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Comment by lusr | Hacker News Reader

Incredibly deceptive title. It's a UX review. What did you expect Samsung to do, sit around and wait for customers to complain or be proactive in ensuring a high quality UX? What exactly is wrong with using the market leader to establish how great your UX is in your competing product?

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A typical UX review would be evaluating an interface on its own merits, not by comparing and contrasting everything to the way a competitor implements it (and recommending that everything be changed to look and behave more like the competitor).

This list is only this things Samsung felt the iPhone was doing better - there are lots of other things that differentiate the two phones, this is not a doc on how to clone the phone, but how to follow it's best practices.

That sounds like an incredibly idiotic waste of resources when faced with a dominant market leader. Every place I've worked we'd consider how we stacked up with the market leader first, because that's what we'd be compared to.

You don't become #1 by playing catch-up.

Agreed; it doesn’t feel like instructions to copy, rather recommendations for how the user experience can be improved. I wish the original[1] was the one on the front page right now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4353762

I changed the title, didn't mean to be deceptive...

The part that didn't look like a normal UX review was where every difference between the devices was followed with an instruction to eliminate that difference.

No, only the differences in which iPhone has better UX were presented, followed with the most straightforward idea of how to improve S1's UX.

changing your comment to read,

>What did you expect Samsung to do, sit around and wait for customers to realize it's not an iPhone?

would work just as well.

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