Windows Phone Chief “feels Flattered” over iOS5 design.
Steve Jobs stole the WWDC 2011 conference this year with iOS5, iCloud, and the new functions of the iPhone. But I want to point something out. The things that Apple announced as their new features Microsoft ALREADY DID 8 months AHEAD of Apple. Yes folks - Let's just see who is copying who!
“Feeling flattered today. Lots of great WP ideas headed to iOS. (Camera button/above lock, auto-upoad [sic] of pics, better notifications … ) … wi-fi sync, built-in twitter, background download service, short-messaging chats (though we do Facebook!)” Joe Belfiore
Responding to one particularly enthusiastic tweet about the volume button in iOS5 working as a camera shortcut, Belfiore pointed out "with a wp7 you get a dedicated camera button..that wakes the phone from sleep and humps u to a camera." He also couldn't help but mention that it had "been shipping for 8 months!"
There's certainly plenty of overlap in the usage dynamics we've seen of iOS5 so far, though how much of that is idea sharing and how much is the various platforms shifting to a central point of "good" design is unclear. We have a feeling people wouldn't be so quick to label Apple derivative if the company itself hadn't made such a song & dance about others firms copying their idea.
Ok PPCGeeks, I call BULLSH&T here. Apple is copying other people's ideas. First iMessage - can you say Blackberry Messenger. Second Camera button - Windows Phone 7. Third - iCloud - Google Music & Microsoft Zune...HMM How about Apple gets their act together and says what they really are doing. "Apple Running out of idea's - so we just use our competitors". But tell me PPCGeeks - what does this all mean to you?
Source: Slashgear
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While I completely agree with the observation from the author that Apple is copying other’s ideas, this isn’t new. Wasn’t it just IOS 4 that multitasking was a big deal? Lot’s of other examples too, including folders, copy&paste, etc. And what is up with, IMO, this outdated UI of page after page of app icons – i.e., no widgets or hubs. Give M$ credit at least for coming up with something different in WP7 that looks to be migrating to Windows 8. I am also hoping for/looking forward to a WP7-like tablet some day. C’mon Apple fanatics, recognize that Apple is the ultimate in marketing, not innovation.
eh it’s all going to hell in a handbasket ..
This is funny man… Everyone is trying to say the other copied them on doing this and that…
Right now, I own the Arrive, the Evo, the Evo Shift and the Acer Iconia tablet. I do not have IOS because… well… Dont need it, have everything I need with what I have. Anyways, I hope you all know I am not by-ist to any operating system but here is my 2 cents…
What was the first type of OS that was a true PPC? WinMo…
Why would I say that you ask???
As far as copy n paste.. it did it.
Pictures.. it did it
Online.. it did it
Handled A $#!LOAD of files without the need for MODS…
Had the first TRUE MULTITASKING
Anyways… My point is that someone, someway, somehow, has done it a little or alot. People should give MS some credit because as you can see… OTHERS TRULY ARE COPYING where others are TRULY TRYING TO INNOVATE… jejeje
Now… bring on the trolls… jejeje
gTen Reply:
June 8th, 2011 at 1:15 am
@mapaz04, um…I’m pretty sure Symbian and PalmOs came first…
mapaz04 Reply:
June 8th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
@gTen,
You are right, I started with PALM… had a Treo 600… Anyways, just stating that as a Pocket PC, Winmo was the first I called that… The others were just… devices… organizers… you know… jejeje
2 Bunny Reply:
June 10th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
@mapaz04,
Yep. I had a Palm m500 myself. Palm OS could do a lot with not a lot of hardware. But, there came a point when I needed a device that was not only “that thing that runs apps”, but also my music player, media center, phone, GPS Navigator, etc.. Windows Mobile (not “windows mobile 7″) really was and still is the best Mobile Operating System, “bar none”. “mapaz” really had a point there.
- 2 Bunny
Are they copying or simply following natural progression?
I’m not an Apple fanboy but I dont call this copying. I call this progress. Microsoft was not the first person to ever ship a phone with a camera button. MS, time to get over yourself.
saibot Reply:
June 8th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
@scrosler, Thing is it isn’t M$ that’s going around suing everyone saying that they copied their product. Now who is it that needs to get over their self?
moosen34 Reply:
June 10th, 2011 at 12:30 am
@scrosler, You are absolutely right, this is just the natural progression of mobile technology. Is everybody else copying off of the first company to put a speaker phone on a cell phone? That was a great idea and now everybody is doing it. Does that make everyone copycats?
Everyone copies good ideas. Microsoft, thankfully, has been doing that for years with Windows, and they turn around and make something truly useful in the process. It’s perfectly wonderful to end up with products that are improvements of their previous versions.
A friend of mine made an interesting point….Apple is the king of war horses. They brought out something industry changing with the ipod, iphone, and ipad. But they have done little to make the UI any different since then. They simply tack on the bells and whistles that people need. It’s really a good strategy if you want to keep their core demographic – the casual users who follow apple like they’re God. (it’s been proven by the way…). If you want anything differen’t you’ll go with Android or WP7 (soon to be windows 8 and I can’t WAIT). It’s the nature of the business. But eventually, people will need something different. Then apple will innovate again, if such a thing is possible.
Realistically speaking..everyone copies from each other..we dont get where we are today by not copying..imagine if the caveman who invented wheels prevented everyone else from making wheels..we wouldnt get anywhere…
Appel copies people, people copy apple…but in the end of the day..thats lawyers job to figure out who copied who..I could care less..as long as I am getting the best possible product..so I dont care if the product I buy is a complete rip off of the original as long as it surpassed the original..
mapaz04 Reply:
June 8th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
@gTen,
and that my friend… was my point… I know that PALM had a device and Symbian was out there forevers… the point I was making is what you have there…
EVERYONE HAS COPIED EVERYONE!!! jejeje…
Belfoire is not saying MS is the 1st to ship a phone with a camera button, he is saying they are the 1st to enable the camera FROM A SLEEP/LOCKED STATE with the camera button.
People are replying and saying one of two things; “everybody copies everybody” or “MS needs to get over themselves” but if Apple had not called it the year of the copycats, do you think anybody would have pointed out that the Apple logo should have been up there too? Probably not. Its redundant to accuse a company of doing something that you are doing too. Apple started this cascade, did they really expect nobody to respond to it?
jaeskill Reply:
June 9th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
@jaeskill,
This was meant as a reply to scrosler