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Kudos to Samsung owners for having jobs or just buying online and waiting 2 days for it to arrive via UPS.
Samsung Turning Dispute with Apple to its Advantage in Australian Marketing
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Kudos to Samsung owners for having jobs or just buying online and waiting 2 days for it to arrive via UPS.
Consultant
macrumors G5
I guess Samsung doesn't care about trademark infringement (using Apple name in its advertising) either
*LTD*
macrumors G4
LOL so?
"Amateur hour is over", etc.
I recall that was quite an attention-grabber as well. Turned out quite differently.
Call me when your tablet actually sells, Samsung.
And barely two months ago, Samsung was all sunshine and roses, very apologetic. And now these crooks actually mention Apple by name in their attack ad.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/13671894/
I wouldn't trust this insanely corrupt organization as far as I could throw them.
"Amateur hour is over", etc.
I recall that was quite an attention-grabber as well. Turned out quite differently.
Call me when your tablet actually sells, Samsung.
And barely two months ago, Samsung was all sunshine and roses, very apologetic. And now these crooks actually mention Apple by name in their attack ad.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/13671894/
I wouldn't trust this insanely corrupt organization as far as I could throw them.
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scottsjack
macrumors 68000
Great story. I love follow the posts of fanboys who embrace Apple as a religion rather than as a company that make some cool consumer products. It's always great entertainment.
Not disagreeing personally, just telling it the way Apple seems to see it.
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As shown before: Samsung has been doing this for quite some time; at the very least since the release of SGII. Maybe not in the states, but definitely in Europe.
ThunderSkunk
macrumors 601
I've been meaning to put this together for a while.
I don't know if some of you were born yesterday or if you're just posting like it, but in case you were one of the many who said tablets were a fad and would never catch on, here's what the tablets on the market looked like BEFORE the iPad:
Now. Apple comes out with this:
And suddenly, all tablets look like this:
Etc.
Copies.
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Just like Apple didn't care using Windows, Vista, IBM or god-knows-what. Doubt its even a legal grey area, really.
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use TIMG (?), not img.
Also: when making your timeline, make sure not to leave out the following:
All beating both iPhone and iPad with several years...
Not to mention...
Beating the iPad to the chase...
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dokujaryu
macrumors 6502
NUH UH! Samsung made a picture frame thing which is the EXACT SAME THING AS A TABLET.
Mr Bigs
macrumors 6502a
If people have cellphones and camera's its not closed.
You keep losing track of a thread in which you are participating. The comparison under discussion was this Samsung print ad, the Samsung "iPhone buyers in line" ad, and the Mac vs PC ads. Then divinox brought up The Lemmings from 1985.
Pretty different world then. But we can talk about that, too. Just not sure it will have much relevance.
People that do think should notice that the metaphor serves more than one purpose. The effect, as such, probably works just as much on the subconscious level (commercials usually do).
I'm arguing that the metaphor has that (intended) effect. Apple products are cool and hip. PC products are not. If you want to be hip, which one should you use? (101 trick: associate a desirable trait with a certain product and/or brand).
So am i, therefore i kept it generic.
All you've done there is prove that you know nothing whatsoever about the tablet industry, conveniently picking crummy looking tablets and leaving out all those that Apple (and others) used as inspiration.
Hey MacRumors,
Maybe you should consider putting away the troll food and get back to writing about actual Mac rumors.
This article was obviously designed to inspire the flame war that inevitably did happen, even though the only actual content of this article was encompassed by one image. There was no new information presented, just references to samsung biased reporting on a business strategy that everyone already knew samsung was going to take.
Maybe you should consider putting away the troll food and get back to writing about actual Mac rumors.
This article was obviously designed to inspire the flame war that inevitably did happen, even though the only actual content of this article was encompassed by one image. There was no new information presented, just references to samsung biased reporting on a business strategy that everyone already knew samsung was going to take.
ThunderSkunk
macrumors 601
Not a timeline. Just a few of the many tablets I remember our engineering dept trying to use effectively over the years. They all sucked, and yet, we continued to buy them dozens at a time, on the promise that one day they'd change everything.
If that bottom one is the joojoopad or whatever it was called, it was conceptualized during the build-up to the iPad, was to be a reader only, and never hit market. Nor did any of the props on star trek or 2001.
That sleek minimalist white job looks like a nice late model Sahara as well. We had a couple of those. At $3500, they could barely run Excel. Illustrator was out of the question.
I wouldn't say either of them beat the iPad to anything.
But please, RMWebs, show us all the amazing models of the "tablet industry" that Apple copied to get where they are today. I'd certainly love to see what us and all the other design firms I've worked with that slagged on through the last 15 years missed. Perhaps you can start with the convertibles, you remember, what everyone decided was the future of tablets, because slates were impractical and useless.
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Mac.World
macrumors 68000
Really. Small lines have actually formed at a few Verizon stores for people wanting the Galaxy Nexus phones. So much for your jab. Granted it's nothing like the lines for an iPhone or iPad release, but it's lines mon the less.
I tend to ignore easily swayed people irl. Or correct them. And spend plenty of time teaching my kids to not be swayed by commercials, either.
I'm afraid most commercials have the opposite effect on me. I get annoyed and would be swayed away from the products being marketed, if anything. I do realize I'm generally in the minority. And that's why I like Tivo.
dokujaryu
macrumors 6502
Here's a simpler list:
Successful tablets before the iPad that garnered mass appeal and opened buyers to the product:
Successful tablets after the iPad:
dgree03
macrumors 65816
Apple iPad:
The tablet Samsung ripped off.
Stay classy, Samsung.
Im going to ask a rhetorical question since I am sure you wont answer. But what did Samsung copy again?
samsung is acting like a little kid fighting over a toy, grow up samsung
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http://www.cultofmac.com/116250/samsung-does-not-copy-apple-at-all-sure/
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http://www.cultofmac.com/116250/samsung-does-not-copy-apple-at-all-sure/
GreyStreet
macrumors member
The problem is semantics. You are using "copy" in a different way.
I'd estimate semantics is the source of about 10% of all arguments at MacRumors.
There should be no doubt that Samsung and others saw Apple putting out a "big iPhone" and started scrambling to imitate it. Sales figures tell the rest of the story. HP went so far as to try to beat Apple to market, theorizing the first one would be the best. The Slate never even went into production.
As the long string of photos posted by ThunderSkunk shows, Apple decided on a fairly thin, 10" form factor. This was different in specifics from earlier tablets and mostly a direct copy of their iPod Touch. The competitors are now very similar in concept.
What's strange is why so many people come to MR and complain one way or the other about the similarity of products in the same specific market. I still haven't quite figured out the basis for discussion on either side. Social behaviors are befuddling to me.
radiohead14
macrumors 6502a
good luck with that. i've asked that a few times since the whole lawsuit started.. not one response so far.