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Apple Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab Sales in U.S.
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Oh, Surface? Yeah that thing looks AMAZING! Nobody can compete with that screen size.
Give me a break. Those clowns at Microsoft can't get anything right outside of XBox.
Oh, Surface? Yeah that thing looks AMAZING! Nobody can compete with that screen size.
Holy crap! Look at that black bezel and rounded corners! It looks like a giant iPad!
...that came out circa 2007ish.
You're wrong. You might not confuse a Galaxy for an iPad, but plenty of other people have.
That's exactly what it has to do with
:"The copying is so pervasive, that the Samsung Galaxy products appear to be actual Apple products -- with the same rectangular shape with rounded corners, silver edging, a flat surface face with substantial top and bottom black borders, gently curving edges on the back, and a display of colorful square icons with rounded corners," the complaint said"
Source : http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/apple-sues-samsung-says-it-copied-ipad-301
Wow, Apple's really losing touch. Always a step behind. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 has already been replaced. LOOOOL!!!
Samsung must be laughing they're butts off at this. More free advertising. Apple are looking pretty darn desperate at this stage, and the fankiddies are just as blind at what has just happened. The real WIN for Apple would have been if they were successful in stopping the GS3. But Apple got REJECTED HARD on that attempt. Go get 'em Sammy and keep 'em guessing.
Samsung must be laughing they're butts off at this. More free advertising. Apple are looking pretty darn desperate at this stage, and the fankiddies are just as blind at what has just happened. The real WIN for Apple would have been if they were successful in stopping the GS3. But Apple got REJECTED HARD on that attempt. Go get 'em Sammy and keep 'em guessing.
Then they dont know how to read I guess, pretty hard to be tricked into buying a box that says samsung galaxy right on the box with the iPad. I guess if you are purchasing a product based on the box color then you might mistake it for an iPad, but if you're doing that I cant imagine that the person(s) have the intelligence to use an iPad in the first place.
This whole thing is silly unless Apple thinks they own the right to use white boxes and rectangles I don't even see how they can even argue this. If the galaxy is copying the ipad then surely the dozens of other android based tablets are too so why dont they go sue them? Childish on the part of Apple in my opinion.
I would like Samsung and other manufacturers to come up with unique designs NOT because they're copying Apple, but because if I want an iPad, I'll buy an iPad. I don't want a market full of what amounts to basically the same product with meaningless differences made by different manufacturers. I want to be able to look to other manufacturers and find a dizzying variety of distinctly different products.
When everyone is copying Apple, there might as well only be one option.
In the end, creativity gives consumers options while playing follow the leader takes them away.
When everyone is copying Apple, there might as well only be one option.
In the end, creativity gives consumers options while playing follow the leader takes them away.
Apple is doing the same thing with iOS and OSX. And they are doing it quite successfully. It's all up to Microsoft to put it together so it works the way it's supposed to in consumers hands. None of us have any idea if they will or not. If they pay attention like they did with Windows 7, it will do well. If not, then it won't be a significant player. But also remember that it is highly unlikely that Microsoft will be the only company selling a Windows 8 tablet in either flavor. They're just giving it a jump start. The OEM's will follow suit.
Design patents are a complex issue, but note how Apple still tried to block the GS3 launch. It may have been a software thing, but they attempted to block its launch without ever having seen one.
Really suprised about the verdict. You can tell the difference between a Samsung and an Apple right away. When Apple sued Google for Multi-Touch patents, they lost.
What about Apple getting in trouble in Holland for stealing Samsungs networking methods? Damn thieving
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You and I might be able to instantly tell the difference, but what about John Q. Public who thinks the blue E on his desktop is "the internet"? Or the soccer mom who can just barely use Facebook?
They are the primary market for tablets.
A computer-implemented user notification method includes displaying, in a status area near a perimeter of a graphical interface, a notification of a recent alert event for a mobile device, receiving a user selection in the status area, and in response to the receipt of the user selection, displaying, in a central zone of the graphical interface, detail regarding a plurality of recent messaging events for the mobile device.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20090249247.PGNR.
http://www.google.com/patents/US20090249247
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ent-and-how-apple-may-or-may-not-infringe-it/
Google patent filed in 2009. Only reason Google didn't sue yet is because patent is not yet approved. Those guys at USPTO is still arguing for 3 years!! But the day it's approved, you can see a ****-storm approaching.
Your post is comical. The Surface won't touch iPad sales. Just as no android tablet will. It has nothing to do with being a better machine and everything to do with being years ahead of the competition by getting in the game first.
How different can a t shirt or a tv look? Companies have done quite a bit to make them different from one another.
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The surface is ahead of the iPad. And the Surface Pro has no competitors yet. Apple's share of the tablet market has nowhere to do but down. Maybe not a lot if Windows cannibalizes more Android sales. Android stands to lose the most. But the world runs on Windows, like it or not.
We can't really say if the surface is ahead or not until we see how the market responds to it. It really boils down to the question of, "Do people really want to do desktop things on a tablet device?"
I have a hunch that the answer is no, simply because desktop OS tablets have been tried before and I'm not sure a chimera OS can solve the problem. Either way, time will tell.
Says the guy who has never created, invented or made anything of value.
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Are the trolls here really holding out hope for the surface?
Someone post the Consumer Reports Apple customer satisfaction picture STAT! We need to keep this rolling!
Extremely different. Anyone who thinks other tablets don't look different should abstain from these conversations entirely.
A tablet could be shaped like two ovals welded together at the center. Not all tablets have to be squares.
Also...
...for those of you interested, I want you to tell me how these two devices are at all similar looking.
Also...
...for those of you interested, I want you to tell me how these two devices are at all similar looking.