Samsung Also Seeking to Ban iPhone 4S Sales in Japan and Australia

[HangmanSwingset]

.....It should be the other way around. Apple doesn't allow you to have choices. North Korea doesn't either.

I'm talking about last year when North and South Korea were on the verge of active war again. North Korea kept throwing out threats to the South pretty much for existing. Apple is doing what they have to do to protect their IP (like South Korea running the military drills they were), but Samsung doesn't need to freak out over it (by shelling out of fear)

 

[thenerdal]

I'm talking about last year when North and South Korea were on the verge of active war again. North Korea kept throwing out threats to the South pretty much for existing. Apple is doing what they have to do to protect their IP (like South Korea running the military drills they were), but Samsung doesn't need to freak out over it (by shelling out of fear)

It should be the other way around again. Apple isn't the one defending. Samsung is.

 

[Mad-B-One]

are you that dramatic in real life too?

anyways, Android has remote wiping ability as well if you didn't know.
before you install ANY app, you are given a list of permissions. the few rougue apps that were found removed from market a long time ago. it's not like the moment you use Android you have trojan on your phone. if you are that paranoid, then DON"T use any app.

it's apparent that you know little about Android. it is highly customizable and personalized.

you see, just by looking at my home screen on my android i can:

- see all the latest calls
- weather
- stock ticker
- contacts
- few apps icons
(and if your screen is big enough you could add more content).

all these WITHOUT opening an app. I can choose to have nothing displayed on my screen, or I can choose to display what I want.

tell me how i can share a file using bluetooth on an iphone again?
how can you delete a song from iphone without connecting to a computer?

Funny thing is: I can do most of that with my iPhone 4 as well. Just swipe down... and for the other stuff I cant, I can play music withour unlocking, hahaha!

About being dramatic: No, I'm not, but I am also not sarcastic all the time. Do you take everything in life that serious all the time?


And now to your questions: There are multiple apps for sharing pictures and they are free. Sharing via Bluetooth is beside the point if you live in the cloud. To delete a song: Swipe it to the left and confirm delete. Its as simple as can be.

 

[SandynJosh]

I am not able to find one of the articles from my archive but Multi-touch has been publicly shown long before Apple may be in the early 2000's. The implementation was a bit different but the paper had some very interesting algorithms for the same.

While multi-touch preceded Apple's use, Apple purchased Fingerworks to own their patents which include various gestures. Apple has also patented some of the nuances of what a gesture does. This is where Samsung stepped into deep doodoo by copying NOT the gesture but the device's response to the gesture; the "bounce" and beauty of how the device carries out the gesture's movement.

This is why Samsung got blocked in Australia... Had Samsung sandboxed their designers rather then starting with Apple's products as a design basis, they would have not made the errors of infringement that they did.

In Australia Samsung has admitted they infringed and have agreed to remove the patented subtle ways that a device responds to gestures which makes the iPhone so delightfully unique to use.

 

[kdarling]

The whole argument is that Apple (sic) is trying to market their devices as if they are iPhones and this is one prime example; you call this a mistake?

When most adults see the wrong screenshot in an ad, they don't go all freaky paranoid about someone else's dumb mistake. (We've all goofed at times.)

Especially in this case, since the Android version of Google Maps is far beyond the older version in iOS.

Are you seriously claiming that some Samsung executive ordered the use of a screenshot of the iPhone version of Google Maps in order to trick a handful of people into thinking... what? That Samsung still uses the oldest and least powerful version of Google Maps? That makes no sense at all.

 

[adder7712]

Funny thing is: I can do most of that with my iPhone 4 as well. Just swipe down... and for the other stuff I cant, I can play music withour unlocking, hahaha!

Android has widgets before iOS and Android can also play music without unlocking.

And there's no swiping involved to view weather etc.

 

[Ciclismo]

**EDIT**
Also, when it comes to look and feel it is my opinion that 'look and feel' should be protected, but protected by something more like 'trademark' or 'copyright,' not patent. The idea of a patent was to protect an invention. Apple did not invent the rectangle with rounded edges and black borders, therefore they should not have a patent. Another form of IP, yes, but not a patent.

Look and feel are usually not covered by a patent, but a copyright. And in my opinion, the Samsung phone I saw was mimicking the "look and feel" of the iOS software to such an extent that it was difficult to tell them apart without looking closely - most of the buttons had an identical or almost identical look.

 

[Samuriajackon]

Should we crave up the world like we did after WWII? Apple can have the US and Europe and Samsung can have South Asia and the Pacific?

