Every other company is copying iPhone X

>every other company is copying iPhone X
Is there no such thing as design patent in mobile industry?
Everyone is openly copying things from different phones like fingerprint/retina scanner in bottom or back.
Only design which hasn't been copied is Samsung's curve one, do they actually have patent for it or is it just difficult/costly?

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Well the curved screen is just a useless gimmick. They fab the screens though and its one of they "advantages" of OLED screens. So its their way of shilling their technology by including it in their phones.

>t. iToddler

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iOS has copied TONS of shit from Android, quit complaining

Nokia 8 Sirocco is the only one so far that copied the curved screen. LG attempted another approach at curving their screens years ago but it was a failure. My guess is that Samsung isn't the one to copy, according to other manufacturers. On the other hand, Samsung got to where they are today by "copying" Apple and dealing with their patent disputes for years. So manufacturers are just following in their footsteps. Nevertheless, Apple is still leading the industry regarding design trends unfortunately.

>Is there no such thing as design patent in mobile industry?

sure, then apple can be sued by essential which came up with the retarded notch first

Tell that to the Chinese government.

to be fair, the droidlets who're copying this design did not get their inspiration from the essential phone.

but yeah, essential did it first. apple copied it, now everyone's copying apple. but the droid producers didn't copy the notch on the essential, in fact, everyone made fun of it.

AT LEAST COPY SOMETHING GOOD STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS.
NOT A FUCKING BOTCHED SCREEN

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>edge to edge screen is bad

Apple should have patented the notch to save companies that doesn't know any better from implementing this atrocity.

apple made the notch popular, hence why everyone is copying it.

the other companies dont care about some small start up company

>should have patented the notch
see

I still use an iPhone 5s and I feel as if everyone is copying the shit that has pissed me off about the iPhone in recent years, in addition to the shit that has pissed me off about the iPhone from the get-go

>No removable battery or SD card, fuck you
>YEAH FUCK THE CONSUMER, WHO NEEDED THAT SHIT ANYWAYS
>We're making our phones needlessly thin at the expense of battery life and durability
>YEAH WE CAN DO THAT BRO
>We're removing the headphone jack and now you need a stupid, easy-to-lose dongle
>HEY YEAH US TOO, LOOK WE'RE SO COOL
>We kind of couldn't get the in-display fingerprint reader working, so we are going to ship the phone with this half-baked facial recognition software, and oh by the way we're going to have an annoying notch taking up most of what used to be the notification bar
>JUST YOU WAIT

How about copying the good shit? Like, timely updates? Or in the case of some phones, updates at all? The same extends to the world of laptops. I've never been a fan of the Mac but everyone seems intent on copying the absolute worst features of the Macbook lineup. This shit needs to stop at some point.

So HTC should sue Apple for copying their designs?

>apple has the biggest market share
>one of the richest companies ever
why wouldn't they copy it?

This. It's honestly quite nice when I tried it in the store. Now if only they made a phone with no sensors on the front and a screen like this it would be perfect. I just wonder if there is a market for a phone like that.

I barely can wait until apple do something incredibly retard like using some sort of battery that explode after a month of use, and the whole industry copy em.

>aesthetic patent
people like you should be euthanized

>I barely can wait

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Yes, that's already quite bad, but i mean something even worse, like apple adopting a lithium oxygen battery that gives em a competitive edge, and everyone rush to get it and you get like a literal thousands of explosions.