Did Android Copy iOS - Really?

That's a horrible report boiled to, "he declined to comment, therefore it's true!". They should really be considering deleting that report.

It made me laugh reading the correction about the camera button. Oops, no Apple stole it from Microsoft.
 
No, but it copied some aspects of it. It feels more like iOS in many ways than WP7 does for example.

Though actually, I'd say Android is more of a copy of Symbian if anything.
 
People shouldn't really care.

Android works for me, iOS does not; I will only own Android phones!

Flipside for people with iOS devices.
 
You can't argue against the fact that pre 2007, Android was going down the Blackberry route of what a smartphone should look like and how its UI should work, then post 2007 there was a dramatic shift to a more IOS/Iphone-y style of smart phone.

However i wouldn't' say its exactly copying, certain aspects had to be changed for breaking patents (the scrolling through picture thing), others are either licensed and included at google level, or by the hardware manufacturer (Nokia and multi-touch for example).

On the whole i wouldn't say though that Android and IOS really look the same, its more a problem with some individual companies device aesthetics or individual changes to Android software that these companies make which grate me slightly (and Apple, apparently! :p ) .. Samsung and HTC, I'm looking at you! :p
 
Everybody is copying things from each other these days anyway it seems, although some think it's ok for them to do so but not others based on the failings of the US patent system.

I cannot believe they have allowed a patent for swiping to unlock, it's pretty much industry standard with touch screen phones these days. It's quite pathetic.
 
R34P3R said:
Everybody is copying things from each other these days anyway it seems, although some think it's ok for them to do so but not others based on the failings of the US patent system.

I cannot believe they have allowed a patent for swiping to unlock, it's pretty much industry standard with touch screen phones these days. It's quite pathetic.
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You mean the same way some other company (i can't remember who, Google? HTC? Samsung?) patented swipe "password" gestures to unlock, or Nokia with the unlock key -> Hold star to unlock process.

And besides, it was submitted in 2005, before it was the norm, but only actually got looked at in late 2010 by the dead slow or stop patent services world wide.

A judge did rule however that Apple can't seek retrospective damages because there was a phone in europe, 2004, which used the same gesture. It wasn't patented however.
 
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Alpherah said:
You mean the same way some other company (i can't remember who, Google? HTC? Samsung?) patented swipe "password" gestures to unlock, or Nokia with the unlock key -> Hold star to unlock process.

And besides, it was submitted in 2005, before it was the norm, but only actually got looked at in late 2010 by the dead slow or stop patent services world wide.

A judge did rule however that Apple can't seek retrospective damages because there was a phone in europe, 2004, which used the same gesture. It wasn't patented however.
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Those you mentioned along with any other patents from anybody of this sort shouldn't be allowed imo.

Innovations and great ideas should be patentable, basic functions shouldn't be.
 
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I cannot believe they have allowed a patent for swiping to unlock, it's pretty much industry standard with touch screen phones these days. It's quite pathetic.
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It's a continuation of the swipe to unlock patent with same name and description that Apple filed back in 2005, which they are already using against HTC in the US.

The same patent which was already thrown out here in Europe by the dutch court anyway, as the judge decided a device released earlier that year was close enough to be prior art.

Edit: Oops, Alpherah pretty much already said all that.
 
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This is what Android looked like before the iPhone was announced...

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It can't be honestly argued that Android hasn't copied iOS.

What can be debated is whether that copying is wrong. I don't think that there's anything wrong with realising that capacitive touchscreen phones are popular and making one yourself.
 
Apple have a handful of "innovations" to their name, but they as much as anyone they have filed a lawsuit against have simply regurgitated existing ideas and refined them. Same as everything else in every other form of product out there.

It's pathetic quite honestly.
 
So following a trend of general idea's is now 'copy' ?

Its the biggest threat to a free an open market, blanket patent any & everything to stop all competition.
 
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