BILL & HP copy APPLE Design

[RyanLang]

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[Arden]

I myself am one of the Chosen Both...

Comments like "we're not immitating Apple" are misguided because that's like saying "we're not immitating Ford" with a new automobile. (FYI, the Taurus started the trend of smooth curves in cars in 1987.) Microsoft didn't just come up with their own brand of ergonomics for this computer.

Besides, who wants a computer with a remote control?

[chevy]

Yes, HP (with the help of M$) copies Apple. No, M$ doesn't fight against Apple: it fights against Linux.

Apple is quite successful as a hardware manufacturer, they are still able to sell with good margin, what Dell and HP cannot do anymore. Apple is not that success as a software provider: they cannot sell their software with a reasonable margin without the hardware.

Where HP doesn't (officialy) copy Apple (and HP is wrong here) is when it says: we design for functionnality, not for fashion. Everybody knows that in a tough market, only the companies that have this little fashion extra can sell with margin ! Look at Swatch, look at Porsche, BMW or Ferrari, look at Versace... To sell with margin you need uncompromized technology, with a little extra of fashion.

[chevy]

Originally posted by arden
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(FYI, the Taurus started the trend of smooth curves in cars in 1987.) ....

My remark may be out of subject, but the Taurus may have started the smooth curve trend in USA. It's not that new in Europe or in Japan. Look at Audi (or even NSU), look at Mazda.

[GroundZeroX]

Here is a link to the image I was talkign about earlier. http://www.theapplecollection.com/de...proto/022.html

[MrNivit1]

Ya know... Even though MS & co try to do the nice designs of Apple, they fall very short. This prototype has the look of a bulky PC (notice how tall and square the keyboard, screen, and screen stand are). Ugh... It just feels like a 1980's IBM design... Makes me shudder just looking at it.

[rhale1]

Ugh. That's just plain wrong-looking. Maybe if you like cold and harsh, but for an office, would sleek and stunning not look better?

[Stridder44]

GRR! Isn't Microsoft big enough!??? I hope Apple comes out with something one day blows away the PC world! Something that makes every Windows user out there question his or her desire to use Windows. Something completly different, but in a very good way (what I don't know...but something, whether its hardware or software or both). Apple is so much better than Microsoft!