Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)

Post by technoslut » Tue, Oct 18, 2011, 3:32 PM UTC

wvenable wrote: post #120

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>Apple didn't invent the concept they just made it work. No one argues that. The point made is whether Android is a ripoff (or heavily influenced) by iOS. The gap is far wider between the iPhone/P800 than it is between iOS and Android. If the P800 was that influential, early Android prototypes would've resembled the P800 instead of a Blackberry.

Even with Windows Mobile there were blackberry-like keyboarded phones (like the WinMo Treo) and all-screen touch screen phones. The assumption here is that Android only had plans for the former but I can't see that being entirely true given the market at the time. But, after the iPhone, almost everyone dropped their blackberry-like designs (except RIM).

The first prototype that Android showed resembled the Blackberry. The first device that they released was the G1. There is no way that within 1 1/2 years that Google decided to change course in regards to production schedule unless they felt there was a disruptive product being released.

You are ignoring the obvious when, in most cases, that is the truth. It doesn't mean that Google was necessarily wrong for what they did because they clearly were not if you're measuring by market share. It also doesn't mean that Android doesn't have its own identity.

Post by lemieux » Tue, Oct 18, 2011, 4:48 PM UTC

zerotype wrote: post #108

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Wait... so your definition of whether something is "a ripoff" is based upon how commercially successful it is? So then android would by definition not be a ripoff. I must be misunderstanding your point.

I think I didn't explain myself as well as I could have. What I was saying (mean, whatever) is that when apple comes out with a device that is the first successful one of its kind they do that by doing something different. After they do that then other companies ripoff the now successful product. Sure, tablets had existed before the ipad, but not like the ipad. After the ipad came out tablets changed and the cries of…

So basicaly, when someone is successful with a product, others should not do the same thing because they were not first? Way to go to stimulate competition and innovation.

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