keyboard/mouse and stylus support will be remarkably similar to the form factor Surface pioneered.
At this point does anyone care anymore? Smartphone are like microwave ovens, I need one to do specific things. I don't really care what model I have, because all them will cover the handful of features I use.
I have iPhone because my work provides it. If they wanted to switch to S22 tomorrow I would not care. Everything I do on iPhone can be done on an Android phone.
I have iPhone because my work provides it. If they wanted to switch to S22 tomorrow I would not care. Everything I do on iPhone can be done on an Android phone.
Same thing applies to my car, my house, my watch... nevertheless I somehow do care about its quality and features.
As a Developer ... welcome to our world Apple. If you make something original it gets copied endlessly with the results freely available in the app store 
How is the iPad a Surface clone? The original iPad could be used with a keyboard.
Well, as long as we're comparing notes, I've had Android phones since 2011. The longest one I had was for 3 to 4 years. Having used them for so long, of course we did NOT get bored by them
"They ripped off our tech"
From a company built on theft that's rich
From a company built on theft that's rich