When Jony Ive was recently asked to give his take on Chinese smartphone maker – Xiaomi taking a lot of inspiration from the design of Apple products, he had this to say:
[su_quote] I don’t see it as flattery. When you’re doing something for the first time, you don’t know it’s gonna work, you spend 7 or 8 years working on something, and then it’s copied. I think it is really straightforward. It is theft and it is lazy. I don’t think it is ok at all.[/su_quote]
Now Lenovo, another Chinese company, has taken this copying to a new level with their latest S90 “Sisley” smartphone. Lenovo’s phone is so remarkably similar to the iPhone 6 it beggars believe that such a so-call top company would stoop so low. There are numerous words you can use to describe Lenovo’s designers with theft and lazy readily coming mind.
Lenovo S90
iPhone 6
Lenovo S90
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
via Gizmobic