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Daring Fireball: Homage vs. Rip-Off
- mtgx 14y agoI don't think Apple would feel "homage" in any way, even if others only get "inspired" by their work.
- Steko 14y agoApple probably looks at products like Tony Fadell's Nest as homages. It's a ripoff when it's the same product. When I make a computer that evokes your toaster that's an homage. When I make a laptop that's a complete design clone of your laptop that's a ripoff.
- retrogradeorbit 14y agoYes, exactly. That's why Gruber is wrong (as usual) and it is "rip-off" in both samsung/apple and apple/braun cases. For example, both ET44 and Apple Calc are calculators. Both the T3 and the iPod are portable music players.
- zts 14y agoAlternatively, the ET44 is a portable electronic device, Apple Calc is a piece of software. The T3 is a radio receiver, the iPod is a stored music decoder. Why not point out that the T1000 is a radio, and the PowerMac contains bluetooth and wlan radios? Or that both are electronic devices? By all means, argue that the distinctions don't matter (and that the distance in time excuses nothing), but putting these examples in the same box as the Apple/Samsung ones is surely disingenuous.
- Steko 14y ago"Gruber is wrong as usual" really says more about you then about Gruber. He has his faults but the main theses of his blog -- (1) that Apple is a company that for whatever reason approaches products different and does things better then it's competitors and (2) that doom and gloom predictions for Apple are generally full of shit -- have both been borne out spectacularly over the last 10 years.
- ericcholis 14y agoThere is a bit of a struggle here for me, on one hand, I can see how the argument of "inspiration" is valid. On the other, Ive is treated like some design god, when in reality he's an homage pro.
- dagw 14y ago"great artists steal"