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Samsung to Seek Ban on iPhone 4S Sales in France and Italy
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I see your point MBP, but it isn't 100% accurate.
Look at everything from accessory design to packaging design. The entire style was copied and pasted.
Also, when I say that the IP was infringed on I should have stated that i was comparing a Samsung Galaxy phone to an iOS phone. The overall appearance was, for the most part, duplicated. The shape is almost identical to the 3GS but with a "samsung" logo on it and even some of the icons were damn near identical. The icons were designed to mimic the look of iOS icons, not to mention that the icon placement was duplicated (see the images from 9to5).
Obviously you can't patent a black phone with 4 sides and corners as IP, TheMacBookPro...
But please, next time you want to litter the forum with bad sarcasm...don't.
I see your point MBP, but it isn't 100% accurate.
Look at everything from accessory design to packaging design. The entire style was copied and pasted.
Also, when I say that the IP was infringed on I should have stated that i was comparing a Samsung Galaxy phone to an iOS phone. The overall appearance was, for the most part, duplicated. The shape is almost identical to the 3GS but with a "samsung" logo on it and even some of the icons were damn near identical. The icons were designed to mimic the look of iOS icons, not to mention that the icon placement was duplicated (see the images from 9to5).
Obviously you can't patent a black phone with 4 sides and corners as IP, TheMacBookPro...
But please, next time you want to litter the forum with bad sarcasm...don't.
It's a good thing that you don't head any major company, then...
See, you've just shown that Samsung is the boss. Without those 'odd components' your iPhone wouldn't turn on at all.
You're nuts if you think the Korean government will ever allow any company related to china to buy Samsung. Samsung is also a military weapons supplier.
As well as sexy products that work brilliantly Apple always has immaculate customer service, go to a supermarket or clothes shop and you will get some drone on minimum wage giving you a vacant look as if you are something on the bottom of their shoe and seeing you as an inconvenience that is going to stop them talking all day about the latest sexual conquests they had at the weekend, go to an Apple store you find knowledgeable, friendly and enthusiastic staff who live and breathe Apple
If only Apple would start up a supermarket
So I've been waiting to make the switch to apple iphone as my corporate site recently extended our options from just blackberry to iOS and android.
I have to say this new 4S isn't a compelling. Sure the components are dated, but worse, so is the design. Glass back? Small screen? Shirley, how did Samsung not copy that?
But that's a digression. I am truly faced with the choice of buying the original, Apple, or one of the few Samsung products that doesn't copy Apple. On finding the latter, Samsung's IP people have left clues for me - words like LTE, Super Amoled, 1.5GHz, etc....
What I'm saying is this IP war is moot. Apple's starting to look like Palm.
I have to say this new 4S isn't a compelling. Sure the components are dated, but worse, so is the design. Glass back? Small screen? Shirley, how did Samsung not copy that?
But that's a digression. I am truly faced with the choice of buying the original, Apple, or one of the few Samsung products that doesn't copy Apple. On finding the latter, Samsung's IP people have left clues for me - words like LTE, Super Amoled, 1.5GHz, etc....
What I'm saying is this IP war is moot. Apple's starting to look like Palm.
Hopefully Cook will cancel all the contracts now, there are plenty of companies out there who can provide components for Apple products that are even better than Samsung.
The market capitalization is a valuation that already takes into account the current value of all assets, as well as the NPV of future profits. Any acquisition of a publicly-traded company would start with a valuation based on the market cap.
The similarities that I can see: there's a rectangular box that contains several items, the device is flat and rectangular, and both devices contain an operating system with a pull-down notification center (hm, who copied who for that?)
If you're referring to the charger, let me just state that the charger that came with my Galaxy S II doesn't look anything like that. Heck, it isn't even a USB charger.
Sorry, but that homescreen doesn't look like the grid of icons iOS has. Perhaps you were referring to the app menu? Just FYI- my Nokia had a grid of icons way before the iPhone came out.
Except that's what Apple sued Samsung over.
My post was completely serious.
I trust that you won't be purchasing any other electronic items any time soon too, then?
You just proved his point... sad.
By the way, one cannot compare only two specific workers. I've seen rude Apple store workers as well as polite and helpful supermarket store workers.
That connector is not Samsungs design, it's a standardized connector. Furthermore, it's black and has a raised part to allow better grip.
Apple didn't invent the white box with a product image on. The idea of making a box as small as possible did not come from some grand vision of Jobs. Furthermore, it's more space between the product image and the edges of the box on the Tab box.
Remember, Apple is the one who usually claims these trivial details are important, so naturally, the trivial differences should also be important.
Thank you for pointing out that, short of Samsung slapping an Apple logo on the back of their products (and perhaps "Designed in Cupertino, California" as well), you'll never be convinced Samsung is stealing Apple's IP.
What does Samsung make on Apple devices that no other company in the world is capable of making ?
in smaller quantities probably many but to meet the volume that apple requires and to the high level of perfection giiven the price that consumers expect not many id guess
Suppose Apple really does rid of Samsung as a supplier. Good for them for finding a supplier that can produce enough at a decent quality (pretty hard feat, this).
But what about that TV? Your new microwave? Oven? Digital clock? You need to understand that Samsung is a huge company producing many different internals for many products and it's basically impossible to avoid having their components in your electronic devices.
What is to stop Samsung sabotaging their own components or giving Apple a known dodgy batch so that iPad's/iPhone's etc don't work properly ? I would say that could well be a serious danger now and on that basis alone let alone any others it is in Apple's interests to terminate all agreements with Samsung.
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My issue is with their phones and tablet computers division, I could probably find hundreds of things in my house with some Samsung DNA on and it is unavoidable, I would be happy to see Samsung driven out of the phone and tablet market and the rest of their companies and divisions carrying on
i would imagine that apple when negotiating the contract with samsung ,would have build in penalties for such events that woud more than compensate them. if they didnt then shame on them.
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When you point to downmarks on a forum where any child can vote, as some sort of validation, you know you're trying too hard.
Usually multinationals don't behave like 4 year olds over a little IP dispute.
This patent stuff hurts apple more than sumsung because apple has the stronger consumer brand, whereas samsung's strength is more rooted in their technological capability. So all samsung is doing is trying to take some wind out of Apple's consumer confidence in retaliation for Apple bugging up a product release.
But at the end of the day, tech capability reigns, not patents. (see Polaroid vs. Kodak; Selden vs. Ford etc...)
That depends on whether or not Samsung is guilty per Apple's original complaint, doesn't it?
It's not a case of trying too hard, I'm just trying to point something out. Perhaps next time I'll quote posts by others replying to his over-reactions.
<offtopic> Took a look through your G+ profile... I find it interesting how you state you don't like fanboys but you clearly are an Apple fanboy who has a vendetta against anything Android
Hey I like to see that picture in every threat, reminds me every second why samsung is a basterd xD
They're branching out. iFrigate. Goes well with the iKillyou Bill Maher proposed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVf9u55lte4