Copying is not important, no innovation is wrong

In China, the mutual reference between products is everywhere, so people's view of it is a tolerant attitude, but also no time to reveal the harsh.

How exactly should "product plagiarism" be defined? Imitation of other people's product originality, the symbolic details are not plagiarism?

It became the standard "drop-pull gesture" on app, originating from the original design of Twitter client Tweetie, and I remember applying for a patent. But you see now the full Street app is pulled down and refreshed, and even Apple's own iOS6 is using this gesture ...

This October, the Mac version of Tweetie stopped serving. The technology media's condolences to it Wenry wrote: Mac version Tweetie April 20, 2009, introduced its own set of UI paradigm, quickly spread throughout the Mac application design circle. For example, sidebar navigation is used for almost all Twitter clients, and the "tiny bumps" that display the current position on the navigation bar are also the inventions of Brickett, google++, Instapaper and hundreds of other applications that draw on this element.

So many copycats, ashamed proud, alas, alas.

Q: Even if the details, imitate others product originality, the symbol of the core module is not plagiarism?

Answer: Calculate, how not calculate.

Oh, my gosh. You say this stems from the Pinterest waterfall flow ... Now all over the street to play waterfall flow, for fear of becoming the anachronistic. The 1th plagiarism is condemnation, the 100th copycat is to follow the trend?

This logic doesn't make sense.

Even when talking about morals, logic must be spoken. Even people who hate plagiarism need to face up to the product you are designing (or your favorite product), where a lot of details and modules come from "imitating someone else's product". The originality of the design was copied much more, then blurred the source, become fashionable even the convention, and in the duplication of the improvement of the pattern. Is it because everyone is copying this? dear, please answer me.

Q: OK, do not talk about local plagiarism, the overall imitation of other people's products, the whole copy over to calculate not plagiarism?

Answer: Calculate, how not calculate.

Oh, my gosh. Copy ICQ Oicq ... There are still people say that QQ cottage ICQ? On the contrary, QQ is regarded as one of the most outstanding and innovative products in China, and ICQ has already been lost.

Once copied Google's Baidu, and then out of the post bar such outstanding and innovative products. Sina Weibo, which has copied Twitter, has many innovations and has even been turned back by Twitter to emulate it. At this time, dear, you are not steel, thinking how can not from the beginning of innovation to the end, the first must be cottage, dirty honor?

Those who have this ambition should start from their own.

Back to the point, talk about my product concept of plagiarism. I have never had any sense of shame to emulate the excellent design of others, and have a good one to take over. See a sense of novelty design often oh straight music, shouted: Copy!

But I feel a strong sense of shame if there is no originality in my product, something to boast about, or even a design that is worth copying.

A lot of people take Apple wins Samsung case, please make it clear, Samsung copy is industrial design. Is there a classic case of patent litigation for Internet product design? I have no impression. For example, Facebook, which is known for its innovation, has foursquare the checkin function of fame, and has recently renamed the "Subscribe" function of Twitter as "Follow", showing the determination to copy it. The strange thing is that Tencent must be drowned in this way, the leader of the other side of the ocean is taught to worship ...

Even when talking about morals, logic must be spoken.

In China, there is a morbid tolerance for the mutual reference between products, and also has a morbid severity. Details can not be emulated, modules can not be emulated, the overall more can not be emulated. As long as the product is similar to others, the shame of laughter is rolling in: "Shanzhai goods" "Copy that Who who," "Chinese people know how to copy?" The corresponding, and another big voice thundered: "Who the mother does not copy ah" "To survive the most important" "Make money is Uncle!"

Ernest, say something else.

Although I do not mind copying, and even willing to copy, but often distressed to find copied objects. I do the product, first in the heart there is a very clear image, know what they want to do, and then around it to design the structure, fill the details, from a number of products to extract the parts I want to mix. But if the image and structure is more special, often even look at the dozens of products still face said "no copy ah", feel not on the idea. When forced to do nothing, he had to draw a prototype, self-deprecating as "cornered innovation."

For example, when the app is on hand, colleagues often hear me muttering "why and no copy nan ..."

Sometimes it is a merchant to point to the prototype said "here, here, are all countries in the world have no precedent of the design Oh!"

So some people say that I am just a cottage erly, a faint smile. Some people said that my innovative design is very good, but also a faint smile. There are also competing products to our part of the creative design of 1:1 imitation, in the Cicada team stirred the noise of laughter.

In my opinion, copying is not ashamed, copying, mechanically, and copying back indigestion diarrhea, this is the shame fighter. After all, each product has its own situational logic, the overall concept of the market background, do not understand these causes, a look at the other people's design cool on the hands of copy, it is easy to parody. and has the ability to copy in place team, basically also has the ability in the imitation process to make the difference design, injects own style and the idea, is equal to the creative division reproduction.

In addition, for domestic products to emulate foreign products, the industry's reaction is also very big point. Most foreign products obviously do not pay attention to the Chinese market, the domestic users to go over the wall to use the original English? Arabian Nights. Some people watch pirated movies American drama when the straight gas and strong, feel that the domestic does not introduce, do you let me overseas purchase English original? At the same time, pointing at the imitation of foreign products 怒叱: Shameful! It is clear that the wall is available!

As a user (not a practitioner), I want to use a good product. On one side is the foreign product all English interface speed is slow, one side is the imitation entire Chinese localization second opens the webpage, how do you ask me to choose? I also want to support the original, the first to hang up the VPN and then the English three-class good Baa? Those who do not turn over the wall of English bad users are doomed to "not in service" good BAA?

It is obvious that most of the good products abroad do not come in, but not for the Chinese market localization adjustment, if no one to imitation, transplant, domestic users will not get good internet services. Shouting "Why not innovation" is the pride of the day, have this ambition, it is advisable to start from their own. The imitation transplant is only the beginning, in the process of localization, the product will gradually grow to another appearance-after all, the user group is very different. The duplication and division of genes can make a thriving and diversified internet ecology.

I never mind who copied who, but I would mind if he had not copied it in place, there was no mature transplant with smart localization. If there is more to it than imitation, then he will win my respect.

Finally, give a superficial example as the end. App Voice intercom is about Talkbox first, and then IM Standard. Some days ago I accidentally installed Talkbox, disappointed, all aspects are inferior to the latter. Think of a year ago condemnation micro-letter cottage Talkbox, dear, you are more willing to pursue an overall quality of the original application, or voice im in the gene replication and division, the proliferation of flourish?

In this case, replication not only does not stifle innovation, borrow the power of the voice of Albatron, but made more innovative action, and the original Talkbox later, but also with "a recruit fresh" related, the subsequent version of the lack of impress the market's bright spot, can not single blame micro-letter only hand cover days.