When ever Apple is working on something and there is a leak, you see their competition running to look at any patent filings and trying to beat them to market. It just like when news leaked about Apple Maps' features and Google rushed to match the rumors a month before Apple would show iOS 6. Fortunately there was a lot that didn't leak about it. The same goes for iPad, computers whatever. They are just trying to preempt Apple but have no idea what they are going to do.
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When ever Apple is working on something and there is a leak, you see their competition running to look at any patent filings and trying to beat them to market. It just like when news leaked about Apple Maps' features and Google rushed to match the rumors a month before Apple would show iOS 6. Fortunately there was a lot that didn't leak about it. The same goes for iPad, computers whatever. They are just trying to preempt Apple but have no idea what they are going to do.
Obviously it bothers you to be on an Apple forum as much as it bothers everyone else. It would be a win win situation if you did leave. By all means stay, just offering advice and yes I will add to my ignore because your views conflict this forum too much and I'm done using my time on them.
I care less about those posts than I do about those that just dismiss all the hard work the industry did until Apple's iPhone. As if all the patents, research, development, etc didn't matter because the iPhone changed everything so nothing before it matters.
The iPhone wasn't created in a vacuum. And those that imply that the past doesn't matter anymore annoy me.
Being pro-active... I think this is a nice politically correct way of saying it.
It is just suspicious for them to come out like this. That`s all. Nobody has any proof of anything.
Doesn't bother me at all. I enjoy talking to people on this forum about all subjects.
And no - you weren't offering advice. You were giving a directive. The sooner you can stand behind what you said instead of back peddling, the better it will be for you and everyone else.
Ok, but there's a huge point to be made when you have all these differences between 'that' and an iphone: pressure sensitive screen, no multi-touch, no youtube, most likely a mediocre media player, no visual voice mail.
It was just the whole package of all these features that yeah, apple took an idea and made it a standard. Samsung took an idea and cloned it, and so did every SINGLE other phone manufacturer, save blackberry, pretty much cloned it.
If apple were to make some smudgy crap like the photo you saw, you'd have a point. But, that is way off.
Right. It's not like you're standing around here bashing everything Apple's done. You and I both give them tons of credit for all the awesome things they've brought to the scene. We just don't give them all the credit, or look at other companies like they're The Bad Guys.
It amazes me that there are people out there who do this. They like living in their Apple bubble, following them like it's a way of life, rather than looking at them for what they are: a cool technology company. It's even more amazing that they're so invested in this idea that they get angry when another company does something similar. Like it's a personal affront to their chosen golden calf.
Weird, odd stuff.
apparently the iWatch will also revolutionize dates, they will now show as A.D.S (Anno Domini Steve) and B.S. (Before Steve)
Can't wait
personally I cannot wait to see what Samsung has "created" in the way of a smart watch. As most I suspect it will be inspired by the Apple aesthetic but it will have a not quite right look to it. There are many questions I have about such a device and wonder if it is something that is need in the first place. Will it be yet another device that needs a contract with a phone company? Modern watches never need re-charging and maybe need battery replacement once per year, will people tolerate one more device to charge each day? How much overlap would a smart phone and a smart watch have? There may be a market but I would not include myself.
personally I cannot wait to see what Samsung has "created" in the way of a smart watch. As most I suspect it will be inspired by the Apple aesthetic but it will have a not quite right look to it. There are many questions I have about such a device and wonder if it is something that is need in the first place. Will it be yet another device that needs a contract with a phone company? Modern watches never need re-charging and maybe need battery replacement once per year, will people tolerate one more device to charge each day? How much overlap would a smart phone and a smart watch have? There may be a market but I would not include myself.
Apple's displays, now, or in the first gen aren't "pressure sensitive". they're capacitive touch. Which only detects points of contact.
you know who does make Pressure sensitive displays, albeit via "pen". Samsung and LG (i think HTC does have it now), using WACOMs tablet technology.
also: look at your iphone's running iOS6+... funny. no youtube either
no clue on media player. but i'd assume it had one. MP3 player phones existed long before the iphone and by the time iphone was released, having no mp3 playback was a rarity.
Visual Voicemail wasn't in existence even on the iphone till late in the game. 3gs i believe? or even the 4.
So what you're trying to say is..? you dont know what you're talking about?
what the game they were playing here was "apples iPhone wass the first ever fullcsreen touchscreen device and anyone who came out was obviously copying"
the rebuttal with LG's picture was "no. OTHER companies were currently working on the same concept, Apple just got it out the door first"
Samsung is like the pain in the ass middle child whose mother didn't love it enough so it has to try to overcompensate by copying the successful older brother then claiming theirs was first or better.
