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Be it software or hardware, there is a lot of copying happening by everyone. Love my iPhone 6, but can see where HTC are coming from.

They did omit to copy the worst part, the antenna lines.....
 
I think HTC is right on this one. They had those ugly antena lines way before apple. If apple didnt have the lines in their latest phones you wouldnt think they looked like htc's latest phone. HTC can claim that their latest phone is an evolution whereas apple cant. Making something thinner, lighter or more rounded/squared is normal product design process. Putting ugly antena lines all over the rear casing is actually an unusual design decision made first by HTC.
 
Their old design was a better looking design and better looking than the iPhone. Now they copy the iPhone, WEIRD.
 
I owned the original HTC ONE after iPhone4 and then I quickly changed back to iPhone 5 half year later. What I can say here is that while I don't know how Android generally looks like on other devices, I know how it looked like on HTC ONE and what Apple did when they ditched that Scott something guy (who was responsible for making calendar on iPhone look like calendar in real life and having notes looking like real life notepad) and changed their iOS visual look completely, Apple suddenly iOS wise looked like what HTC was before. So I think we should all just agree that cell phones copy each other and everyone claims they are the original. The fact is though this antenna design on the aluminium back panel is the same the HTC had before.. before iPhone 6.. but of course, no one uses HTC so everyone thinks Apple was first just because everyone has Apple and they never paid any attention to other phones. While Apple has great history of making things popular and intuitive, Apple is also good at taking what others did before, calling it their own and then calling it revolutionary. And they are right to the degree that when they make something popular that was originally invented by someone else, they cause a revolution... they bring something that no one knew about to the masses because they are good at marketing and selling the products.
 
Well is anything can be learned from the samsung business model its when you have a garbage product copy and rip off as often as you can to drum up some publicity.
 
Who really is 100% original these days with no influences from competitors? No one.
Absolutely Isaac Newton - a genuine innovator (and others) believed they were "standing on the shoulders of giants".

The amount of innovative thought in a case shape...

Arthur Clarke only invented the geostationary satellites, because of all the money he could earn and the protection all the IP laws provided...

as far as i can see - IP (copyright etc.) laws are designed and propagated by lawyers etc. as a tax on the innovators and creators and the population at large
 
Looking at the '13 HTC One, he does have a point. I'm not saying Apple copied them, but they did have the antenna lines on the back way before the iPhone 6. They even had Beats before Apple too, haha.

You're forgetting the iPhone 5 which had antenna lines and was released in 2012.

This is such a blatant copy of the iPhone 6 design that anyone trying to claim it isn't is either stupid or blind, pick one.
 
What's the name of the 6s coprocessor called? I believe it's called the M9..
Right, because M stands for motion and 9 is the number of Apple's processor this year. What exactly does M9 or A9 stand for in HTC's world?
 
That's hilarious. The only thing Apple did that was similar is the antenna bands, but Apple already had an aluminum phone with glass antenna bands.
I think one could argue HTC's A9 looks more like an iPhone 6 than the 6 looks like HTC's M7. I'm not sure why HTC moved away from the M7 design as I think that was a lot nicer than what followed.
 
I believe the M is for Metal (I used to know all of this). 9 is because it is HTC's ninth generation hero phone. The M7 wasn't even marketed as the M7, it was an internal designation code name (not secret, but not part of the marketing either.). The M8 and M9 (and E8 and A9, etc.) have all been marketed alongside their code name to differentiate them now that HTC has settled on the "One" naming conversion for their top of the line phones. The Desire series tends to have a short string of numbers instead.
 
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Right, because M stands for motion and 9 is the number of Apple's processor this year. What exactly does M9 or A9 stand for in HTC's world?
It was the HTC One M7, the M8, then M9. I don't know what it stands for, but HTC has had the name publicized for a while.

I'm simply saying that you can't complain that HTC copied Apple by calling it the A9, when Apple now has an M9 coprocessor that was announced after the HTC M9 was out.
 
