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Xiaomi's Next OS Looks Strikingly Similar To iOS
stephendavion writes Looks like Chinese device maker, Xiaomi, is taking its "Apple of the East" tag too literally. First, their CEO brazenly copies Steve Jobs' signature look, sitting cross-legged on the floor. And now, Xiaomi's latest version of Android shamelessly rips off iOS 7. MIUI 6, which is Xiaomi's upcoming edition of Android for its latest phones and tablets, looks almost exactly like Apple's operating system for iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch. It features the same bright color palette and a flat design. Heck, it even does away with Google's "app drawer" and puts all apps on your home screen. It's like the CEO handed iPhones to the design team and barked: "Here, copy this!"
Darn those people from the east, always copying western practices.
They figured turnabout was fair play.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
It is going to look pretty jarring when you launch any of Google's apps from that launcher. Material Design looks nothing like iOS.
As someone who has used both iOS and Android devices I thought all the screenshots looked like an Android device. I wouldn't of been confused at all. Is someone *trying* to manufacture a controversy?
That a technology platform rampantly copied the design cues from another's.
cried out at once in terror that their over-priced Apple "innovation" was merely rounded corners and off-white color.
What country was this in again? Oh, it's China. Yep.
The screenshots they had on their web site didnt look like ios... Guess this slashdot article is just someone's marketing material.
I used to use MIUI when I had a compatible android device. I absolutely loved it. Google themselves should take some design ques from them...
...who's going to make the obligatory, in-poor-taste cancer joke?
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Plenty of differences between the two, please go rant to apple-insider or your local hipster.
I do not like xiaomi,even if i am from China.
Finding differences between that UI and iOS 7 is harder than finding Waldo while legally blind.
Because that's what the Chinese do, they copy most everything, perhaps try to improve it a bit then spit out a piece of tech.
I think we should publish a shit ton of honeypot, useless, fake product so the Chinese use a lot of resources trying to copy them, LOL.
The home screen is a list of 4x5 apps with 4 apps on the hotbar.
The compass seems to have ripped off the look of a compass.
The settings menu has been taken more from the samsung S5 than the iphone
The camera has a take picture button.
Does apple own having a reasonable number of apps on a grid ?
Of course its proven at least once that its "invented" things other people made first.
http://apple.slashdot.org/stor...
http://www.patentlyapple.com/p...
...seriously, why wouldn't they?
It is charmingly naive to think that morality/ethics would prevent a CEO (in ANY country) from doing whatever they thought would generate them the most money with the smallest risk...
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It's like the CEO handed iPhones to the design team and barked: "Here, copy this!"
there's a pretty good chance that's exactly what happened
Apple sued Samsung for a rounded corner
Will Apple sue Xiaomi for copying the "look and feel" of iOS ?
MIU5 was released before IOS7, so apple is copying miui, this update doesn't change that much to skin/theme.
I'm sure China has stolen iOS's source code just like they've stolen every other Western (no longer) secret.
And a flat design is becoming industry standard. Also never knew that Apple had a patent on bright colors. Let's be honest here: designers copy design cues from other products all the time. Nobody's going to pick up a MI-4 phone and say "that's an iPhone." But, it's a Chinese company, so they must be copying right?
Perfectly allowed? ISIS is being bombed by the US military!
(sorry for the obscurity)
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Look at the screenshots! The text is in chinese! It's clearly different!
It just looks like an Android phone with a makeshift iOS theme on it. If that's what the demand is for, why not supply it?
Did you see the calendar app? It's got the red theming and elements such as today's date being circled.
Apple is notorious for ripping off other companies, now someone does the same and they are being criticised.
Also, don't understand why this is only now hitting the headlines. MUIU has always looked allot like IOS.
Also, big deal it looks like Iphone. That's the beauty of Android, you can make it how you want it.
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Seriously...It looks like stock android. Go bitch at someone for getting your coffee wrong....
When my several years old windows ce phone got copied by apple, and they claimed to invent the smart phone.
First, their CEO brazenly copies Steve Jobs' signature look, sitting cross-legged on the floor.
You mean the thing they do in the far-east for thousands of years? I think it's mister Jobs who copies things
http://jasjuice.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/why-does-the-buddha-sit-cross-legged-while-meditating/
Why does the Buddha sit cross-legged while meditating?
There are several reasons to sit that way while meditating. The first is simply practical: if you sit for a long period of time, you could fall asleep or tip over. Sitting up in the lotus position is very stable and comfortable, once you get used to it. Another reason for sitting that way is that the position keeps the natural curves of your spine balanced, which means you wonÃ(TM)t get tired or sore even if you sit for a long period of time. Not only that, but its easy to keep warm while sitting that way. There are said to be seven centers of spiritual energy or chakras in the body, and sitting in the lotus position facilitates the balance and flow of energy through those chakras.
