Realme Crowdsourcing Ideas for Copying Apple's Dynamic Island

[subjonas]

They’re not very good at copying Apple if they’re crowdsourcing ideas. That’s the most un-Apple thing ever.

 

[Duke24]

Apple probably should have patented it.

That’s what I was thinking.

 

[svish]

Time for everyone else to copy it. Soon many Android models will be having it!!

 

[_Spinn_]

Why am I not surprised?

 

[MacFarmer]

They should use a gaffer tape and cover their device with it.

 

[zarmanto]

Isn’t the biggest copycat Android that cloned the whole iOS interface ?

Indeed, the very inception of Android is widely accepted to have been born out of copycatism. The early iterations of Android phones were carbon copies of Blackberry phones, complete with physical miniature plastic keyboards; development on those had started back well before the iPhone was even a thing. As the story goes, Google's Eric Schmitt got a sneak peak of the iPhone not long before it was announced to the rest of the world, and he promptly redirected his people towards completely eliminating the chicklet keyboards from their devices, too. Steve Jobs was royally pissed, and vowed that all Androids would be sued out of existence... but as we can all very plainly see today, that was not to be. Eventually, Apple settled with Google and the various Android phone manufacturers.

But of course, you know what they say... the leopard cannot change its spots.

 

[mayga1]

Well iphones are made in China so should be pretty easy.

 

[JOHN PRINCE]

It's interesting how wide the cultural gap is here. China has a very long history of apprentices emulating master artisans, closely duplicating their designs. It is a very natural, comfortable progression for them to use the work of others as a springboard. But in the West this seems odious to us as it reeks of the exploitation of someone else's work. As a Westerner I'm firmly in the latter camp, and learned at an early age that much is lost in the learning process when one simply copies work off a classmate's paper. However, I think one can at least recognize that the Chinese culture simply has a different approach to this. Ultimately, I think it is at their peril (in many ways). But this behavior is not really as sinister as it might seem to us looking on from the West.

Well said. A little reading and education would really help those who immediately yell "Theft!"

 

[JuengerJesu]

Honestly, the Notch-Area could have used the same way the Dynamic Island is used now years ago…

 

[charlesdayton]

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