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What I see here is apple blatantly stealing from nokia, using icons in a grid, a status bar on top (
innovating in sticking some icons at the bottom) and a black background. Yeah one phone doesn't have a touch screen, but touch screens weren't invented by apple, they were about to be used in phones anyway, and lg came up first with a touch screen. So how's the average nokia interface with icons on a grid and a status bar NOT similar to iphone. In what way did apple completely redefine the phone interface as we 've come to be brainwashed about by apple pr and websites? By just taking what phones looked like before, icons on a grid, status bar and sticking a touch screen on top to access them, like the lg prada had before iphone? How's the interface different? Like I said live tiles IS a different interface paradigm (and I have absolutely no preference for ms), icons on a grid are not.
But I guess it hurts a lot of you here, and you are in denial, when it's been hyped again and again and again to you how innovative apple is, to just open your eyes and see that the way the iphone looked is how run of the mill nokia phones looked without a touch screen overlay, and apple did absolutely **** but add a touch screen on top. They took the very same, basic phone ui, took the buttons away, and added touch screen.
(disclaimer, I am not denying small, noteworthy details, such a slide to unlock, or an on screen keyboard ai to be able to type without messing things up, that they iphone had, nor am I saying that the iphone was not good phone that pushed the touchscreen trend with a decent browser and what with apple's clout and marketing and the cultish and self promotional aspects of apple it came to dominate the market. But there were other great smartphones then from blackberry, palm, nokia, sony errickson, that eventually would and did switch to touch screen, and still other phones that had switched to touch screens before apple.)
Apple is copying from others as much as others are copying from apple, even more so sometimes, the problem is only apple can mass hypnotize some of you guys here (and for good reason, so they can rip you off then with the highest margins) to think it's only others stealing from apple, and not apple itself. Because when apple bring a new feature, say slide to unlock it's plastered all over the web, fanbois come rushing, arch kisser like Gruber say it's the next best thing to sliced bread, a lot of fanfare is created etc. etc. but when apple blatantly steal from others' great ideas and features, opera's speed dial, readability's layouts, read it laters and instapappers "reading lists", the greatness of the originator of the feature is silenced and not promoted (or self promoted, or touted by droves of fans) and apple silently incorporates the feature.
OK, every company steals ideas from their competitors. Apple did not invent the phone so they have taken ideas from others as well. Sure maybe companies try and come close to their design, but how many looks can a phone really have? It has to have rounded edges, and everyone is on the slim craze.
You are not going to make sense with these guys, they'd rather not reply but downrate, their utter luck of any arguments explaining where apple has been copied point by point, shows how much they are brainwashed into the apple cult that has theme believing that apple is the arch inventor and everyone else is copying that they can't put sentences together on why this is the case. You ask them, why is it like this guys? Apple's stolen the heck out of others in safari, tell us 7-8 points where they've been stolen from others in ios as much as they stole in safari? Well cause, you know it's just like this, that's what we 've been told, apple sets the bar the others copy...blah blah...
