iOS 7 looks familiar

Re:iOS 7 looks familiar by mrich on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @02:19AM (#5866790)

  Samsung meanwhile is already hard at work copying all those features,
  expect them to pop up in Android within the next 6 months.
  Parallax background will be first.

It is quite ironic you would say that, since parallax backgrounds were available for all Android devices in app form before Apple demoed them.

One example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=opotech.image3...

But the cynic in me will not be surprised to read more stories about how Apple revolutionized and invented multitasking, flat UIs, quick settings and file sharing on mobile.

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Re:iOS 7 looks familiar by nikster on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @02:45AM (#5866859)

Apologies for not closely following the thousands of different UX improvements / add-ons / tweaks available for Android. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in Cydia as well.

But that's not the point. The point is Samsung will copy it. Just wait, I am pretty confident here ;) I mean they could just buy that existing app but something tells me that they won't... past behavior and all that...

Frankly I don't think Apple is taking any design clues from anywhere. They don't care what Android is doing - they do their own thing. And with iOS 7, they have revolutionized iOS. That's a fact.

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Re:iOS 7 looks familiar by kelnos on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:00AM (#5866894)

Apologies for not closely following the thousands of different UX improvements / add-ons / tweaks available for Android.

You should apologize, though clearly you're being sarcastic. If you're going to claim that Samsung is copying what Apple has done, you'd better know what Samsung, stock Android, and probably at least a couple other flavors, have already done.

The point is Samsung will copy it.

Copy what, exactly? The look and feel of iOS 7 (at least from a few initial screenshots; I haven't tried it myself yet) looks how Android has looked for over a year and a half now.

Certainly the UX of iOS 7 is (presumably) still distinct from Android, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about.

They don't care what Android is doing - they do their own thing.

You clearly -- by your own admission -- aren't qualified to make this statement. Multitasking on iOS is a watered-down, shittier version of multitasking on Android. Notifications on iOS were basically ripped from Android. You may claim that Apple never saw what Android was doing and happened to come up with similar solutions, but that seems a bit naive to me.

That's a fact.

No, it's your opinion.

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Re:iOS 7 looks familiar by dragos2 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @06:46AM (#5867428)

You really don't get it. You cannot say Samsung will copy something from Apple, when Samsung already has that.

It's OK to be a fanboy, but at least try to understand what's going on.

Also, they might have revolutionized iOS but they didn't revolutionized mobile OS in general.

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Re:iOS 7 looks familiar by css771 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @05:06AM (#5867198)

And I frankly don't think that Samsung is taking any design clues from anywhere. They don't care what Apple is doing - they do their own thing. And with the next Touchwiz, they will revolutionize Touchwiz UX. That's a fact /s

But seriously, the amount of snark (and hypocrisy imo) in your comment was too much to take.

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Re:iOS 7 looks familiar by berntb on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @06:22AM (#5867379)

>>And I frankly don't think that Samsung is taking any design clues from anywhere. They don't care what Apple is doing

Uhh... the whole idea with the present generation of smartphone (software) comes from the iPhone. That (and applying it to create pads people were willing to pay for) was new.

Everyone should be able to agree on that, at least.

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Re:iOS 7 looks familiar by jhdevos on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @07:18AM (#5867507)

> Uhh... the whole idea with the present generation of smartphone (software) comes from the iPhone.

Oh come on. It's an evolution of what was there before; Palm OS was already very clearly moving in that direction. There is very little that is conceptually new in the first iPhone.

The execution was superb, and everyone certainly got shaken awake by the fact that that level of quality was even possible... but the core ideas were already there.

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Re:iOS 7 looks familiar by berntb on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @10:50AM (#5868349)

I leave the subject, since I assume you'd argue the same thing about the iPad, even though others had tried to build xPads for many years without anyone wanting the results... :-)

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Re:iOS 7 looks familiar by css771 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @04:46PM (#5870617)

Well no I don't agree with it, at least not in the way that you suggest.

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