Apple’s new Nano and iPods vaguely remind us of Nokia Lumias

Inspiration

Design and innovation is hard. And a lot of times, those in the industry tend to arrive at the same conclusion, fifty-fifty if designers took dissimilar paths and they weren't watching the competition. Such is the example when two things wait 'inspired' by each other. Simply all too often accusations of "copying" abound when in fact, it was more a meeting of general design trends.

The Zeitgeist of Way, if you will.

In other words, we're non accusing Apple tree of anything hither except possibly of not being too different than current fashions. (It's absurd, Apple. Y'all don't always need to lead.) What nosotros are saying is that these two "technology things" expect very familiar. Kind of.

iPod Touch

Top: Nokia Lumia 820 shells. Below: new Apple iPod Touches

Apple tree's new Nano iPod is actually way tinier than a Lumia device and last we checked, not a phone either. Just when a Nano is blown up to the size of a Lumia information technology sure looks familiar.

Likewise with Apple tree's new iPod Touch line, which seems to borrow heavily from Nokia'due south latest colors. Of form one time over again in fairness, even Nokia's color choices were not original as they conspicuously land in their own slice on the topic. Apple has actually always had multi-colored devices, like the Nano and Shuffle—but this year they added the Touch serial too.

And so nosotros're not accusing Apple of anything malevolent. But clearly the strategy that Nokia has been pushing with their latest Lumia phones is catching on. Black and white phones are very 2022 (whoops, sorry iPhone 5).

Heck, fifty-fifty Microsoft is earthworks it too. But we'd still love to see what Daring Fireball'due south John Gruber thinks.

Cheers, Ryan C. and Joel M., for the images. Apple quote image creator: Unknown.

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