Even on his worst selling streaks, it's impossible to deny Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), a certain role of leadership, which is perhaps in decline, but which often makes each of the innovations that are being introduced into their devices, especially with regard to the design, end up being adopted by other manufacturers. It is also well known that those of the apple company do not take that this happens at all well and that they are in constant war against the "copies”. In the last battle he had as his main enemy the increasingly powerful Xiaomi, which has not been slow to defend itself.
The controversy of originality and imitation
A good example of how bad those imitations (real or not, or only partially real) of their devices feel in Cupertino, he gave us jon ive a few months ago in a statement in which he spoke of Chinese companies, highlighting Xiaomi, undoubtedly the one that is becoming the most popular in the United States and Europe in recent times thanks to its spectacular quality / price ratio, without hesitating to qualify what he did as “robo", As well as as a sample of"laziness".
Response Xiaomithrough Hugo BarraIt has been slow to arrive but it has been forceful. You have ironically said that the Mi Note looks like 6 iPhone Plus in that it is white and that it is true that there are some similarities in some of its models with the design of the iPhone 5 Specifically, but based on features that can also be found in a large number of smartphones, noting that there are too many similarities between all the devices to highlight those of a couple of them in particular. He has even dared to affirm that it is partly a matter of prejudices which leads us to always question the originality of smartphones and tablets that come to us from China.
Is he right or not Hugo Barra in this line of defense? It is true that it cannot be denied that often what he does Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, they end up doing it, sooner rather than later, others too: everyone ended up adopting the golden In their range of colors, they all seem to be joining the fashion of the version "plus" of its flagship, not all, but more and more tablets have adopted the iPad format… These are just a few examples of an obvious trend.
On the other hand, however, it cannot be denied at this point that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), It is also borrowing from others and also following paths opened by others, something particularly evident lately when it comes to hardware and software (in iOS 9, for example, is more visible than ever that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is also being inspired by ideas from other operating systems), but even in design, as has often been pointed out regarding the resemblance of the rear case of the iPhone 6 with that of HTC One. Even his successful and supposedly now imitated 6 iPhone Plus it was nothing but his own "version" of the phablets that we had been seeing for so long Android and even Windows Phone.
The question in the end is, how much does it really matter who has copied whom? Do they not have, in addition, the devices of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), other virtues (such as the quality of its finishes or its fluidity) and to have to worry so much about whether other manufacturers are inspired or in the design of their iDevices? What do you think?