Not really. While some of the software UI looks similar. The hardware is pretty unique. Have you ever held a Xiaomi before? I own both a Mi 2s and Mi 3; the hardware and software experience is really quite different from Apple. (And most of the rest of the Android ecosystem for that matter.) The "copycat" claims are overblown.
I hadn't really thought about that. My wife is a feminist and it is one of the things that drew me to her. She has definitely helped me recognize these kinds of things in the past. And I have become more sensitive to this, but clearly I have a ways to go.
I recently bought an iPhone 6, and have really started using Siri for the first time. And Siri has actually surprised me in a good way at how well she understands what I say. I don't do anything too crazy with her. Set alarm at x time, remind me to do x when I get home, Call so and so, send text message to x.
I work on a UX team of three. One of our guys has a MotoX, One guy has a Windows Phone, I have an iPhone 6, and based off of what happens at work it seems that Google Now and Siri are slightly more functional.
This is from merely observations, but it seems like Google Now is faster than Siri. And Siri is better at accurately hearing/understanding the words you say.
All nine reports of the 10,000,000+ who have iPhone 6s. I really think this whole thing has been blown way way out of proportion. If this were any other phone maker we wouldn't be talking about it.
I know my phone will shatter if I drop it. But I'm not going to drop it to prove this point.
All 10,000,000 won't dare to test the bending and would try to avoid conditions (don't keep in pockets, buy thicker cases etc) that will lead to bending..
First off, we don't know how many phones have been bent nor do we know how common that bending is. The fact that there are any reports at all within the first few days of the phone being available is troubling. What matters is the overall rate of bending under "normal" phone handling conditions. Even if that rate is fairly low (say one per million per day) that still results in a huge number of people with bent phones over their expected use lifetime (nearly 1 in 1000 over the standard 2 year upgrade window).
Moreover, the rate of things like phone bending is probably non-linear, because it will happen during the highest amount of applied bending force over the period of use, which probably doesn't happen every day. If the iPhone 6 plus is just enough weaker than other phones such that it bends more commonly under fairly common handling conditions for any phone then the result could be a LOT of bent phones.
I've seen several videos of people bending these phones and to be honest it looks like Apple has a problem. The phone seems to be much weaker than any device designed for that use environment should be.
Considering that Jobs went to great efforts to ensure that the original iPhone was rugged under normal but inadvised handling conditions (i.e. putting it in the same pocket as keys, thus the use of gorrila glass), I can't help but see this bendiness as a decided step backwards in the design philosophy of the iPhone line.
Why would you believe a company that said about the antenna issue on the iPhone 4: "You're holding it wrong". There are way more complaints and pictures to be found on this issue than the ones that Apple reports.
> * a company that said about the antenna issue on the iPhone 4: "You're holding it wrong"*
Yes and... that was correct? Every other phone suffers from the same antenna attenuation if you enclose it completely in your hands. But because it's Apple, some news outlets saw a chance to make some pageviews by creating another scandal.
The "antennagate" crap was roughly equivalent to people complaining that a TV won't show any image at all if you set it up facing the wall, and writing lots of grandiose articles about how Apple TV doesn't deliver on its promise in all sorts of common circumstances, etc.
Actually the iPhone 4 suffered the most from this because of its metal casing (most phones were , and still are, made from plastic).
Because this created a sort of faraday cage for the cell signals, part of the design (the metal border) served as an antenna. In fact, as two antennas (seen here (http://jim93277.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/iphone3_1_610x37...). One for WiFi and other cool stuff, the other for Cell tower stuff.
But if you held it with your left hand, you could create a contact between the two antennas and things would freak out a bit. This is 1000% due to the design of the iPhone 4, and not an issue with other phones. It had nothing to do with "covering the entire antenna with your hand".
So who's wrong? Apple, for not considering this? Or a good 10/20% of the world for doing things with their left hands?
I think a big factor of this is the number of reports in the time-frame... Nine reports over the course of a year is one thing, nine reports over the course of the premiere week is something else entirely.
I personally believe that gay people should be allowed the same exact rights as straight people. (Marriage, Adoption, Tax Status, etc...) That being said, I don't believe what happened to the Mozilla CEO was right. The amount of intolerance that was shown towards him was equally as bad as his own intolerance, perhaps worse.
I personally once thought that we should ban gay marriage. As I grew up and gained more understanding about homosexuality my view totally changed. I think we definitely have to give people the chance to change. I would guess that most of the people here on HackerNews grew up thinking that homosexuality was a choice and some sort of perversion. However, I would bet that most of us have changed our views as we have either accepted who we are or have had friends that were gay help our understanding grow.
As far as Dr Dre, I had never listened to his music or really followed him in the news. I would probably error on the side of a lot of the other comments, that we should give him a break because it appears that he has changed. My two cents.
Discrimination still exists, even for things some think are solved(e.g. race, gender). Often change doesn't occur unless some are forced to change, even while gritting their teeth.
CEOs are public figures, and if the public doesn't like what they stand for, they can certain;y ask the organization to make a change. Mozilla stood for openness and freedom, which is counter to the actions of the CEO. It's not intolerant to tell a company that their CEO is engaging in activity counter to the message of the organization, and ask for their removal.
){kind=link}