Seriously. Stealing there is a way of life.
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THANK GOD!!!
He's a rich Chinese oligarch he can just order a new liver, and it won't even need an execution, since that is one organ that can regrow.
But heck, let's kill a few anyway and call it product testing.
Here are some comparison screenshots between MIUI 5 and 6: http://www.gadgetsofworld.com/...
hey!
...allow protection to UI design? Put legislation around it, negotiate them into free trades agreement and try to enforce them?
It looks just like....my desktop. And every OS with a gui (desktop, mobile, or otherwise) that I've seen since color monitors were invented.
Jobs might have picked up the posture on account of being a buddhist. I associate "sitting cross-legged on the floor" with the band Chicago from their song "25 or 6 to 4."
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Chance hell. That decision was very cost effective by the CEO to show his Asian customers he was keeping right up with Apple.
Samsung started this crap. This mentality that everything Apple puts out you can copy and make money.
iOS look and feel on 7 sucked/sucks/continue to suck. I've had it since it came out and I STILL hate it and STILL can't find some things intuitively. But hey, Apple put it out so let's copy it and make money.
I own a lot of Apple products, but I won't use an Apple mouse because they just can't make a good mouse (seriously, look it up)
iWatch. Everyone's looked into putting out a computer-watch, made investments, then either failed or failed to bring it to market because it's just a dumb idea. Now someone says Apple's going to do it and it's suddenly a great idea?
You friggin humans and your primitive ideas and digital wristwatches. I'm hoppin the next ship off this rock.
MIUI has always looked flat and removed the app drawer a while back.. When I saw the new iOS I said that looks like MIUI.
Now, convincing me that an LCD touchscreen watch makes any sort of sense, that's another story. The Pebble is, generally, just everything a normal watch is with a little bit of extra on top. Anything that sacrifices outdoor legibility or battery life, however? Yeah, that's just companies desperately hunting around for the next big boom market because our insane society has decided that profits must always increase, and stability is somehow death.
I remember sigs. Oh, a simpler time!
In my language, "Mui" = "Blowjobs".
Ahem...
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
I don't get the flat design. We have all that graphics capability now, yet are going back to the 80's GUI look? What's next, pixellation? I like shadows and gradations and metals and wood and marble and textures; screw the flat fad. (Excluded temping jokes about "flat chicks".)
And get off my lumpy, textured lawn!
(Well, okay, a Trek NG GUI would be cool...for a while.)
Table-ized A.I.
Why is it that whenever Apple comes up with something, every else has to copy it (although Microsoft may have started this fad of flatness, I can't remember the timeline anymore)?
Apple is not the be all and end all of industrial design. This fad of flatness is really annoying, and IMO counter intuitive. It's no longer clear what widget is a button, for example. The user now has to guess, based on proximity of a given thingy to the other thingies on the screen.
When the gumdrop iMacs came out, I was eeing transluscent plastic micro waves, clothes irons, you name it.
Thank Dog that companies haven't en masse copied Apple mouse designs. Half the continent would have RSI by the end of the month.
The difficult part of pushing a design to market is building the thing. Once you have a factory, cloning a design and shipping a product is quite easy.
In fact, much of the industrial learning and knowledge comes from managing manufacturing processes.
This was always going to be the end game in the China manufacturing experiment. The USA closes its factories and exports the manufacturing process, but, holds on to "design" and "branding". China clones design and branding. The USA, unable to recreate the factories, becomes vassal to China.
It has happened at different rates for different industries: Giant ate Schwinn. Lenovo is eating IBM. Repeat 1000 times for 1000 corporations.
The only surprise here is that people are surprised.
In my corner of the industry (Aerospace) many government contracts require USA-made parts. Each year more and more subsystems become difficult to obtain from USA sources: Ethernet cards, bulkhead connectors, keyboards, etc.
I mean, how many ways are there to present a touch interface on a small screen anyhow? When one company copies another it's the closest thing we can get to a standard. Android and iOS copy each other all the time. All that really matters is how well it all works together, not which icon someone is using for the Calendar app.
I'm using an iPhone 4s, it's still pretty awesome and still being actively sold and supported. Release date late 2011.
OTOH, Nexus 3 users, release date late 2011, no longer supported.
I just want a working phone. My Android sits in my desk for development and hacking.
When he isn't constrained by ethics or Intellectual Property laws.
/.ers are just going overboard. They simply copied KDE Plasma 5.
