Why did OP use a throwaway? The timing of this is a little strange, when considering it has a Chinese element
A throwaway with a lot of karma and a pretty extensive history....
JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
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Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#252A lot has already been said about them copying or borrowing or just getting their inspiration from Apple, so I'll skip that. Unless they fully opensource the code it is unlikely to get any traction. And if it is really based on Linux we're likely going to see UI and UX issues, An OS is more than just a some fancy icons and modded apps. The transitions that they show in the demo are not easy to achieve as in stability…
I don't know why people think Apple even has a good UI. Because it all looks the same? None of it makes any sense if you have any experience other than Mac/iOS.
Let us never forget that we are holding it wrong.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have dominion of the word “Apple” in the context of consumer electronics, and “Pad” is easy to misread in context as “iPad”, leaving open the reasonable possibility of customer confusion. That’s basically what trademarks are both for and there to prevent.
This Pad thing only relevant because they copycat all up/ux It would be totally justified to call new/innovative tablet/OS a Pad
What, have we forgotten all the maxipad jokes from when iPad was introduced??
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#254From their discord, this is just more gongkai "loot open source/GPL and be closed source"-ware
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#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean Terry Pratchett (very popular English language author) wrote a book literally called Jingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingo_(novel) It's not a word you'd hear every day but it's a word I'd bet on the majority of genuinely literate people to understand.
If it's relevant my cat is name Jingo.
Wanted to name mine Greebo but was over-ruled.
In hindsight probably a good idea, not a self-fulfilling prophecy you'd want.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
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I don't want to be too hard on this project, but is it really "design-forward" when it's blatantly and explicitly copying the look and feel of iOS/iPadOS? Originality seems like an important component of good design.
Good design explicitly values borrowing/stealing. Unlike the tech rat race, UI design is very happy to credit inspiration.
Sure, but I don't think this is "inspiration" so much as blatant, wholesale copying, at least if the screenshots and copy on the page are representative. ElementaryOS borrows heavily from Apple style without being an outright copy, that seems way less icky to me.
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Yeah, if the ipad pro would run a real OS (like linux) it would be the only device I would have.
iPad OS is a real OS, not every real OS has to be an UNIX clone with a CLI.
Well, I think you know what I mean: allowing some degree of software freedom. I do not need a cli: ide and compiler though...
My iPad pro is fast enough to do my dev work but I cannot run the tools to do dev.
Your comment is a bit weird as you know very well what people here mean: iPad is generally seen as something you cannot produce things on. I do not agree with that: unlike others here, I type as fast on the keyboard of the pro (not the new one: not tried that) as on my MacBook and Lenovo. But it just misses the applications as they are forbidden. My wife is a writer and she needs nothing else. The only thing I am saying is that for me the walled gardens and particular not compiling restrictions make it a bitter sweet device: I love it but I cannot do my work on it.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#258A lot has already been said about them copying or borrowing or just getting their inspiration from Apple, so I'll skip that. Unless they fully opensource the code it is unlikely to get any traction. And if it is really based on Linux we're likely going to see UI and UX issues, An OS is more than just a some fancy icons and modded apps. The transitions that they show in the demo are not easy to achieve as in stability…
I think it will get traction because there are tonnes of low end windows tablets out there that only have 2 gb ram and 32 gb storage that can barely even run windows and jing os which is using a modified plasma mobile will be way faster on these low end windows tablets
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#259A lot has already been said about them copying or borrowing or just getting their inspiration from Apple, so I'll skip that. Unless they fully opensource the code it is unlikely to get any traction. And if it is really based on Linux we're likely going to see UI and UX issues, An OS is more than just a some fancy icons and modded apps. The transitions that they show in the demo are not easy to achieve as in stability…
I think it will get traction because there are tonnes of low end windows tablets out there that only have 2 gb ram and 32 gb storage that can barely even run windows and jing os which is using a modified plasma mobile will be way faster on these low end windows tablets
https://forum.jingos.com/t/jingos-roadmap-v1-0-published-on-... shows it is based on Ubuntu 20.04 and Plasma Mobile if you want a source for "jing os which is using a modified plasma mobile"
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a lawyer here but have UI design patents ever held up in court? All modern UI is derivative in some way. Apple lost a case to Microsoft on similar grounds. > The court ruled that, "Apple cannot get patent-like protection for the idea of a graphical user interface, or the idea of a desktop metaphor [under copyright law]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros... .
Didn't they win the billion dollar lawsuit when Samsung copied iOS almost as blatantly as this?
That case was a huge convoluted mess. If I understand it correctly the UI patent claims were rejected and the case came down to 3 hardware design patents, D618,677, D593,087, and D504,889. But the case is so involved you damn near need a law degree just to follow it.