So what if they copied apple's design. Every smart company tries to build off of the success of others.
What, you honestly think they pose a threat to apple's marketshare by building off of their design? WHO CARES! If they really do, thats apple's responsibility to come up with something to outdo the competition.
Companies are groups of people whose sole goal is to separate you from as much of your money as possible in the shortest amount of time. Stop worshiping them.
That's the main problem. Companies think that since the iPhone is successful that they need copy it to sell phones. The iPhone was successful because it was innovative not because Apple copied someone else.
Being innovative starts with a clean sheet of paper, not someone else's design!
The iPhone didn't REALLY start off fresh. Other companies had done the touchscreen thing well before. So it's more like standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Touch technology has been around forever, yes, but I'm curious... exactly who has done a mobile touch device "well", prior to the iPhone? To my knowledge, no device ever worked well with finger control (everything else used a stylus), had a multi-touch display, or even used a capacitive (rather than the still-common resistive) touch panel. These are the elements required to make finger-driven touch input work. And then you actually have to build a responsive, elegant, finger-navigable UI.
I'm looking forward to seeing other companies match and even exceed what Apple has done here, but let's be realistic... it certainly hasn't happened yet.
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So what if they copied apple's design. Every smart company tries to build off of the success of others.
What, you honestly think they pose a threat to apple's marketshare by building off of their design? WHO CARES! If they really do, thats apple's responsibility to come up with something to outdo the competition.
Companies are groups of people whose sole goal is to separate you from as much of your money as possible in the shortest amount of time. Stop worshiping them.
That's the main problem. Companies think that since the iPhone is successful that they need copy it to sell phones. The iPhone was successful because it was innovative not because Apple copied someone else.
Being innovative starts with a clean sheet of paper, not someone else's design!
The iPhone didn't REALLY start off fresh. Other companies had done the touchscreen thing well before. So it's more like standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Touch technology has been around forever, yes, but I'm curious... exactly who has done a mobile touch device "well", prior to the iPhone? To my knowledge, no device ever worked well with finger control (everything else used a stylus), had a multi-touch display, or even used a capacitive (rather than the still-common resistive) touch panel. These are the elements required to make finger-driven touch input work. And then you actually have to build a responsive, elegant, finger-navigable UI.
I'm looking forward to seeing other companies match and even exceed what Apple has done here, but let's be realistic... it certainly hasn't happened yet.
It should soon, when the Diamond is out. All the finger navigating goodies with the power house that is Windows Mobile.