I don’t really understand why some companies or designers feel the need to use popular and well designed applications as basically carbon copy reference designs when building their applications or user interfaces. Take this interface for MeeGo tablets, doesn’t the music application look vaguely familiar?

This seems to be happening more and more often, even the Samsung Galaxy Tab had a keyboard and browser reminiscent of the iPad. The whole point of design is to make something new and unique that sounds out from the crowd.

Would’t the world be a dull place if we all did what Apple thought was best for design?




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He’s an an app from EZi APP that costs around $1,199.00AUD and all I can tell from the description is that it is used for generating reports. But from the screenshots it seems like someone has just fired up InterfaceBuilder and “crafted” something from generic tools; building something they think is worth a lot of money and then just releasing this ugly thing into the world.

Would you really pay over a thousand dollars just for some report generator? Especially for something where no trouble has gone into making the UITableView look like a thousand bucks.

I’m especially worried by any app that has 9 ratings, all with 5/5 stars.