This isn't exactly a selling point to the brand. Making things bigger isn't difficult.
There were hardly any brands at that time making a competitive large screen smartphone till the Note came into the picture.BTW,Steve Jobs on bigger screens "No one would buy that" and look where we are now .If it wasnt for Samsung we would not have seen industry leading large screen phablets.The ones by Dell and the others were complete crap.If we are to argue technicalities on who did what first ,Microsoft had tablets waay before the iPad.Making something competitive and selling it and establishing the benchmark is difficult.Samsung did that
Yes they do. All of the display units for Galaxy S7s and S7 Edge devices in pretty much all cell shops around here have significant burn-in. There's a reason Samsung doesn't let you set screen timeout to "never."
No one keeps their screen on their smartphone on 24x7.A very very isolated use case. If we are to nitpick on such flaws,lets check out the disadvantages of IPS LCD while we are at it.Backlight bleed,uneven whites on the screen.Both of my iPads have a cooler temperature in one corner,warmer in one side.Pages and pages of yellow tint discussions for the LCDs on so many forums.No thank you.I will take OLED and its supposed burn in in a use case of keeping the screen on the whole day over a lottery on LCD production issues.
Some examples on a casual search
No, it isn't solved. It's covered up by throwing more hardware at a design issue, which is something Samsung has always been famous for doing. You still have unequal subpixel counts, you still have the inherent fault that circles don't fill up as much space as squares, and you still have ridiculous burn-in, which I thought we'd solved when we moved away from CRTs over a decade ago.
As long as I dont see it,I dont really care nor do I think the millions of Samsung customers care .iOS saves the screenshots of apps in the app switcher on low RAM devices and in the animation zoom up,quickly loads the app.The app is never technically constantly running in the background but Apple hides it.But it doesnt bother me
What does matter for me and which is user facing ,are the pleasing color tones of the OLED display,the power efficiency etc.There is a reason Displaymate declared the Note 7 display the most innovative one.Apple is also adopting OLED next year and unless Samsung is producing RGB stripe technology on a mass scale you can expect iPhones to use these very same displays
They are not the only relevant supplier of OLED displays. Apple did reportedly choose Samsung as the OLED supplier for the next iPhone, but that doesn't mean it'll be similar to any of Samsung's own panels (just like how Samsung-supplied A9 chips are still lightyears ahead of Samsung-designed Exynos chips).
Apple chooses the best manufacturers for their components.So Samsung being chosen says it all.The latter part you state is speculation .Apple have always been ahead of Samsung in performance/CPU but have always been behind in the matter of display quality.
To you, not to me, or most other people. And that's why you're a loyal Samsung and Apple customer, and why I see Samsung for what they are - a cheap Korean knock-off brand with fancy toys to attract ignorant buyers (Hyundai/Kia comes to mind too).
@bold Fixed .
Now for the pics.Some of your pics were from 2011 and prior (Seriously?) .When Android was in its infancy,Samsung definitely had an Apple influence on their product line
but as years went by they have surpassed Apple in design and are now producing the best in class design and hardware which doesnt look like iPhone at all.Even iVerge agrees
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/6/11379640/apple-huawei-xiaomi-design-competition
The tables have turned
http://investorplace.com/2016/08/apple-inc-aapl-samsung-curved-new-iphone/
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:
AAPL) is known for being a design leader, not a follower. But it looks as though the company is preparing to copy a major design cue from rival
Samsung (OTCMKTS
. A new report suggests Apple will release a new iPhone next year that features a big, AMOLED display that’s curved on both edges."
I dont see ANY similarity in their recent designs
As far as your software pics go, its not as if iOS hasnt ripped off other OS.Apple has copied many aspects of their own design from other OS in the first place
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...s-Apple-s-iPhone-6-adverts-Galaxy-Note-4.html
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We've waited two years for something groundbreaking and you give us a bigger screen?': Samsung mocks Apple's iPhone 6 in adverts for its Galaxy Note 4"
You literally have Samsung's own internal team documents going over how they can copy Apple's UI, and then you have people like Radon87000 still defending Samsung, claiming "these look nothing alike." Truly remarkable.
None of Samsung's recent flagships look like iPhone in the slightest.In fact they look better.Miles better
Apple copies HTC, and Samsung copies Apple.
I used to think that too.But the iPhone 6 is a copy of the iPod touch released before the M7
Internal Samsung documentation is the only proof I need, and thankfully it doesn't require being good at design (which goes both ways apparently)
Thats a very ancient documentation by tech standards.What matters is the here and now.And in the here and now Samsung designs dont even look close to Apple's .Software inspirations are something everyone does all the time.Putting out screenshots from 2010 isnt making any point here
If you can prove to me how the Note 2,the Note 3,the S6,S6 Edge,S7 and above look close to Apple I will happily change my mind on this one
