Samsung copied Xcode? • Hacker News Board

Re: Samsung copied Xcode?

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Post by jack-r-abbit » Tue, Aug 14, 2012, 1:55 PM UTC

jonhendry wrote: post #57

jack-r-abbit wrote: post #42

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IMO, I don't think any of your "vs" go beyond normal "similar features" of any IDE... certainly nowhere near "carbon-copied". They don't even share the same icon set or rounded-ness. If I were a juror and I was given those as evidence, I would vote "not guilty".

Is there another IDE other than Xcode whose widget palette shows an icon and a lengthy textual description like that?

Dunno. But if that is all you got... I still say not guilty. While those two are similar... they are not the same. The icons, the fonts, the colors... pretty much everything about the look and feel is different except they both use an icon and a detailed description... in that one small portion of the whole IDE. Similar? a little. Carbon-copied? not even close. not guilty.

Re: Samsung copied Xcode?

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Post by dguaraglia » Wed, Aug 15, 2012, 5:59 AM UTC

jonhendry wrote: post #52

achamayou wrote: post #34

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But the scrollbars and widgets are not even similar, neither are the fonts, the color pickers or anything worth talking about... The only similarity seems to be blue-grayish tones, and possibly gradients (although the jpgs of the Samsung IDE are too blurry to really tell). Surely you're not talking about the drag and drop grid either, which was around years before Apple even made IDEs. There are plenty of lazy carbon…

You're missing the forest for the trees.

Or maybe it's you missing the trees for the grass leaves? Seriously though, most IDEs (and CAD and graphic design packages for that matter) have looked very similar to those screenshots. Fuck, if we were to 'condem' every other IDE in windows using the same icon set and toolbox/tabset styles as Visual Studio, then most of them are 'carbon copies' (let's forget for a minute most of those IDEs use the OS-provided controls.)

This is really starting to sound like nitpicking by some Apple fanboys. The fact this even makes it to Hacker News kind of pisses me off.

Re: Samsung copied Xcode?

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Post by gilini » Wed, Aug 15, 2012, 6:42 PM UTC

taligent wrote: post #43

gilini wrote: post #14

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Agreed. Qt Designer used to look pretty much the same as well. Actually, I don't know why this court nonsense is still making the news.

Just went all the previous QT Designer screenshots in Google Images. And not a single one looks similar to either Xcode or the Samsung IDE. And the court nonsense is still news because the case isn't over yet and this is demonstrating a pattern of copying by Samsung.

Let me help you out then.

QT Designer: http://www.cppblog.com/images/cppblog_com/lai3d/qt-designer.... Samsung: http://i50.tinypic.com/suu26w.jpg

I still think there's too much attention being given to this trial by tech people. Much more than it deserves.

Re: Samsung copied Xcode?

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Post by calciphus » Fri, Aug 17, 2012, 10:18 PM UTC

taligent wrote: post #44

calciphus wrote: post #15

Man, XCode looks a lot like Eclipse.

I take it you've never used XCode or Eclipse. If you did you would know that they are world's apart as far as IDEs are concerned.

Actually, used both quite a bit. But the UI and project layout (the subject of this post) are very similar, as they are with most IDEs.

Case in point: http://ostatic.com/files/images/JUnit-[2].png