It's not the fact that Samsung is copying Apple's original ideas (they pretty much are though)
It's the fact that they're only announcing that they're making a new smart watch because of all of the rumors that Apple is as well.
Crappiest company ever.
It's the fact that they're only announcing that they're making a new smart watch because of all of the rumors that Apple is as well.
Crappiest company ever.
I didn't mean Samsung specifically. My point is the fact that Apple and Samsung both may be serious about smart watches will entice consumers who are skeptical that they may indeed want to buy one.
I don't know about that. From my POV everything seemed to kick off after Pebble Kickstarter campaign. There were other smart watches before then too, as you said.
1/ Some folks make watches that connect into phones. Pebble watch etc.
2/ Someone pops a rumor that Apple are looking to make a watch... continued rumors.
3/ Samsung announce they've been working on a watch for ages and it's coming.
4/ Many MR forum posters poke fun at Samsung for trying to preemptively copy Apple.
a/ It's already been done. So shouldn't we say Samsung and maybe possibly Apple will be copying what's in the market.
b/ Okay maybe it's Samsung will copy but Apple would be influenced by.... haha this stuff is too funny.
Funnily enough like most others I think this is Samsung trying to follow Apple but now following Apple rumours. Apple should leak more rumors.
2/ Someone pops a rumor that Apple are looking to make a watch... continued rumors.
3/ Samsung announce they've been working on a watch for ages and it's coming.
4/ Many MR forum posters poke fun at Samsung for trying to preemptively copy Apple.
a/ It's already been done. So shouldn't we say Samsung and maybe possibly Apple will be copying what's in the market.
b/ Okay maybe it's Samsung will copy but Apple would be influenced by.... haha this stuff is too funny.
Funnily enough like most others I think this is Samsung trying to follow Apple but now following Apple rumours. Apple should leak more rumors.
Apple's displays, now, or in the first gen aren't "pressure sensitive". they're capacitive touch. Which only detects points of contact.
you know who does make Pressure sensitive displays, albeit via "pen". Samsung and LG (i think HTC does have it now), using WACOMs tablet technology.
also: look at your iphone's running iOS6+... funny. no youtube either
no clue on media player. but i'd assume it had one. MP3 player phones existed long before the iphone and by the time iphone was released, having no mp3 playback was a rarity.
Visual Voicemail wasn't in existence even on the iphone till late in the game. 3gs i believe? or even the 4.
So what you're trying to say is..? you dont know what you're talking about?
what the game they were playing here was "apples iPhone wass the first ever fullcsreen touchscreen device and anyone who came out was obviously copying"
the rebuttal with LG's picture was "no. OTHER companies were currently working on the same concept, Apple just got it out the door first"
Dude you know nothing about the iPhone lol
Apple's displays, now, or in the first gen aren't "pressure sensitive". they're capacitive touch. Which only detects points of contact.
you know who does make Pressure sensitive displays, albeit via "pen". Samsung and LG (i think HTC does have it now), using WACOMs tablet technology.
also: look at your iphone's running iOS6+... funny. no youtube either
no clue on media player. but i'd assume it had one. MP3 player phones existed long before the iphone and by the time iphone was released, having no mp3 playback was a rarity.
Visual Voicemail wasn't in existence even on the iphone till late in the game. 3gs i believe? or even the 4.
So what you're trying to say is..? you dont know what you're talking about?
what the game they were playing here was "apples iPhone wass the first ever fullcsreen touchscreen device and anyone who came out was obviously copying"
the rebuttal with LG's picture was "no. OTHER companies were currently working on the same concept, Apple just got it out the door first"
ok, maybe i did not explain this thoroughly enough. I was making the point that apple did NOT have a pressure sensitive screen (which is crap) and which allowed for multitouch gestures. The screen blew every single competitors out the window.
And, all those features i was naming off was to make the point that nobody really cared to use those features because it was so watered down on every device. Nearly every single app on apple's first iphone was consumed and can not really think of one that they dropped because nobody used it or that it was broken.
They did the phone right the first time and instantly made it a standard for all other phone manufacturers to do the same. No one made a phone after that that completely reinvented how we consumed our smart phones. They were all essentially in apple's ball park. I have no idea how why you're fighting this tooth and nail.
I'm an android user (now) and i love it, personally, for my own needs. But, i never deny the things that apple did to stir up the market when that first iphone came out, and really, up to the 3gs, with the app store.
So you're also saying that the "older brother" is pretty much dependent on the work of the "pain in the ass middle child" for all its successes right?
i thought so