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Samsung's Appeal of Australian Galaxy Tab Ban Fast-Tracked as Apple Targets Resellers
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Seriously, they are square slates with touch screens. Not much more you can do there. Please, hold a Galaxy Tab an iPad together, and you can see they have a different shape and feel. The OS's are different. The point is, taking away the consumer's choice in purchasing a Galaxy Tab over an iPad, and taking legal action to ban their sale in these countries, is ridiculous and only makes Apple look petty and scared. The iPad will outsell it's competitors if it is indeed the better option. And by the looks of it, it has.
Can't wait to see the same people arguing about the same thing in yet another thread.
Guys, there is no point. You cannot convince the other side. Let Apple and Samsung fight and not waste our time, seriously.
On another note, Samsung really needs to start...
Guys, there is no point. You cannot convince the other side. Let Apple and Samsung fight and not waste our time, seriously.
On another note, Samsung really needs to start...
Corporate games?!
Samsung: What's that Apple? You want to stop us from selling our Galaxy tablets? Well, maybe me and my South Korean buddy LG say we're having a few yield problems with your iPad 3 retina displays.
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/27/lg-and-samsung-still-struggling-with-retina-ipad-3-display/
Samsung: What's that Apple? You want to stop us from selling our Galaxy tablets? Well, maybe me and my South Korean buddy LG say we're having a few yield problems with your iPad 3 retina displays.
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/27/lg-and-samsung-still-struggling-with-retina-ipad-3-display/
What is a rip off? Specific things, please. Or are you just trolling and flame bating?
Yeah... I didn't really know how to say that right. I suppose I should have kept my mouth shut. I'm not implying that Samsung is a great artist. There is a thing with like 10 pictures showing Samsung's crap and Apple's devices. From the charger, to box, to USB cable, to the product it self... ALL COPIED!
Are you saying they used a time machine to start on it before the iPhone was shown?
All irrelevant and pretty much debunked too. Seriously guys, Fail pictures on the net are not good arguments, especially when they can be biased and made to ignore facts.
Grow up.
I'm going to say the same thing I keep saying on all these idiotic patent threads:
SAMSUNG STOLE/BORROWED IDEAS FROM APPLE, GOOGLE, <insert tech company here>
APPLE STOLE/BORROWED IDEAS FROM SAMSUNG, GOOGLE, <insert tech company here>
Stop bitching about it and move on. Nothing any of us say or do will change these idiotic patent cases Apple insists on pursuing.
For those that wont stop bitching, do the mature thing and down-vote me...go on, get it over and done with.
Yeah you might want to go away and read up on stuff before posting and making yourself look silly and uneducated.
Since the case in Australia is not a trade dress case but some patents the post was not true and not well said
Android would of course exist. It would just be a rip-off of RIM's software and hardware, like the first Android prototypes.
Sony, Toshiba, Amazon, and many others will be very astonished to hear that. All these companies hired designers to design their own tablets, while Samsung copied Apple's.
False, as has been debunked a lot of times, first Android protoypes had BBesque form and touch only form.
can we see some touch form android device prototype shots from before the iPhone was announced / released? Cause all I have seen is Blackberry clone stuff.
There's no bigger killer of free markets than allowing governments and lawyers to decide what we buy.
Sigh.
Sigh.
No, you haven't seen any Android prototype before the iPhone was announced. All the prototypes, touch only or BB alike were from November 2.007
http://news.cnet.com/2300-17938_105-6596827-2.html?tag=untagged
The theft is in the loss of opportunity to monetize an idea.
For someone who claims to be a software developer, I'd imagine that concept would be important to you.
I've previously detailed why the judge allowed the preliminary injunction to stand until the case could be heard.
No patent decisions have been reached in the Australian case, although the judge questioned the wording of at least one of them.
She even offered to decide on the patents right away, but both Apple and Samsung wanted time to gather more evidence for their viewpoint. So neither side is overly confident at this point. Apple would probably be happy just to delay the Tab past the holidays.
No patent decisions have been reached in the Australian case, although the judge questioned the wording of at least one of them.
She even offered to decide on the patents right away, but both Apple and Samsung wanted time to gather more evidence for their viewpoint. So neither side is overly confident at this point. Apple would probably be happy just to delay the Tab past the holidays.
Someone brought in a Galaxy Tab 10.1 last week into work. The public wanted to know what it was, the name, and where they could buy one. I was shocked to see that a little show and tell could sell a tablet so easily.
Now if the people around here can actually afford one is another matter but they were extremely interested in it.
Yes, it's especially harmful to victims of identity theft. They no longer have any clue who they are.
See, I'd have gone with: "Making a product that looks so similar to someone else's product that even your own lawyers can't tell them apart at a measly ten feet."
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Have you seen the tablet PCs that existed before the iPad?
Have you seen the Sony tablet that exists now?
It's *very* easy to come up with a design which retains the basic functional requirements of a tablet, but looks *nothing* like an iPad.
Dozens of companies did it for years before Apple released the iPad, simply because they wanted their stuff to look *different* from the competition.
Why can't Samsung do it now?
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Nope, he's pointing out that before the iPhone was announced, Android (and the Android phones in development) looked like Blackberry devices. After the iPhone was announced, they suddenly started looking like iPhones. Sure, it *might* just be a coincidence, but that's pushing believability since Google had a guy on Apple's board who was privy to a lot of pre-announcement iPhone info.