Ondrej Holzman Just a few years ago, especially when Apple was ruled by Steve Jobs, we could expect a frontal attack from lawyers after something like this. Today, however, everything is a little different. HTC presented its new flagship, which is supposed to decide the future of the entire company, and at first and any other glance, it is a shameless copy of the iPhone. But it doesn't really excite anyone anymore.
The thermonuclear war that Steve Jobs once promised Samsung - and in the end more or less caused - for the fact that the South Korean company copies his products, we probably can't wait any longer. The iPhone is clearly the most famous smartphone in the world, and it's no surprise that larger or smaller copies of it, especially from the Eastern Hemisphere, arrive with iron regularity.
Taiwan's HTC has now decided to bet on a strategy often practiced by lesser-known Asian brands and give its new device everything they give it in Cupertino. The One A9 is supposed to save HTC from collapse and what else to bet on than the pleasing design and functions with which the iPhone scores so much.
Courts do not solve anything
Several major legal battles with Samsung have often given Apple the truth that its products have been illegally copied, but in the end - except for huge fees for lawyers and tedious hours in court - nothing substantial has come of it. Samsung continues to sell its phones without problems, and so does Apple.
What is fundamentally different, however, are the profits. Today, the Californian giant takes practically all the profit from the smartphone market, and other companies, except for Samsung, are more or less teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. The same applies to HTC, which now has one of the last chances for salvation, which is to be ensured by the borrowed strategy.
When things didn't go their way, HTC bet the last card on everything the iPhone scores with: an elegant design with a metal unibody, a decent camera or a fingerprint reader. If you put the iPhone 6, the new HTC A9 and the iPhone 6S Plus side by side, you might not even be able to tell which one doesn't belong at first glance. At five inches, the new HTC fits perfectly between the two iPhones, with which it shares virtually all design elements.
It must be said that it was HTC that was the first to come up with a metal design and plastic dividers for the antennas before the six iPhones, but otherwise Apple has always tried to be distinctive. Unlike HTC. His A9 has exactly the same rounded corners, the same round flash, the same protruding lens… “The HTC One A9 is an iPhone running Android 6.0,” he wrote aptly in the headline of the magazine The Verge.
Mimic the look, but no longer the success
Although HTC officially says that the resemblance to iPhones is purely coincidental, it doesn't really care. Much more important to him is that he failed to make a faithful copy of the iPhone just by eye, but the One A9 did well on the inside, according to initial reports. Outside the recently introduced Nexuses the HTC One A9 will be the first phone to run the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and it will be able to come close to the iPhone in quality in many ways. Caption The Verge so it fits exactly.
Apple, on the other hand, could be flattered that its iPhone is a model that someone is finally trying to achieve not only in terms of design, but also in terms of functionality. HTC seems to have done such a good job in this regard that Vlad Savov is embarrassed, whether to "frown disapprovingly at the shamelessness of HTC, or suppress a smile at the quality of the product itself".
In any case, Apple can rest easy. When it announces tens of millions more iPhones sold next week as part of its financial results, Taiwan will be praying that its hot new product achieves even a fraction of that success. It is quite possible that after all your own attempts, even the tactic with "your own iPhone" will explode and HTC will soon be remembered. It is easy to imitate the iPhone as such, but to come close to its success is completely unattainable for most.
A somewhat one-sided, fanatically focused article. Yes, the image is here, but really - didn't Apple copy HTC's file? Just look at the HTC One (M7 and more).
I would have to call the A9 an evolution of design, but even so, in my opinion, the phone has nothing to offer... certainly not at that price, and paying extra for an iPhone is a better choice.
After all, it also says in the article that HTC was the first with this design...
Yes, but it also says that it's completely copied... so it's a bit of a contradiction...
well, if you ignore the strips that Apple stole from HTC, then the rest is for sure a complete copy of the latest iPhone 6S
As far as I know, Steve Jobs was the first to introduce an antenna in the frame of the iPhone 4, and that also immediately became "antenagate"
Oh yeah, even if the article says "HTC came first with stripes" in the most prominent frame, there's always one... :(
I guess I didn't understand this reaction... do you mean that Apple has a patent for everything and doesn't copy anything?
I like Apple and have several devices from it, but I don't like these "fan subjective articles"
It alludes to the fact that it is mentioned in that article.
