Come on guys lets be honest here, thi iPhone 6/plus really looked like what htc has been doing and that was ok. The HTC One was a nice looking phone.
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HTC Says 'It's Apple That Copies Us' After One A9 Called iPhone Lookalike
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Wasn't HTC one of the first Android vendors that agreed to paying Apple a licensing fee on each phone sold?
being influenced is one thing, totally copying a competitor's product is another....
There's been a steady evolution of design across the entire iPhone product line.
The first two generations had a a design similar to the original iPod Touch (curved back with bezel and glass top.) The 3G made the back solid metal (eliminating the plastic antenna cover) and reduced the size of the bezel. The 4 moved to a glass back, right-angle edges and no bezel, with a metal band on the edge acting as antenna. The 5 stuck with this design, but now the back is part metal and part glass.
The 6 seems to contain elements from the 5 and the first-generation models. It's using the case as the antenna, but that's now extended (it seems) to the entire rear case. And it went back to a curved back - similar to the original iPhone.
And, as others pointed out, various aspects of this design evolution has been applied to contemporary versions of the iPod Touch.
HTC may have been first to have a unibody case with built-in antennae, but that's playing silly games with semantics. The 5 and 5s had that same look - a back with horizontal stripes separating it into different antenna regions. It wasn't a unibody - it attached to a metal frame that was also part of the antenna system. And Apple had been using unibody construction on Macs and iPads at the time. Anyone who thinks Apple would be incapable of thinking "lets take the antenna design of the 5s and combine it with the unibody case of an iPad or Mac" is just deluding himself.
On the other hand, it's pretty clear that HTC's designs are not evolving from anything. Each and every model is a clone of something designed by another company, whether Apple, Samsung, Motorola or anyone else. It is the height of arrogance for them to claim that Apple made a corporate decision to copy an HTC product simply because both have a stripe on the back.
Hey, why don't we accuse HTC of ripping off Ford Motors, because Ford has been making race cars with stripes for over 50 years. Yeah, the argument is that stupid.
They don't look very similar to me:Actually they did copy the Beatles Apple Label and the logo is similar.
I remember seeing the original HTC phone with a "unibody" and thinking "Oh, like the Apple MacBooks" haha.
It's hard to say Apple copied them, they've been rolling out unibody throughout their product lines for years.
It's hard to say Apple copied them, they've been rolling out unibody throughout their product lines for years.
MR's poor information leads to part of your curiosity.
"The One A9 is HTC's latest flagship Android smartphone..." - dead wrong.
(come on MR, you're better than that) It's their mid-tier offering. Hence the price and the specs. The M series, and it's design, is still HTC's flagship. The A9's design was changed to differentiate mid-tier from flagship. That differentiation could have included a less iPhone like design, imo, but hey pretty much every industry borrows design cues from the front runner so why we think the tech industry would be any different is beyond me. They've all, Apple included, been "inspired" by each other at some point. It ain't gonna change.
/conveniently overlooks glass portioniPhone 5 was released on September 21, 2012, with aluminum back
HTC was actually on my list as one of the respectable Android vendors. Oh boy, was I wrong about that! This new device shows that they are no better than Samsung!
Have to agree with HTC on this one. The iPhone 6 took its design cues from the M7.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the front of the HTC A9 yet. Even the front looks much more iPhone-y compared to their last model!
MR's poor information leads to part of your curiosity.
"The One A9 is HTC's latest flagship Android smartphone..." - dead wrong.
Inspiration and direct copying are two different things, in my opinion. Not only does the phone physically looks the same, it also is branded as the A9. There's no way that's just by accident. HTC has lost their nuts.
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.
Do you really find those phones similar ????
They don't even share the same shape !!!!
Mmm 13% of the market is substantial.. Interesting.. Hopefully you don't work in finance...or anything to do with numbers..
/conveniently overlooks glass portion
The first phone with the antennas was the iPhone 4, do you remember?
Actually it was the iPhone 4 in 2010 that had the external antennas that sparked antenna gate.
Some people are just bad in designs. They probably think a Hyundai looks the same as a Ferrari. Both of them have head lights and wheel
If HTC really thinks Apple copied them, I'm sure they will sue Apple and try to make some quick bucks. After all, Apple is a billion dollar company and cash rich!
You seem to be either deliberately obstinate or incredibly obtuse. In that top picture, even the most ardent Apple fan should admit the design language of the back of those phones is most closely shared between the M7 and the iP6. Your bottom photo is basic deflection. Just like the iP6 shares similarities with the M7, the A9 shares similarities with the iP6. To deny either is silly.Look at this
Or this:
It is clearly grounded on older apple designs.
The question about the antenna lines has nothing to do with the side. The design language being discussed is the back of the phone. That's where the comparisons are being made.The first phone with the antennas was the iPhone 4, do you remember?
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