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Xiaomi's Next OS Looks Strikingly Similar To iOS

Posted by samzenpus on from the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.

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!"

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  1. Sitting on the floor? by timeOday · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Darn those people from the east, always copying western practices.

    1. Re:Sitting on the floor? by Tough+Love · · Score: 4, Funny

      Does he also park in the handicap space?

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  2. They licensed it from Xerox by NotDrWho · · Score: 3, Funny

    They figured turnabout was fair play.

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  3. I don't see it.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

    1. Re:I don't see it.... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Interesting

      As someone who has used both iOS and Android devices I thought all the screenshots looked like an Android device.

      Exactly. Arguably Microsoft was the first to introduce a really flat look with Windows Phone and Windows 8. Google had been moving that way for years too on the web and with 4.x gave Android a bit of a make-over to look similar. iOS seems to have been last to join the flat look crowd.

      This whole article is just a fanboy whining that a ching-chong-Chinese OS looks a bit like his beloved iPhone. It's borderline racist. If it looks like iOS that's only because iOS looks like Android and Windows Phone now.

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    2. Re:I don't see it.... by vakuona · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Which Android device did you think all the screenshots looked like? If you were referring to any Android maker besides Xiaomi, then I may have agreed. But we are talking about the one company that has copied Apple right down to the "One More Thing" slide, in a presentation that was all in Chinese no less.

      These guys could not be more shameless about copying if they tried. But in case you haven't been able to pick up how they aped Apple. I will give you a few examples.

      The Calender App is quite blatantly a copy of the iOS one in look (I couldn't say anything about the feel and how it works). Right down to the colour scheme.

      The icons are all straight out of the Apple playbook. Borderless rounded-corner squares with a symbol in the middle. Android icons tend not to have any border around the "symbol". Not even Samsung ones, which have been fairly blatant in the past.

      They even have the row of fixed icons at the bottom a la Apple. No, not the usual Back, Home and Menu soft keys on Android. Just a fixed set of four,just like Apple. It looks like they have ditched the standard soft keys altogether.

      The music icon app has the same colour as the Apple one. I can accept that a green icon for a phone is kind of obvious, but to have the same colour for the music player app is more than a coincidence.

      Check the colour scheme of the calculator app. Again, quite a blatant copy of Apple's.

      The camera app has a round soft button as well. Just like, wait for it, the iOS 7 camera app.

      Of course, it is not an exact replica, but at first glance, it could easily fool anyone.

      In fact, I challenge anyone to put stock Android (KitKat), iOS and MIUI side by side, and it would be quite clear which two are most alike.

  4. It's like a thousand apple fanbois... by Rigel47 · · Score: 4, Funny

    cried out at once in terror that their over-priced Apple "innovation" was merely rounded corners and off-white color.

  5. Okay, then... by Shoten · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...who's going to make the obligatory, in-poor-taste cancer joke?

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  6. Apple owns curvy corners by Saint+Gerbil · · Score: 4, Informative

    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...

  7. Here, copy this! by james_van · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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

  8. It doesn't look anything like iOS by gunner_von_diamond · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

  9. Re:The predator strikes again. by Tough+Love · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh right, those sneaky socialist capitalists must stolen Apple's iOS linux source code, where else could they have gotten it?

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  10. Not so much by MoronGames · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here are some comparison screenshots between MIUI 5 and 6: http://www.gadgetsofworld.com/...

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