 

[beg_ne]

are you that dramatic in real life too?

anyways, Android has remote wiping ability as well if you didn't know.
before you install ANY app, you are given a list of permissions. the few rougue apps that were found removed from market a long time ago. it's not like the moment you use Android you have trojan on your phone. if you are that paranoid, then DON"T use any app.

it's apparent that you know little about Android. it is highly customizable and personalized.

you see, just by looking at my home screen on my android i can:

- see all the latest calls
- weather
- stock ticker
- contacts
- few apps icons
(and if your screen is big enough you could add more content).

all these WITHOUT opening an app. I can choose to have nothing displayed on my screen, or I can choose to display what I want.

Swipe down. Stocks, weather, recent calls, upcoming calendar events.

tell me how i can share a file using bluetooth on an iphone again?

What email, or dropbox isn't good enough for you?

how can you delete a song from iphone without connecting to a computer?

Swipe right.

Try to keep up. Mkay?

 

[KnightWRX]

Look and feel are usually not covered by a patent, but a copyright.

Design Patents

 

[Mad-B-One]

Swipe down. Stocks, weather, recent calls,
Swipe right.

Nope - swipe from right to left to delete a song. But I already answered that. And about the file share by Bluetooth, there are several I actually used before iCloud to bump pictures from one device to the other. Not needed for my own devices anymore but easy as a cookie for using it to send to other people.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

When most adults see the wrong screenshot in an ad, they don't go all freaky paranoid about someone else's dumb mistake. (We've all goofed at times.)

Especially in this case, since the Android version of Google Maps is far beyond the older version in iOS.

Are you seriously claiming that some Samsung executive ordered the use of a screenshot of the iPhone version of Google Maps in order to trick a handful of people into thinking... what? That Samsung still uses the oldest and least powerful version of Google Maps? That makes no sense at all.

to help you out here is a screen shot off the current google maps. I did the same search but still shows what the current one looks like.

 

[iRumored]

Samsung is pathetic.. Instead of making steps forward with their own products, they try and get rid of the competition.. I think we all knew that one spoiled single child who grew up with us that cried to get his way, that's what this reminds me of.. Pathetic

 

[thenerdal]

Samsung is pathetic.. Instead of making steps forward with their own products, they try and get rid of the competition.. I think we all knew that one spoiled single child who grew up with us that cried to get his way, that's what this reminds me of.. Pathetic

You got it the other way around. C'mon now!! Samsung is ahead of Apple. Apple is trying to get rid of the competition. Samsung is just trying to fight back.

 

[iRumored]

You got it the other way around. C'mon now!! Samsung is ahead of Apple. Apple is trying to get rid of the competition. Samsung is just trying to fight back.

Call me biased, but idk.. I respect opinions that differ from my own, but I just don't know of a single phone out there that's better than this iPhone 4S. It's unbelievably smooth. It's so snappy and fast, the camera is amazing, it's an iPod as well, and it just does every single thing I want it to. It's not heavy, it's not big or bulky, it's simple and clean and even with the "less" battery life, it's still better than any Android out there. Not to mention, it's all glass and metal.. No plastic. I love that. Every phone I've ever had in the past always squeaked and creaked.

How is Samsung ahead of Apple? Maybe this is a bad argument, but.. How many people wait outside wireless carrier stores and Samsung stores to get their newest phone?

I know a lot of people say that "people buy Apple, because other people buy Apple".. As if it's a fanboy/bandwaggon type of thing. But, this is the first Apple product I have ever owned, and it absolutely destroys anything I have ever owned/used/played around with.

I'm just saying.. Haters gon' hate..

 

[thenerdal]

Call me biased, but idk.. I respect opinions that differ from my own, but I just don't know of a single phone out there that's better than this iPhone 4S. It's unbelievably smooth. It's so snappy and fast, the camera is amazing, it's an iPod as well, and it just does every single thing I want it to. It's not heavy, it's not big or bulky, it's simple and clean and even with the "less" battery life, it's still better than any Android out there. Not to mention, it's all glass and metal.. No plastic. I love that. Every phone I've ever had in the past always squeaked and creaked.

How is Samsung ahead of Apple? Maybe this is a bad argument, but.. How many people wait outside wireless carrier stores and Samsung stores to get their newest phone?

I know a lot of people say that "people buy Apple, because other people buy Apple".. As if it's a fanboy/bandwaggon type of thing. But, this is the first Apple product I have ever owned, and it absolutely destroys anything I have ever owned/used/played around with.

I'm just saying.. Haters gon' hate..

You are biased. Galaxy SII beats the 4S. And I'm pretty sure the SIII will beat it too. As well as the Nexus Prime.

