great now folks like this guy here ^^ are making wild assumptions.
YEAH MAN, LG already KNEW Apple was gonna come out with a multitouch smartphone, so they rushed ahead and created the 'LG Prada,' therefore Apple had the first capacitive touch screen before LG! YEAH! /sarcasm.
Give me a break kid. If you're gonna make an assumption, at least back it up with some kind of source.
How is their galaxy s line cheap, when it has a pricier screen, a higher quality cpu that most Android devices, at least the lower costing models.
I still don't get it. If the iphone was so obvious why did it take 2 years and android for these handset makers to get any foothold?
When you are the premium brand (or perceived to be the premium brand for all your android fans who are going to flame on this) you need to protect that. Incredibly hard to build up a reputation like that. The apple logo on the back and build quality is part of that but so is the look and feel.
If samsung builds an iphone clone and starts doing buy one get one free and then offers it on a pay as you go network after time that would erode the iphone brand. Of course apple needs to protect that.
The LG prada fanboys need to back up their assertions with something.
We know how long Apple takes to develop products, a very long time.
We know how much their competition spends doing such things and how they like to rush things to market.
It is much more likely that the LG prada started development way after the original iPhone started being developed. Given the two products they produced, it is pretty clear the LG Prada was created in only a small fraction of the time it took to create the iPhone. So it is likely the iPhone was in development for years before the Prada was even a concept.
Apple is devoid of morals and innovation? Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea of Apple's philanthropy? Also, Apple INVENTED the whole concept of touch UI for iPhone and iPad
Apple should just buy Samsung. That will get them a big foot in the consumer electronics sector.
They may have poo pood the ipod but you ever actually listen to any of the competition? Devices from Sony, Toshiba, and the now dead Rio blew away the ipod in terms of audio quality. And after all the original purpose of the iPod was a music player, so sq matters.
Your assumption is that there are so many ways to make something that they are endless. Android functionality is very close to iOS. So is everything else since its been made for the same human hands.
Samsung phone does not have to directly copy something from Apple to come out looking like one. Apple Lawyers are grasping straws but that what good business executive do, it does not matter if its right or wrong they just do, just like any person with wealth will sue over almost anything, they really have very little to loose when your that wealthy a few million with a possible payoff of billions is worth it.
Most people hear if not all of us are to poor to see that its just business as its done in the civilized world. Win is the only thing that matters even if Apple looses they will loose little when it comes down to it, but they could win big and not have to rush out anything special for some years.
Realty:
A total of 482,871 patent applications were filed with the USPTO in the year 2009
"U.S. Patent Statistics Chart - Calendar Years 1963 - 2009,"
16 million civil cases were filed in state courts in 2002, according to the State Court Guide to Statistical Reporting
Sorry could not find newer information but if it was that then imagine now.
Do you even understand what you are trying to say? Who cares when iPhone development started? What matters is patent filing date. Quote: "One day before Apple's acting CEO told Wall Street analysts that his company would not stand for having its intellectual property "ripped off" -- a remark clearly aimed at certain iPhone-like features of the Palm Pre -- the U.S. Patent Office awarded Apple Patent No. No. 7479949.
This 358-page document, originally filed on Sept. 5, 2007, is the mother of all iPhone patents. "
So, the date is Sept. 5, 2007. LG Prada was released on March 22, 2007 which makes Apple patent irrelevant (prior art).
lilo777 said:As it's already been said, Apple is protecting their IP and patents. If they don't show the effort, they run the risk of losing them. It's not a "Apple is evil" issue, it's how IP and patents work.
There are several ways to lose a patent. One way is not to defend it. Another ways is trying to defend bogus patents and have the court invalidate it.
I'm surprised it's taken this long, to be honest: I've thought for a long time that Samsung's phones in particular are pretty much a blatant rip-off of Apple's industrial design and user interface.
HTC have shown that they can produce an innovative and different interface with their Sense UI, but Samsung seem to just want to rip-off Apples look and feel
Where exactly does Apple hold the IP/patent for icons in a grid pattern on a hand-held device?
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Who are you? Your a goddamn super-troll! Your on all forums that have even an ounce of controversy. You do nothing but fuel the fire and then sit back and watch all these idiots bicker don't you? It is fun watching everyone playing lawyer like they know IP laws then you throw a stick and watch em run. When they prove you wrong you magically shrug it off then redirect them with some other apple bash and enjoy the carnage they deal to their own brains. Nice! So I'll bet you have an iPhone, maybe iPad and/or MacBook. Keep it up. It's entertaining
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i wouldn't be talkin if i were you.
How is the Prada prior art for the iPhone? Icons, grids and touch screens existed before the iPhone and the Prada, it's just Apples implementation that didn't (i.e. square icons in a 4x4 grid with a 4 icon dock below it). The Prada and iPhone aren't remotely similar.
This is great news as then maybe we could get some competition and force people to be inventive rather than copycats acting like they're somehow aiding innovation.
Right now the argument that competition will help apple make better products is moot, because no one is actually doing anything different.
Oh, and if you are under the delusion that what apple has done is so perfectly stripped down, everything will resemble it, then your not thinking about this creatively enough. There is tons of room for alternate methods.
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Who are you? Your a goddamn super-troll! Your on all forums that have even an ounce of controversy. You do nothing but fuel the fire and then sit back and watch all these idiots bicker don't you? It is fun watching everyone playing lawyer like they know IP laws then you throw a stick and watch em run. When they prove you wrong you magically shrug it off then redirect them with some other apple bash and enjoy the carnage they deal to their own brains. Nice! So I'll bet you have an iPhone, maybe iPad and/or MacBook. Keep it up. It's entertaining