Re:Did Android Really Look Like BlackBerry Before the iPhone?
by ZeroGravitas on Thursday October 27, 2011 @05:36AM
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The point I'd make is that you still get BlackBerry style android phones, and crazy folding ones and many other form factors.
If you only compare a single blackberry-style phone from the pre-iPhone era and one slab phone (which doesn't look particularly iPhoney-except in relation to the hardware keyboard phone) then you'll make a good rhetorical point for people who already believe that Android is an iPhone clone. I don't know if you'll convince anyone else.
There was a similar, older comparison which resized the phones and kept hardware keyboards shut, which again, seems a bit disingenuous if the point is to show similarity.
If you only compare a single blackberry-style phone from the pre-iPhone era and one slab phone (which doesn't look particularly iPhoney-except in relation to the hardware keyboard phone) then you'll make a good rhetorical point for people who already believe that Android is an iPhone clone. I don't know if you'll convince anyone else.
There was a similar, older comparison which resized the phones and kept hardware keyboards shut, which again, seems a bit disingenuous if the point is to show similarity.