14 DAY TRIAL // The latest Apple WWDC conference announced a number of new releases in the Apple ecosystem, but one of the features, in particular, seems take a page out of Ubuntu's handbook. It's not a copied feature per say, but it looks awfully familiar.
One of the features presented at the latest Apple WWDC conference was the Siri improvement, which is supposed to be a little bit better. Now, Siri will provide suggestions based on the inquiries and users will just have to swipe to the right to get to a new screen with info. As you might notice, this is quite familiar with the present implementation of Scopes on Ubuntu Touch.
The first one to notice this resemblance was Joey-Elijah Sneddon from omgubuntu.co.uk, but other people in the Ubuntu community have seen this similarity as well. It might be just a coincidence, or maybe there is someone at Apple that follows up what all the other mobile operating systems are doing. In this case, having some sort of "Scope" seems like the obvious choice for iOS.
Canonical doesn't care who's first
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, said this a number of times. It doesn't really matter who is doing something for the first time. If you're doing something good, everyone will want to copy you, and that means you're on the right track. For example, the Ubuntu Edge smartphone was supposed to incorporate a sapphire display. Three months after Ubuntu Edge failed to raise enough money, Apple bought the company that was making sapphire glass.
The only problem is that of recognition. If Apple did take inspiration from Ubuntu Touch, it would be nice just to acknowledge that, but we all know that it's not going to happen. All the stuff you find in Ubuntu Touch is not trademarked, so anyone can "borrow" anything they like.
So, what you think? Did Apple take a page from Ubuntu Touch or it's just a coincidence?
