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Chrome's Aura UI looks awfully similar to Windows 8 Desktop.


Aura UI
Google goes Windows. [Image Source: Google]


Aura UI



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By Motoman on 4/10/2012 11:25:44 AM , Rating: 4
You could just as well say they copied Linux or Mac. The basic design concepts of the GUI desktop haven't changed in a loooooong time.

For good reason, I might add.

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By B3an on 4/10/12, Rating: -1
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By B3an on 4/10/2012 11:45:23 AM , Rating: 2
And the Google Play store is obviously also influenced by Metro.

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By drlumen on 4/10/12, Rating: -1
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By Reclaimer77 on 4/10/2012 12:59:17 PM , Rating: 4
Your argument is like saying Shakespear didn't do anything because he wasn't the first playwright in history. Or that Bach sucked because he didn't personally usher in the Galante era, therefor nothing he did mattered.

Microsoft hasn't created or innovated anything EVER? The troll is strong with this one...

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So shut up.

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I bet you really arrange your icons by penis.


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By nafhan on 4/10/2012 12:48:36 PM , Rating: 3
Getting pretty sick of Google copying others.
Why do you care? Large corporation A creates a product similar, but slightly different than the product created by large corporation B. How does this impact you?

Plus, I feel like this would be noteworthy if someone was copying the look and feel of Metro, but they're copying the Windows 8 desktop, a feature MS is practically trying to hide.

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By WalksTheWalk on 4/10/2012 3:15:44 PM , Rating: 2
...and I'm getting sick of anyone copying anyone else's good design. Come on, every good design influences another good design on some level. Competition is what drives innovation. As long as companies aren't making direct copies and causing confusion in the market where people think they are using one thing but actually using its copy it's healthy.

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By Smilin on 4/10/2012 5:44:04 PM , Rating: 2
They aren't copying a good design though. If it was that good then Windows would still be using taskman too. :P

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By Reclaimer77 on 4/10/2012 12:28:37 PM , Rating: 1
You could just as well say they copied Linux or Mac.

Except nobody uses those so it's not as good of a comparison to Windows which nearly everyone uses and is universally identifiable to the reader.

