Considering how often Apple’s designs have been copied—including by Google—this kind of finger-wagging, even if meant as a joke, feels a bit rich personally.
But Apple’s iconic founder and former CEO Steve Jobs might’ve been of two minds on the strategy.
On the topic of competitors copying Apple’s work, Jobs once told his biographer Walter Isaacson. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
Yet he also told Isaacson, “Picasso had a saying – ‘good artists copy, great artists steal’ – and we [Apple] have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
The Death of the Wobble?
Setting aside debates about design originality — and whatever cameras end up living in that bold new slab — a full-width camera bar might finally fix one long-standing iPhone annoyance. At least for the case-free maniacs out there.
