I think I know why Apple is suing Samsung

[Tarzanman]

Insult to injury?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/374881-unraveling-universal-display

Hope you sold your stock already, buddy.

 

[xraydoc]

Not to help revive this ancient thread, but I'm convinced Samsung wants to be Apple.

They copied the look of the iPad and its accessories for the first round of Galaxy tablets (even down to a 30-pin connector copy), they're using several icons on their Android UI that are near-perfect copies of iOS icons. They're planning their own Samsung stores. They're targeting Apple and Apple users directly nearly all their ads lately (not HTC, Motorola, LG, Nokia, Microsoft, etc.)...

I can come up with several more examples, but I'm sure everyone can. Suffice it to say I think Samsung is attempting to copy Apple as closely as possible to make themselves in to the Korean Apple.

 

[rjohnstone]

Not to help revive this ancient thread, but I'm convinced Samsung wants to be Apple.

They copied the look of the iPad and its accessories for the first round of Galaxy tablets (even down to a 30-pin connector copy), they're using several icons on their Android UI that are near-perfect copies of iOS icons. They're planning their own Samsung stores. They're targeting Apple and Apple users directly nearly all their ads lately (not HTC, Motorola, LG, Nokia, Microsoft, etc.)...

I can come up with several more examples, but I'm sure everyone can. Suffice it to say I think Samsung is attempting to copy Apple as closely as possible to make themselves in to the Korean Apple.

The accessories were third party created and the PDMI connector is not the same as Apple's.
How many times does this garbage need to be rehashed?

The USB wall plug is about the closest thing to copying an Apple design except Samsung's actually designed it better.
They flared the end slightly so you could actually grip it to unplug it from the wall.

I'll give you the icons... the TouchWiz overlay has a few similarities with the icons, but it pretty much ends there.
It's much more functional than the basic Springboard in iOS.

 

[lordofthereef]

Here is a touchwiz image:

Here is an iOS image:

I honestly do not see how this is an "almost exact copy" of iOS. is it the fact that they are using rounded icons? is it the fact that they are using higher resolution icons? I honestly don't get it. Just about the closest thing is the page ticks. Aside from the number indicating the page you are on, those are virtually identical.

 

[E.Lizardo]

The more I think about it, the less I think that Apple's lawsuit against Samsung is really about getting them to stop selling their phones and their tablets and their media players

Apple is scared of Samsung not because of some half-resemblance their products have (how different are any touch-screen devices from one another anyway...)

The lawsuit is most likely a way from Apple to leverage a supply deal or cross-licensing agreement out of them.

Who has the technology on the most relevant, most recent next generation touch-screens and memory? Samsung does. Apple can't force Samsung to sell exclusively to them, and neither can Apple force Samsung to even sell most of these screens to them for iDevices.

What Apple might be able to do is license the technology and manufacturing process from Samsung and find their own factory to produce them. Obviously, Apple cannot do this without Samsung allowing it.

History is full of example of companies suing each other for millions of dollars, only to end up settling for cross-licensing deals that let both companies go about their business however they want.

This is what Apple is trying to do. It makes sense given Apple's announcement of a 3.9 billion dollar strategic investment back in January. That much money will buy you a foundry (or a controlling interest of one). I think Apple is out to try to produce the SAMOLEDs themselves without having to source it from Samsung.

Will it work? Not as things stand. I really don't see any competent judges levying an injunction on sales of Samgsung's phones/tablets/players, and without that, there is no financial incentive to give away the competitive advantage that Samsung is going to have over the next ~4 years or so.

It makes sense to me.

This is your brain on drugs.

 

[Tarzanman]

This is your brain on drugs.

I wasn't too far off from reality. Tim Cook is expected to eventually settle the Android lawsuits and Samsung is currently the sole source supplier for iPad 3 displays.