Apple have taken many features from Android.
Such as? I'm genuinely curious, but don't say Notification Center since both Apple and Android got that from the iOS Jailbreak community.
Apple have taken many features from Android.
Such as? I'm genuinely curious, but don't say Notification Center since both Apple and Android got that from the iOS Jailbreak community.
...or did the jb community get that idea from Android?![]()
PS: About the notification center, Google filed for a patent back in Jan of 2009. Patent number 12/363,325.
It wasn't available via JB until much later.
Who steals from who again?
Suddenly, I'm liking these lawsuits a whole lot more
Keep 'em coming!
Rejected..... riiight.
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What design? A rectangle with a touch screen? ...fancy that, shapes and contexts that have been available to a consumer for years now.
Such as? I'm genuinely curious, but don't say Notification Center since both Apple and Android got that from the iOS Jailbreak community.
Well I guess it's unclear. I can't find any information on when David Ashman began working on LockInfo, and whether or not he was aware of this Google Patent in Jan 2009, but he did have the App released on the market before Google did. Perhaps someone should email him and ask when he started working on LockInfo and if it was as a result of knowing Google was working on something similar. He is best known for the LockInfo tweak, and in an interview in 2011 he said he started working on iOS 3 years prior (so 2008), but he didn't say if it was specifically for LockInfo.
In any case, since it was first to market, it isn't unreasonable to think Apple copied from the iOS hacks rather than Google's patents. But thanks for this info, I wasn't aware of it.
The notification system on Android has been around since the beginning (HTC Dream G1, Oct. 2008).
If you want to play the date game...
SB Settings was announced on October 19, 2008 http://thebigboss.org/the-future-of-bossprefs
The first Android phone the G1 was released Oct 22, 2008.
Of course this probably means they both arrived at the same obvious solution independently.
In Samsung's case, the Galaxy S I and II and the Tab 10.1 all came out after the iPhone and iPad and "coincidentally" looked the same. I don't believe that 3 times, both phones just happened to look like Apple's. Let's not even get into the interface, the box, and the charger, their goal to "beat Apple", and the other phones that look like iPhones namely the Galaxy Ace.
Samsung has a history of making ****** phones (I owned the U600, just awful hardware and over sensitive capacitive buttons and UI) and for them to come out with a product that competes with a competitor, always looking the same, always coming out after the competing product is just too much.
Hmm...I read that "Purple" was the code name of the iPod clickwheel phone, and the touchscreen phone project was "Purple 2", or "P2".
"Through it all, Jobs maintained the highest level of secrecy. Internally, the project was known as P2, short for Purple 2 (the abandoned iPod phone was called Purple 1)." - Wired, the Untold Story.
Miss my first iphone, well not really...
I remember the case i had dented the entire aluminum backplate!! Still sold it for the same price i paid for it 1 year later. Bring on the iphone 5!!
There's just not too many ways to design a touch-based phone. It's going to have zero or more buttons below a screen as large as you can afford to put in it, and either a curved or flat back.
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What's interesting is how many people, especially here, at first exclaimed that the iPhone 4 it looked like a Zune or like a Sony design... while almost no one said it looked like an Apple design.
Yep, that's what Wired said in their history based on insider interviews:
Would love for an ex-employee to write an anonymous tell-all book one day, so we could know the truth.
I'm fairly certain Apple never intended that as a serious design. When Apple was prototyping the (original) iPhone, they had prototypes of the real hardware running fake software (the leaked SkankPhone prototype), and other prototypes of fake hardware running the real software. Considering that one's running a final-looking version of the original iOS, I'd imagine it's one of the fake hardware + real software units.
Rejected..... riiight.
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Yes, let's encourage the spending of tens of millions on lawyers so the costs can be transferred to us by whichever side loses, if one even wins.
So much for all the Android fan's BS claims that the LG Prada and F700 were designed before iPhone.
There's a difference between companies getting inspiration from each other and blatant copying. You get inspired by something and you still make it your own thing in the end. I don't see that with the Samsung phone below. And based on all these prototypes being leaked it's obvious there isn't only one way to design a phone. Plus the Galaxy S III looks nothing like an iPhone, so Samsung is capable of doing their own thing when they want to.
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Where are samsung's prototype photos from 2005?
Where are samsung's prototype photos from 2005?
This entire thing is beginning to become such a waste of time...
APPLE!!! INVEST YOUR MONEY IN RESEARCH AND DESIGN!!! NOT IN LAWSUITS!!!!