hardware the best on android tablets, pulease! Android tablets are years behind iPads and falling further. And just so I can say this, have you seen that stupid commercial from Microsoft trying to say the Surface pro 7 was better than an iPad Pro because kickstand, and it clicks when you snap on the keyboard. So an i5 processor running windows with only 8GB (seriously, pretty dismal). the only thing the iPad Pro and the Surface pro had in common was the screen size, on every other measure, the iPad Pro smokes it. why didn't they compare it to an iPad Air? There the Air is only 10-20% faster (and a lot cheaper). Oh, I guess that is why. Kid has a nice gig though
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Huawei Borrows Heavily From iPad Pro With New 'MatePad Pro,' 'Harmony OS,' and 'M-Pencil'
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Borrowing usually means you plan to return it. I've visited China a few times, and if you've ever walked into an Huawei store or a Xiaomi store, they sure do borrow a lot. The MatePad Pro series of notebooks are just blatant rip offs of Apple Hardware, and the Xiaomi OS (Not sure what it's called) makes their Android Theme look identical to iOS down to the icons.
However what is Apple's recourse in this?
However what is Apple's recourse in this?
Looking identical to Apple is very intentional for Huawei. Their target market is those who want Apple without paying Apple prices. They don’t care about the sniggering or finger wags for being a copy cat. They don’t care if people think that they don’t have an original idea.
Their goal is to make money by imitating the best as much as physically and legally possible.
Their goal is to make money by imitating the best as much as physically and legally possible.
OS2 ? not a good name to choose. that OS didn't last long.
There were releases between 1987 and 2001. That’s a pretty good run. And it was a decent OS.
Yep. Remember when their CEO got arrested at a Canadian airport a few years ago and she was traveling with an iPhone, iPad, and MacBook? They know exactly what they are doing.
Very unlikely. The whole society is based on a hierarchy system that frowns on individual thinking and creativity that innovation and new product development require.
Has anybody checked Huawei or Xiaomi's websites?
They straight out copied Apple's product page designs lol
They straight out copied Apple's product page designs lol
Samsung's next tablet S8 Ultra is going to be 14.6 inches with bezels so thin there'll be a camera notch. Even at 16:10 aspect it dwarfs the largest iPad. That doesn't sound like a copy & if Apple makes an iPad bigger than 12.9" well.. they weren't first so... 💁♂️
I've brought Huawei phones in the past (the Honor series) and everyone one of them, I've installed a custom ROM. No more funky UI, faster to boot.
When the geniuses at XDA cooks up a custom ROM for one of these, I'll be on them like white on rice.
- You iPhone screen is probably made by Samsung
- Your iPhone DRAM is made by Samsung or Micron
- Your iPhone Flash-memory is made by Samsung
- The tech in your iPhone A-chip is possible because of TSMC and ASML
- The modem in your iPhone is made by Qualcomm
Lots of Samsung tech in your iPhone, but not the other way around
They both borrowed from 2012 Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Have outgrown tablets with mobile OS', though, so more into Surface now. Have Surface Pro X SQ2 and adding Surface Pro 7+.
Totally off topic：
Today I went to my local convenience store (in Shanghai) for a delicious Korean milk soda. On the left is the real one, on the right is the fake one.
I mean the attention to detail to copy every single thing is quite admirable.
Today I went to my local convenience store (in Shanghai) for a delicious Korean milk soda. On the left is the real one, on the right is the fake one.
I mean the attention to detail to copy every single thing is quite admirable.
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Anyway, I wish them well. It’s about time we had some competition in the iPad market (I refuse to use the term “tablet” - that form factor was invented by and is owned by the iPad). If Apple don’t release a significant improvement to iPadOS at WWDC then perhaps this competition will help encourage them to do so next year.
Without the iPad to copy I doubt matpad would exist. If you want to stifle innovation then copies are the way to do it.
It's not even reverse-engineered, it's currently an Android fork.