I actually liked my iPhone and MacBook Pro until I realized how many iLemmings follow Apple right off a cliff. Personally, I think Apple ripped the consumers whenever the iPhone glass broke. I got mine fixed  for free, but many paid $199 for repairs (actual cost of device). You paid much more then $199, but they kept your old phone, and resold the damn thing…. Wake up, break a phone and they profit twice… WHAT A SCAM…

Apple does have a good business model for making profits and sucking people dry, but it will backfire soon. Too much competition for them to keep up the roll of success, which is a good thing for all in the end.

Love em or hate em, its all good in the end for everyone. Competition is always beneficial.

“The distinction between smartphones and feature phones can be vague and there is no official definition”

Lol who cares if flash is a plugin the point is a lot of shit uses flash and iPhone can’t support that stuff Haha like so many games and applications your sore loser. Your a nerd who just thinks they always right. Your that nerd who sits from row in every class and answers every question professor asks. And you stay after class to talk to the professor. IPhone copied 4g and dual core processor from android too …

“Lol my windows phone that came out before iPhone ever was out had the volume button that’s on the iPhone. The iPhone copied that. You know what else. IPhone copied the idea of a smart phone too. Windows phones were the first true smart phone. You know what else windows copied. A smart phone technically is a phone that multitasks. IPhone actually never did that until android came out. I think it want until the iPhone 4 where people could actually close a native application and it would keep running in the back ground. Never could do that before. Also the iPhone screen is very similar the the same lcd screen touch screen on my old windows phone I had 8 years ago. Also I phone copied the idea when you turn your phone side ways the image flips. Tests how my old windows phone was 8 years ago. I can just keep on going too dude so you need to stop acting like a three year old. If your not young then your just a big fing dumb shit”

First of all the iPhone was the first mobile phone to ever use a multitouch interface. It also offered the first fully capable web browser in a phone(of course no flash support). iPhones didnt copy the “idea” of a smartphone, the first iPhone wasnt even considered a smartphone because you had no options to install third party software which only became possible with the release of the iPhone 3G in 2008 and the introduction of the “App Store”. Before the iPhone not a single multitouch interface smartphone existed in the market, after the iPhone every single smartphone magically supports multitouch interfaces. iPhones didnt steal a single thing from Android, Google has basically no UI related patents, every single feature you see today on Android has already been done in Windows, OSX or Linux. Android simply borrows from already stablished platforms, including widgets that were first invented by Apple in the late 70s. Notifications, widgets, copy paste, folder systems, multitasking, all of these things were already part of Mac OS before Google even existed. As you know iOS is a slimmed down version of OSX. The reason why Apple takes their time to allow certain features is because they dont want to have an exact copy of a desktop OS running on a multitouch hassle free UI as that of the iPhone. It simply doesnt work, it ads complexity and in most cases its unnecessary complexity. Google throws anything they can find inside the Android box just so they can claim their OS does more “stuff”, it is a mess, it is poorly designed, it is laggy, it is fragmented and this is exactly what Apple and Microsoft are trying to avoid with iOS and WP respectively. Dont ever say again that Apple borrows basic UI functions from Android, that is not true, Android pays Microsoft about 1 billion a year on licensing fees, that can give you an idea of who is the real big borrower here.

Finally, I didnt say phones cannot have volume buttons designed like that of the iPhone’s, I said once you copy way too many obvious design decisions(in this case over 8) from a single product you end up with something that looks like that product. For instance lets say I have a friend(Kyle) who designs a table that is square, mostly glass with aluminum cylindrical legs, with an aluminum band around the egde, with 4 holes on the glass in a way that the legs screw through it, and it also has a white frosted finish. Then other guy(Robert) comes and makes the exact same table but he moves the legs a little and he puts two aluminum bands instead of one. Everyone who sees these tables will say that Robert’s table is a copy of Kyle’s table. I dont think its logical for someone to say BUT HEY! KYLE DIDNT INVENT FROSTED FINISHES.

Also, anyone on the planet who’s ever come across a computer knows what Intel is. That’s just embarrassingly stupid!

I just gave a simple example of how why I think you were wrong. My friend who knows very little about technology(like most people on planet earth) thought this was an iPhone. It all comes down to how many design elements you copy from another product. 

1- Round corners
2 – Top power button with shape identical to the iPhone 4
3 – Top headphone jack
4 – Something that looks like an aluminum band around the phone
5 – Volume bar shaped like that of the 3GS
6 – Flat front surface and what it looks like a flat back surface
7 – Another random button on the button that looks exactly in shape and size as the mute button on the 4.
8 – The aluminum band leaves space on the top and the bottom that show the edges of the casing.

This phone might not be identical to an iPhone but it copies 8 and probably more visual elements that are obvious on a iPhone and once you put them together it looks like an iPhone. You can tell yourself all day “NO THATS NOT TRUE” but my point remains, not everyone is a fanboy like you. Regular people will easily confuse this phone with an iPhone. Thats all, nothing to be mad about, just a mere fact.

So anything that’s a block rectangle, no matter grey or black, plastic or metal, big or small, with a chrome band on the face or not, with four Android buttons on the face, is just a iPhone knock-off. Right?
When you *left your iPad on the coffee table* (very relevant to the point in discussion) with this article opened, did she really ask “What’s Intel?” Sorry, but was she from a forest or living under a rock for the last 20 years or just as Apple blind as you? Hell, even Apple uses Intel CPUs! Anything that’s not Apple – what’s that? I’m sure she’d also ask what’s Android or what’s Google or, even, what’s Windows or who’s Bill Gates perhaps?

Talk about “severely blind” indeed!

Apple fanboys – get the eff over your iPhone design and how everyone else has been ripping it off! Its a rectangle and phones looked similar before the damn iPhone existed. Stop fooling yourself and annoying everybody else!

Someone said its on a par with the iPhone – how dare they? It performs better than the iPhone – you copying bastards, its just a copy of the iPhone, you know, Apple invented the processor and it “makes” the best processor, everyone else is just copying Apple’s design. Basically, everything we know is a copy of something Apple. From the microwave oven to the fridge to the car to the lawn-mower, everyone copied Apple. Right? Stop this fucked up nonsense already. I just lose my nerves sometimes at the ignorant bunch of douchebags who’re like a cancer to the tech world.

The article is about the Intel Medfield processors, not about the damn fruitphone! Jeeeeez!

There’s so many lcd tvs that look the same, monitors that look the same, even phones out now that look the same, houses that look the same, laptops that look the same, cars that look the same, people that look the same, etc… Most but not all of iPhone users get jealous or upset over nothing all the time. You know who you are :)

and those were before iphone4…..actually this render looks like starved thin Droid 2 ? 3 ? or something.