In a brand new addition to the #bestphonesforever advert sequence printed only one month in the past, Google already beginning poking enjoyable at the potential of the iPhone 17 Professional adopting a Pixel-like digital camera bar.
Contemplating how usually Apple’s designs have been copied—together with by Google—this sort of finger-wagging, even when meant as a joke, feels a bit wealthy personally.
However Apple’s iconic founder and former CEO Steve Jobs may’ve been of two minds on the technique.
On the subject of rivals copying Apple’s work, Jobs as soon as instructed his biographer Walter Isaacson. “I’m going to destroy Android, as a result of it’s a stolen product. I’m prepared to go thermonuclear warfare on this.”
But he additionally instructed Isaacson, “Picasso had a saying – ‘good artists copy, nice artists steal’ – and we [Apple] have all the time been shameless about stealing nice concepts.”
The Demise of the Wobble?
One good thing about a brand new digital camera bar could be the that the iPhone can lastly sit stably once more on a flat floor with out requiring a case. Photograph by Tucker Bowe for Gear Patrol
Setting apart debates about design originality — and no matter cameras find yourself residing in that daring new slab — a full-width digital camera bar may lastly repair one long-standing iPhone annoyance. No less than for the case-free maniacs on the market.
