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by zamalek 3062 days ago
How is this:

> People are used to how their phones work

hating on iPhone? It's explaining why both parent comments don't share the same opinion. Everything else I said was very explicitly subjective, am I not allowed to express that I don't like using something?

> whole world copies Apple's UI

That is absolutely false, outside of the Apple marketing machine. Everyone copied Xerox and UI subsequently evolved byways of everybody copying everyone else in one way or another. I've also yet to see an integrated menu on Windows or Linux (although I am sure there exists some exotic window manager that does it) - so there's one concept that hasn't been copied and is entirely invented. There's also the Office ribbon. The modern iteration of flat UIs was born of the Metro interface language, a Microsoft invention - this now features strongly on both macOS and iOS.
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sumedh 3062 days ago
You are allowed to express your opinion but if you want others to take it seriously make some good points.

There is no need for a history lesson, you can shout about Xerox all you want but in the end It took Job/Apple to make the UI popular.

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zamalek 3061 days ago
> It took Job/Apple to make the UI popular.

This is also not true, Microsoft made it pervasive: between 1996 and 2017 MacOS has only ever peaked at roughly 10-15% market share. It is during this period that the market cap of computer users increased from millions (which can hardly be called "popular") to billions.

This is also shifting the goal posts. Your original comment had absolutely nothing to do with "who made UI popular."

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sumedh 3061 days ago
Looks someone does not like constructive feedback and instead tries to attack others.

Apple made a deal with Xerox and refined the UI while MS came in as pirate and did the rest.

Why is every mobile UI a copy of the first Iphone.

MS does not do design while Apple does that is the point.

Do you get it now or are you still going to attack me?

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zamalek 3061 days ago
> Why is every mobile UI a copy of the first Iphone.

Windows Mobile was definitely not a copy of the first iPhone.[1] I already pointed out that it was, in fact, Apple who took inspiration from Metro - which was the first iteration of the modern flat UI.

[1]: https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp_ss_20...

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sumedh 3061 days ago
Are you saying that Apple copied Windows Mobile UI for its first Iphone?
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zamalek 3061 days ago
No, for its fourth or fifth or thereabouts? It happened years after Metro, as did Google Material Design (a fantastic improvement to the platform).
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wor3q 3061 days ago
No, they copied flat design in iOS 7.
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