Samsung's SII is thinner than the 4S. So that's one way Samsung is ahead.

I think people buy iPhones because they are cool and trendy.

 

[lilo777]

Call me biased, but idk.. I respect opinions that differ from my own, but I just don't know of a single phone out there that's better than this iPhone 4S. It's unbelievably smooth. It's so snappy and fast, the camera is amazing, it's an iPod as well, and it just does every single thing I want it to. It's not heavy, it's not big or bulky, it's simple and clean and even with the "less" battery life, it's still better than any Android out there. Not to mention, it's all glass and metal.. No plastic. I love that. Every phone I've ever had in the past always squeaked and creaked.

How is Samsung ahead of Apple? Maybe this is a bad argument, but.. How many people wait outside wireless carrier stores and Samsung stores to get their newest phone?

I know a lot of people say that "people buy Apple, because other people buy Apple".. As if it's a fanboy/bandwaggon type of thing. But, this is the first Apple product I have ever owned, and it absolutely destroys anything I have ever owned/used/played around with.

I'm just saying.. Haters gon' hate..

Yes, it's a bad argument. More people bought Samsung smart phones in 3rd quarter than they bought iPhones. You see, most people don't like to wait in lines. The existence of lines does not mean that the product is better.

 

[iRumored]

You are biased. Galaxy SII beats the 4S. And I'm pretty sure the SIII will beat it too. As well as the Nexus Prime.

Samsung's SII is thinner than the 4S. So that's one way Samsung is ahead.

I think people buy iPhones because they are cool and trendy.

Beats it because it's thinner? Ok
We're all a little biased.. What phone do you have? I'm going to bet and say a Samsung..

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Yes, it's a bad argument. More people bought Samsung smart phones in 3rd quarter than they bought iPhones. You see, most people don't like to wait in lines. The existence of lines does not mean that the product is better.

Wasn't my only point.. And there's more than one way to look at it.. Who the hell WANTS to wait in a line? Nobody.. The reason they do, could possibly, maybe, JUST maybe, mean something because obviously they're willing to.. All I meant to say.

 

[thenerdal]

Beats it because it's thinner? Ok
We're all a little biased.. What phone do you have? I'm going to bet and say a Samsung..

I have a Samsung phone, but it's not a smartphone. I'm not biased. I just compare each phone using sites, videos and trying them out in stores.

 

[iWord]

Obviously, they will fail

 

[iRumored]

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Beats it because it's thinner? Ok
We're all a little biased.. What phone do you have? I'm going to bet and say a Samsung..

I have a Samsung phone, but it's not a smartphone. I'm not biased. I just compare each phone using sites, videos and trying them out in stores.

Samsung doesn't even come close.. I would LOVE to see them try and utilize a 512MB processor and make their phones as nice as the iPhone. They have 4 times that much and still run choppy and laggy, and that is a fact..

 

[*LTD*]

Yes, it's a bad argument. More people bought Samsung smart phones in 3rd quarter than they bought iPhones. .

Samsung also sells 23 models of smartphones, from the good, to the bad, to the ugly. What is your point?

 

[thenerdal]

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Samsung doesn't even come close.. I would LOVE to see them try and utilize a 512MB processor and make their phones as nice as the iPhone. They have 4 times that much and still run choppy and laggy, and that is a fact..

You are lying. Try out the GSII. Or try out the Galaxy Nexus when it comes out. Then come back to me.

 

[iRumored]

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Samsung doesn't even come close.. I would LOVE to see them try and utilize a 512MB processor and make their phones as nice as the iPhone. They have 4 times that much and still run choppy and laggy, and that is a fact..

You are lying. Try out the GSII. Or try out the Galaxy Nexus when it comes out. Then come back to me.

You're trying to vouch for the Nexus when it's not even out yet compared to something I have in my hands? And yes, the S2 is the best Android phone out there to-date, but again.. What does that mean?

Until you've owned a smartphone, or multiple ones, and actually lived with them and experienced their imperfections and compared one to another (and I don't mean going in to a store and opening the web browser or practice texting) then I believe saying that a phone that isn't even out yet is better than 'anything else' is a bit absurd.. I respect your opinion, but as politely as I can say it, I disagree.. At least for now.

You know how you get crappy products? Give your OS to a slew of manufacturers and expect them to make good products, consistently.

 

[adder7712]

Samsung is pathetic.. Instead of making steps forward with their own products, they try and get rid of the competition.. I think we all knew that one spoiled single child who grew up with us that cried to get his way, that's what this reminds me of.. Pathetic

I guess that also applies to Apple.