RIM OS 10 Rips Off 3 OSes at once
According to wmpoweruser.com the image above of the new BB OS 10 is a blatant mix of different OS rip-offs ‘Windows Live Tiles” being the most obvious one; the status bar could be Android, iOS or Belle; but the one part of this phone that is obviously snatched from Belle is the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. It has the same exact icons, color and spacing of the Belle toolbar; seriously RIM not cool.
Via: wmpoweruser.com
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FAIL!
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It does look like Belle. But should it really bother us that much? I mean Belle itself takes a lot of design cues from Android and other OS. Belle’s status bar is not original, too. I love Belle. It is beautiful and intuitive. I guess my point is that this is how innovation really goes. Take a little something from here and there. Change a little bit and voila. I don’t think RIM did anything wrong here.
Yes, if it’s on the market then by all means copy as best as you can get away with if you want to get somewhere. Samsung understood this perfectly. There are examples of how certain interactions are done well and good on them for taking those cues.
The only thing we can have comfort in is the possibility these might not arrive until the end of the year.
android did take most of the UI and functions of symbian and Maemo 5..but this is too obvious
Nah, it was more iOS and Windows Mobile that it took the UI from, as for functions, Windows Mobile and Symbian were pretty close to feature parity. There wasn’t much Android took from Symbian that it couldn’t have taken from WinMo.
looks more like multi tasking on N9
That is what I thought, until I realized that wasn’t a task-manager viewer but a tile view of apps/programs that can be run by clicking them
I agree. There’s nothing wrong with what they’re doing.
Although, I really don’t like the blocky tiles design. They could have made live tiles prettier.
I like it. The tiles are much bigger and more usable than WP7.5′s.
With WP7.5, the tile just bounces around notifying you something is going on and you have to touch the tile. With this, you could just take a glance at the screen and have a good idea of what’s going on. This is good for situations where it’s unprofessional to fiddle with your phone. It’s a tile and a widget in one.
Now if RIM would make the OS with a REAL File Manager without any restrictions like the one built into the Symbian OS and a Micro SD slot, I am so there!
Not going to happen, that goes against their security model.
Took a look at other screenshots. I see what you mean. The multiple windows thing could be like live tiles or n9′s multitask view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgb5qNVKl1k
Imagine if they stole swipe.
If Nokia hadn’t promised to put swipe on lower end phones, I would be really happy with someone else putting such an intuitive interface on future phones.
me too. the day other manufactures use swipe ob thier platform, the end of nokia
lol stole swipe?
Would not be surprised if you see alot of N9 experience in the new BB, the software stack is now very similar might be the same in no time…BB as been committing into Qt..
it is good, we can finally have n9 like ui/ux on high end platform?
Yep. These screenshots look like they’ve not strayed far from Qt Component style. This is a good thing for Qt app developers who will find it easier to port apps to OS 10.
They can’t steal Swipe, they already had a better implementation of it on the PlayBook before the N9 was announced. Obviously the N9 was in development at the same time as the PlayBook, so it’s not like Nokia stole it from RIM either, they were both inspired by Palm.
i bought the N9 because i owned the playbook and i like the swipe gesture..bu the swipe on N9, IMO, is far better and more natural.
it is the best to be honest. it is a sad story there will be no continuation of the meego as i believe it would have been a proper rival to top names in the market.
as for OS 10, not sure of it. i think RIM is a bit late to the game. yes, they can sell the BBM for so long but now you have cross platform chat services like whatsapp etc.
yes, they are very strong in corporate communication but again, people are getting swayed by apps and other bells and whistles offered by other brands, mainly the iphone. android for me is a rip off of iphone. they have no shame to be honest.
rim is suffering nowadays big time and i was not impressed with their OS2 for playbook and i dont think their new OS 10 will be a head turner. by then, the likes of iphone/samsung etc will have released their new generation of phones which will render the OS10 obsolete already by end of the year. i hope RIM survives as i have a soft spot for them due to using BB phones for so long and having the playbook. I’m also sure i will get a new handset from my company once the OS 10 is out since im due for upgrading and i waited and didnt go for OS 7 unless my company opens up its policy and decide to offer iphones also.
but lets see how it goes.
Fair enough if you have both and like the N9 better, but that still shows RIM didn’t steal the idea, they just made the mistake of emphasizing Flash instead of the intuitive UI.
A mistake Nokia is quite familiar with, and that they kept making until the N9.
Actually the wp7 tiles were probably an evolution from maemo and s60 v5 interfaces ..
But bb 10 is a pure symbian rip off
Dude, are you seriously trying to say that WP7, currently the most streamlined smartphone OS user interface, copied something from the steaming poop-pile called s60v5? You really need to sell this idea for me before I can agree…
yes,i think!
when you take a look at N97′s homescreen,you will know why!
as much as i like this blog, this post was a major fail
It’s an informal blog. It has My Dream Nokia posts, don’t need to take it as anything more than musings and an opinion.
