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Perhaps one might admit that Apple are late to the game with OLED and edge-to-edge displays?
by willtim 9y ago
Perhaps one might admit that Apple are late to the game with OLED and edge-to-edge displays?
- roc 9y agoAdmit? Like it's a secret he's trying to cover up? Apple people simply don't care. They know Apple's "late." (Inasmuch as someone else has done a similar thing, or used a similar piece of tech "first".) Because Apple is almost always late. Late to touch. Late to smartphones. Late to fingerprint readers. Late to face identification. Late to attention detection. Late to wireless charging. Late to big screens. Late to music streaming. Late to video services. Late to the TV. Late to the wrist. Late to the wireless headphones. etc.
- nunez 9y agoThey weren't late to killing the headphone jack lol
- willtim 9y agoI agree, but he attempts to shame other firms when they decide to copy something from Apple. He comes across as a hypocrite. Personally I find many of Apples "innovations" abhorrent and it frustrates me that they have been universally copied. They have popularised disposable, unrepairable, slippery, ultra-fragile phones!
- jsjohnst 9y agoApple is almost never early to a market, so why call it out specifically that “business as usual on timing”. We can debate if they are successful or not (I waffle myself), but they’ve not prided on being first, but rather being better.
- strictnein 9y agoYou must have missed a decade+ of Apple talking about how everyone copies them? Example: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/photocopy.jpg https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/photo...
- jsjohnst 9y agoPeople do copy Apple, but that doesn’t mean Apple was first. The (misguided I feel) argument by Apple wasn’t that someone copied the concept of what they did (which again, they usually weren’t first to anyway), but rather copied their implementation which made them better over whoever was first. Also, Steve Jobs even has a famous quote that’s relevant [0], “good artists copy, great artists steal”. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
- jonknee 9y agoWhat does that have to do with liking the product? If an Android phone ships with a FaceID like feature, it's OK to just like it and not be sad that it wasn't the first phone with it.
- willtim 9y agoBut he doesn't just "like the product", he attempts to criticise the competition for copying.
- Brendinooo 9y agoSo if you were to write a review of a product you really liked, you would...throw in extra paragraphs about when other phones adopted some of the product's features?
- willtim 9y agoI wouldn't criticise the competition for copying, when there's plenty of copying on Apple's part.
- calibration263 9y agoHow was Apple late to the game with edge to edge displays? They only started appearing on flagships in 2017, this is their first phone release since then. Not to mention most of the "edge-to-edge" android phones are not edge to edge. The S8/Note 8, Pixel 2/2XL, LG V30, and OnePlus 5t all have significantly larger chins and foreheads than the iPhone X. The only thing I think that comes close(and I'd say beats it) is the essential phone.
- willtim 9y agoSamsung have been shipping OLED wrap-around-screens under the "Edge" branding since at least early 2015. Phones without front physical hardware buttons have been around even longer (e.g. Google Nexus).