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Apple's Opening Court Statement Focuses on Samsung's Radical Shift in Phone Design
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Uh ? This lawsuit is about external design, what does the internal and software have to do with it ? Of course you can compare those designs to the iPhone, that's what is being argued by Apple.
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Anyone else think that Samsung phone in the bottom right of the picture looks exactly like a Palm Treo device? Perhaps Apple isnt the only one they copied.
Sorry looks like someone else posted before me about Hp/Palm..
Anyone else think that Samsung phone in the bottom right of the picture looks exactly like a Palm Treo device? Perhaps Apple isnt the only one they copied.
Sorry looks like someone else posted before me about Hp/Palm..
These Lawsuits do not make Apple look bad, it makes them look strong. It sends a direct and clear message that if you're going to rip off their work they are going to come after you. But alas kids, trolls and recently registered armchair muppets don't understand this.
And that baffles me. Why Apple is going after hardware vendors instead of Google? I'm tired of hearing that Android was started to be developed before the announcement of the iPhone. Yes it was, but it was also a Windows Mobile and BB rip "clone". It later was changed to an iPhone OS "clone".
What about the fact that it was Apple that invited him in the first place ? What about the fact that he would recluse himself from meetings where his position at Google placed him in a conflict of interest ?
Why ignore some of the facts that don't support the theory ? Why must Eric Schmidt be some evil guy ?
really? these images again? They've pretty much all been debunked. But I guess some won't let it go.
1. You tried to use it as a proof point. YOU failed.
2. No he wasn't. Just because some blogger wrote a HYPOTHESIS doesn't make it fact.
I have no idea how old you are - but these are scary times when bloggers and forum readers present opinions as facts and still others take that and believe them and regurgitate them as gospel. It's the scariest version of "operator" being played.
? did you look at the photo?
At some point, you have to protect your intellectual knowledge and what you've CREATED, not copied.
This goes for any company.
I realize it does look silly, but let's say you started a company, created something fantastic and were ready to make millions. Then I came along, stole your design and ideas, then made millions.
I don't know you about you, but if the roles were reversed, I would want to go thermo-nuclear on you (or whomever that person/company was)
Things change, technology evolves. These lawsuits are just stupid. Everybody has taken ideas from other companies, Apple included.
It would if they actually won them. As it stands, they're losing more than they're winning. Shows their arguments and false pretentions of being the sole industry innovators are just that : arrogance on their part.
Samsung is Apple's biggest competitor right now.
And no - Android was device agnostic - designed to run on any kind of hardware. It wasn't a Windows Mobile clone or BB clone. I'm tired of people like you who try to change fantasy into fact.
I hope you're not insinuating that Samsung stole implementing gorilla glass. Apple doesn't own Gorilla Glass, Corning licenses them to use it.
copy of what?
The ipad? a bit smaller don't you think?
Also, the exterior is quite different. Or do you think it's a copy because they have a rear camera? OMG
But I am not surprised seeing this sort of post from you.
I think that you're delusional if you don't think that Apple had a significant impact on the prevailing designs and features of phones since the release of the iPhone. You can say that there were full touch screen phones before the iPhone all you want, but the fact of the matter is that they sucked, and a lot of them still had physical keyboards built in.
The picture is a lie within a lie. We can all agree that Samsung makes a lot of different phones right? From dumb phones to feature phones to smart phones. Why are all the phones shown just the ones that are radically different from a rectangular slab? They had rectangular slab phones. And why are some of the phones shown, feature phones, and not smart phones? Grabbing at straws I guess.