I've been a graphics guy for nearly 20 years now. Every single day I'm at the computer.

I like to look at the night sky, which here is polluted with city light, and think what Pantone chip the sky would be. Trying to look at it objectively, without thinking it's night so it must be near black, I often conclude that the chips would be quite a bit lighter than people would expect.

Been doing this sort of thing for nearly 15 years. I feel your pain. I've been there. FWIW I don't think it looks "wrong". I've seen tons of pics come straight off the camera that look "wrong" just because of perspective, body angle, lighting and shadows. Every idiot thinks they know what's been 'shopped these days.…

Am I not seeing the supposed fat person in these pics? I see a normal healthy person.

I turned the sound off and listened to Ticks and Leeches by Tool instead. Made it a much creepier video. Recommended.

This.

These make great warning signals that the occupants of this house have no taste whatsoever.

I looked at these with the Inception soundtrack playing in my mind.

Has anyone posted a reference to Brazil yet?

Give me a list of what they "stole". You can't look at the history with a blanket statement of "they stole everything". And from my knowledge, Steve only ever reiterated Picaso's famous quote "good artists copy, great artists steal".

Because there's a distinct difference between being influenced or using a concept, and just blatantly photocopying. Even Samsung's own internal memos showed they pretty much said do whatever they are doing.

Yes trade dress. It matters. Look at Samsung phones before the iPhone and after (and tablets/iPad too for that matter). If the solution was so obvious, why weren't they doing it before then?

That pic has been floating around the net for at least a few weeks, at least since Curiosity landed on Mars.

Deliberately stealing someones trade dress to make your product look nearly indistinguishable from someone else's is completely different from taking a general concept and making it into something it was never going to be otherwise. If you are going to keep insisting on bringing those sorts of things up, at least…

I used to work at an Apple store many years ago, and we used to joke about tech specs. The joke was, we could tell the customers anything we wanted, and as long as we told them SOMETHING, they'd nod in approval. Im not suggesting we lied to anyone, we didn't we were always forthcoming, I'm just saying that the average…

OOOH tilt to zoom!! excuse me while I crush my iPhone with a hammer and buy an S3.

If it's a modified version of Android, probably a different story. It's still Google influencing Acer.

I'm glad Apple hasn't changed the form factor just for the sake of changing it. Change for change sake is not a good design principle. If the design works and if it's aesthetically pleasing, then there's no need to change it just because a few bleeding edge tech people think anything that looks the same after 6 weeks…

Still not sure what "This reminds me of the early days of the Mac (80's)" means. Sounds like a vague proclamation that sometimes some things changes at some point.