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From that video it seems like Android still has performance issues compared to the iOS. The scrolling looked choppy and had a noticeable lag. Presumably this can be fixed, but I am always surprised that some phones still can't master smooth, no-lag scrolling, given that it is provably doable.

It's also amazing how much they copied from iOS. Almost everything about that Android tablet is a blatant copy of the iPad. Look at the Gmail app, for instance.

In the 80s Microsoft got big by commoditizing Apple's innovations and it looks like Google is going to do the same in mobile. As a consumer I'm not complaining, but Steve Jobs must be going crazy.



Wait, you are accusing Google of copying the Gmail app from the IPad?

You know G in Gmail stands for Google right?


No. Equark is accusing them of stealing the ideas from the Mail app from the iPad.


Two-pane email browsing was been around for more than a decade. It was used by Outlook and in other email clients as well.


No. It was invented by Steve Jobs shortly after he designed the wheel.


I'm just pointing out that they seem to have copied UISplitView exactly, including how it adopts to smaller screens and landscape vs. portrait orientation. Split screens have been around for a while, but this implementation is very specific.


If you don't want your ideas to be "stolen", keep them to yourself.


You put the word "stolen" in quotes. Whom are you quoting? The post to which you replied did not say that Google had stolen the ideas, it said that Google had copied the ideas.





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