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I hate to be that guy ... but this seems to be a pretty blatant Windows 8 rip-off and money grab Don't get me wrong, I think you should be able to be inspired

by mhomde 12y ago

I hate to be that guy ... but this seems to be a pretty blatant Windows 8 rip-off and money grab Don't get me wrong, I think you should be able to be inspired by others designs. Saying that companies are copying "metro" just because they use "flat design" is probably overzealous. I this case they seem to have directly copied design not because of any particular reasons but just because of lack of inspiration of their own. There are PLENTY of things that can be done better and/or different than Windows 8 but instead they just went with was already there. The color scheme, the email client, the design as a whole is a blatant and shameless rip-off. And I'm not even talking about the Hardware design. This is a sentence I never thought I would say but I almost hope Microsoft sues them. I say almost because I don't believe in patents and protecting design details, but this is pretty far over the line. What we're they thinking?

cbd1984 12y ago
> I this case they seem to have directly copied design not because of any particular reasons but just because of lack of inspiration of their own. Like what everyone did with Xerox PARC's design, or Unix's design. I'm not saying that what Apple did was illegal, because it clearly wasn't, just that it wasn't very creative. Ditto all the people who grabbed elements of Unix (pipelines, the notion of subdirectories Unix has, device files) to put into, say, MS-DOS. And then there are all the "n guys with drums, a guitar, and a bass" which sprung up once the Beatles hit the mainstream. Pop sounded fairly different before they got big. You appear to be getting angry over standard practice, is what I'm saying.
- mhomde 12y ago
  Yeah but that's the point, at least Apple copied substantial and innovative features, which is worse from a copying standpoint but at least has some merit content-wise. I actually don't think you should be able to protect features like windows, pipes etc even though they have creative depth. Companies should compete on execution, not by ownership of ideas. I guess copying of surface rather than substance to this extent does make me a little angry just because it's so lazy, unecessary and blatant. It's like someone ripping off a website design down to the mark-up, it's just ... slimy
- tonyjstark 12y ago
  It's not right only because everyone is doing it. Wouldn't be so bad if they improved something, for example the kickstand which could stand in every angle instead of only two. Or how about a splitting of the screen completely dynamic... Noone has to reinvent the wheel but just building it out of wood over and over doesn't get you anywhere (ok maybe it gets you somewhere, it's still a wheel.)

by mhomde 12y ago

cbd1984 12y ago

> I this case they seem to have directly copied design not because of any particular reasons but just because of lack of inspiration of their own. Like what everyone did with Xerox PARC's design, or Unix's design. I'm not saying that what Apple did was illegal, because it clearly wasn't, just that it wasn't very creative. Ditto all the people who grabbed elements of Unix (pipelines, the notion of subdirectories Unix has, device files) to put into, say, MS-DOS. And then there are all the "n guys with drums, a guitar, and a bass" which sprung up once the Beatles hit the mainstream. Pop sounded fairly different before they got big. You appear to be getting angry over standard practice, is what I'm saying.

mhomde 12y ago
Yeah but that's the point, at least Apple copied substantial and innovative features, which is worse from a copying standpoint but at least has some merit content-wise. I actually don't think you should be able to protect features like windows, pipes etc even though they have creative depth. Companies should compete on execution, not by ownership of ideas. I guess copying of surface rather than substance to this extent does make me a little angry just because it's so lazy, unecessary and blatant. It's like someone ripping off a website design down to the mark-up, it's just ... slimy
tonyjstark 12y ago
It's not right only because everyone is doing it. Wouldn't be so bad if they improved something, for example the kickstand which could stand in every angle instead of only two. Or how about a splitting of the screen completely dynamic... Noone has to reinvent the wheel but just building it out of wood over and over doesn't get you anywhere (ok maybe it gets you somewhere, it's still a wheel.)