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Bing copying Google's search results is just evil. Not like copying Apple's iPhone design and user interface and giving it away to Apple's competitors, which is
by podperson 16y ago
Bing copying Google's search results is just evil. Not like copying Apple's iPhone design and user interface and giving it away to Apple's competitors, which is good. Right?
It's ugly and immoral and probably legal. Good job catching Microsoft at it (and I think the really really unethical and scary bit is that Microsoft is cheerfully stealing info from users via their browser). I also realize that Google got where it is in Search by innovation and iteration, and that Google's search team has nothing to do with Android per se, but you might see how Apple people feel about the business empires built on stealing their ideas.
- nlogn 16y agoI don't think Android devices being similar in some ways to the iPhone is even remotely analogous to what Bing is doing here. One is called healthy competition (and I don't see how Android is copying iOS). The other is literally just copying data.
- othermaciej 16y agoThe original Android phone design looked like this: http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/androidphone.jpg http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/androidphone.jpg Then iPhone came out and it looked like this: http://km.support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/HT3939/HT3939--iphone_dimensions-001-en.png http://km.support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/... Now Android phones look like this: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2795/4208849005_dd4b608729.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2795/4208849005_dd4b608729.jp... You don't see any signs of copying here?
- magicalist 16y agoturtles all the way down, my friend: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YgpHa1oeHME/TTxZAZWLaxI/AAAAAAAAC_g/mXieqgNA0YE/s1600/Palm+pilot.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YgpHa1oeHME/TTxZAZWLaxI/AAAAAAAAC_...
- podperson 16y agoYeah, point to Palm -- a company built by ex-Apple people that produced a lower-cost Newton clone.
- nlogn 16y agoThey are similar in that they both are big touchscreens with no physical keyboard. Apple did not invent that by any means. That is also a shot of the Android App Drawer and not an actual homescreen. Most Android homescreens I've seen have a few widgets on them and do not look anything like a big grid of app icons like the iPhone. Also, that "original" Android phone design you point out looks a hell of a lot like a Blackberry. Android must have blatantly copied RIM by your logic.
- spot 16y agoFYI Android started before iPhone was released. It's based on the Sidekick.