IF Samsung Infringe then so did Apple just as badly so shouldn't they be sued for $1 Billion dollars or whatever was the original amount was? I like Apple products but They have copied quite a lot over the years
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Look and feel of what? I have used Apple and Samsung products and they don't feel similar at all other than they both have glass screens and both are rectangles .....
Apple Devices:
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 6 Plus
iPad Air
iPad Air 2
Samsung:
Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket
Samsung Galaxy S3
Samsung Galaxy S4
Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014
Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5
IMHO Apple was just fishing and they happened t caught something in that and won a patent lawsuit....
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Fanboy much? Android had Widgets and Multitasking WAY BEFORE Apple had included it and Apple just recently added split screen for their tablets which their phones have yet to be able to do.
Dont you know, to most of these people in this thread, the ONLY way Samsung hasn't copied 1:1, is if they came up with a screen that's a different shape and never made a rectangular phone...
OH wait, you mean they did? They went 16:9 before Apple? They went curved glass? they put capacitive buttons? they have smaller bezels/borders? they were plastic most of their generations, and now are all glass?
these don't sound like apple's devices do they?
I'm not saying that Samsung didn't copy ideas. they absolutely did. And so did Apple. And so did Moto, and so did .... on and on. every single company in tech has borrowed from eachother ideas for designs and implementations since the bloody 60's.
Technology is absolutely an industry, especially smartphones that have "Stood on the shoulders of giants". Anyone who believes that each of these companies have invented what they have or innovated what they have, in complete isolation, or in vacuum is a deluded fan boy.
Even, as revolutionary as the first iPhone was to the smart phone world (And it truly was), What they did wasn't in isolation, and wasn't outside of where people were already looking at steering the market. We were already moving to larger, touch screen devices. PDA's were already the craze. Blackberries were already selling millions, and the two segments were merging faster than ever. What Apple did, was use it's marketing muscle, as well as creative capabilities, to figure out how to do that better than anyone else at the time, using mostly existing technologies, that they did innovate by making work all-together for the first time.
SO these constant lawsuits... only have one victim. Not Apple. not samsung.
US! the consumer. Look at the breakdown (I believe Kdarling posted) about what Apple believes the individual breakdown costs are for each device sold. And then think about it. If Apple is also in licensing deals similar with other companies, and everyone has licensing deals with everyone else. How much of the cost of the device we are buying is licensing and going to other companies? and how much are our devices inflated in price just to pay for constant legal issues and these licensing deals, especially for things that are painfully obvious.