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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."
[...] 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."
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Maybe SCO will sue them both.
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The P30 is actually much more advanced and was a much bigger challenge than the iPhone X - because it actually included the technological innovation called a 3.5mm TRRS jack for your wired headphones!
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Did you finally stop complaining about how the iMac didn't have a floppy disk?
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It has a jack!! This is (for me) a big ++.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
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.
It would probably help if Bluetooth audio had a universal standard codec that didn't sound like shit. But it doesn't.
Devices and headphones usually support better codecs these days, but unless you get a device AND headphones that both support the better codec, you're stuck with the lowest common denominator, which is terrible.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
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.
The floppy disc was useless even in 1998. It held less than two megabytes of data, which even then was not much. The Internet was a "thing" even back then, and transferring files using a network connection was, in practice, more viable than having a stack of floppies and having to use an archiver to cut up files into pieces and copy them onto floppies.
The vast, vast, majority of audio devices have a 3.5mm jack. That includes both the ones you have, and the ones you'll ultimately connect to when you're away from home. Bluetooth is not ubiquitous, and the audio quality of Bluetooth is poor. Digital wired headphones are virtually non-existent, in part because of Apple's refusal to follow standards for a wired connector, and the Android's world's current split between uUSB and USB-C, with the Android world also not standardizing on common capabilities for USB, such as simultaneous charging plus communications.
In addition to the poor quality of Bluetooth, BT devices tend not to play nicely with one another. While I can plug my phone into my car radio to play music, and answer the phone with a bluetooth headset for actual phone calls, trying to do the same thing with both devices being bluetooth just never seems to work.
Apple did this too early. If they had:
1. Standardized on USB-C.
2. Waited for others to standardize on USB-C
3. Required pass-through capabilities on USB plugs (so making it easy to add chargers, etc)
4. Promoted USB headsets.
You cannot seriously compare that to CDs vs floppies.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
You're not getting 320k streaming anyways unless you ask for it, so SBC is adequate with decent headsets. But...
aptX claims to be better, but I'm not hearing it, even with lossless source.
aptX HD? Feh. Better, just.
LDAC I heard in a Sony store. Impressive, but that was not in my car, the gym, or parking lot. When it's ubiquitous, I'll try to turn it on, but I don't see that coming.
AAC? You bought an iPhone. Go splurge on decent headphones. Apple does not manufacture any.
My own media server holds lossless (WAV and Ogg) and 320K, I choose depending on the situation. Since commercial radio seems to be 128k I need to swap out my cars radio for anything that streams, though cars are terrible audio environments and do not reward spending unless you just a thumper. I only have wired over-ear headphones right now, but I may yet spend money on my head, never know, most disappointed me.
I knew I was in for a long haul when I realized 128k MP3s sounded worse than my MiniDisc. Arg.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Back in 1998 Floppy disks were the standard for transferring data back and forth. Networked computers were still rare. CD Burners were new technology and being write once made them expensive to use. Other formats were not popular. An IBM Formatted Floppy could go a long way.
USB was new then and often would mess up early OS's.
When the iMac came out with only a CD player, pure panic came from that idea.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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.
Again, parallel ports were dropped AFTER people switched to usb. For several years, most computers had both usb ports and parallel ports and even serial ports.
Bluetooth has been around for a decade but people aren't switching to it because it is more expensive, more clunky, and something else to charge.
If you want people to switch to wireless headphones then create something that people actually want to switch to.
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?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
$10 wired headphone sound perfectly fine on a call.
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