“Acer came up with a good idea. Let’s put pics, documents and media in the cloud and make them available to all of your devices,” Jim Dalrymple reports for The Loop.
“Uh wait, that’s called iCloud,” Dalrymple reports. “No matter, we’ll just steal the idea and call it AcerCloud.”
Dalrymple reports, “Oh, and to save time, we might as well steal Apple’s presentation slide too.”
Check out Acer’s theft in the full article here.
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Would you feel secure connecting Windows PCs and Android phones with ‘AcerCloud?’ – January 9, 2012
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I’m sure they thought of it and started working on it before Apple. :0)
Just like Google, they’ll claim “we thought of it first”. LOL
I say let them do it….you know it will be a disaster ands will make Apple’s implementation look that much better. I cannot wait for the articles comparing AcerCloud to iCloud….just the opportunity for more articles showing Apple’s hardware/software approach is superior to this new Acer/Android Frankenstein implementation trying to tie these disparate entities into a cohesive unit….
“Good artists copy; great artists steal.” Apparently Acer is great. (But are they artists?)
Those that can create and innovate, those that can’t steal and imitate.
I feel you may not have got the essence of the quote. Here Acer’s effort is being of the copycat. MS’s effort with the Windows phone, OTOH, is re-imagined and inspired by Apple’s innovation. MS strives to steal greatness, not copy it blindly. Whether they achieve it remains to be seen, and is besides the point.
“Here Acer’s effort is being of the copycat”
but their ripoff promo shows their dishonest Intent and lack of integrity.
Copying while giving credit and recognition where due is one thing, lame pretense another. Those that can do – do , it’s what separates the men from the boys.
Complete misinterpretation of the quite.
In this phrase “steal” means “inspired”, in contrast to these who “copy”, the actual stealing (in bad sense).
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Sorry, but I think you didn’t quite understand the meaning of Picasso’s quote, based upon what you wrote.
At best, Acer’s attempt at a cloud service would be called a copy. “Steal”ing is metaphorical. “Steal”ing refers to an artist taking another artist’s basic idea and pushing it so far forward that people think the original idea must have belonged to that artist. For example, while Apple didn’t invent the MP3 player, it took the basic idea and pushed it so far that when people think of the MP3 market they think of the iPod.
I understand the meaning(s) of the quote, but in this case I was (attempting) to imply that Acer had apparently taken the quote quite and completely literally regarding “Acercloud.” Apparently I failed.
When a design, or graphic communication in this case, is clear and ‘attractive,’ people copy because they cannot think up anything else, the ‘logic’ of the graphic and idea of Apples cloud, is to great for them. And can they out execute Apple with Apple’s idea – I doubt it. You can learn by playing catch up, but only if you really learn and don’t just copy.
And yet Android fans will still argue and defend them with “apple didn’t invent cloud storage therefore apple copied first and acer isn’t copying” damn it when will it stop?! I’ll answer my own question…NEVER smh
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Okay, visually the slides are similar because they’re conveying the same concept, but Acer did NOT copy the slide from Apple.
Maybe. But because the concept of syncing all devices is the same, there can’t be too many ways to portray it.
kinda what I meant. There’s no point making the slide radically different just to seem like they’re not copying.
Yeah, I guess when you identically copy another company’s package of mobile cloud services, it’s only logical that you copy their marketing materials too. I mean, why not? It’s only logical. Acer sees how the blatant copy of Apple is benefitting Samsung. Gruber summed it up best: Is this Acer copying Apple, or is it Acer copying Samsung’s copying of Apple?
Not saying they didn’t copy the talking points. Just saying they didn’t outright copy the slide itself, like the article suggests. Like Samsung definitely did with app icons.
anybody trusting their information to any cloud provider is a fool
People who don’t care about innovators are not worthy of my respect. Acer is as repugnant to me as Samsung is. Making Microsoft look good in comparison at present.
Is anybody really surprised at this?
Really let’s call icloud a rip too, you people think one apple does something it’s the first of its kind. Well sorry to tell you folks its not. If you really want to know where online storage started you have to jump in the way back machine and go to the late 90’s with yahoo’s briefcase with was truly revolutionary! All that fallowed are the blatant rip-offs don’t belive the news look for your self.
There it is!
jeesh, whattaya want, they changed the shape of the cloud!
Acer is another copy cat. Apple do something to protect your IP. Acer is just like Google.
Does anybody really care about what Acer is up to? It’s one thing to just change your menu to show the same offerings as your “competition,” and another entirely to actually be able to cook up anything remotely similar tasting.
This will work like utter crap. “AcerCloud” is not baked into Android the way iCloud is part of iOS. So clearly, you will have to install some sort of app to make it work. And the app will have to run in the background all the time if you want the transfers to be automatic, am I right?
——RM
Ok, Acer is a great ripoff artist. But be careful here. If I change just a few words in this headline, it becomes:
“Apple came up with a good idea. Let’s put pics, documents and media in the cloud and make them available to all of your devices,”
“Uh wait, that’s called DropBox. No matter, we’ll just steal the idea and call it iCloud.”
Yes, Apple unsuccessfully tried to buy DropBox. When things didn’t work out, they simply copied them and renamed their service. So apparently Acer’s idea is a copy of a copy.
I can only wish iCloud was half as useful as Dropbox …
Acer Cloud is nothing like iCloud–
In the iCloud presentation the smartphone is on the left, and the laptop is on the right.
In the AcerCloud presentation the smartphone is on the right, and the laptop is on the left.
See? Completely different!