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Did you look at their Dock drawing and menu titles? Straight ripoff of the Mac OS X Dock and Dashboard dock.
by mishmash 16y ago
Did you look at their Dock drawing and menu titles? Straight ripoff of the Mac OS X Dock and Dashboard dock.
- hasenj 16y agoYes, they have a Mac envy, which is a good thing, I think.
- hugh3 16y agoIn fairness, pretty much every user interface feature that isn't a command line has been copied from the mac at some point in the last 26 years.
- sid0 16y agoThe ribbon?
- adambyrtek 16y agoTo be even more fair, Steve Jobs was so impressed by the innovative graphical user interface he had seen at Xerox PARC that he copied many of its features in the original Macintosh. Don't get me wrong, this is a good thing. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
- pyre 16y agoBut if they invent something completely new, and Apple copies it Apple isn't 'ripping it off,' they are 'making it better' (e.g. 'Time Machine', 'Spotlight', etc). Please leave these useless, 'OMG! They copied X!' comments off of HN. 'Standing on the shoulders of giants,' is how the tech world moves along.
- mishmash 16y agoWhile we're at it let's leave the drama alone too. I wasn't crying ripoff, I was using it in a design context. And from that POV, the drawing code is almost a per-pixel copy of the Dock's. Which, wouldn't happen by accident.
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