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Since iOS’ launch in 2007, people have devoted a lot of time and money to copying the UI. Samsung, of course, is the biggest offender, but the copying has gone

Since iOS’ launch in 2007, people have devoted a lot of time and money to copying the UI. Samsung, of course, is the biggest offender, but the copying has gone far beyond them: almost all modern smartphones and tablets have parts that resemble the old iOS UI Jesus, do people actually buy into this crap? The iPhone UI was never anything special; the mobile UI metaphor has remained pretty much unchanged since long before Apple got into the game. http://www.newsrover.com/images/screenshots/palm9.gif http://www.newsrover.com/images/screenshots/palm9.gif

rimantas 13y ago
http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/266029-apple-newton.jpg http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/266029-apple-newton.jpg And somehow Samsung phones did not have that interface prior to 2007.
- vectorpush 13y ago
  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psion_Series_3a.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psion_Series_3a.jpg What's your point? This is not to say that the industry wasn't heavily influenced by Apple's success, but imitating a paradigm that has been around for decades doesn't make one an Apple copy-cat. This is in the same vein as claiming anything with a solid black rectangular bezel is an Apple rip-off.
coldtea 13y ago
>Jesus, do people actually buy into this crap? The iPhone UI was never anything special; the mobile UI metaphor has remained pretty much unchanged since long before Apple got into the game. A screen with icons in a grid? Yes, you really convinced me how this is totally the same as the iOS UI. I mean, it also uses icons in a grid no? What's there to differentiate them? I mean, apart from a totally different visual look, different behaviors, different affordances, gestures and the employment of touch (and much more: multitouch), etc etc. Now, how exactly "mobile UI metaphor has remained pretty much unchanged since long before Apple" and yet, all the phones pre-iPhone were non touch crap, with small screens, keyboards and BS, slow interfaces, and all the phones post-iPhone followed it's UI guidance (either directly, as Android, or in a flat facade, as Windows Phone), is a mystery. (Not to mention that the Newton --or even '80s Apple stuff, from prototypes to finished products-- already had icons in a grid, if that was that mattered).

rimantas 13y ago

http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/266029-apple-newton.jpg http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/266029-apple-newton.jpg And somehow Samsung phones did not have that interface prior to 2007.

vectorpush 13y ago
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psion_Series_3a.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psion_Series_3a.jpg What's your point? This is not to say that the industry wasn't heavily influenced by Apple's success, but imitating a paradigm that has been around for decades doesn't make one an Apple copy-cat. This is in the same vein as claiming anything with a solid black rectangular bezel is an Apple rip-off.

coldtea 13y ago

>Jesus, do people actually buy into this crap? The iPhone UI was never anything special; the mobile UI metaphor has remained pretty much unchanged since long before Apple got into the game. A screen with icons in a grid? Yes, you really convinced me how this is totally the same as the iOS UI. I mean, it also uses icons in a grid no? What's there to differentiate them? I mean, apart from a totally different visual look, different behaviors, different affordances, gestures and the employment of touch (and much more: multitouch), etc etc. Now, how exactly "mobile UI metaphor has remained pretty much unchanged since long before Apple" and yet, all the phones pre-iPhone were non touch crap, with small screens, keyboards and BS, slow interfaces, and all the phones post-iPhone followed it's UI guidance (either directly, as Android, or in a flat facade, as Windows Phone), is a mystery. (Not to mention that the Newton --or even '80s Apple stuff, from prototypes to finished products-- already had icons in a grid, if that was that mattered).