That’s entirely fair, but just remember that the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 was essentially a ripoff of the iPhone that came before it. Virtually every significant feature of that we now consider a “smartphone” was pioneered by the iPhone.
I don’t say that with any joy - I hope Android and other Apple competitors claw their way up and supplant Apple in terms of innovation - it’s just silly to pretend that Apple didn’t essentially define the market.
And the iPhone was a ripoff of the Star Trek communicator that Samsung has proven in court many times.
Remember Apple's motto, "Good Artists copy, Great Artists steal" and they stole everything from that Star Trek communicator but blamed Samsung of doing the same thing. That's why I've always viewed Apple as a hypocritical company for a long time.
"It's revolutionary!" is a cringe phrase so whenever Apple say, "it's revolutionary!", that means they stole something or or finally implemented a 2 year+ old technology in their "revolutionary" phone (see the Bluetooth situation).
Yeah it was more of the physical features of the communicator. Apple made the claim that it was unique and no one have replicated it before but Samsung showed the S.T. communicator in court, which bears similar resemblance to the iPhone as far as the rectangular form and color in appearance goes. There's more to that but it has been a long time and I'm not really interested in the Android v. iPhone thing anymore as both companies are cucked.
I'm just waiting for the next best competitor to the cucked companies so I can switch away from Android and to a Linux-based OS that would rival Android.
Eh, Apple brought all the basic smartphone features to the market, but they seemed to stop innovating in good ways. Their Apple Pay is proprietary, whereas Samsung phones simply create a magnetic field that mimics a card strip - so they can be used anywhere someone can swipe and the business doesn't need to buy a special terminal. Android also has handy features like using a swiping motion to quickly take a screenshot (I blew an iBot's mind when he saw me do that on my phone.)
Palm made a phone called Treo that had a physical keyboard and slightly smaller screen than iPhone.
Only real "innovations" was eliminating physical keyboard for touchscreen. PDAs at the time were very similar and many were more powerful. You just couldn't make a phone call with them.
Yeah, but “eliminating a physical keyboard for a touchscreen” is literally the defining hallmark or all modern smartphone. After Apple, they are all black glass rectangles.
That’s like saying all Ford did was apply four wheels to an internal combustion engine, none of which he invented.
Yeah, but “eliminating a physical keyboard for a touchscreen” is literally the defining hallmark or all modern smartphone.
Again, the Palm Pilot and many other PDAs had no keyboards. They just weren't phones.
The reason the Palm Pilot used a stylus was because the designers didn't like the idea of grubby fingerprints all over the screen. Go figure.
I feel part of the reason Steve Jobs was so against a stylus for the iPhone or iPad was because people might look into the history of the devices Apple copied and realize it really wasn't the first after all. It's no coincidence it took nearly 4 years after Jobs' death before the Apple Pencil was released.
The Sony Clie is yet another example of a device that came out 5 years before the iPhone.
That’s entirely fair, but just remember that the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 was essentially a ripoff of the iPhone that came before it. Virtually every significant feature of that we now consider a “smartphone” was pioneered by the iPhone.
I don’t say that with any joy - I hope Android and other Apple competitors claw their way up and supplant Apple in terms of innovation - it’s just silly to pretend that Apple didn’t essentially define the market.
And the iPhone was a ripoff of the Star Trek communicator that Samsung has proven in court many times.
Remember Apple's motto, "Good Artists copy, Great Artists steal" and they stole everything from that Star Trek communicator but blamed Samsung of doing the same thing. That's why I've always viewed Apple as a hypocritical company for a long time.
"It's revolutionary!" is a cringe phrase so whenever Apple say, "it's revolutionary!", that means they stole something or or finally implemented a 2 year+ old technology in their "revolutionary" phone (see the Bluetooth situation).
But the Star Trek communicator wasn’t real? And didn’t bear much similarly to an iPhone?
Yeah it was more of the physical features of the communicator. Apple made the claim that it was unique and no one have replicated it before but Samsung showed the S.T. communicator in court, which bears similar resemblance to the iPhone as far as the rectangular form and color in appearance goes. There's more to that but it has been a long time and I'm not really interested in the Android v. iPhone thing anymore as both companies are cucked.
I'm just waiting for the next best competitor to the cucked companies so I can switch away from Android and to a Linux-based OS that would rival Android.
Eh, Apple brought all the basic smartphone features to the market, but they seemed to stop innovating in good ways. Their Apple Pay is proprietary, whereas Samsung phones simply create a magnetic field that mimics a card strip - so they can be used anywhere someone can swipe and the business doesn't need to buy a special terminal. Android also has handy features like using a swiping motion to quickly take a screenshot (I blew an iBot's mind when he saw me do that on my phone.)
Samsung removed MST (the magnetic strip faker you just described) after the S10 series, the S20 and up don't have it
That's crazy... the fold has it (I think I have the Fold 2.) Damnit, can't keep anything nice....
Nope. iPhone released in 2007 was a Palm Pilot without a stylus and with phone capabilities. Software was less refined than Palm OS.
https://history-computer.com/palm-pilot-guide/
Palm made a phone called Treo that had a physical keyboard and slightly smaller screen than iPhone.
Only real "innovations" was eliminating physical keyboard for touchscreen. PDAs at the time were very similar and many were more powerful. You just couldn't make a phone call with them.
Yeah, but “eliminating a physical keyboard for a touchscreen” is literally the defining hallmark or all modern smartphone. After Apple, they are all black glass rectangles.
That’s like saying all Ford did was apply four wheels to an internal combustion engine, none of which he invented.
Again, the Palm Pilot and many other PDAs had no keyboards. They just weren't phones.
The reason the Palm Pilot used a stylus was because the designers didn't like the idea of grubby fingerprints all over the screen. Go figure.
I feel part of the reason Steve Jobs was so against a stylus for the iPhone or iPad was because people might look into the history of the devices Apple copied and realize it really wasn't the first after all. It's no coincidence it took nearly 4 years after Jobs' death before the Apple Pencil was released.
The Sony Clie is yet another example of a device that came out 5 years before the iPhone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8N2i9s2Ux4