4 ms·
One needn't look further than Windows Phone 7, with Metro, as an example of how to do an original smartphone and tablet UI. Google could have ripped the guts ou
by siglesias 15y ago
One needn't look further than Windows Phone 7, with Metro, as an example of how to do an original smartphone and tablet UI. Google could have ripped the guts out of the underlying interface assumptions that Apple made and did something completely different, but they didn't.
I'd personally prefer a competitive landscape where players do what Harris's team did at Microsoft or what Palm did with WebOS, which is to make it their own. Tiles instead of icons. Cards for switching and closing apps instead of iOS's in and out. Big players who copy are bad for innovation, not good for it.
- flipbrad 15y agoLet's even accept your implicit contention, which is that Apple is the origin of features used by Android (and ignore all the points to the contrary given by others in this thread). What about Android's millions of satisfied users, who I suppose were, shall we say, taken away from Apple's rightful clutch? To you, do they not constitute prima facie evidence of a competitive landscape that's extremely healthy, forcing Apple to innovate again whilst having given consumers greater choice and cheaper access to paradigmatic phone design?
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]