iOS, Android, WebOS and WinMo7/8 are all products of standing the on the shoulders of the same giants and looking different directions. Samsung jumped on the back of one to look over the shoulder of another.
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Google Looks to Distance Android from Apple vs. Samsung Ruling
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iOS, Android, WebOS and WinMo7/8 are all products of standing the on the shoulders of the same giants and looking different directions. Samsung jumped on the back of one to look over the shoulder of another.
Except that the look of the phone has nothing to do with the operating system, does it?
Comr on you have been around long enough to know that those photos are crap. Android had touch screen versions at the same time as the blackberry live versions.
To quote George Washington, ...
Ouch, I stubbed my toe.
The amount of the award is trivial. The damage comes from Samsung no longer being able to use specific technologies.
It is not a question of a patent on notifications, it is a question of a patent on a specific way of implementing notifications. There are lots of ways for Samsung to do the things they do. The problem is, they would need to create their own implementations of those things.
There are lots of ways to do, "Slide to unlock" or "Pinch to zoom". It is easy to copy someone else. What is easy is quite often, not legal.
Even though I'm sure Google isn't happy about the decision, they do come off looking rather good for having warned Samsung against copying Apple. When even the guys supposedly on "your side" are on your back, that further isolates Samsung as the "lazy one" who was unwilling to do the hard work and unwilling to heed the signs.
Considering that it was Google who warned Samsung BEFORE this whole thing blew up - that they (Samsung) were sailing too close to the wind, I don't see this as a warning to Google per-say but to Google's partners that the warning Google gave to Samsung wasn't some sort of thing they could flip off.
I'd distance my OS too if I knew it stole a ton from Apple's.
Considering that the cause of the problems was Touchwiz, a third party enhancement, and not the native Android GUI itself (notice that the Nexus has been left relatively unscathed).
The HTC still makes the Chacha which is more or less the same as the pre-iPhone Android. To be honest though, one could easily say that the iPhone design builds upon the PDA designs - I remember I had a Handspring PDA with the phone module so the idea of a touch screen and minimal buttons is hardly new. The law suit was however of the culmination of numerous things rather than there being one big giant 'ahha!' moment. A thing copied here, a thing copied there and voila you have a law suit.
I bought a S3 and used it for a week, now I know why iOS has been the same for so long cause to change things just to be different makes for a horrible user experience.
Should Have Been Google Not Samsung
Google is THE most evil company on earth (it was a close 2nd for Facebook). It is Google that should have taken the torpedo. If there was no Android there would be no Samsung device running it. Eric Schmidt was a "trojan" on the Apple Board sucking up the ideas and then quitting the board after he had everything he needed to build "his own iPhone/iOS".
What do you expect from a company that started being paid by ad companies. Follow the money and you find out where a companies true allegiance lies.
Google is THE most evil company on earth (it was a close 2nd for Facebook). It is Google that should have taken the torpedo. If there was no Android there would be no Samsung device running it. Eric Schmidt was a "trojan" on the Apple Board sucking up the ideas and then quitting the board after he had everything he needed to build "his own iPhone/iOS".
What do you expect from a company that started being paid by ad companies. Follow the money and you find out where a companies true allegiance lies.
After they got through distancing Android from the ruling, they said much the same thing:
'… and several [patents] are being re-examined by the US Patent Office. The mobile industry is moving fast and all players - including newcomers - are building upon ideas that have been around for decades. We work with our partners to give consumers innovative and affordable products, and we don't want anything to limit that.'
Pretty well said actually.
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Apple sells great products.
Google thinks you are the product...
And it's good that Google is throwing Samsung under the bus. That means better WP8 devices come next year.
Google thinks you are the product...
And it's good that Google is throwing Samsung under the bus. That means better WP8 devices come next year.
No, this just shows they're very good at stealing and even better at covering their tracks. Copy iOS and just change enough little things here and there to NOT make it look like it was copied. A little contrition a LOT too late. It hardly absolves GOOGLE from stealing iOS ideas and implementing many of them in ANDROID.
The Spin Doctors! Absolutely right!
As Steve said many times: Android is a stolen product! The direct result from Eric Schmidt's tenure on APPLE's Board of Directors, a fact Steve must have lamented till his dying day!
ummm... duh?!? BWAHAHAHA!!! all kidding aside, even though i prefer Apple OS I am glad there are o
As there will be after this. They'll have to have some licenses, and they will find it difficult to thank that nice Google company for giving them a free OS. Not so free.
Thanks for the ignorant comment. Nothing about iOS is boring, nor has it been the same for 5 years.
While I think the suit and ruling is ridiculously anticompetitive and honestly stifling innovation... at this point Google is going to have a really tough time drawing distinctions... they're likely going to have to do away with the iconography and move to another form of application launch.
similarly phone designs are going to have to become more distinguished from the iphone. This could be good, in the sense it may push some radically new methods of interaction to be developed, but I am not holding my breath.
similarly phone designs are going to have to become more distinguished from the iphone. This could be good, in the sense it may push some radically new methods of interaction to be developed, but I am not holding my breath.
Wow, So google did warn them!
Samsung had been copying since day one , Nokia and sony Ericsson were the first to suffer Then Apple came along
Right now Nokia will be so happy
Samsung had been copying since day one , Nokia and sony Ericsson were the first to suffer Then Apple came along
Right now Nokia will be so happy
Google needs to ditch all relations with Samsung and tell samsung to go make their own os.
Samsung ruins it for everyone.
Samsung ruins it for everyone.
And what had others done? beside copying the boring. If it was so easy, maybe you can try...
Google can distance themselves all they want. Fact is their vanilla droid nexus S also got hit hard. They know whats next. They are.
...and before that Nokia...Looks like Android was copying blackberry before it decided to copy the iPhone OS
Both of those vendors took no action in response to the blatant copying practices of Samsung... Now that's all changed.
Samsung's corporates were so honey-suckled to copying other products that they never knew what it felt like nor meant to be told it was illegal...
... Until now.
It doesn't matter who invented anything; but if they were awarded patents in the USA.
And nobody made a cent.
At least Samsung made money and marketshare. Overall they have faired fairly well. And are the only one left standing.
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Have you changed in 5 years? Boring.