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Conan O'Brien on Samsung vs. Apple
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Haha. I laughed, and the audience laughed already as they compared actual products and "Samsung" denying similarities. Telling.
I laughed pretty hard. But I still think Apple's case against Samsung is ridiculously stupid. Sure, the phones and tablets do resemble each other in that video. But guess what, the iphone and ipad design-wise, is very basic and generic (rectangular, rounded corners, black bezels, screen in the center.) It might be easier to find things that wouldn't resemble them. They don't and can't own shapes, colors, rounded corners, the idea of symmetry, and the idea of minimalism. Too broad, and too unoriginal.
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They made the iphone's lcd screen and processor chip. I'm sure they were able to reverse engineer their own products to find the iphone's case design somehow.
When the iPhone first came out it was so exceptionally groundbreaking and innovative that it rewired everyone's brains: people don't remember that there was nothing like it prior to its introduction. Nowadays the iPhone design just seems so basic that people can't conceive of how you could patent something that "obvious"--but, of course, nothing about the iPhone was obvious until Apple revolutionized people's concept of what a smartphone could be.
Reminds me of a newspaper cartoon. Mom is leaning against the living room doorjamb. Teenage daughter is frantically tearing apart the living room couch looking for the cellphone, all the while vehemently grousing and whining:
"Why can't someone invent a phone that hangs on the wall and stays there so you can't lose it?"
Well, that's the type of phone the dinosaurs used and it's the main reason they went extinct...
Reminds me of a newspaper cartoon. Mom is leaning against the living room doorjamb. Teenage daughter is frantically tearing apart the living room couch looking for the cellphone, all the while vehemently grousing and whining:
"Why can't someone invent a phone that hangs on the wall and stays there so you can't lose it?"
Well, that's the type of phone the dinosaurs used and it's the main reason they went extinct...
You do realize the first iPhone was a complete pile of ****. Right? My windows mobile phone blew it away.
Ooh! That explains why iPhone is doing so poorly and why Windows Mobile is doing so spectacularly well!
All this makes it much more clear why Samsung is cornering the Android market: They're duplicating Apple's design and marketing. If a jury of 12 random people think that's wrong, I think it will knock them out of top place and possibly make them more equivalent to HTC. Whichever way this case goes, things are going to change dramatically.
Windows mobile isn't made anymore.
And how well it is doing is not relevant to what I said, the fact of the matter is.
What my Windows Phone better than the original iPhone. Yes
Stop posting that photoshopped picture of the galaxy s with the app drawer open. Thats not the home screen.
Thats the real homescreen and size of the phones.
The US versions looked even more different
I find it funny when people point out that it's the app drawer. Do you understand that Samsung advertised it with the app drawer open?
My Windows Mobile phone had
MMS ( iPhone didn't have that )
GPS ( iPhone didn't have that )
Copy N Paste ( iPhone didn't have that )
3rd Party Apps ( the iPhone Didn't Have that )
3G ( iPhone didn't have that ).
Better battery life
Better screen.
How do people not understand that the original iPhone was pretty much crap?
Windows Mobile also had far MORE more apps in the early years. Windows Phone already has 100,000 as far as I know.
So the original iPhone didn't exactly have a chance to win against windows mobile. If it hadn't taken off windows mobile would have been king.
It isn't about the what. It is about the how. For example, all smartphones (and your great windows phone) had internet. Correct? How did you browse? Now compare that to Mobile safari. It was a an absolute night and day. A revolution in terms of technology. Same goes to various tasks on the iPhone. All smartphones before 2007 could play music. NONE were as easy or delightful as the iPhone. The iPhone lacked a lot of things in 2007 but how it did the few things it could do was (and still is) revolutionary.
It is about the how not the what.
No they didn't. The two photos I showed for the us varients were the first result for searching their names. Apple and the media put the app drawer screenshot up to get more clicks and make it looks like they were trying to make an exact clone. Its even worse with the galaxy tab. Apple always posts pictures of it in the portrait orientation. Never has samsung advertised the tab 10.1 in the portrait orientation. The honeycomb tablets were landscape devices. The whole galaxy tab being a copy is taking it too far. It really doesn't look like the ipad at all. Its a different size, aspect ratio and its a landscape device while the ipad is primarily a portrait device.
The idea that this could possible confuse anyone into thinking it is an iPad is ridiculous. The only people that think that is people who think every tablet is an ipad. I have someone ask me if my pc tablet was an ipad once.
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The thing is, everything you just stated is 100%, pure opinion.
I never had an issue with my Mobile Browsers on my Windows Mobile Phones, in fact they were better in the sense that well...they supported far more. And the phones had 3G, where the iPhone did not.
My Windows Mobile phone was every bit as easy to use as an iPhone, and at the time could do far more.
And as far as " delightful " I could care less. Its a tool. Not a toy.
Just because the iPhone 3G was the first super popular smart phone, for average joe users. Does not mean business and power users weren't already on phones that could do everything an iPhone could, and more. ( back then anyway ). We already were, the iPhone was nothing new to us.
Not the Motorola Fail Bar.
The First iPhone. It looked pretty. That was it.
I remeber seeing the keynote and thinking
" So....this thing doesn't have 3G? or GPS? I can't send pictures? Or install any programs on it? It has worse battery life than my phone? And costs more? "
The First iPhone was nothing more than a massively overpriced feature phone. It wasn't until the iPhone3G that it became a " smart phone "
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Candybar iTunes phone?
