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Really embarrassing level of blatant copying of iOS icons and design language, here.


"Picasso had a saying. He said, 'Good artists copy; great artists steal', and we have, you know, always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

-- Steve Jobs, in Triumph of the Nerds (1996 documentary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6jeZ7m0ycw


This isn't Steve Jobs.


Seriously? Here's the transcript straight from PBS, the distributor of the documentary:

https://www.pbs.org/nerds/part3.html


I welcome you to defend why it's embarrassing.


It's embarrassing, a priori.

There's so much here that is embarrassing that we'd have to have about five beers to even cover it on a surface level. So much that was just lazily copied verbatim rather than anyone TRYING to do something original, or even do just a slight, semi-creative variation.


Copying good design on a volunteer project is not shameful. We disagree.




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