No phone on the market looks exactly like the iPhone. So your rebuttal holds no weight.
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No phone on the market looks exactly like the iPhone. So your rebuttal holds no weight.
I'm not defending any company at all. All I'm doing is using facts to sort of shine a light on the stupidity that some people decide to input into this forum. But you do make a good point a lot of people do hate on Apple users and call them fanboys when sometimes they're clearly not. In my case, I have an iPhone, but as you can clearly see, I'm not a fanboy of Apple. And I don't even use an android powered phone so the logic behind me being a android fanboy would be missing. What I am though is a fanboy of tech. I enjoy the fact that other companies feel challenged by Apple enough to make phones out of materials that the iPhone may have been made out of first. Competition like that is the only reason phones will ever get better.
Apple disagrees. In fact the blatant copying is so bad it's practically a parody of itself now. For example, see this ad:
Even though I can't stand Microsoft I have to give them credit for at least attempting to be original (I know it's weird to type that!). Samsung and Google on the other hand? Ugh!
Looks nothing like the iPhone... if anything, it looks better as it doesn't have those stupid lines around the camera.
No one with a minimum bit of mental sanity would wish for a market monopolized by a single producer.
So let us all hope this "brand wars" are never going to stop (figuratively, of course).
more fighters, more products, more ideas , more choice, better products etc etc.
As final customers only benefits are coming to us, as long as competition survives
So let us all hope this "brand wars" are never going to stop (figuratively, of course).
more fighters, more products, more ideas , more choice, better products etc etc.
As final customers only benefits are coming to us, as long as competition survives
I have a question for people defending apple, do you also voice you protest against other companies that are ripping off American companies and producing cheaper alternatives or benefiting ? I doubt it.
Of the people that are very pro apple in this thread, you do not own a Japanese/Korean appliance in the house? Is that not hypocritical ?
I just see some people taking the moral high ground, cause it's apple, while they benefit from cheaper goods due to the competition that result from companies ripping each other off.
I was referring more to the ad itself. At this point even Samsung doesn't care and they are trolling. The ad is a clear rip off of Apple.
So, you blatantly state you cannot stand Samsung, Microsoft and Google.... Should we expect some objective posts from you?
Doing harm to a US company that manufactures 99% of their products in China?
You apparently don't know what the word blatant means...
Careful bro.... His got contacts in the NSA, FBI, CIA...... They monitor these forums for anti-apple behaviour
I have never seen so many people so desperately trying to be right. This would be a very interesting TV show, Jerry Springer like of course. I just can imagine all of you commuting and reading each other answers in their Apple Watch and getting pissed off lol. I have to go back to work.
I really love that term- "fanboy of tech". It's a good kind of fanboy to be! But yeah, there is definitely a certain amount of "sharing" that goes on between the companies. Overall, we're better off for it.
Hey Samsung, just pay it already.
But then, turn around an charge an obscene "Apple Tax" on all the components Apple requires to buy from Samsung to make their iPhone.
Case closed. If Apple wants mutually assure destruction of all tech companies, who ALL leech heavily off of each other's "innovations", then so be it.
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But then, turn around an charge an obscene "Apple Tax" on all the components Apple requires to buy from Samsung to make their iPhone.
Case closed. If Apple wants mutually assure destruction of all tech companies, who ALL leech heavily off of each other's "innovations", then so be it.
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That's a hissy fit. Not honorable at all.
Samsung should take it like a man and pay up and accept the consequences. It's like that Patriots QB who refuses to just accept the punishment. A waste of time - just accept it and move on.
This should MOTIVATE Samsung to start innovating and creating "blue ocean" type products. Not be a little brat and start throwing fits and getting petty revenge because he was caught stealing.
LOL, who cares about the ad? Yeah, I agree its in a similar pretentious manner, wildly exaggerating every little mundane detail of a basic CELL PHONE... I remember when Apple had like 30 paragraphs on their website talking about how amazing their mouse is... despite the fact that it was a single button mouse that did nothing but allow you to mash the entire thing with even a stub hand without fingers.... they tried to make a featureless mouse glorified. You have to stand in AWE at this kind of drivel from Apple.
But to be on point: the commercial is irrelevant to the case and the product itself. Don't tell me Samsung's commercials somehow took away from your iPhone experience?
Oh trust me I know. I still remember Apple's BSing about the Power Mac G5 and all those ridiculous benchmarks Steve would use back in those days (Bytemarks for example).
But the ad is a blatant rip off of Apple ads. Here is a link for more relevant info: https://www.macrumors.com/2015/05/01/samsung-design-video-apple/
At this point Samsung is just trolling and they need to be called out on it.
I cannot understand that people like you intentionally tweak others' meanings just to make your words *look* reasonable. If you do have a correct standpoint, please say it frankly and bravely, don't use these type of sneaky "negotiation tactics"! It's simply disgusting.
Everyone with the least common sense understands that the real hatred expressed in the earlier comment attacked by you were against the shameless higher executives of Samsung who made true of these behaviors of Samsung.
So I'll ask you the same question I asked another poster. How do you feel about Apple and their continued desire to minimize/get their collusion case thrown out? Shouldn't they, too, have accepted the consequences and taken it like a man?
Just asking, of course.
Fact is - a company should take every advantage they can to minimize damages and court precedents as they can. That's the "game."