Well, you can't blame him. It's clearly worked for Samsung. Samsung's devices have always been significantly more similar to Apple devices than any of its major competitors' have been. And guess what, they've also been the most successful. It's only logical that the competitors should move in this direction as well. Some would even say that it is fair to make things the same way as Apple has done them, on the basis of that Apple already found the best/öbvious way of doing things from the start. Even Google itself has been moving in that direction with Play, which was originally substantially different from Apple's App Store.
sitting cross-legged on the floor
He is violating Apple Patent #032185: A method or system for sitting directly on a surface such that one leg is crossing the other in a diagonal fashion.
And his knees better not be rounded when he's sitting like that.
Considering
"Good artists copy; great artists steal." -- Steve Jobs misquoting Pablo Picasso ...
I'm not surprised.
Unlike Steve Jobs, this CEO isn't dead, so clearly he isn't copying everything.
Good artists copy, e.g. if Dance movies are the craze ALL the studios will produce Dance movies, if its sci-fi they will all produce sci-fi . The same applies to Games, music, and yes art. They copy the technique/style, that is what is meant by great artists copy.
But then again, intelligent people knew this.
Maybe I've missed them domestically, but I think that the IVR synchronization may be as useful and as game-changing in some ways as Visual Voicemail was for the original iPhone. Its a great way to mirror digital presentment with traditional capabilities.
Having said that, yeah the overall theme is totally iOS derived.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Y'all should check out the Redmond theme on your linux desktop. I guess it has to be Chinese malware because no Westerner would do something so outrageous...right?
Are the side by side images suppose to be comparisons of each os gui? http://gizmodo.com/xiaomis-nex...
If so can I plz have your drugs? They don't look anthing alike...
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
I work with a Chinese guy who owns a hiPhone 5, an Android device that copies the iPhone in every cosmetic detail. He tells me that nearly every town has its own company making a different iPhone ripoff.
For Windows developers we need only go back to Windows 95. An innovative way to present data to the end user was introduced called the listview control. In its most common usage it can be programmed to act like a grid. It can also be programmed to present icons representing the data which looks extremely similar to the presentation of applications on popular modern devices.
they use objective-c and implement the Cocoa API then watch the Nazis at A**le try to sue them.
is that Xiaomi, and many other chinese phone makers, are using FoxxConn. So, Jobs funded a company, so that they can produce even more competition at a lower price that will steal any and all trade secrets from Apple.
Apple made the same mistake with Samsung and continues to do it in China.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
"Brazenly sitting cross-legged on the floor"...
What, in the manner that has been customary in his country for centuries? How dare he! After all, St. Jobs probably has a patent on sitting cross-legged.
FFS. I didn't think standards at /. could sink much further.
But can it prove MU? ;-)
Let's see... Xiaomi. I note they use Mi as a stand-in for English "my". If used as a stand-in for "me" and xiao meaning little, the company's name signifies... Mini-Me! That's hilarious!
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So the new system has *rounded corners* too? Didn't Apple try to sue Samsung and Android for a bazillion trillion dollars because of *rounded corners*? How is Apple planning on suing the Chinese government over this? How does Apple plan on getting around China's "Its an internal matter"?
So you mean it has things like a background, icons, and a screen you interact with by touching it? FFS would you also like a patent for those rounded edges?
It's OK Bender, there's no such thing as 2.
Xiaomi MIUI v6 compared to MIUI v5 with screenshots Read more at http://www.gadgetsofworld.com/...
Xiaomi MIUI v6 compared to MIUI v5 with screenshots Read more at http://www.gadgetsofworld.com/...
Interesting!
I didn't know that Apple has already patented Sitting Cross-legged on the floor. Now I guess I have to pay to Apple money every time I do it too.
Also, I have a friend that when needed he signs papers, I guess he try to look like Steve Jobs too. Freaking fanboys....
This thing actually looks nice and has some pretty cool features. I see a few similarities from a variety of smart phones, but nothing all that glaring.
This does not look like an iPhone knock off by any means.
"their CEO brazenly copies Steve Jobs' signature look, sitting cross-legged on the floor."
In breaking news, Gandhi also copied Jobs signature "sitting cross-legged on the floor look" - 90 years earlier.
Apple fanboi has found proof that Mahatma Gandhi used an ancient Indian mystic ritual to see into the future where Jobs was hailed as a visionary and decided to blatantly mimic this leader in the hopes of being seen as a great leader himself.
They don't believe in actual IP protection. There are fake apple products in broad daylight in fancy malls in Beijjng. If they aren't going to clean that up, Xiaomi is obviously not on the govts radar as a problem. Pirated video is everywhere being sold too. They don't enforce the worlds IP laws at all, and consider the billions saved as a patriotic thing.