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New iPhones, new Galaxies: Who's the Bigger Copycat? (yahoo.com)
David Pogue: Apparently, a lot of people hang their identities on what phones they carry. An iPhone person might feel personally affronted when a Samsung Galaxy gets a great review, and vice versa. Apple and Samsung just introduced their new fall 2018 smartphones, and it's clearer than ever: all smartphones have pretty much the same features. Therefore, it strikes many people as searingly important to remember which brand had those features first.
OS Features: Apple invented the touchscreen phone as we know it. The original 2007 iPhone brought us multitouch (pinch to zoom), an on-screen keyboard, auto-rotate, lists that scroll as though with momentum, and the apps-on-a-Home-page design that we all use to this day. Not surprisingly, then, Apple wins this category, having introduced 13 ideas, compared to Android's 10 (and Samsung's 1). The screen is the first thing you notice when you turn on a phone --how big, bright, and gorgeous it is. You can read the full review here. The final verdict: Apple leads the invention category, with 44 innovations, according to our calculations. Google's Android comes in second, with 31. And Samsung brings up the rear with 12 innovations. Now, if you count the number of times each company is listed as a Follower in the spreadsheet, you discover that Apple also seems to have stolen the most ideas. In part, that's because I'm pitting Apple against Google/Samsung (its phones use Google's software). As a result, no feature ever lists Google and Samsung as innovator+follower, or vice versa; they're always a single team.
OS Features: Apple invented the touchscreen phone as we know it. The original 2007 iPhone brought us multitouch (pinch to zoom), an on-screen keyboard, auto-rotate, lists that scroll as though with momentum, and the apps-on-a-Home-page design that we all use to this day. Not surprisingly, then, Apple wins this category, having introduced 13 ideas, compared to Android's 10 (and Samsung's 1). The screen is the first thing you notice when you turn on a phone --how big, bright, and gorgeous it is. You can read the full review here. The final verdict: Apple leads the invention category, with 44 innovations, according to our calculations. Google's Android comes in second, with 31. And Samsung brings up the rear with 12 innovations. Now, if you count the number of times each company is listed as a Follower in the spreadsheet, you discover that Apple also seems to have stolen the most ideas. In part, that's because I'm pitting Apple against Google/Samsung (its phones use Google's software). As a result, no feature ever lists Google and Samsung as innovator+follower, or vice versa; they're always a single team.
The list of Apple achievements is vastly exaggerated as well and reads like an Applefan made it.
Many manufacturers had designs in prototype that looked similar to Apple's first iPhone design. This was shown in the Apple vs Samsung court proceedings, but the LG Prada phone has the distinction of being the first phone to have the now standard capacitive touchscreen focused design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It also had auto-rotate and apps-on-a-Home-page design. It didn't have an on-screen keyboard at launch because the designers worried the capacitive touchscreen did not have the resolution to handle it. Earlier hand-held devices have had on-screen touch keyboards, such as those made by Palm and Nokia, so Apple was not the first there either.
"Lists that scroll as though with momentum" is simply scroll acceleration which has been a part of nearly every major OS since at least 1996.
The idea of Pinch Zoom and object manipulation has been around since 1983 and integrated into many devices since.
https://youtu.be/d4DUIeXSEpk?t...
So, the list generated by the submitter from the article isn't accurate nor is most of the list in the article either. If you don't specifically compared Apple, Google and Samsung, most of the accomplishments disappeared entirely.
If you boil off all accomplishments that appeared in earlier designs from other hand-held devices, you really only have one actual accomplishment that had never been done (Public transit in Maps) and it was from the web platform behind the phone, not the phone itself.
I understand the average fanboy wants to compare their favorite against others to make themselves feel better about their decisions, but if most of these fans had a decent computer science history lesson they'd see most of these devices are a conflagration of many ideas from all kinds of sources and nothing actually novel in themselves.
The only thing I find amazing in all of this is the fact such a large set of devices are running open-source code now (Android), which will become even more amazing when more devices have firmware built on Oreo or later (Project Treble).
Sadly, this is not a movement I think Apple will ever join.