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According to who? It certainly did multitasking better. It certainly did notifications better. It certainly produced better photos. It certainly did widgets better. There were a lot of things it did better. Yeah thats the irony...it was a mess and it still did a lot of things better than iOS...

Yep. And used it the full length of my contract. If you mean the case, I agree. Although the case was very durable, it was not as appealing as the iPhone's. Neither was the UI. The high frame rate of the iPhone UI might have come at the cost of functionality, but no one could deny it also made...

Now iFans can finally shut up about copying, thats what. heh heh I have no interest in punishing Apple for it. I don't care if they make money or if people like their products. I was just sick of the self-righteous hypocrisy Apple people have displayed for years. Now when Samsung or Google...

I would say "most" is accurate. This was an extremely common response to Android features. Apple users dismissed them as irrelevant and battery wasting. I remember this being said about widgets especially. It's not debatable at all IMO. They clearly complained about other people copying...

LOL, wrong. The Droid 1 had a display with well over twice the resolution (854x480) of the best iPhone (480x320), and sold very well. The display was not only larger but had a higher PPI as well (265vs 163). The Nexus 1 was comparable and even better in some ways (mostly because it had more...

I am actually not arguing about exactly who did it first. I am arguing Apple did NOT do it first. I can't think of a single design or UI feature that Apple actually did first. And their hypocrisy is what really annoys me, not the fact that they copied. I don't blame them for copying. I blame...

AKA, exploiting the legal system to compete. It is about copying, because Apple is trying to claim it owns obvious design features. Apple did not invent slide to unlock, for example. - Researcher's 1991 video could torpedo Apple's key 'slide to unlock' patent - GeekWire

Hardware. Samsung has a history of making good/great hardware (fast CPUs, high quality displays ect) that include features people want (SD, removable battery). There was a trend around the time the GS2 came out where Google was trying to push Android vendors towards the iPhone model (no SD...

On google approved devices (which means, devices that are allowed to have Google Apps installed by default) security settings will only allow you install apps from the Play store. In order to sideload app (or use apps from any other market, like Amazons) you have to disable security in your...

The Droid 1 was awesome. It's only real weakness was RAM...but for the time it had a great display (more than double the resolution of iPhones at that time), and had storage expandable to 48 gigs. The camera had a better macro mode than anything else at the time as well. The iPhone 4 was the...

Will never happen. Ever. Samsung likes making money too much. And no one is going to buy a Tizen phone. I know lots of people with Samsung phones, but no one buys Samsung phones for the stupid touchwiz UI...in fact a lot of people hate it. It's a liability, not an asset. People buy Samsung for...

Did she disable her security to sideload apps from somewhere other than Google Play? I'm willing to bet she did. I've known dozens of people with Android phones. No viruses yet. I can tell you from experience, the Malware hysteria is greatly exaggerated. As that link states, the vast majority...

About that... and Have had Android devices since 2009. Not a single virus so far.

So...Notifications and widgets and prediction keyboards are obvious, but icon grids are not. Ok. And um...strictly speaking...the first Android phone did NOT look like an iPhone. Here is what the G1 actually looked like: Notice: 1 - Primary interface is not an icon grid. It is a desktop...

Uh huh.

Maybe...but I think it is unreasonable to expect people not to criticize Apple for this behavior. And I think it still makes them hypocrites...whether or not the other parties sue them back. There is a cognitive dissonance in the Apple community where their fans will excuse behavior from Apple...

Exactly...Stealing is only bad when you're stealing from Apple. When Apple does it, we're supposed to turn a blind eye. Or even applaud it like Apple people are doing now. No one ever made the argument that Widgets should be patentable, or that iOS should not have them. Google is not the one...

The moment those things appear on Android you will see an Apple lawsuit. Copying is only OK when Apple does it.

Oh of course I would. In fact, I'd have done it a lot sooner. It's not like this is new...Apple users have been asking for Widgets since forever. But... 1) Apple has filed MANY high profile lawsuits complaining about copying. 2) Apple (and it's users) have been critical of these features in...

So Apple has basically removed any pretense they might have had about stealing. Apparently, Stealing is awful when Samsung does it, but magical and innovative when Apple does it. The issue here is not that Apple stole, but that they are such colossal hypocrites. This level of hypocrisy is so...