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I'm curious. Even being a knock-off, it must be quite some work to get it to look and feel (if not function) like an iPad, no? It looks identical on the outside
by blizkreeg 16y ago
I'm curious. Even being a knock-off, it must be quite some work to get it to look and feel (if not function) like an iPad, no? It looks identical on the outside. The home screen, the icons. I'm actually amazed at how they are able to create apps and devices so strikingly similar, and that too so quickly.
- mechanical_fish 16y agoDesign is hard. Copying the superficial aspects of other people's designs is easy. For example, even I know how to get a photorealistic copy of the iPad home screen: Run the iPad emulator on the Mac, and take a screenshot. Chop it up with Photoshop if you want the individual icons.
- Groxx 16y agoWhen you don't have to think, making something is pretty easy. The measurements are all there, already optimized for manufacturing, you just need to build the dies. And you can build negatives from the real thing. Innovation takes time, duplication takes what, weeks?
- crocowhile 16y agoThere is an iphone theme for rooted android. They probably just applied and modified that one.
- thwarted 16y agoThat home screen looked like the default Android 1.5 home screen that was originally on the G1 (the icon spacing is wider due to the higher screen resolution).
- xtacy 16y agoFrom a video, it seems like the smooth application transitions/animations of the iPad is missing.