Apple vs. Samsung Lawsuit Over iPhone Design Officially Reopened

This entire case has now existing for over half as long as the iPhone has. It's been around longer than the era of the iPod (2001 - 2007).

 

Loool these two like a bitter divorced couple :'D

 

Is this case going to ever be settled?Can't wait to see how Macrumors members feel about this latest development.

 

The funniest part of this all that Samsung did copy Apple in the early days. Fast forward today it's Samsung who's got innovative ideas and Apple same old, same old (+ expensive).

 

Well - That is a blatant copy of the the original iPhone so there should have been some damages.

Seems straightforward to me.

 

Yawn.... ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

As I remember SCO vs IBM. 13 years and counting.

 

Every time I see someone with an Android on the home screen, I think it's an iPhone.

 

Samsung's early Galaxy phones were shameless copies of the iPhone. It was borderline hilarious.

Their modern phones, not so much (although Samsung still totally copies). Will the damages affect profits from Galaxy phones currently on shelves (like the S7 Edge) or only the first-gen Galaxies?

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What version of Android have you been looking at?

 

my wife's grandmother once asked me how to use her iPhone.
I looked and said it wasn't an iPhone but another brand using (maybe) Android for the OS.
she said "no, it is exactly like yours. i knew you'd be able to help me when i bought it"

all that said, this is getting old. and my commenting on this thread doesn't help. :facepalm: to myself.

 

It is not illegal to copy ideas. It I only illegal when you copy patented ideas and we have seen many of Apple's patents ruled invalid.

 

That Samsung is truely awful.

 

Yes stealing isn't right, how dare you steal rectangular shapes and rounded corners? Please this so ridiculous, by this metric Apple stole phablet idea from Samsung, and Samsung should sue right?

 

Ironic that what was once a trademark design is now an eyesore with large bezels. The lawsuit has no base though since both Samsung and Apple evolved from PDAs that were rectangle with rounded corners and icon based OS.

 

Yay! This is great news for MacRumors! It means that the next few months won't be totally boring in the Apple news front.

I feel that Apple news recently has all been kinda... blah. Finally some action!

 

This statement is completely nonsensical. But very typical of posts here.

 

Oh the irony...Samsung makes phones with the better design these days...

 

This is the reason I will not buy products from Samsung. They are copy cats.

 

The irony is that this lawsuit continues and yet they're still business partners at the same time.

 

I'm wondering if Apple and Sammy aren't already tired of this

 

perhaps they should just quit making lawyers and judges rich?? they are afterall still working together on new products...

 

Still valid

 

To be fair, no post on this forum is going to end this BS, even if one were to post a peer-reviewed scientific study on the similarities between Galaxy and iPhones.

 

The Supreme Court does not make "recommendations" to the circuit courts of appeals.

 

I don't understand why they can't forget this and move on. Bring on the iPhone 8 and Galaxy S8 and let consumers duke it out in the marketplace.