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HTC Says 'It's Apple That Copies Us' After One A9 Called iPhone Lookalike
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One thing I hope Apple gets inspiration from is replacing the space grey color with something along the lines of Carbon Black...
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.
Only if you're trying to convince yourself HTC didn't copy Apple. In fact, it's the back, sides and front that now all look like the iPhone 6. Taken in its entirety it's pretty clear.
Typical The Verge they just say what they want to say. They're becoming an extreme media instead of being a tech site. I hardly visit their homepage anymore. HTC and Apple didn't even say anything about who copied who. Obviously if you look on previous phone generation from HTC the design has influence to the current one and maybe iPhone has also a little influence on it as well, just maybe. But The Verge are just another click and bait site with their articles with catchy titles. They just want to fuel something just so they have something to say. Disgusting!
Remember how the iPhone5 had those "top/bottom" sections before the HTC M7? https://faisalmustapha.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/20130911-084959.jpg
Uhhmmm. Look nothing alike, even if you take off the case. One is polished and looks like an Airstream trailer... The other, even in silver, is not - only the logo itself is polished to such point. The curvature on the back isn't present. The T in the antenna band isn't present. The camera location and glass design plays a *huge* role in the overall look, wayyyy different. And even the antenna bands themselves follow the overall pattern of the glass placement on the 5 series, since if we're considering that a design element then we need to consider that the 5 antenna travelled from the sides across the back and consumed the space under the glass in a flattened black antenna piece, and the same shape itself is traced on the 6 series. The only thing similar about them is that they exist... Their patterns need to be considered as "design" just as much as the level of polish, the chamfered edges, the colors and so on.
Even divorcing this aspect, let's call it "HTC's" antenna line, though I don't see it that way... There's a lot more to each phone that comprise the designs, and that being the only similarity each shares... The A9 shares considerably more items with the iPhone than it does the M7/8/9
Why are we seriously still entertaining these articles or HTC for that Matter?
This is worse than reading headlines like
"scientific study determines glue has adhesive qualities" on a slow news day.
Normally I'd agree to the "Any PR is good PR" mentality that fits in with but seriously HTC Stop just Stop. The more these articles circulate or get hyped the more put off I am from HTC, Samsung or Android in general
Nope no confusion whatsoever. The cell phone store reps, uninformed or new to the smartphone market consumers all will be able to maticulously differentiate.
Said but true lol
This is worse than reading headlines like
"scientific study determines glue has adhesive qualities" on a slow news day.
Normally I'd agree to the "Any PR is good PR" mentality that fits in with but seriously HTC Stop just Stop. The more these articles circulate or get hyped the more put off I am from HTC, Samsung or Android in general
Nope no confusion whatsoever. The cell phone store reps, uninformed or new to the smartphone market consumers all will be able to maticulously differentiate.
Said but true lol
on this forum lives a quite big community of android hardcore supporters. They are well known and easy to spot: you can find them in almost every iPhone / iOS thread, bashing apple over anything.
they are so dedicated to their mission that some are even put a couple of apple's products in their signature pretending to be Apple users
they are amazing. they have my respect because of their almost religious dedication. they aren't just trolling the forum: they are fighting an Holy War against the Enemy
But it is in thread like this they reach their finest, defending the indefensible.
kudos to them, the New Crusader
Joke aside, how can someone defend HTC over this is beyond my comprehension
lol... the best post..... EVER!!!
People complain about the iPhone bezels. Are they going to complain about these bezels too?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!
can you at least see the difference of a FLAT design from a CURVED design ?
So many ignorant "know-it-alls" here this time around. Everybody just "knows" HTC's motives (as well as Apple's).
Copying each other - obviously.
A9 - They have the M9 already as a flagship. This is a mid-range phone before the "M10" comes out. It was going to have a "9" in it no matter what. So the only choice was which letter to use as the prefix. If it happens to be the same letter as the chip in the iPhone, then fine. And they may well have thought of this. But it's not like they picked A9 out of the blue just to copy Apple.
It's much more plausible Microsoft chose Windows "10" to sound like OS X than HTC created "A9" to copy the iPhone SoC. HTC is doing the numbers in sequence, while MS has little-to-no rational reason to have skipped 9!
Copying each other - obviously.
A9 - They have the M9 already as a flagship. This is a mid-range phone before the "M10" comes out. It was going to have a "9" in it no matter what. So the only choice was which letter to use as the prefix. If it happens to be the same letter as the chip in the iPhone, then fine. And they may well have thought of this. But it's not like they picked A9 out of the blue just to copy Apple.
It's much more plausible Microsoft chose Windows "10" to sound like OS X than HTC created "A9" to copy the iPhone SoC. HTC is doing the numbers in sequence, while MS has little-to-no rational reason to have skipped 9!
Came out in 2011, about year before the iPhone 5. it is far from identical, but there are some clear similarities at play.
HTC has beaten Apple to certain design innovations for years only to have Apple gain higher popularity ever time. It has to sting. I don't think ripping off the front of the iPhone 6 is the right answer (just because Apple copied the back of the M7), but I also don't think they are wrong to point out that a Apple did it first (the answer is still "so what?")
Honestly, I wish Apple would just buy HTC. My dream phone would be HTC hardware running iOS. HTC has consistently made the same decisions as Apple, but before Apple made them (buying Beats, increasing camera pixel size instead of megapixels, HTC Zoes/Live Photos, etc.). I think Apple is best suited to appreciate what HTC is all about, and I think the smartphone industry would definitely be worse off if HTC just shut down their business and went away entirely.
I'm sorry but not buying it HTC. Apple didn't copy you. There were SOME similarities when it comes to the antenna bands but that was it. Your brand new phone has (not including the bands)..
- Protruding camera with ring
- Dual tone flash with ring
- Bottom of the phone is nearly identical - it was skewed to not be an exact copy
- Front glass is rounded at the edge
- Front screen has nearly identical layout (earpiece, camera, sensor), just swapped to not be identical
Again, HERE is the great HTC 'design language' in 4/2012:
Then come the iPhone 5 in 9/2012:
Followed by the iPod Touch 5th Generation in 10/2012:
Then all of a sudden HTC comes out with the M7 6 months later in 4/2013. And you seriously think HTC came up with this design in some sort of Apple Free Vacuum? It defies logic and credibility!
Then come the iPhone 5 in 9/2012:
Followed by the iPod Touch 5th Generation in 10/2012:
Then all of a sudden HTC comes out with the M7 6 months later in 4/2013. And you seriously think HTC came up with this design in some sort of Apple Free Vacuum? It defies logic and credibility!
actually One M8 price was even higher than iPhone 's...
after a few months of poor sales they discounted it as usual
All the people who see the A9 in the wild, will think it's an iPhone anyway, so I'm not sure what their long-term strategy really is.
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