Apple does nothing original?

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I was just watching this video…


And I kept having to do a double take to make sure it wasn’t running iOS on the outside and iPadOS on the inside.

Literally every single thing from the Lock Screen and related shortcuts to the Settings menu to the Home Screen right down to the split animations and even iconography in the browser is a carbon copy of Apple’s OS design.

Even the clock and top bar icons are the same, right down to the Spotlight search bar clone.

And the Android people keep telling us Apple are the ones who don’t innovate and only steps other people’s ideas?

Are they all on crack?

**** even the swipe animations are the same.

The clincher was my kids walking in and asking if it’s a new iPad without any prompting and then wanting to know why it’s square because that’s just weird.

Can’t agree more, the only thing worse about the entire thing is the hinge don’t the middle you can’t unsee. And they even seem to accentuate it by essentially displaying two screens side by side the whole time instead of treating it as one.

The real question is…if Apple were so terrible why are they copying it?

And I still don’t understand why anyone would want this? Foldables just don’t make sense.
 
And the best part? For the price of this thing you can literally buy an iPhone AND an iPad of your choice and still have spare change.

So the “Apple is too expensive” argument is entirely blown out of the water too.

Make it make sense.
 
You haven’t used many Android phones. So many of them are iOS skinned, to varying degrees. It’s been like that as long as I can remember.
 
Romeo_RX said:
You haven’t used many Android phones. So many of them are iOS skinned, to varying degrees. It’s been like that as long as I can remember.
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I’ve seen it before but never quite as blatantly as this and especially not without a custom rom or special theming being done user side.

But it makes it all the more laughable to me if it’s been going on at a commercial level to this degree by bigger brands.
 
Same for MacBook Brownee.

The SmartFad bubble has burst and everyone is now just scrambling to stay relevant.

What more do people want? Technology has reached a peak and there is really nothing extraordinary anyone can do anymore.

Now it is AI left and right and even that will become "boring" to the person seeking for meaning in life through the next smartdevice.

Move one. Smell some coffee beans.
 
RedViking said:
Same for MacBook Brownee.

The SmartFad bubble has burst and everyone is now just scrambling to stay relevant.

What more do people want? Technology has reached a peak and there is really nothing extraordinary anyone can do anymore.

Now it is AI left and right and even that will become "boring" to the person seeking for meaning in life through the next smartdevice.

Move one. Smell some coffee beans.
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I think you are confused with where I’m coming from.

The fact that Apple doesn’t constantly change everything and only makes very small iterations is one of the big reasons why I stick with them.

But it’s also the very same thing the non-Apple crown hold against them…and then I find stuff like this and I wonder how they stand on those very wobbly legs.
 
RedViking said:
Same for MacBook Brownee.

The SmartFad bubble has burst and everyone is now just scrambling to stay relevant.

What more do people want? Technology has reached a peak and there is really nothing extraordinary anyone can do anymore.

Now it is AI left and right and even that will become "boring" to the person seeking for meaning in life through the next smartdevice.

Move one. Smell some coffee beans.
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Pretty much this, oems are now just trying to make somethings safe. As the big jumps in tech haven't happened like they used to.
Look at GPUs as well, the jump is just minor unless you use "AI".
Phones are now the same, everyone just trying to do something safe. It's why a lot of phone oems stopped. LG, Samsung and Sony used to bring out innovative phones, test new features on each new flagship. Now it's just if Apple can be safe and not do anything and people keep buying it, eh we may as well.
 
SauRoNZA said:
And the best part? For the price of this thing you can literally buy an iPhone AND an iPad of your choice and still have spare change.

So the “Apple is too expensive” argument is entirely blown out of the water too.

Make it make sense.
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It doesn’t. And I loved your post :)
 
Lupus said:
Pretty much this, oems are now just trying to make somethings safe. As the big jumps in tech haven't happened like they used to.
Look at GPUs as well, the jump is just minor unless you use "AI".
Phones are now the same, everyone just trying to do something safe. It's why a lot of phone oems stopped. LG, Samsung and Sony used to bring out innovative phones, test new features on each new flagship. Now it's just if Apple can be safe and not do anything and people keep buying it, eh we may as well.
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As Jim Keller said last night on Twitter, innovation makes money, money grows market cap, market cap needs to be preserved, careful people get promoted, innovation stops.

But that said, what were big innovations to you? M1, DLSS, RTX, FreeSynch, FaceID, nanite are some cool things that happened in the space recently at least by my measure. Wondering what I missed.
 
Romeo_RX said:
As Jim Keller said last night on Twitter, innovation makes money, money grows market cap, market cap needs to be preserved, careful people get promoted, innovation stops.

But that said, what were big innovations to you? M1, DLSS, RTX, FreeSynch, FaceID, nanite are some cool things that happened in the space recently at least by my measure. Wondering what I missed.
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Except the market is scared and the biggest thing right now is AI, which is a red herring. There's been no big innovation for many years, we've had no big jumps in tech in years. Everything is marginal step ups from what we had, there's been no quantum jump, like something being double its predecessor in a short while.
Companies are playing it safe, that's why we get boring and samey devices, cause innovation used to make money, now it's too risky.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I was just watching this video…


And I kept having to do a double take to make sure it wasn’t running iOS on the outside and iPadOS on the inside.

Literally every single thing from the Lock Screen and related shortcuts to the Settings menu to the Home Screen right down to the split animations and even iconography in the browser is a carbon copy of Apple’s OS design.

Even the clock and top bar icons are the same, right down to the Spotlight search bar clone.

And the Android people keep telling us Apple are the ones who don’t innovate and only steps other people’s ideas?

Are they all on crack?

**** even the swipe animations are the same.

The clincher was my kids walking in and asking if it’s a new iPad without any prompting and then wanting to know why it’s square because that’s just weird.

Can’t agree more, the only thing worse about the entire thing is the hinge don’t the middle you can’t unsee. And they even seem to accentuate it by essentially displaying two screens side by side the whole time instead of treating it as one.

The real question is…if Apple were so terrible why are they copying it?

And I still don’t understand why anyone would want this? Foldables just don’t make sense.
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This is old news. Samsung (and others) have been copying Apple since the iPhone was launched. The legal battle played out in courts around the world, with both companies seeking injunctions against each other and pursuing damages for alleged patent infringement.

- In August 2012, a jury in the United States ruled in favor of Apple, awarding the company $1.05 billion in damages.

- Samsung appealed the decision, and the case continued to work its way through the courts for years.

- Ultimately, Samsung agreed to pay Apple $548 million in damages, though the two companies continued to engage in legal disputes over other patent-related issues.
 
SHL said:
This is old news. Samsung (and others) have been copying Apple since the iPhone was launched. The legal battle played out in courts around the world, with both companies seeking injunctions against each other and pursuing damages for alleged patent infringement.

- In August 2012, a jury in the United States ruled in favor of Apple, awarding the company $1.05 billion in damages.

- Samsung appealed the decision, and the case continued to work its way through the courts for years.

- Ultimately, Samsung agreed to pay Apple $548 million in damages, though the two companies continued to engage in legal disputes over other patent-related issues.
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Yeah I mean those will always happen and I was aware of them, I just haven't seen it go this far where it's virtually indistinguishable.

It used to be moderately easy to spot as a "likeness" skirting an exact clone to get away with it legally.
 
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