So what's your beef with the button? Its not circular. Or is your beef that samsung cant have a single home button on the bottom centered towards the middle? What next, only apple can have touchpads centered in the middle of a laptop too?
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So what's your beef with the button? Its not circular. Or is your beef that samsung cant have a single home button on the bottom centered towards the middle? What next, only apple can have touchpads centered in the middle of a laptop too?
Samsungs (and most phones) have put their primary buttons in the middle for years.
It's one of those design rules called "common sense".
When the iPhone came out, my smartphone was the Samsung i730 (vertical slide keyboard like the Pre, 520Mhz clockable to 700Mhz, GPU, stereo surround sound, Google Maps, Slingplayer, Opera browser, etc):
It's one of those design rules called "common sense".
When the iPhone came out, my smartphone was the Samsung i730 (vertical slide keyboard like the Pre, 520Mhz clockable to 700Mhz, GPU, stereo surround sound, Google Maps, Slingplayer, Opera browser, etc):
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And people are still trying to pick apart individual features when it's the entirety of the design that matters. The fact that Apple did or didn't do any individual feature first is irrelevant. It's how the put all the features together.
I don't understand how anyone can say that Samsung did not purposely copy Apple's design. The app menu alone is evidence enough.
Whether or not Samsung's copying is legal is a completely different question. I think it probably will be found to be legal, but it's ridiculous to dismiss Apple's claims as baseless. They have a decent case.
But it doesn't matter in the end. Preliminary injunctions could have hurt Samsung, but if the cases get to trial, the end result is probably going to be a settlement where Apple gets what they want (an agreement for specific design changes to differentiate), and Samsung keeps selling phones and tablets. A year from now, Samsung would have made changes to their design anyway.
I don't understand how anyone can say that Samsung did not purposely copy Apple's design. The app menu alone is evidence enough.
Whether or not Samsung's copying is legal is a completely different question. I think it probably will be found to be legal, but it's ridiculous to dismiss Apple's claims as baseless. They have a decent case.
But it doesn't matter in the end. Preliminary injunctions could have hurt Samsung, but if the cases get to trial, the end result is probably going to be a settlement where Apple gets what they want (an agreement for specific design changes to differentiate), and Samsung keeps selling phones and tablets. A year from now, Samsung would have made changes to their design anyway.
Apple keeps complaining that Samsung doesn't innovate their hardware so their phone doesn't look like an iPhone. Then the Nexus Prime comes out, smoke the 4S and Apple will find a way to complain about "a curve screen somehow violates our patents".
Perfect, but what has to do with the fact that the home button doesn't look at all with the iPhone home button as he said?
As who said? I didn't reply to anyone in particular. In fact, my whole point was not to pick apart individual features.
Yes and it's not wrong at all! Wasn't it you that was justifying doctored images created by apple in order to support their case against Samsung?
Okay?
Yep. Seems the courts didn't have a problem with them either. Not sure what that has to do with making up hypothetical situations to complain about.