if you're on this forum, you're not an average joe, you're a tech geek of some degree. average joe's would not even know about this site, let alone be on the forum if you think otherwise, you're really just deluding yourself........
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if you're on this forum, you're not an average joe, you're a tech geek of some degree. average joe's would not even know about this site, let alone be on the forum if you think otherwise, you're really just deluding yourself........
An "average joe" new user (with a total of 4 posts might I add) who just got their first iPhone recently could easily stumble onto this forum asking for advice on their new phone via a quick Google search.
Why are they deluding themselves?
Not really, the first interfaces for small screens were made for copy-machines and they differ greatly from the newton and iPhone. Its not so obvious as it looks now.
This is just going to allow Apple to exploit some ideas that Samsung has had in the oven and Samsung is just going to make a secondary version of their software that will make the final product. Useless to Apple to begin with.
This is an Apple forum. You'd be surprised how many people are not tech geeks. The Apple community is not only built of geeks.
If you're trying to argue just being on a forum makes you a geek these days, I have a few Harley-Davidson forums to show you. The "average" joes know how to work with PHPBB and vBulletin more than you think.
The Vibrant and Captivate look nothing like the iPhone. The model at most issue, is the Samsung Galaxy S i9000, which is the international model of the phone, sold in Europe and Asia.
Frankly, if you've ever seen even one of those in person, you'd know how much unlike the iPhone 3GS it is, no matter what the pictures say. The shape is different, the bezel is very different and the home button area is also very different.
It just so happens 1 promo shot (the front) makes it look alike. I hope Apple took the time to look at the thing and not just the promo shot before filing this lawsuit, because otherwise, they are in for a surprise...
Who's this "you" person you're talking to ? You need to "quote" the posts you are responding to in order to give us a bit of context here.
I can't believe anyone would think that people are Geeks for owning an iPhone and posting on these forums in this day and age, especially with the way that Apple have helped popularise smartphones for non business users.
Thanks to Apple (and others), the Smartphone is mainstream and it's quite "normal" to see non techies using them.
I meant your average human who does not spend time on tech sites, worrying about spec issues, has other things in their life that are far more important than what brand of phone, what type of screen, or any other issues about an unimportant piece of electronics.
It's a phone with and do a few other things, that's it.
They don't know who Steve Jobs is, they might have heard the name Bill Gates mentioned on TV once, but never really took much notice.
We were talking about such a person, as it's hard for us here to accept there are people like that, who really don't care.
Where there are law suits, there is always a degree of chaos that exists. The fact that Apple initiated the suit, is proof that they seem to love introducing chaos into their operations. But enough of that.
I do believe after using my new Samsung Galaxy S II outside in the sunshine today, and finding it very easy to read the display in such bright ambient light, this new "Super AMOLED Plus" technology is a great improvement.
What really makes me laugh, is when I consider what type of "cool sensational name" Apple will come up with to rename Super AMOLED Plus, so as to make it sound like they invented it.
It's the same thing they've done now with other existing and in no way, "new" technologies. Like the "retina display".
It's nothing more than IPS which has been used for years. The only difference is that Apple had it reduced to a measly 3.5" display. That as opposed to the 14" and 15" sizes used on millions of laptops prior to Apple ever considering getting serious and offering a quality display.
I do hope that Apple will use Samsung's highly superior display on the next iPad. Not so much because I want to use it in the sun, but rather simply because the colors are so beautiful, the contrast is strikingly good with deep blacks and pure whites, and the brightness is so high I must turn it down.
Apple owes it to itself to sell an iPad with a great display, something much better than what my iPad 2 has.
I do believe after using my new Samsung Galaxy S II outside in the sunshine today, and finding it very easy to read the display in such bright ambient light, this new "Super AMOLED Plus" technology is a great improvement.
What really makes me laugh, is when I consider what type of "cool sensational name" Apple will come up with to rename Super AMOLED Plus, so as to make it sound like they invented it.
