Once upon a time, smartphones were like snowflakes and no two models looked the same. This is going back to what we like to call “the before time,” when smartphones still had these annoying little things all over them called buttons. Most smartphones didn’t even have touchscreens and the ones that did used resistive technology that only really worked with a stylus. Can you even imagine? Then the iPhone came along and in most ways, smartphones changed for the better. Buttons were slowly cast aside and replaced by larger capacitive touchscreens. Smartphone platforms were simplified as Android followed Apple’s lead and every other mobile OS disintegrated. On-device app portals like the iOS App Store replaced third-party stores that required you to buy apps on a PC and then sync them to your smartphone. And so on. But there’s one way that the smartphone market took a few steps back following the original iPhone’s introduction in 2007: Phones all started to look the same.
In the early days following the iPhone’s release, phones all looked the same because other smartphone makers blatantly and shamelessly stole Apple’s designs. Remember when Samsung literally wrote a book about how to copy the iPhone pixel by pixel? A series of huge lawsuits changed things for a while, but then the iPhone X came along in 2017 and nearly every single Android phone maker on the planet copied Apple’s new design. Take a look at this picture, which shows 20 embarrassing Android-powered iPhone X rip-offs all in one image.
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