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Like it or not the iPhone 6 released in 2014 looks a lot like the HTC M7 released in 2013. If you look at the design M7 through to A9 there is an iterative progression. So I wouldn't really say HTC copied the iPhone 6s.

That said do people really still buy phones based on design? I really thought the mobile war is fought on apps and features?

How do you figure the iPhone 6 looks anything like the M7? Because of an antenna line? Really?? "A lot like"? They look nothing alike. They resemble each other in no way.

I fail to see how such a divorce from a highly polished, rounded, front facing stereo speaker, gigantic square camera centered in the back setup is an iterative change. Yet if you line up every iPhone ever next to each other, you'll see what it truly means to be iterative. The M10 will resemble the M7, I'm sure. The A9, does not. In any way. It's a shameless iPhone 6 copy.
 
The antenna line breaks are the only thing the HTC one had first. The nearly identical colors (inspired by nature, my ass), the name (A9? Where was the A8?), the lens design and placement at the top, the completely changed speaker arrangement. It's obviously an attempt to say, Hey, get your iPhone knockoff.
 
The nearly identical colors (inspired by nature, my ass),
God forbid a company use similar colours to Apple

the name (A9? Where was the A8?),
Does there need to be an A8? Its the 9th generation hero phone. Talk about clutching at straws!

the lens design and placement at the top,
Fancy having a round lens at the top of the phone. Would have preferred a triangular lens at the bottom. :rolleyes:
 
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I think it's fair to say that the 2013 HTC One was one of many points of insipration for Apple's iPhone 6 design, but that design was its own animal and did not immediately bring to mind a competing product the way this one does.

Put differently, it's perfectly reasonable for designers to learn from each other and to incorporate good ideas from others into their products. Indeed, we all want that or innovation would be uneven at best. There is a certain line, however, beyond which one product is plainly derivative of another. Reasonable people will disagree about precisely where that line should be drawn, but I would think most would agree that HTC stepped way over it in this case.

But it seems, in general, when Apple draws influence into their OS or hardware it's passable, and if others do it, it's not acceptable. This is of course due to some companies (cough, Samsung, cough) completely redesigning a device to rip off an Apple design. But not everyone should get the same treatment.
 
You're forgetting the iPhone 5 which had antenna lines and was released in 2012.

This is such a blatant copy of the iPhone 6 design that anyone trying to claim it isn't is either stupid or blind, pick one.

Yes, anyone who thinks any other company might have designed something without an Apple template is a fool. And when Apple adds notifications, or other design elements it's a magical innovation. :rolleyes: Some of you guys are ridiculous.

I only use Apple stuff for computer/phones/whatever, and after using a Note 4 for a month, did not like Android and the lack of control they have over the carriers. But a superior product does not mean everyone else is copying, not innovating, etc. Surface vs iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil? Come on, guys. Competition and trying to refine and improve each others ideas is what will ultimately give us the best products. The whining and lawsuits should stop.
 
There's no question that the A9 is purposefully designed to look like the iPhone. I say this as a huge HTC fan, a member of Elevate, an owner of more than ten different HTC phones (not even counting the tablets and first party peripherals) a formerly very active HTC Champion (no longer eligible for the site), etc.

The A9 is designed to look like the i6 deliberately in order to draw attention to the fact that Apple has been lifting design cues from HTC for years. It is a weird move on HTC'S part, and I have no idea what their end game is, but that really appears to be what's going on here.

As I said before, I wish Apple would just buy HTC and absorb their design expertise in to the Apple ecosystem. HTC simply can't compete anymore, for reasons that aren't entirely their fault (Android users buy phones based on meaningless spec sheets. HTC, like Apple, makes phones that actually do something when you use them, not just sound impressive on paper.). Apple is the one company that I believe could appreciate what HTC has always tried to do in the phone market.
 
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