It's the same thing they've done now with other existing and in no way, "new" technologies. Like the "retina display".
It's nothing more than IPS which has been used for years. The only difference is that Apple had it reduced to a measly 3.5" display. That as opposed to the 14" and 15" sizes used on millions of laptops prior to Apple ever considering getting serious and offering a quality display.
I do hope that Apple will use Samsung's highly superior display on the next iPad. Not so much because I want to use it in the sun, but rather simply because the colors are so beautiful, the contrast is strikingly good with deep blacks and pure whites, and the brightness is so high I must turn it down.
Apple owes it to itself to sell an iPad with a great display, something much better than what my iPad 2 has.
exactly. anyone that knows of this site or uses this forum, doesn't fall under the general public. everyone that comes on here is a tech geek of some varying degree, to think otherwise just shows delusion.
look at how many people own an iphone, compare to how many users are on this forum and it just proves that people on here are just a small percentage of it, so really they're not qualified to judge whether the phones do look similar, if not, then access would not have been granted, which is what amuses me most about the people arguing that they don't look similar.
Anyone who would confuse an iphone 3G with a galaxy S is an idiot. The only people who think they look alike are people who only look at cherry picked images on the internet.
First of all there's "samsung" printed in big ass letters on the front of the phone. You cant miss it. Second touchwiz looks and behaves nothing like iphone UI. The only part that looks similar is the app drawer which isnt even a home screen. Third, galaxy S phones have bigger and much much better screens than a 3GS. Just that difference alone should tell anyone with half a brain that they're not the same phone.
Yes they both have the same general shape. But so does a 3 series and 5 series BMW and no one gets those two confused.
First of all there's "samsung" printed in big ass letters on the front of the phone. You cant miss it. Second touchwiz looks and behaves nothing like iphone UI. The only part that looks similar is the app drawer which isnt even a home screen. Third, galaxy S phones have bigger and much much better screens than a 3GS. Just that difference alone should tell anyone with half a brain that they're not the same phone.
Yes they both have the same general shape. But so does a 3 series and 5 series BMW and no one gets those two confused.
LG is like Samsung
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/lg-optimus-2x-929388/review?artc_pg=3
I find it interesting that LG's icons are also like Samsung, which are like Apple's.
1) The phone icon is green with a white slanted at a similar icon to iOS
2) Contacts is a book with a silhouette of a person with tabs on the right
3) Camera applications is the same colour scheme as Apple's with a blue lens and a thicker black border and a grey back. The difference is instead of a grey square, it is shaped like a DSLR
4) The calendar is like iOS's but more specifically, OS X's. It has metal rings on the top and a redish bar, plus, the bottom right corner of the page is curled.
5) The photos app is of a sunflower.
6) This one is less severe, but there are 4 icons across and 4 down, with a dock at the bottom.
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/lg-optimus-2x-929388/review?artc_pg=3
I find it interesting that LG's icons are also like Samsung, which are like Apple's.
1) The phone icon is green with a white slanted at a similar icon to iOS
2) Contacts is a book with a silhouette of a person with tabs on the right
3) Camera applications is the same colour scheme as Apple's with a blue lens and a thicker black border and a grey back. The difference is instead of a grey square, it is shaped like a DSLR
4) The calendar is like iOS's but more specifically, OS X's. It has metal rings on the top and a redish bar, plus, the bottom right corner of the page is curled.
5) The photos app is of a sunflower.
6) This one is less severe, but there are 4 icons across and 4 down, with a dock at the bottom.
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#1 - The look of the phone icon predates the iPhone.
kdarling has already posted in another thread a very well documented history on it.
#2 - iffy at best. The look is similar, but the colors are different.
#3 - it's a camera for the camera app... where's the issue?
#4 - it's a flip calendar.. big deal. Those have been around and used as icons long before the iPhone.
#5 - hate to break it to you, but that is not a Sunflower.
#6 - is pointless. It's a grid of icons... again, predates the iPhone.