TheMacAdvocate

The Clock app in the Android 1.5 OS, as featured in the HTC Eris, is an outright theft of the iPhone UI for the same app.

This Time It’s Personal Steve Jobs was not leading Apple when the company lost the infamous “Look and Feel” lawsuit waged against Microsoft. Based on the existence of an ill-advised licensing agreement struck by then-CEO John Sculley, the courts ostensibly  gift-wrapped the Macintosh UI for Microsoft to pillage. When you listen to Jobs talk about [...]

Here’s a hint: you leave it on the doorstep, light it on fire and ring the doorbell. Dragon Dictation is perhaps one of the coolest apps on the iPhone. For those not familiar, Dictation is an app that displays a single “record” button when launched. You then speak into your iPhone, and your audio is [...]

/cue Debussey, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune HTC, upstart mobile phone maker saunters along a beautiful forest path, oblivious to the exquisitely-crafted “No Trespassing” signs. Sun is streaming through the trees as the company approaches a glittering spring. They stoop and drink deeply, savoring the delicious, refreshing water. /cue shotgun pump “Say…you got a purty [...]