BILL & HP copy APPLE Design

[genehack]

I hate em -on the other hand-this message timed in these days shows clearly APPLE is on the right track!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm..._winhec06.html

[hulkaros]

Originally posted by genehack
I hate em -on the other hand-this message timed in these days shows clearly APPLE is on the right track!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm..._winhec06.html

It would be better for all of them if they simply roll over and die and let Apple do what does all those years:
-> Innovate <-

And for all those iWhiners which always have something negative to say about Apple it seems that after all Apple was doing all those years the right thing and continues to do so! By combining software and hardware under one umbrella, clearly after all, Apple is on the hot spot...

I cannot wait for Win2004-5 only to have people actually see that they can have with Wintel what Mac users had with Apple 3-4 years earlier... Great laughs for me!

As for Athens Wintel it would be better if M$ paid Apple in order to resurrect Cube paired with Cinema Display 23" and a G970... Great fun to be had by the Dark Side... Only if...

Also, for this:
"Assuming the industrial designs are on par with some of the technology that's coming out, in 2005 you get a device that's much easier to hook up, much more secure, quite a bit faster, closer to instant on and off, and that combination of things is expected to bring people back to the stores,"
I simply say to those fellas locate your nearest Apple Store, get in, buy some Apples, get out, enjoy! Stop waiting for the Wintel to catch up!

Finally, for this:
"It may not be a coincidence that the Athens PC resembles an Apple machine, with rounded corners, a translucent case and a flat, wide display. HP executive Louis Kim acknowledged the similarities, noting, "Apple is on a similar track in that they're designing with the end-user in mind and they're integrating hardware and software."
But he said the Athens was designed for functionality, not fashion."
Now, to be for fashion as well as function it would be too hard for the Wintel side, wouldn't it? Nah! Let Apple do both of these things in order for you to be able to do piss poor copy jobs dummy Sith Lords of the Dark Side!

Oh, almost forgot this:
"When the hardware receives an incoming call, the software automatically pulls up the caller's contact information and photo if the data are stored on the system."
OS X Address Book + OS X Bluetooth + SE T68i = Anyone?

What's next? A Wintel that has no Floppy and no PS/2 slots?

NOTE TO ADMINS
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Change the main title into this:
BILL & HP copy EVERYTHING from APPLE!

[genehack]

well the hardest thing is the desktop image of this crap.
Bill is maybe pissed by Cupertino for their own office developement now.
And look at this Gates careerist lookalike

[GroundZeroX]

If you do some research, you'll find that its almost an exact copy of a design Apple and Frog Design did at least 5 years ago. Go to The Apple Collection, and you'll see the computer I'm talking about. I believe its under Apple Prototypes around the last pages of the archive. The only big difference would be the color. The design they had back then that never made it to production was black,.

[hulkaros]

Originally posted by tsizKEIK
(that BILL-wannabe is ugly.) the keyboard is ugly. the display is ugly.the mouse is ugly...

do they try to make them that ugly on purpose... or are they just incapable of designing something nice for a change???

Calm down! They may be ugly but at least they are functional unlike Apple's where looks come first then at distant comes the function, if ever...

[bjurusik]

How are people so blind? <BR><BR>

It may not be a coincidence that the Athens PC resembles an Apple machine, with rounded corners, a translucent case and a flat, wide display. HP executive Louis Kim acknowledged the similarities, noting, "Apple is on a similar track in that they're designing with the end-user in mind and they're integrating hardware and software." But he said the Athens was designed for functionality, not fashion.

Is on a similiar track? No, Apple pretty much started this track and others are copying it because they see the great benefits. And fashion over functionality? That's about the dumbest statement I have ever heard. Apple boxes and PC boxes offer the exact same functionality, but Apple does it by looking good. Look at the iMac compared to the Profile4, the iMac's screen not only tilts but swivels. That's pretty functional for sharing ideas. But then again, Apple doesn't offer any see thru cases with bright lights so you can see the fan spinning and all the pretty wires running all over the place, darn. <BR><BR>

"There was no intent to try and mimic Apple here," said Kim, HP's worldwide director of marketing for business desktop computers.

Bull. The whole article glorifies things to come from Microsoft ... things that Apple already has. Grr, it makes me mad.

[Androo]

Well...
meh i wont talk for this one.

[pds]

Get a grip folks...

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

keep innovating Cupertino, but a bit of sincere flattery of wintel speed would be an appropriate response