It's everything but the superficial similarities. They took it all and changed the icons. Except one of the camera apps in one version uses Apple's icons in it for some reason.
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It's everything but the superficial similarities. They took it all and changed the icons. Except one of the camera apps in one version uses Apple's icons in it for some reason.
Android stole the notification bar, the live wallpapers, the widgets, the homescreen and the file manager from the iPhone obviously
That's a name and has nothing to do with stifling innovation.
How about Samsung trying to ban Apple devices by abusing their Standard Essential Patents and then backpedaling once they were threatened with a fine?
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...-in-standard-essential-patent-clash-in-europe
Now that's true anticompetitive measures taken by Samsung.
Wow so your previous post wasn't a mistake....lol
Not even close, what about the car or airplane? How about the telephone?
What Hand-Fractal said. Android is structured considerably differently than iOS is at its core. Their similarities are basically icons you touch with your fingers, and the placement of some of the UI bling.
One of the most influential doesn't mean that a car/airplane/telephone isn't influential.
The reply was to Samsung legally attacking smaller companies, not about anticompetitive measures
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You said the SINGLE MOST influential.
You should stop while you're ahead...which is not very far by the way.
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And he was still wrong
The poster you replied to said this:
"this practise is bad for everyone involved because who wants to waste their time innovating when your products will just be ripped off and you'll waste your damn time?!"
I further clarified, but posters still read it the same.
Yes after everybody replied to him, but I would still say iPhone is not one of the most influential in history. I could easily name 50 devices that are more influential and that would include the Apple 1 way before the iPhone.
I'd love to read your argument for this statement.
The telephone itself would have been in this category, not one new make or model especially such a recent one.
If the poster said one of the most influential smartphones in the past ten years there might have been something to work with.
Below was your original post about Samsung innovation.
LTE and MP3 didn't change the market?
Can you name anything that Apple did by your stretch of logic?
Quite frankly, first phone with LTE/MP3 is no where near the same caliber as the iPhone or Apple 1.
Gadgets don't get siphilis
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I never said it was and that post was for Baldimac, wanted to know what defines invention for him
Yep. Sometimes a person says something without thinking it through. Then they correct themselves and we move on.
Great. That's your personal definition of "one of the most influential". Others may vary. There is no objective way to eliminate the iPhone from that claim.
Now show us the actual home screen of the phone.
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Can't move on when the correction was almost equally as bad as the original statement.
You didn't even understand my correction to begin with. My original statement was in context to what was posted earlier about Samsung innovation with LTE/MP3. It was my mistake for stating global scope and clarified my statement.