Realme Crowdsourcing Ideas for Copying Apple's Dynamic Island

[MacRumors]

Chinese smartphone maker realme is asking its "loyal fans" for ideas on how to copy Apple's Dynamic Island from the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.

In a challenge, realme says, "the UI around the camera hole could morph into different shapes and sizes to display incoming phone calls, alerts, notifications, and more," precisely like Apple's Dynamic Island. The company finds this idea "quite appealing" and has decided to turn to its "loyal fans for ideas and suggestions on how such a software feature could be implemented on realme devices." Fans are asked to submit images, videos, and illustrations of how realme could implement a copycat version of Dynamic Island onto its devices.

Post a comment in the form of a drawing, GIF, or simply text, and explain how a potential realme Island would work, what it would look like, and how it would be beneficial - feel free to be detailed as our realme UI devs will be looking at all proposals and they know their stuff.

In an image attached to the challenge, realme showcases a hole-punch cutout with a yellow glow captioned "What's your dream island like?" realme says its UI developers will use the winner's idea and "consider it for a possible implementation in the future."

Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro​

Since its announcement earlier this month, the iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island has received positive reviews from users and customers online, with some calling it "one of Apple's best design in years." Dynamic Island utilizes the pill-shaped area at the top of the display to showcase relevant and contextual information to users, such as background activities, Now Playing, and more. Within days of Apple's iPhone 14 event, Android developers already began their attempts to recreate Dynamic Island on Android devices.

Article Link: Realme Crowdsourcing Ideas for Copying Apple's Dynamic Island

 

[contacos]

Wait, not only are they about to copy it, they are even too lazy to come up with anything on their own?

 

[fwmireault]

That was faster than I expected. Good for them if it means their software is more useful. But I think Apple will still have an advantage on the smoothness of the pill animation

 

[antiprotest]

Wait, not only are they about to copy it, they are even too lazy to come up with anything on their own?

That, and it might create type to get more people involved.

 

[djcerla]

Dynamic Island, the Homer Simpson remix.

 

[gwhizkids]

They'll just steal the tech, like they do everything else.

 

[Keymaster]

I'm guessing that Apple's entry from a couple weeks ago will be the winner.

In all seriousness, the only difference here is that a company is trying to cover up for their usual move to copy whatever Apple has done by "crowdsourcing" their efforts. It's possible some user will come up with something cool, but I think this is really just cover so they can say their users came up with this great idea and hope that everyone ignores how closely they copied Apple with their new setup.

 

[Benlurks1010]

DREAM island, huh…I kinda like that.🤭

 

[nicolas_s]

They missed a step. First, they should have posted some memes making fun of it before considering copying it. Not so fast guys!

 

[Fruit Stand]

Wait, not only are they about to copy it, they are even too lazy to come up with anything on their own?

Less likely to face legal challenges and action if its crowdsourced as opposed to "internally copied" another player in the field.

 

[vicviper789]

Dream island? I want one covered in guano so I can use the Guano Island act of 1856 to get a free island.

 

[SoldOnApple]

Apple probably should have patented it.

 

[t0rqx]

Temptation Island. Everyone wants it, a few go for it

 

[JosephAW]

I don't think it would be difficult to incorporate this into existing devices with a notch.

 

[GMShadow]

Not surprising. These companies have been and always will be scum.

 

[ss2cire]

They should make the holepunch turn into a ship and call it Gilligan's Island
Or turn it into a Heart and call it Love Island
Or or turn it into skull and call it Skull Island

 

[winxmac]

They should have done it the Samsung and Google way... Criticize Apple then do the same thing later...

Headphone jack, charger in the box

 

[Graphikos]

It's Apple's ecosystem and the tightness of software and hardware that improves the functionality and purpose of DI. I don't really see other companies matching the same level of polish.

 

[cocky jeremy]

Considering it's a Chinese company, they're just going to blatantly rip it off. They won't even try to make it different.

 

[iL15hts]

I will be laughing so hard if they will name it Dream Island 😂.

 

[nfl46]

Lol. They don’t even try to hide it anymore. That’s sad.

 

[cjboffoli97]

It's interesting how wide the cultural gap is here. China has a very long history of apprentices emulating master artisans, closely duplicating their designs. It is a very natural, comfortable progression for them to use the work of others as a springboard. But in the West this seems odious to us as it reeks of the exploitation of someone else's work. As a Westerner I'm firmly in the latter camp, and learned at an early age that much is lost in the learning process when one simply copies work off a classmate's paper. However, I think one can at least recognize that the Chinese culture simply has a different approach to this. Ultimately, I think it is at their peril (in many ways). But this behavior is not really as sinister as it might seem to us looking on from the West.

 

[ian87w]

Let the copier starts.
Pretty much all Chinese Android skins (color OS, Funtouch, MiUI, eMUI, etc) started as a copy of iOS UI. Unlike stock Android, they all put all the apps on the home screen in grids like iOS. Some like MiUI even only introduced app drawer much later. Vivo even put control center as a swipe from the bottom like earlier versions of iOS.

Now the copying will be blatant, and of course it will be BBK first. But their implementation will be half baked, only for few stock first party apps, and there will be zero 3rd party app support until Google adopted it into AOSP with proper APIs. Been there done that.

 

[jdavid_rp]

TBH I like they get ideas from users. They can get really creative and after all it makes every company more competitive.

Also I would say that apple sometimes had inspiration from jailbreak tweaks..

 

[Fender2112]

WOW

That's pretty blatant.