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HTC Says 'It's Apple That Copies Us' After One A9 Called iPhone Lookalike
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Those upper and lower bands instead of the ugly 6 line breaks are significantly different in the looks department IMO. Significantly different.
I can see their point, the 2013 HTC One M7 was an aluminum back with antenna lines. I remember so many people pointing that out when the iPhone 6 came out in 2014.
I have the original HTC One M7, and yes, HTC simply followed the design language of that. It's just that the timing of the device's release came after Apple's. Remember that people nowadays only have roughly 6 seconds of attention span. Hoping them to remember the original HTC One is a lost cause.
But imo people are missing the biggest issue here
This tells you that The Verge only has pretentious snobs that don't even know a thing about tech.
But imo people are missing the biggest issue here
This tells you that The Verge only has pretentious snobs that don't even know a thing about tech.
Apple copied HTC in terms of antenna design? Are they kidding themselves? Last time I checked, the iPhone 4 came out in 2010, which was the first phone to utilize a metal external frame as the antenna system, and similarly used plastic inserts for insulation.
Did everyone forget "antenna gate" already? Did everyone forgets HTCs response to antenna gate? They essentially called Apple morons for moving the antenna to the outside body of the phone, in contact with hands. NOW of course they copied the idea, and are even pretending to have invented the idea. Unbelievable.
Apples competitors are so desperate and shameless. They want to be Apple so bad, it's pathetic.
Did everyone forget "antenna gate" already? Did everyone forgets HTCs response to antenna gate? They essentially called Apple morons for moving the antenna to the outside body of the phone, in contact with hands. NOW of course they copied the idea, and are even pretending to have invented the idea. Unbelievable.
Apples competitors are so desperate and shameless. They want to be Apple so bad, it's pathetic.
I can see their point, the 2013 HTC One M7 was an aluminum back with antenna lines. I remember so many people pointing that out when the iPhone 6 came out in 2014.
Look at this
Or this:
It is clearly grounded on older apple designs.
Nope, the 5 and 5S only had some metal on the back; there were glass panels on the top and bottom. HTC One M7 was all metal. Also the bands of the 5 and 5S did not visibly wrap around the back like the original HTC One sported.
The saddest thing isn't that you seem to think that this is a good thing, but some nugget actually liked it..
Defend Apple over what? It was The Verge that called HTC's A9 a ripoff of the iPhone 6 not Apple. And since the iPod touch in 2012 was unibody aluminum what exactly is Apple ripping off? The antenna bands aren't the same (and many would argue HTC's aren't as ugly).
That's the problem. M7-M9 had a curved back. This A9 is now flat backed like iPhone 6. Plus they got rid of front facing boom sound speakers and added a Samsung like physical button for fingerprint scanning.
Being original doesn't always profit. Companies bank on what's 'familiar' to people.
Look at the movie industry with remakes and reboots.
Look at this
Or this:
It is clearly grounded on older apple designs.
I don't disagree. And what they did with the M9 is pretty shameful. Just that the antenna lines have such a specific look that it did look like the iPhone 6 copied them (for all we know Apple could have had that design in the works years prior and maybe not have much choice when making a full unibody phone).
I don't see why "relevance of the copied" matters so much in these discussions. Some of the most copied design elements in mobility came from Palm OS. Just because the Palm Pre didn't succeed doesn't mean that Apple and others didn't shamelessly use some of their interface ideas. They all borrow design cues from each other.
The same thing happened with TVs and consumers benefited. I certainly wouldn't want to live in a world where individual manufacturers held the rights to the remote control concept, flat screen form factor, or screen adjustment controls. They all converged, prices and margins went down, and you know what? We still have innovation and progress.
The same thing happened with TVs and consumers benefited. I certainly wouldn't want to live in a world where individual manufacturers held the rights to the remote control concept, flat screen form factor, or screen adjustment controls. They all converged, prices and margins went down, and you know what? We still have innovation and progress.
iPhone 5 was released on September 21, 2012, with aluminum back
I miss the chamfered back edge.
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.