{"id":21283,"date":"2018-04-18T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21283"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:14:00","slug":"on-normalizing-rip-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/18\/on-normalizing-rip-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"On Normalizing Rip-Offs"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In this case Savov was writing about Huawei’s copycat wireless earbuds. But the most telling example — which Savov himself has documented better than anyone else<\/a> — is the iPhone X notch. The notch is unquestionably the worst<\/em> thing about the iPhone X design — it is a worthwhile compromise, but a severe and glaring one<\/a>. But it lends the iPhone X a distinctive look and can<\/em> be easily copied, and so of course these companies are shamelessly copying it.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I don’t think outrage<\/em> is the right term for how the media should react to such rip-offs. I suggest a mix of contempt and mockery. But they certainly shouldn’t be pooh-poohed with an “Eh, everyone does it<\/em>” attitude.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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That’s why I like the phrase “design plagiarism”. Maybe you think Amadeo’s examples do constitute “copying”. But they’re not plagiarism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: iPhone X Design and the Notch<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Gruber: In this case Savov was writing about Huawei’s copycat wireless earbuds. But the most telling example — which Savov himself has documented better than anyone else — is the iPhone X notch. The notch is unquestionably the worst thing about the iPhone X design — it is a worthwhile compromise, but a severe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-18T19:14:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"379eec3f-2eca-4e2c-9da0-e14e54505876","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-04-18T19:14:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AN57sPy7KTiydoOFOVFBYdg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1422,77,452,31,1472,85,1573],"class_list":["post-21283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-airpods","tag-design","tag-hardware","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-x"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21284,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283\/revisions\/21284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}