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What's your point? The only difference between the the 2008 Crunchpad/JooJoo and the iPad is the color black.
I think his point is the original JooJoo design, which he provides, looked a lot less like the iPad.
That's amazing - this site managed to come up with CSS that prevents the font from getting bigger even when I ctrl-+ the page. Thanks for making it impossible for me to read, asshats.
Upgrade from IE - it doesn’t resize fonts specified in pixels in text resize mode.
I'll just leave this here for everyone saying that iPad-like designs never existed before the iPad: http://gdeluxe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/20111004-03455...
What I see is an excellent example of how tablets before the iPad did not look anything like the iPad, and those after have clearly been inspired by it. Then again, this kind of design-blindness doesn't surprise me. There are constantly people claiming that certain laptops and phones are equally well-designed as Apple products. There is clearly a large group of people who cannot see the difference.
However once you start looking in details there will be a lot of differences, subtle or not. Are the bezels and screens completely flat in a single piece? What are the visual featuring of buttons? How black/white it is? etc.
See, to me, Samsung does have an issue here, but it's not about the "rounded rectangle" shape or the "reasonably thick black bezel": it's the fact they have both of those, like the iPad, but then also surround them with a marginal silver border. I own both the Galaxy Tab 10.1" and an iPad 2, and I actually do get confused between the two all the time, when looking at them from above. They're about the same thickness…
It seems almost all manufacturers have gone to the same sort of packaging that Apple has been doing for years.
Apple need be careful what they insist others do - it may be done, and well, and Apple prohibited from doing it too. Example: the color of the margin should be the same as the background color of the content This after insisting on a sufficient inactive margin, and going on to say the technology doesn't exist. The thought ends with the conclusion of a one-inch-ish black margin. But wait: what if a tablet DID run its…
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There's plenty of use of the color black, rectangular shapes, rounded corners, and centered screens in the "before iPad" group.
In general, the tablet design language seems to have evolved over time. Here are the four pre-iPad generations of Nokia's internet tablets: 770 (2005): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/231781513/ N800 (2007): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/399708279/ N810 (2007): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/2290709295/ N900 (2009): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/4706326072/ In those pictures you can also see some…
This is because HN's design and HTML code suck. It's unreadable and inconvenient on laptops too.
Oh for frak's sake, Apple. This design came out before the iPad and looks identical to it. HN readers, you especially should know about this since it was all over the front page forever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JooJoo Here's an article from June 2009 that you could almost literally just swap the word Apple and iPad into. http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-protot...
But how can this be? Steve Jobs himself said: "iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices" Clearly, JooJoo was copied from Apple.
What?
There are several comments here which ring with the similar, "this is the only way it could be" tone that is morally disturbing (although always pleasing to hear from the competition...).
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I've never mistaken another car for a mercedes (I'm thinking of the e-class), nor have I ever mistaken another laptop for a macbook, nor have I ever mistaken another mp3 player for an ipad.
i mistook someone using a samsung tablet for them using an ipad - I thought that's what it was, looking at them interacting with it fairly closely, etc.
I disagree with the argument in this article and elsewhere. The fact is, you could make basically the exact same arguments for why things HAVE to look like a MacBook or an iMac. But I've never seen anyone who cares about APPLE products in particular, mistake another computer for a MacBook or another computer for an iMac - have you?
When an expert does a double-take two minutes in and realizes that's not the Apple product it looks exactly like, then a line has been crossed.
you guys can mod me down, doesn't change this fact.
I'll just leave this here for everyone saying that iPad-like designs never existed before the iPad: http://gdeluxe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/20111004-03455...
What about a quick search for Star Trek tablet: http://www.inventinginteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/... Star Trek PADDs: https://www.google.com/search?q=star+trek+PADDs&hl=en...