Comment Re:is there just NO originality anymore? (Score 2, Interesting) 196
> (and the Prada's original UI was vastly inferior).
And isn't that kind of part of the point? There were smartphones around for years before the iPhone came out, but they all sucked horribly. I struggled to do any kind of Internet browsing with my Blackberry Pearl to do the kinds of things that I can do on my iPhone just by talking to it. I had a geek friend who was so proud of his Windows phone that had a stylus. I remember another had an iPaq that could play movies. There were also tablets before the iPad, but no one wanted to use them either. And in both cases, any competition lagged well behind Apple in terms of being able to come up with a product that anyone actually wanted to use.
Apple knows how to make products that people want to actually use. No one else can seem to figure that out without waiting to see what Apple does and copying that.