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Samsung's Lawyers Demand to See iPhone 5 and iPad 3
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OMG, even phone companies are now ripping off Apple's phone icon design!
BTW, Apple is suing Samsung over trademarks. They trademarked their icons... Yes... trademarked.
Yes, so... what ? My 3GS also has an entirely plastic case... I don't quite get your point here.
Oh wait, are you one of those guys that believe "Build quality" somehow means "Materials used" ? Hahahahha, I understand where you're coming from now. Ok, yes, Apple has "better build quality" because they use "metal". Ok man, whatever you say.
and we have countless number of people thinking "oh, this phone booth must somehow be related to an iPhone".. whereas Samsung is not only presenting their phone icon in the exact same context but using the same symbol and coloring.OMG, even phone companies are now ripping off Apple's phone icon design!
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BTW, Apple is suing Samsung over trademarks. They trademarked their icons... Yes... trademarked.
How about this? Am I making it up?
OMFG! You really didn't do that, did you?
Yes, you are making it up because - actually if you'd really take a look at the posted screen you'd spot a shiny house-icon in the lower left corner which says "Home".
Actually you are misleading people showing Androids menu structure and leaving out the information that the posted picture IS NOT THE HOME SCREEN.
Congrats for offering your fair heap of misinformation to the uneducated!
So why exactly did you pry out all the metal buttons and replace the glass?
Are you seriously saying that the Galaxy S II has comparable build quality, even assuming that's possible with an all plastic case, to the iPhone 4?
And while build finishing is important, the materials you make it out of do actually matter. It's not possible to make a plastic baseball bat that's got the same feel as a wooden one.
Yes, because that Phone icon is a brilliant Apple idea right ? "Hey guys, let's take the phone icon used on phone booths for decades and put it... on our cellphone !" Pure Apple genius... oh wait, no :
We're talking about products already out in the market as the lawsuit even specifically stated.
What metal buttons on my 3GS ? The chromed plastic buttons you mean ? Did you get fooled by "chrome paint" ?
Glass ? The same Glass found on Samsung phones ? Again, don't quite catch your point here...
Yes.
But a wooden phone would feel a bit awkward compared to a plastic phone. Plastic is a fine material for electronics and gadgets, it's light but it's reliance on petroleum to make it is ruining its price/quality ratio.
wanna bet that Apple will now drop the initial charges
Nope, Apple had to be expecting this after Apple asked for the units from Samsung. It just goes to show how serious Apple is about the suit.
This is going to remain an ugly fight and don't expect either side to cave.
You show that icon to anybody and nobody would ever confuse that icon with the iPhone icon. That's the point.
It's the same phone handset icon. There is nothing inherently brilliant or unique about the iPhone icon, it used existing conventions for portraying a phone graphically. That's the point. No one would confuse the Samsung's icon for the iPhone's either because it's not on an iPhone.
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This is quite funny. Apple has Samsung build some parts of the iPhone. Samsung starts selling phones that are very close to replicates. Apple sees this as too close for comfort and lOols into things legally. Apple asks to see these prototypes that have already been shown and NOW Samsung wants to see more apple future products??
What a joke Samsung. Stop the replications.
This is quite funny. Apple has Samsung build some parts of the iPhone. Samsung starts selling phones that are very close to replicates. Apple sees this as too close for comfort and lOols into things legally. Apple asks to see these prototypes that have already been shown and NOW Samsung wants to see more apple future products??
What a joke Samsung. Stop the replications.
nice pin you got there, do you know that neonode n1 was realesed before that one and didnt use a stupid pda pin, and another thing lg prada was unveiled 17 january 2007 and iphone 1gen 7 january so what are you gettin' at here.
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Many people would like to forget that this is where Google was headed with Android prior to the success of the iPhone.
That Sony phone is from 2003. My point was to show the guy I was responding to that not all smartphones looked like Blackberries before the iPhone and the iPhone really had nothing to do with that.
The LG Prada KE850 was announced in december 2006. It was showcased earlier in 2006 too.
Forget ? What makes you think Android doesn't still do that format (the Motorola CHARM) :
Again, the Sony Ericsson P-series smartphones launched years before the iPhone weren't Blackberry look a likes. The iPhone simply went with what the market was doing at the time : Full touch screen phones with apparent buttons.
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I probably got a bit carried away... I think I secretly wish the signal from the mobile phones weren't so harmful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npK5HSxukyA&feature=player_embedded
But then, it's like asking people to not drive cars with gas, then go to electrical instead. It's just not going to happen... not anytime soon.
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Those pesky trademark and copyright lawyers are at it again! Reminds of Disney's attempt to copyright Seal Team 6 after the Bin Laden raid. They wanted the Navy to pay them everytime the name ST6 was used officially & unofficially!
Those pesky trademark and copyright lawyers are at it again! Reminds of Disney's attempt to copyright Seal Team 6 after the Bin Laden raid. They wanted the Navy to pay them everytime the name ST6 was used officially & unofficially!
Okay, going to have to call bull on you ever really owning a 3GS there, unless you had a 'refurbished' second hand one that had been given non-apple parts. Go have a look at the authorised replacement parts, the buttons are a solid aluminium nub affixed to a lever package.
We're talking specifically about the Galaxy S II, which has an all plastic case construction and screen construction.
neonode n1 was realesed spring 2003, p900 was realesed Q4. and neonode was all touchscreen. but you have never seen one of those im sure, as for the touchscreen on p900....
What's your point really ? Do you have one ? you're basically saying the same thing I am here...
With this logic any artist who tries to sell prints of a painting they did of Mt. Rushmore for example shouldn't care if someone else starts selling an exact copy of their print but just shrinks the print a bit. The entire point of the Samsung phone is to make people think it is an iPhone, they just attempted to modify the look as little as possible in the hopes they wouldn't get in trouble for copying it.
im just sayin' p900 wasnt the first one or even a good phone and had a lot of similarities with a blackberry/pda and neonode was a smartphone. as far as i see it but...
Apple is trying to embarrass Samsung. Samsung is responding in kind. I have no issue with this. Samsung's phones and OS might look a bit similar to Apple's, but in no way do I condone Apple's stick-up-their-ass legal practices. I respect Apple's right to "protect" their IP, but bullying their competitors is not the way to do it.