This is still possible. But when Apple comes out with a glass cell phone that lights up when clapped, all phones will soon be glass and clap.
what exactly can be done? nothing looks like an iphone except for those rubber bands to isolate the antennas, and even they copied the app from htc, who used it 2 and a half years ago
beeee
He is grasping at the drowning straws... Unfortunately. I was present at the acquisition of HTC in Brno, when Asian-type guys (don't let it sound racist) were in a positive mood to start a super byzz here... The cage fell and suddenly (we all know) we are trying resuscitation. There are a lot of HTC fans around me, and I wish they were, but the numbers are relentless. Basically, this will probably be the last step. If sales don't pick up - and they won't - then dear HTC is going to be hit hard. Resp. He ends up in this division. I'm not a scientist, don't attack me, just my opinion... The bastard has been going on too long to survive.
Htc,Lenovo,Huawei,Xaomi are all trying to copy Apple. But there is only one original!!
Futile effort. Apple is full of originality, where no one is caught!!!!
do you gossip? which huawei or lenovo is similar to the iphone? htc? after all, Apple copied HTC's design, which they used 2 and a half years ago
how did jobs say it? I copy good artists, do I steal the best?
beeeee
Didn't Tarantino say that too?
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do you need this lenovo? https://www.google.cz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CDgQFjAGahUKEwihve2g6fbIAhVLBywKHYWVCXQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Flenovo-s90-iphone-6-photos-2014-11&usg=AFQjCNF0SDGfdq-sTkwMW0xyNkNpBZmfCA&sig2=wAQBymaKuBzDYBtDSt4IbA
HTC last arrived two years ago with the interesting One M7 smartphone. It has fallen behind ever since, and this A7 won't change that. Next year probably with HTC, Sony and Blackberry smartphones. So HTC will end completely because they don't do anything else.
It's useless. HTC will be closing up shop in no time. I personally have an android. And here too you can find excellent devices. I have a Note 3 myself and I have practically nothing to complain about. Now I'll look around for a tablet and probably buy a Galaxy tab S2. Although it costs the same as the iPad, the multi-application mode is an unrivaled added value. That way, writing an application for Android is simpler. HTC fades into oblivion. It used to be a good company, but it was also Nokia at one time.
But Nokia didn't wrap it up, just the mobile phone segment. In the area of antennas and other things for us that we just need so that we don't believe that LTE is not here right now, it still works. At least I hope so... What do you mean by "multiple app" mode? Apple has been able to do this since the last version of iOS. Writing applications is completely identical, basically today you can write an app for iOS with emu or that green shit even for Win ;)
I can write an app for both iOS and Widle, but how do I get it on the phone? In Android, I just allow installation from unknown sources and start the application normally. I don't have to beg some troll in Cupertino or Redmond to approve my application. I don't need to create a developer account for some funny application that I write just for fun and that I don't want to distribute anywhere else.
they probably have some justification for trolling, but the big brother user probably doesn't understand that :D
What's the point of asking if I can install my own application on my phone, which I bought for a lot of money, just for my own purposes. I don't want to spread it and I don't want to endanger other users. To put it in the words of a classic: A thinking person is sick of it, while a non-thinking simpleton celebrates success.
and how about in that case using a jailbreak in which cydia is included and I assume that everyone can upload whatever they want
Of course you can. If the application is only for you or your company, nothing prevents you from installing it on your device via iTunes or distributing it to your employees remotely via Profie Manager. Apple calls it an Enterprise App, and it's a fairly widely used thing. Lots of small and large businesses have their own custom-written apps and don't have them on the App Store for a variety of reasons. And you don't even need a jailbreak or anything else.
apple is at least as big a brother :)
I don't think that simple writing an application for Android is an advantage.
The application is written by every person who has at least one hand and a head, but
it is hard to say if it also contains the brain. The application looks like that. And it
not only nice-to-have applications, such as driving advice, but unfortunately also system ones,
thanks to which I switched to iOS, even though there are a lot of them after the death of Jobs
uncontrolled lemplu, so the order is leveled with the application and the entire OS
elsewhere.
it's burt I don't like design 6 at all.
why do people write here who own android and criticize apple products? why are you visiting our site?! go there and cry on your "shithole" forum, we don't care about your devices, they are not interesting to us !!!