- Motorola launched a new phone this week, the P30.
- Promotional images make it look nearly identical to Apple’s marketing for the iPhone X – all the way down to the wallpapers.
If you’re in the market for a new Android phone, you can do worse than the Motorola P30, a roughly $350 device with some quality parts, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip and 128GB of storage.
People might also mistake it for a device that costs three times as much: the $1,000 Apple iPhone X, which was launched last fall.
Photos of the new China-bound device were made official on Thursday, and not only do the phones share a lot of design details – a vertical camera, a “notch” on the front of the screen – the promotional images look nearly identical. Even the default wallpapers on the two devices are very similar.
There is one way to tell them apart, though: Motorola has a big logo on the front of the device.
Naturally, tech fans and enthusiasts immediately started roasting the Levovo-owned phonemaker for ripping off Apple's design:
https://twitter.com/nisankubur/status/1029548139303170048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Introducing Motorola P30 Pro: Our most shameless rip yet 😦https://t.co/mtnfEPb2ET pic.twitter.com/7f49CwZNTd
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) August 14, 2018
Samsung should run this as an ad lol
Can't find the original, but... add Motorola to the line too pic.twitter.com/qcXsSYculS
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) August 15, 2018
Jony Ive, Chief Design Officer for the entire smartphone industry. pic.twitter.com/wxBXjNwFV8
— Neil Cybart (@neilcybart) August 14, 2018
Good artists copy but great artists steal... so I guess that makes Motorola good. 😋
Motorola’s latest phone looks exactly like an iPhone X with a Huawei paint job https://t.co/gNraYCyOFK #innovation #tech pic.twitter.com/jwA5jIeADQ
— AJ Kulatunga (@ICT_GURU) August 15, 2018
Motorola: Can I copy your homework?
Apple: Sure just change it a little so it's not obvious
Motorola: *doesn't listen* pic.twitter.com/jkbiNojhyW— Alex Simmonds 💙 (@SimmoOfficial) August 15, 2018
https://twitter.com/Ilyasfikriii/status/1029580730014158848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Even the BBC got in on the mockery:
Spot the difference? 🤔https://t.co/kk6YKUXCsJ
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 16, 2018
Decide for yourself. Here's an official image of the Motorola P30:
And here's Apple's iPhone X: