The Samsung Q1 shipped in 2006 :
http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/ipad-and-tablets/samsung-q1-review-49266840/
Oh look, a full touch screen device with a bezel.
hey look, Samsung has giant home button before the iPad!
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hey look, Samsung has giant home button before the iPad!
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How Much of an iPhone is Made by Samsung?
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=16442
the lawsuit is garbage, just fearing the competition
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=16442
the lawsuit is garbage, just fearing the competition
hey look, Samsung has giant home button before the iPad!
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Oh look, iOS5's split keyboard quite a few years before Apple "innovated" it
Not like this is a new practice either...
Does anyone remember when Jobs launched the Mac Air with distorted photos showing it to be waaay thinner than in reality? Cant find the pictures atm, but i know they are out there somewhere. Anyone who can dig them up?
edit: Found it....
(The one below is "real" thickness, based on width/thickness dimensions of the device)
likewise, except that i dont want an ipad. not going beyond computers afaik apple goes... which in practice means ill use the ones i get for free (the mac air i'd probably consider paying for myself though if i had to, its a nice little gadget).
Does anyone remember when Jobs launched the Mac Air with distorted photos showing it to be waaay thinner than in reality? Cant find the pictures atm, but i know they are out there somewhere. Anyone who can dig them up?
edit: Found it....
(The one below is "real" thickness, based on width/thickness dimensions of the device)
likewise, except that i dont want an ipad. not going beyond computers afaik apple goes... which in practice means ill use the ones i get for free (the mac air i'd probably consider paying for myself though if i had to, its a nice little gadget).
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It is expected that these devices are also covered by one or more of the patent rights invoked..........
So Apple lawyers can't even be bothered to be specific with the details to the court!
Oh dear Apple, how you are falling, you better pray that this plans out cause if it doesn't, well, everyone knows Samsung, everyone knows Apple, Apple being reported on as falsifying evidence in international front page news, goodbye sales Apple. Goodbye stock price and company value....
I am not going to say weather this story is fact or not, BUT if it is then I am frankly disgusted with Steve Jobs and Apple and the courts for allowing it. And I would sincerely hope Apple get whats coming, case thrown out, the brands reputation damaged and a massive fine given to them plus I would expect Apple to pay large damages to Samsung.
What makes this a worrying story is that somehow, I just wouldn't put it past Apple to stoop to this level of stupidity and arrogance.
So Apple lawyers can't even be bothered to be specific with the details to the court!
Oh dear Apple, how you are falling, you better pray that this plans out cause if it doesn't, well, everyone knows Samsung, everyone knows Apple, Apple being reported on as falsifying evidence in international front page news, goodbye sales Apple. Goodbye stock price and company value....
I am not going to say weather this story is fact or not, BUT if it is then I am frankly disgusted with Steve Jobs and Apple and the courts for allowing it. And I would sincerely hope Apple get whats coming, case thrown out, the brands reputation damaged and a massive fine given to them plus I would expect Apple to pay large damages to Samsung.
What makes this a worrying story is that somehow, I just wouldn't put it past Apple to stoop to this level of stupidity and arrogance.
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Oh look, iOS5's split keyboard quite a few years before Apple "innovated" it
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If it were the other way i.e, if Apple had come up with split keyboard first and Samsung had introduced it in Android tablets, Apple would've sued them. I think Apple should stop suing every goddamn company.
Also I don't like the people who take Apple's marketing so seriously. I find it funny to see people calling iPad 'magical' and such. If Apple introduces something (which is already there), its re-inventing and if someone else uses the same thing its copying...
1) WIMP and the desktop metaphor are not Apple inventions.
2) Android is still that. Android is a software platform, not hardware design.
p.s.
2003 called, it wants its ipad design back.
And as easterners are seen as thieves, how bout this nifty little gadget:
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Didnt MSFT publically announce the split keyboard before Apple did? Just for the record here?
Ok, Apple defenders. What's the excuse now? They made a mistake second time? This is a clear manipulation of evidence. If the judge doesn't throw this lawsuit out of the courtroom, he/she is a compete turd. How many times is Apple going to get away with this?
Look up. Those are only 2 of +10 slates i dug up the other night. Generic F------ Design. Capisce? Heck, its used for anything from picture frames to tv:s. Thats how generic it is. Geez...
Yes, they had it years before... and patents on various types including ones that adjust the spacing of virtual keys to the spacing between your fingers..
I did this for you the other day. Ill dig up the links, hang on a sec (or 1000).
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Here they are...
(I specifically looked for pads from 2005 and earlier* (some of them, like the vista electrovaya and one of the PBJ slates are probably post-2005 though)).
* this is when Apple patented the wheel, err... registered the generic design.
Presenting the JooJoo:
Presenting, the one and only, Bill Gates (No, im not a MSFT-fanboy):
Personally though, i like to give credit Weiser (even if he, too, stood on the shoulder of giants):
Nice reading: http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/classes/MAS961/readings/weiser_reprint.pdf
P.S.
To cut the crap postings showing ruggedized Win Tables:
I present to you, Electrovaya:
Yes, that is XP.
Vista.
As for release dates, its quite tricky. The first device is possibly the SC 1240.
http://www.shopping.com/Electrovaya...B-HARD-DRIVE-BLACK-ELECTROVAYA-Item/info?sb=1
CNET has a review posted 2003 for said device:
http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/electrovaya-scribbler-tablet-pc/1707-3121_7-30577411.html
Now, i want a f'in cracker. And samsung should give me one of them fancy pads. Prior art, predating community design - check.
Ill post some more pictures, for future reference:
http://gigaom.com/mobile/new_sahara_slat/
TabletKiosk, Sahara i215 - 2005.
No idea, but it sure as hell is not an ipad - 2005
(it was Sahara i213. For those interested the man is Frank G - whoever that is)
Sahara i213 - 2005
At least the computer is a mac (2005?)
Tatung TTAB-A12D (2005)
(Not only did they steal Apples patented homescreen square, they also stole the color white - and obviously used the time machine without Apples written consent)
Apparantly, Electrovaya also made that very same device (?!)
Electrovaya SC3000 (2005).
The nerve of some people, they even stole the bumper! Grr..
(Sahara i213 - 2005)
iPad 2004? Nah...
is she using her finger? Looks like it...
(Device is a PBJ Slate, see following pictures. Years vary... Some page named "Ployer.com" wrote a story on PBJ Touch slate in 2004. Page is broken though)
ROUNDED CORNERS! CALL THE LAWYERS!!!!
Addendum: Sahara i213 was apparently launched in 2004.
According to news about it, it had finger touch (and stylus, of course).
From leading health care suppliers to major hospitals the Sahara iTablet PC has been well received by the medical community. The Sahara Touch-iT iTablet, utilizing a finger touch-screen and supporting XP Home or XP Professional, gives medical professionals the flexibility of having a fully featured PC available within a minimal footprint. Also since the Sahara iTablet line of products includes both Touch-screen and active Digitizer systems a medical practice is able to standardize on a single hardware supplier for their Tablet needs.
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Fujitsu, 2004:
Not sure if i would call it "stylistic", then again i never liked Fujitsu design.
(heck, put it side by side with their new WP7 device and its like.. the same)
Thats enough for now.
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And no one is better at it than he is.
A masterful command of power, control, and manipulation has served him and Apple well.
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oh samsung - you should listen to aapl mgt. when they say -
" competition is good - but people should invent thier own stuff..."
" change it..." - Stevie Ray Vaughan - 1995
oh samsung - you should listen to aapl mgt. when they say -
" competition is good - but people should invent thier own stuff..."
" change it..." - Stevie Ray Vaughan - 1995
They showed the thumbs layout was shown in a Windows 8 video before Apple showed it in iOS 5, but as iOS 5 will launch before Windows 8 people will most likely say Microsoft copied them.
Scroll up, I posted a screenshot of it on a Samsung Q1 running under Windows XP tablet edition.
And Android beat both.
I don't make any comments on this until I'm sure I've heard all the true facts here. Just hope that this is resolved in which proper patents are protected, and bogus claims are thrown out. Especially with so many arguments based on speculation about things which I'm not sure are even really talked about, in the case, anymore.
Apple´s Community Design certificate does say it is for "Handheld computers".
Every application for a Community Design certificate must specify a category according to the Locarno classification.
