Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance

Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance by equark on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @11:39AM (#1979547)

From that video it seems like Android still has performance issues compared to the iOS. The scrolling looked choppy and had a noticeable lag. Presumably this can be fixed, but I am always surprised that some phones still can't master smooth, no-lag scrolling, given that it is provably doable.

It's also amazing how much they copied from iOS. Almost everything about that Android tablet is a blatant copy of the iPad. Look at the Gmail app, for instance.

In the 80s Microsoft got big by commoditizing Apple's innovations and it looks like Google is going to do the same in mobile. As a consumer I'm not complaining, but Steve Jobs must be going crazy.

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Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance by dannyr on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @11:53AM (#1979608)

Wait, you are accusing Google of copying the Gmail app from the IPad?

You know G in Gmail stands for Google right?

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Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance by kyleslattery on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @11:55AM (#1979612)

No. Equark is accusing them of stealing the ideas from the Mail app from the iPad.

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Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance by dannyr on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:03PM (#1979638)

Two-pane email browsing was been around for more than a decade. It was used by Outlook and in other email clients as well.

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Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance by drats on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:09PM (#1979667)

No. It was invented by Steve Jobs shortly after he designed the wheel.

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Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance by equark on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:10PM (#1979674)

I'm just pointing out that they seem to have copied UISplitView exactly, including how it adopts to smaller screens and landscape vs. portrait orientation. Split screens have been around for a while, but this implementation is very specific.

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Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance by natrius on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:47PM (#1979823)

If you don't want your ideas to be "stolen", keep them to yourself.

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Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance by brownleej on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @01:00PM (#1979887)

You put the word "stolen" in quotes. Whom are you quoting? The post to which you replied did not say that Google had stolen the ideas, it said that Google had copied the ideas.

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Re:Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance by natrius on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @07:29PM (#1981291)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

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