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Before the iPhone came out (and it's glass-slab form factor), the Android cellphone prototypes looked a lot like Blackberry clones. However after the iPhone wa
by pinwale 15y ago
Before the iPhone came out (and it's glass-slab form factor), the Android cellphone prototypes looked a lot like Blackberry clones. However after the iPhone was announced, Google apparently switched to the slab form factor with a twist and produced the G1 with HTC. In 2010, Google started making glass-slab phones with Google branding.
Whether or not that is "stealing" is another debate; however, it wasn't until the original iPhone arrived that the slab form factor became ubiquitous.
- joshu 15y agoThe HTC Sooner: http://i566.photobucket.com/albums/ss109/5y24r/exca300/800px-GoogleHTCG1withSooner.jpg http://i566.photobucket.com/albums/ss109/5y24r/exca300/800px...
- fpgeek 15y agoEvery time I hear this charged leveled against HTC, of all companies, I want to shake people who have no sense of history. Go look up the O2 XDA, one of the first touch-screen smartphones. If you can't see the evolution of the touch-screen form-factor (and there are plenty of later examples), I don't know what to say. Apple deserves tons of credit for making that form-factor much more elegant, but the idea that other companies are "stealing" by trying to come up with their own interpretations of that elegance, without acknowledging that Apple did the exact same thing, is just silly.