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HTC Says 'It's Apple That Copies Us' After One A9 Called iPhone Lookalike
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If Apple ran focus groups to determine which colors would have the widest appeal, and HTC ran focus groups to determine which colors would have the widest appeal, don't you think they would probably come pretty close to being the same?
Manufacturers are going to try and manufacture products that will appeal to the largest possible market. In so doing, it isn't surprising that design elements will start to morph together.
Look at automobiles. Take your standard subcompact model. Is it really a big surprise that they all look so similar?
Everybody copies everybody. Yes, even Apple has copied others yet that's perfectly ok. When it's Apple being copied, all of sudden it's the worst thing to happen to the world since the Kardashians. The hypocrisy that exists in the Apple world is absolutely ridiculous. But whatev, at the end of the day...consumers won't give a damn. Apple fans will still get their iPhone with the Apple logo on back. And android people will still get their android phones. Life will go on.
And the original iPhone made out of aluminum with a plastic band on the bottom for the antenna came out in 2007. And I'm pretty sure the Moto Razr was aluminum to keep is as light as it was whenever that thing came out... and we can probably find something before that, but I don't think we need to... really.
I wonder where they HTC came up with the inspiration for the "Legend"?
Perhaps from an actual Legend! Three years earlier.
I can say from a first person perspective that when I worked at Apple.. saying "Microsoft does it this way..." or "Google does this..." gets you a look reserved for recent college graduates... a kind of "pity" mixed with "shut the f up" mixed with "who gives a f**k" look. Then they actively try NOT to do it that way.. consciously or not.
When I worked at nVidia.. the first thing everyone says is "Apple does it this way..." or "How does Apple do it..." Then we basically did the exact same thing whether it was the right thing or not.
I worked on the HTC One X by the way... the one with the Tegra. Spent weeks in Taiwan on a product I never even considered buying.
As far as I know... Apple doesn't run focus groups. At least I've never heard of one... it definitely never impacted my work there. The leadership doesn't think users know what they want. How could they? They're not engineers, designers, or artists (in general), how can they know what's possible or what the tradeoffs are?
But the sky actually is red very often, you don't need to say so... it especially happens at sunset, and now with larger cities, happens in urban areas on cloudy nights replacing the usual black sky...
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Nice one... When designing a phone right now.. You might copied some elements of the other thousands phones.. Without knowing it.
But what happened to HTC is just editing the iPhone 6.
Go look at their balance sheet. They have plenty of cash on hand. They won't be "out of business within a year" or even close.
HTC has denied claims that its new flagship One A9 smartphone copies the iPhone. At a press briefing in Taiwan, company executive Jack Tong said that "it's Apple that copies us" in terms of antenna design--the Taiwanese handset maker was first to release a metal unibody smartphone nearly three years ago.
The HTC One A9 compared to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus (via The Verge)
The response was reported by Want China Times (via BGR):The original HTC One M7 launched in March 2013 with an aluminum unibody frame and plastic antenna lines along the top and bottom of the smartphone, both design cues that Apple adopted for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, released 18 months later, and has since carried over to the iPhone 6s lineup.
The original HTC One with an all-metal unibody design launched in March 2013
The One A9 is considered an iPhone lookalike because it has a similar rounded chassis, plastic antenna lines and a protruding rear-facing camera, and because it is available in almost identical colors as the current iPhone lineup. The smartphone also has one speaker located next to the charging port on the bottom.
HTC's rebuttal comes after The Verge described the One A9 as "the most blatant and highest-profile iPhone ripoff since Samsung's original Galaxy S," a bold argument that has been contested by some HTC supporters. The copycat allegations have received significant media coverage this week.
Ultimately, while there is no denying that HTC's One A9 is an iPhone-driven evolution of the HTC One series, it is clear that both smartphone makers have borrowed similar design qualities from each other over the years. Apple has not commented on the matter, but has taken legal action against Samsung for copying in the past.
The One A9 is HTC's latest flagship Android smartphone, featuring a 5-inch screen with a curved-edge display, 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.5 GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor, 3GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB storage, Quick Charge 2.0 and Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The smartphone is available in a range of colors, including Carbon Gray, Opal Silver, Deep Garnet and Topaz Gold, for $399 unlocked.
Article Link: HTC Says 'It's Apple That Copies Us' After One A9 Called iPhone Lookalike
HTC has denied claims that its new flagship One A9 smartphone copies the iPhone. At a press briefing in Taiwan, company executive Jack Tong said that "it's Apple that copies us" in terms of antenna design--the Taiwanese handset maker was first to release a metal unibody smartphone nearly three years ago.
The HTC One A9 compared to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus (via The Verge)
The response was reported by Want China Times (via BGR):The original HTC One M7 launched in March 2013 with an aluminum unibody frame and plastic antenna lines along the top and bottom of the smartphone, both design cues that Apple adopted for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, released 18 months later, and has since carried over to the iPhone 6s lineup.
The original HTC One with an all-metal unibody design launched in March 2013
The One A9 is considered an iPhone lookalike because it has a similar rounded chassis, plastic antenna lines and a protruding rear-facing camera, and because it is available in almost identical colors as the current iPhone lineup. The smartphone also has one speaker located next to the charging port on the bottom.
HTC's rebuttal comes after The Verge described the One A9 as "the most blatant and highest-profile iPhone ripoff since Samsung's original Galaxy S," a bold argument that has been contested by some HTC supporters. The copycat allegations have received significant media coverage this week.
Ultimately, while there is no denying that HTC's One A9 is an iPhone-driven evolution of the HTC One series, it is clear that both smartphone makers have borrowed similar design qualities from each other over the years. Apple has not commented on the matter, but has taken legal action against Samsung for copying in the past.
The One A9 is HTC's latest flagship Android smartphone, featuring a 5-inch screen with a curved-edge display, 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.5 GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor, 3GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB storage, Quick Charge 2.0 and Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The smartphone is available in a range of colors, including Carbon Gray, Opal Silver, Deep Garnet and Topaz Gold, for $399 unlocked.
Article Link: HTC Says 'It's Apple That Copies Us' After One A9 Called iPhone Lookalike
Agree to disagree HTC. Apples 2007 iPhone and the 5/5S had metal enclosures. What's at question here is not antenna bands. Apples iPhone 6/6S look nothing like the M7. The dimensions, shape and even the name A9 is a ripoff of Apple.
They have released an iPhone that runs Android and named it after Apples awesome new A9 SoC. Period. Now do I care? Not even a little. I just think it's pathetic. I'll let lawyers kick and screem. Doesn't affect us. In other news, expect Android flagships to all get force touch in the next 12 months. Of course without APIs in android yet, it will be crap implementations that differ from one phone to another and will have no support from third party devs.
That design is HTC's - The HTC One started it and Apple followed 2 years later. So YES, since the HTC design exsisted 2 years before the iPhone 6, Apple copied this one. Sorry. Also this one.
But doesn't it just seem everyone now a days are taking ideas from each other? I couldn't care less
But doesn't it just seem everyone now a days are taking ideas from each other?
I couldn't care less I dont understand any of these infringement issues...All phones are rectangle pieces of glass and plastic/metal with computer chips inside.....how can anyone be a copy of any other?
Reading some of the comments on here essentially insulting everything HTC related;
Wow, what a meltdown.
Wow, what a meltdown.
I absolutely totally and utterly agree with everything this story reports on what HTC said in their press conference.
Oh and the front of the HTC A9 looks NOTHING like an iPhone, it looks a lot like a Samsung Galaxy though.
Oh and the front of the HTC A9 looks NOTHING like an iPhone, it looks a lot like a Samsung Galaxy though.
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