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A grid of icons with text underneath is considered *ripping off* Apple now? Are you serious? As I said in another comment here: It's not just the app
by SnowLprd 15y ago
A grid of icons with text underneath is considered *ripping off*
Apple now? Are you serious?
As I said in another comment here:
It's not just the app icon layout. It should be obvious to any
casual observer just how many things Samsung copied: the
highlighting on the bottom row of icons, the dots that represent
different pages of apps, the overall aesthetics of the handset
itself, etc.
Pointing out one of these things and saying "Should Apple have a
monopoly on X?" is, once again, missing the point. It's the
combination of X, Y, and Z that makes the product look like an
iPhone instead of a differentiated product.
You said:
Have you actually used a Samsung Android phone? The "look and
feel" is nothing like an iPhone. [...] Just because one screen
happens to look similar to an iPhone doesn't mean the entire UI
is copied.
If Samsung's Android phones have differentiated user experiences that aren't evident from the home screen, then I applaud them. That doesn't, in my opinion, negate the fact that their home screen and phone design looks entirely too similar to the iPhone.
You can not say on one hand that Samsung is incapable of
differentiating their product, and then wave away all the ways in
which their product is differentiated.
I never said that. My point is that those minor tweaks are, in my opinion, insignificant in relation to how similar the rest of it looks. To proffer a crude and admittedly horrible analogy, it seems like Samsung is painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa and selling it as a separate product.
In any case, I'm guessing we disagree on how much differentiation Samsung has done here, but different opinions are what make the world go 'round. :)
Recall that iOS 5 has been announced with a notification tray
that is a carbon copy of Android's notification tray. Taking good
features from the competition and iterating on them is par for
the course.
I agree completely, which is why I've said all along that this whole patent litigation silliness should go away.
- andylei 15y ago> If Samsung's Android phones have differentiated user experiences that aren't evident from the home screen, then I applaud them. That doesn't, in my opinion, negate the fact that their home screen and phone design looks entirely too similar to the iPhone. why would you expect these two products to be differentiated on every feature? do you actually expect two touch screen phones to be different in every way? is it ridiculous that iphone's voice calling feature (where you can talk, and someone on the other side can hear you) is a "carbon copy" of old dumb phones?
- patrickas 15y ago> their home screen [...] looks entirely too similar to the iPhone Maybe that's a small nit, but Samsungs's home screen looks nothing at all like the iPhone. You have to go to the less used "applications list screen" on their phones and compare that to the iPhone's default home screen so that they look similar. It is less used because on android you put you most accessed stuff on the main screen and click the icons/widgets form there. Here is a pic: http://www.itworld.com/sites/default/files/iPhone_vs_Galaxy-600.jpg http://www.itworld.com/sites/default/files/iPhone_vs_Galaxy-... Left is iPhone's main screen, middle is Samsung's application list (I heard it repeated so much even I used to think that was Samsung's home screen), right is Samsung's actual home screen which is very different.