Steve Jobs declared them thieves and that's enough for me.
Cool, that's enough for me to safely ignore you.
Steve Jobs declared them thieves and that's enough for me.
rows of application shortcuts that look similar to iOS shortcuts
Let's see. The SG SII has:
black rectangular shaped brick with rounded edges(like iPhone)
multi-touch screen with all the same gestures the iPhone has
rows of application shortcuts that look similar to iOS shortcuts
look like a knock-off to me.
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The top argument is the most asinine between the three. You just describe virtually every recent touchscreen device, bravo. So you want Samsung to make a circular or triangular smartphone that's ridiculously unnatural to use?
Multitouch? Not only Samsung has that. So Nokia, LG, Sony Ericsson, HTC, Motorola, ZTE, Huawei or anyone that has an Android phone (oops not just Android with the case of Nokia and HTC, WP7, Symbian^3 and MeeGo has pinch zooming) with multitouch ripped off Apple?
Row of application shortcuts? See Renzatic's post.
Apple has patented beauty!#1 - yes they should make the shape different as Apple has patented it.
#2 - Apple has a huge amount of awarded Multitouch patents and they did it all first on mobile phones including inventing pinch-to-zoom
#3 - While Apple wasn't the first to do application shortcuts(LG Prada) there's were the first to be beautiful
If I did, I would have to stop using OS X because in my view Apple is just as anti-competitive as Microsoft is. It's just that, until recently, they haven't been big enough to apply those practices with any success. Now they are, and they do.
#2 - Apple has a huge amount of awarded Multitouch patents and they did it all first on mobile phones including inventing pinch-to-zoom
Hey, I'm pulling a Samsung to your Apple here.![]()
Discussion over. You're not convincing me, and obviously, I'm not convincing you. However, who cares really ? Keep believing Android is fragmented and not understanding the platform, it doesn't change my life at all.
Let's see. The SG SII has:
black rectangular shaped brick with rounded edges(like iPhone)
multi-touch screen with all the same gestures the iPhone has
rows of application shortcuts that look similar to iOS shortcuts
look like a knock-off to me.
Apple has patented beauty!![]()
Do a little more research sonny...
Apple is just a "closed vertical system" proponent.
Apple does not force vendors to pay for their product even when they don't sell it on a system (an early MS practice when licensing their OS to hardware vendors such as dell and others). Nor do they practice a number of other shady things MS did in the late eighties and early nineties.
They just want a "walled garden" approach where they control the content on their system with the express desire of improving the user experience. If you dont like it you can do without, but they are not anti-competitive the way MS was. They are "our way or go use someone elses system".
I would love to hear how you think they are anti-competitive and not just protecting the patents on teh technology and methods they have developed.
- There is at least one documented case of Apple removing an app from the app store because of a "undocumented" feature that Apple then copied and put in their own product
Not only did they pull his app from the App Store, they stole his icon :
http://www.cultofmac.com/99951/cydia-dev-apple-stole-both-my-idea-and-my-icon-for-wifi-sync/
Due to the recent rumors about a potential pact/agreemet between Tim Cook and the other manufacturers you might be right, that it is not going to happen. However, Apple has always been improving their products with new product s and better ones. From the Apple ][ to the Mac, from OS to OS iteration there has always been improvements and new features added, not necessarily due to competitors.People are always going to steal ideas, but if we didn't do that then we would never get any better. For instance, if Microsoft wouldn't have come along and produced the pile of poop that we call Windows, then Mac OS might not have come as far as it is today.
To those of you claiming that Android is a "slow, buggy, virus-infested" OS and that Flash kills battery life: have you ever owned an Android phone yourself? I have a 4th Generation iPod Touch and a Motorola Atrix 2. Now, while I do enjoy doing lots of things better on the iPod, I'm still in love with my phone. Flash media works OK, even though games don't. I like being able to download a new home screen app when I don't like how the one I'm using works, even though the graphics don't always match up like I can count on with iOS. The battery life is more than my iPod when I'm using graphic-intensive apps, and I utilize the bigger screen as well.
Now, hang on a minute before you reply. I'm not trying to be some Android fanboy troll on the Macrumors forum. I'm just saying that Apple, in addition to all the other companies, still has room to improve, and this is a good thing for everyone, because if there was no room to improve, then we would just be using the same technology decade after decade. It wouldn't be fair to ban competition, and if Apple thinks that it's being copied, then I look forward to seeing them outdo themselves to keep their products ahead of the game.
Right you are. Apple does strive to create and utilize new technologies. They have always been one step ahead of the game, at least in terms of end users. They do set new ideas, and almost never have to base their ideas off of old ones (and yes, eventually manufacturers do 'have' to copy, no matter how much we hate it when they do), but the fact that other companies do use their ideas in their own software does keep them on their toes. If they were the only company in the world, they would still be great, but they may not be as eager to strive ahead and set the standards as much as they do now.Apple has always been improving their products with new product s and better ones. From the Apple ][ to the Mac, from OS to OS iteration there has always been improvements and new features added, not necessarily due to competitors.
Apple has been a trend setter and not a follower, most of the times.
From punch cards and typing your code to cassette tapes, to double density 3.5" floppy disks to Super Drives. USB and FireWire, Thunderbolt.
And they had been very successful to make certain things work the right way.
The real interesting topics are what is going to happen in the future years to come. If they will continue wasting resources in a fight without a real winner or focus totally into developing new things and continue delivering the nice things we enjoy nowadays and even generating new ones.
Good. That's exactly the attitude Apple should continue to have about Android with Steve gone. It's a cheap knock-off of a beautiful product that took no imagination to copy.