Samsung phones and iPhones are among the most popular smartphone users today. So it is not surprising that the two companies share advantages. As a result, the issues between the two companies still exist until now, each of them accuses the other of having been stolen, and if you wish, you have copied an advantage or two of the other. In our article, we will mention to you the most important of those features that Apple took from Samsung and vice versa. Follow us.
First: the features that Samsung stole from Apple
AR Emoji feature
Animoji first appeared in sync with the launch of the iPhone X as a way to track facial movements and project them onto an animal's image, to perfectly simulate facial movements. In fact, Apple has mastered this feature very much thanks to its use of a number of sensors in addition to the depth camera in the iPhone X. With the launch of the Samsung S9, Samsung introduced something similar to the Animoji feature called AR Emoji, through which the movement of the face is tracked and those movements are projected onto a cartoon character that resembles a person somewhat. The truth also, according to many reports, that Samsung has not mastered this feature well like Apple, because it relies on a traditional and not advanced camera and includes the depth feature as found in the iPhone, but it was an attempt through which Samsung wanted to compete with Apple.
Icons in the form of a rounded square or Squircle
Since the beginning of iOS, Apple has imposed on developers to use icons in the form of rounded squares, or what is known as Squircle. These restrictions were not used in the Android system. However, Samsung began to use that shape and supported it with color a lot at first, and those colors are quieter now.
It is reported that this tradition, albeit simple, was and still is a key point in the compensation cases launched by Apple against Samsung, and some of them have already won.
Camera app layout
In the iOS 7 update, Apple redesigned the user interface, especially the camera application, and its professional and easy features such as scrolling and moving between the different shooting modes. Samsung recently used the same interface.
The glass phone appeared
Samsung used to release phones with all-plastic frames, even for higher-end phones of the time like the S and Note family. But Apple changed several times the design of the iPhone and the materials used in it, for example it adopted the glass design in the iPhone 4 and is thus the first company to do this and returned to it again in the latest version 8 and X. Samsung when it decided to abandon the plastic design it also moved to the glass design With her S6, it has stayed that way until now.
To clarify what happened: Apple was releasing a plastic iPhone, then when I left it, it moved to glass, then aluminum, and then glass. Samsung was launching plastic phones, and then when I left them, they moved to glass as well, and not any other option.
Applications in the home screen
On Samsung devices, you can see the Home screen with very few apps that you can customize. You do not see this thing in the iOS system, and some considered it a weakness of the Apple system. However, the strange thing is, there is an option in Samsung devices, starting with the S8 phone, that enables you to make the home screen overloaded with applications just like Apple.
Second, features that Apple stole from Samsung
Here I like something that Apple does about its transfer of any feature, which is that this feature must be important and represent a fundamental change in the manufacture of the phone or its system. Take, for example, Face ID, the idea of unlocking the phone with a face print, which was introduced by many phone companies and proved to be largely unsuccessful. However, Apple took this concept and worked on it and developed it until it became in the amazing way we see it today. Yes, the feature is present in Android, but no company dares to support payment with it because it is easy to bypass it.
So what were the things that Apple stole from Samsung? Follow us.
Apple Pencil and Samsung S Pen
Samsung's stylus used to sync with the launch of its Note device for the first time on October 29, 2011, while Apple's pen was only used in its iPad Pro in 2015. The two companies are working to improve and develop these pens. It is reported that the Apple Pencil is a device that connects to Bluetooth and needs to be charged while the Samsung Pencil works without charging. The price of the Apple Pencil reaches $ 99, while the Samsung Pencil comes for free or separately for $ 30.
OLED screens
OLED screens were not good at first, but LCD screens far exceeded them. Tim Cook stated this in 2013 that LCD screens outperform OLED screens and pointed out the low technology of those screens at that time, and his words were really "at the time". The main problems of OLED screens in that period were that they were inaccurate in colors, as well as problems with color saturation, problems with screen brightness in the sun, and they were consuming more energy, and so on.
With the maturity of OLED technology, the gap between it and LCD screens has narrowed and even surpassed it, making Apple use it in its latest devices. Thus, Samsung is the leader in OLED technology, but Samsung introduced screens that provide the best performance than others.
Edge-to-edge screen
Both companies are trying to reduce the edges as much as possible over time, but Samsung made a quantum leap when launching the S6 of both types in 2015 in an attempt to reduce the edges of the phone, but it kept the screen button. It took 30 months until Apple introduced the iPhone X with an edge-to-edge screen, with a different concept as usual, and Apple's concept became the first phone to reach the four screen edges.
* Xiaomi preceded Apple and Samsung with its Mi Mix phone, and it was the first full-screen phone, but it had a weak penetration compared to even Samsung devices.
Wireless charging
Wireless charging technology began in 2015 when Samsung adopted it in its S6. Soon after that technology developed and improved until Apple adopted it in the iPhone 8 in 2017.
Dual camera with optical stabilization
Companies have been adding for years the OIS optical stabilization feature. And when the move to dual cameras was made, many of them, especially Apple, were late in supporting the feature, as it was only supported in one lens. Samsung once again preceded Apple by adding the feature to the back camera of its Note 8 phone, and then Apple launched the iPhone X and supported this technology from Apple.
To be honest, the launch of the Note 8 was only 1 month before the launch of the X, which means that Apple was already working on the feature before it was made available in Samsung, but in the end, Samsung was the one previously.
The companies will not stop there. Rather, the matter of a company taking over the ideas of another company will remain forever until those companies, especially Apple and Samsung, remain at the top of the smartphone market. And the mouthpiece says, I will not let you enjoy the cake alone, because I want to live too.
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