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This isn't really meant to be a "Samsung copied Apple!!1" thread. Please take that nonsense somewhere else.

This is about design, and how Samsung evaluated their own deficiencies against Apple and how TouchWiz-Android stacked up to iOS. Apple is by no means perfect (for example, I really don't like skeumorphic design, which Apple looooves) but in the following linked slides, we can see how they tend to be careful in many small places that sum up to a much better interface and experience.

Relative Evaluation Report on S1, iPhone (hosted by scribd)

I'd be interested to see something like this on the S3, where it seems Samsung has learned a lot of lessons about ings like this.

What is fascinating to me is how many of the things Samsung has noticed they did "wrong" are things they changed from vanilla (AOSP) Android as well. When my partner got a Samsung Stratosphere, I couldn't count the number of bullshit TouchWiz "improvements" which made even simple tasks more annoying and complicated compared to the Google versions. Many of the changes listed in that document are more or less reversions to the original Android design. Some aren't, of course.

Turns out that's how you build UI design competence? They need their own UI, so they need to be able to recognise how to improve UI design.

phongn wrote:This isn't really meant to be a "Samsung copied Apple!!1" thread. Please take that nonsense somewhere else.

This is about design, and how Samsung evaluated their own deficiencies against Apple and how TouchWiz-Android stacked up to iOS. Apple is by no means perfect (for example, I really don't like skeumorphic design, which Apple looooves) but in the following linked slides, we can see how they tend to be careful in many small places that sum up to a much better interface and experience.

Relative Evaluation Report on S1, iPhone (hosted by scribd)

Can you give me some examples of skeuomorphs used by Apple?

EDIT: NVM, I was thinking about their hardware, I remembered all the interface stuff they do.

Phantasee wrote:EDIT: NVM, I was thinking about their hardware, I remembered all the interface stuff they do.

Yeah, they do it everywhere. I prefer more "authentically digital" interfaces like Metro or Holo.

Its not even just the holdovers to older UI, its the areas where they never moved from the initial designs unless absolutely necessary. I mean, there are apps that tell you the temperature by using the notification badge, because changing icons, realtime icons, or anything of that nature is bad.

All of Apple's patent claims against Samsung in one chart.

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/0 ... .09_PM.png