I will say I don’t agree with the sentiment of the post though.
if you thik this is wp7 and symbian ripoff, i will say rim do it much better than microsoft and nokia, i like their this “tiles” design more than ms one
what tiles
? all I see the n9 multitasking there 
The source from this site linked to wmpoweruser
http://wmpoweruser.com/rim-please-stop-flattering-windows-phone/
The source from wmpoweruser linked to GSMARENA (WHICH IS THE MOST BIASED BLOG I EVER SEEN)
http://www.gsmarena.com/upcoming_blackberry_10_os_screenshots_leak-news-3821.php
GSMARENA source is linked to crackberry.com (Blackberry blog site)
http://crackberry.com/exclusive-new-prelease-blackberry-10-os-images-surface-homescreen-widgets-make-their-bb-debut
Now the whole culprit about copying started from GSMARENA then passed on to this blog. I think this article should never be published as one blogger opinion should not change a thousand. YES some part of BB 10 looks similar but who doesn’t copy. Apple gave a whole new meaning to the word INNOVATION (COPY AND BETTER IT). Its ok for BB to do what they can do in desperate times.
+++++ only a blind does not copy, (hell even a blind wold eventual), It is impossible to not copy anything, its impossible to not cross some patented idiotic concept.
what ever makes consumers have better products is great.
still its fairly obvious those are not tiles but rather apps in a multitask view
it is beautiful, i hope we can see swipe on rim, iphone and android, rip nokia
big deal, everyone copies each other, maemo 5 copied webos with the swiping
wp7 copied maemo5 with the tiles
etc… etc… etc…
The styling of the toolbar icons at the bottom is Metro design language, which Belle ripped from Windows Phone, and Belle is also a blatant rip off of Android and HTC Sense. Hell, removing folders from Symbian is a rip off of iOS.
Let’s face it, the only UI that isn’t a rip-off of some fashion is Windows Phone. iOS was a rip-off of PalmOS. Android was a rip-off of iOS and Windows Mobile. webOS was actually pretty innovative overall but still clearly ripped aspects from iOS, and Synergy was really a refinement of what BBOS was already doing. Even Harmattan is a combination of iOS, Windows Mobile 6.5/PalmOS, and webOS (development was parallel to the PlayBook so I won’t say they copied PlayBook OS as well).
you may claim that wp7 is unique but an eyesore to many phone buyers!
Sure, some people might think so.
If you want to stretch it that much – Live tiles are a Tetris rip-off. -_-
Being ugly for the sake of uniqueness does not a good OS make. Now, of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but given everything but a stellar success of the WP I’d say that many beholders find it far from beautiful. Which again doesn’t mean it’s ugly, I’m not pulling an argument from numbers here, but it does make a sound case to claim the Metro UI as extremely polarizing, which is not something you want on a mass-market system.
polarization isn’t that bad. You won’t dominate the market with it, but it will secure you a portion of it that you just won’t lose.
I always had a soft spot for QNX OS. It became stronger after they announced support for Qt. Now, after looking at the screenshots\video, QNX-based RIM phone may well find its way into my hand if there is no successor for N9 in 2012\2013.
It is good to see that alternatives are popping up. Choice is good.
yes. choice is good.
but i have a feeling that many major software developers are not providing their apps to RIM and hence the free fall of their market share in developed areas.
they cant get for PB: skype/netflix/hulu/kindle book reader and some of those are essential for NA markets. out of those, the one im concerned with is the skype.
developers can lead to one competitor going out of business if they gang up against it by not offering the most desired apps. i dont know..but i feel that RIM is being shafted by major developers and cant get top apps. it is all about apps nowadays it seems whether we like it or not. having a choice of thousands of apps is a nice luxury to have. quality apps like the one on apple product is even a stronger pull.
so lets see how this OS 10 will do although i think it is absolutely the last chance for RIM to survive. if they fail the OS 10 then its literally goodbye to RIM and may end up becoming a nokia trying to focus on mass volume very low margin markets.
I think it’s just a matter of time before Netflix comes to the playbook. There’s no reason for them not to offer it. Hell, the reason they had for not providing it on certain Androids just isn’t there.
Kindle, I guess it depends on if Amazon sees the PB as a competitor to the Fire.
Skype, I’m pretty sure MS wants to strengthen their Skype acquisition as much as possible, and it’s useless if it’s not available on every platform.
Hulu, well, I’m Canadian, non-issue for me so I haven’t looked into their business model at all and whether it would benefit them to support/not support the PlayBook.
Metro UI evolved out of Windows Media Center & Zune…it is very well known..
Tile from Symbian..Nah!!!
You’re right, but it’s not that well known. Neither got much traction.
yeah WP tiles from N97
Sorry can’t see WP live tiles.
This may be wishful thinking from the WP camp.
More like a Maemo/MeeGo multitasking grid.
Concept of live widgets not a MS idea. It has been around a long time (including Symbian).
I wish them luck.
It is nice to have more choice.
WMPU can get pretty opinionated at times. Sometimes useful info, sometimes it’s just garbage. This one leans more towards the garbage side.
It’s not because of this post but I have never liked rim, so I just hope they die fast.