Motorola Receives Backlash For Revealing a 'Shameless' Copy of the iPhone X as Its New Model (bbc.co.uk)

Smartphone brand Motorola has been criticised for revealing a "shameless" copy of the iPhone X as its new model. BBC: Many phone-makers have copied the look of the iPhone X, which has a smaller bezel around the screen and a "notch" at the top that houses a camera. However, reviewers said the new Motorola P30 was a "brazen" and "egregious" rip-off of Apple's flagship device. Lenovo, which owns the Motorola brand, has not yet responded to the criticism.

[...] Commenting on the similarity between the Motorola P30 and the iPhone X, technology blogger Marques Brownlee called it the "most shameless rip yet." News site Mashable said Motorola "even went so far as to adorn the screen with a wallpaper that's a dead ringer for Apple's default wallpaper." News and reviews site Technobuffalo said the design was an "egregious clone" that was "nearly impossible to distinguish" from the iPhone X. Tech news site The Verge pointed out that Google's image recognition algorithms described photos of the P30 as "iPhone."

Comments

If Motorola can do it well

[hcs_$reboot]

then the iPhone X was not so technically challenging.

Re:If Motorola can do it well

[Wycliffe]

Did you finally stop complaining about how the iMac didn't have a floppy disk?

The floppy disk was replaced by something better, faster, cheaper, more reliable and with more storage.
Computers stopped having floppy disk drives several years after people stopped using them.
Same with CD drives. People started rarely using the CD drives so companies started dropping them.
Bluetooth has been around for years but hasn't had a significant effect on the use of the 3.5 jack.
A large percentage of people still prefer the 3.5 jack. You drop a technology AFTER people stop
wanting it not to force people to stop using it.

Re:If Motorola can do it well

[TheFakeTimCook]

The floppy disk was obsolete. Headphones are not obsolete, nor will they be.

If you are old enough to remember when the original iMac came out in 1998, you should also remember that the technorati bitched loud and hard about the absence of a floppy.

Headphones are not obsolete; just the wire between your head and the music.

Re:If Motorola can do it well

[TheFakeTimCook]

Did you finally stop complaining about how the iMac didn't have a floppy disk?

The floppy disk was replaced by something better, faster, cheaper, more reliable and with more storage.
Computers stopped having floppy disk drives several years after people stopped using them.
Same with CD drives. People started rarely using the CD drives so companies started dropping them.
Bluetooth has been around for years but hasn't had a significant effect on the use of the 3.5 jack.
A large percentage of people still prefer the 3.5 jack. You drop a technology AFTER people stop
wanting it not to force people to stop using it.

We'd still be setting 9600,N,8,1 for our Printers and using Parallel Ports for our Scanners if we lived in YOUR world.

Remember that Henry Ford quote about "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'A faster horse' "? Same thing applies.

People want change ONLY if they feel no change.

Re:If Motorola can do it well

[Fly Swatter]

Headphones are not obsolete; just the wire between your head and the music.

No they aren't, just because some company is too lazy or incompetent to incorporate it into their 'design philosophy' does not make it obsolete.

In an age where every wireless signal can be hacked, it is quite ironic that they are trying to abandon the 'wire'. Good headphones can last a decade, when the non replaceable battery starts to decline in three years you just throw them out? Stupid.

Re:If Motorola can do it well

[squiggleslash]

We'd still be setting 9600,N,8,1 for our Printers and using Parallel Ports for our Scanners if we lived in YOUR world.

No, if we lived in your world we'd have replaced parallel and serial ports with IrDA, rather than waiting for USB, Ethernet, and Wi-fi to come along.

You are literally arguing for change for the sake of change, without any regard to whether something is actually an improvement or not. Do you work for Twitter perhaps?

They can't and didn't

[SuperKendall]

It has face unlocking - based on cameras. Cramming two cameras in the front of a phone is not very technically challenging, even less so when you consider as someone else said the device doesn't have an edge to edge screen (screen does not extend to bottom edge).

People accuse Apple all the time of valuing style over substance. But here's a phone that did not have to have a notch, it just did it because the iPhone X made everyone think notches looked cool, ignoring the functional reasons WHY the iPhone X has a notch to begin with.

Re:They can't and didn't

[JaredOfEuropa]

I really can’t get my head around the fact that manufacturers are copying the notch. It’s an ugly workaround, and as someone who develops apps every once in a while, it’s a really annoying exception to have to take into account.

If you have to have a bezel-less phone, do what one Chinese did in their flagship phone: make the front facing camera pop up out of the top of the screen. This has the added benefit that you know when the thing is watching you. Of course that means no Face ID but they could have added a fingerprint scanner on the back or whatever.

Bad Thing?

[sqorbit]

Why is this bad thing? Do you like the look and feel of an iPhone but don't like iOS, now you have an option. They were obviously very deliberate in creating a phone they thought would attract iPhone fans. Maybe it's because it doesn't cost more since there's no Apple logo on it that people are upset. Every damn SUV out there looks the same now. No one complains when calls Kia shameless when they make their SUVs look like Lexus.

"egregious clone"

[Tailhook]

The entire PC / laptop market had its origins in "clones." We used to celebrate this, even as the lawsuits flew every which way. Now we get media hit pieces and angry apple fanbois demanding explanations.

Re:Finally!

[LordKronos]

An iPhone for those who want a real OS!

...and a headphone jack

Re:Finally!

[MachineShedFred]

How about we just buy a phone that we don't have to go through all that bullshit on straight out of the box? Why is that a hard ask?

If the first thing you have to do to a brand new device in order to make it work properly is completely wipe it and install some third party software image, then it's broken from the factory, and a defective design.