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Samsung's New Galaxy Tab TV Ad Feels a Lot Like an Apple iPad Ad

There are only so many ways you can make tablet and have it be a tablet. Heck, to a certain extent you just have to build your device around the sized screen that manufacturers can make.

I don't fault Samsung for having a tablet that looks like an iPad.

vsighi said:
Samsung Lawyer Can't Distinguish Between Apple iPad and Galaxy Tab

What an uncomfortable moment for Samsung at its court hearing with Apple on Thursday. Fielding questions from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, Samsung attorney Kathleen Sullivan was asked if she could distinguish between Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1, which Koh held up for all the court to see.
Her reply as first reported by Reuters? “Not at this distance, your honor.”
Not at this distance, your honor.
Not the greatest answer in a case in which the defendant stands accused of “slavishly” copying a rival’s designs. More so, since Sullivan was standing just ten feet away from the devices she was asked to identify.
Thankfully, one of her colleagues was able to come to her rescue, but only after this plea from Koh.
“Can any of Samsung’s lawyers tell me which one is Samsung and which one is Apple?”
Not a good day in court for Samsung.

But again, I do like my SAMSUNG big screen LED LCD 120Hz 3D :cool:
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DakotaGuy said:
You know LTD I don't agree with you too much, but I do on this. I wouldn't give the Samsung Corporation a penny of my money, unless I can't help it because something they made is built into an Apple product I own.
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Seems a bit hypocritical. As even you noted, most of your Apple products depend on Samsung's chips or factories.

Morality wise, a Korea company bribing a Korean official is nothing compared to Steve Jobs lying to his own friend Woz about how much money they got paid. The former is pretty common in countries like that. The latter is just beyond reprehensible.

*LTD* said:
Let’s start off with the Chinese Steve Jobs who introduces a knock-off of the iPad. Talk about attention to detail – check out the black turtle neck and faded jeans.
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Yes, it was a great parody.
 
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JForestZ34 said:
I don't know they must be doing something right. The Asian market is doing ALOT better than this country..



Steve jobs said that he took ideas before..



forgive me if I'm wrong but I'm SURE apple had copied stuff from other companies also..


James
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Everyone has copied a little here and there, but this is blatant copying done over and over. If Apple is still using Samsung parts in their products they need to find new vendors fast. This has nothing to do with phones or tablets, but I will make another prediction about Samsung copying...

In 2012... Samsung will copy LG and introduce Passive 3D HDTVs after claiming they were inferior to their Active 3D technology sets. Check back next year I bet I was right.

It just proves they have no original ideas and copy everyone no matter what the product is.
 
I would not read too much into the "emotional" ad approach. That is very common in Asia. In Japan, KFC ran feel-good ads about Col. Sanders growing up in rural Kentucky rather than about the product itself. It was full of leafy green stuff, streams, mountains and soft music. It is quite common the talk about benefits of associating with a product rather than the product itself.
 
Based on the images people are posting it does look like Samsung is blatantly copying..

Now I kind of understand why Apple has been taking legal action, but still Apple is not going to be winning every case..

I think the best Apple can do is continue to Innovate..
 
Samsung doesn't seem to be putting any effort to define themselves in a unique way.
Apparently they have made their business to copy Apple instead.
Could it be any more obvious?

I'm trying to favor Samsung, but they are not giving me any good reasons to do so. They are becoming the biggest copy-cats of the century, not of just 2011.

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rockrigo said:
let me make a childish claim like yours

the Apple logo is the apple Adam took a bite of after he listened to Eve who was cohersed by the devil
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Actually, Eve took the first bite...:apple:
 
I don't find it's the "emotional approach" that makes it look like an Apple ad ripoff, but lots of details that are individually insignificant but all put together prove that they're not coincidental and largely influenced by Apple's ads.

Mainly:
- The piano track sounds a lot like the MBA ad's "New Soul" by Nael Yaim.
- Indie music all along the ad with no sound from the video.
- Similar-sounding voice actor.
- Shallow depth-of-field, slow-moving cameras, close-ups, similar angles and lighting.
- Similar settings.

A lot of the technical and artistic style has been inspired that's for sure. It's however a combination of small details that can't be individually considered a ripoff and Apple obviously can't put patents on.

If anything, people will notice by themselves the inspiration and gain respect for Apple as trend-setters and industry leaders, even in their ads. This is flattery for Apple and not worth suing.
 
Yamcha said:
Based on the images people are posting it does look like Samsung is blatantly copying..

Now I kind of understand why Apple has been taking legal action, but still Apple is not going to be winning every case..

I think the best Apple can do is continue to Innovate..
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The Ad agency that creates Apple Ads may complain about it, or just simply laugh about it. That commercial may have been filmed anywhere but in Korea, so who knows...
 
pgiguere1 said:
I don't find it's the "emotional approach" that makes it look like an Apple ad ripoff, but lots of details that are individually insignificant but all put together prove that they're not coincidental and largely influenced by Apple's ads.

Mainly:
- The piano track sounds a lot like the MBA ad's "New Soul" by Nael Yaim.
- Indie music all along the ad with no sound from the video.
- Similar-sounding voice actor.
- Shallow depth-of-field, slow-moving cameras, close-ups, similar angles and lighting.
- Similar settings.

A lot of the technical and artistic style has been inspired that's for sure. It's however a combination of small details that can't be individually considered a ripoff and Apple obviously can't put patents on.

If anything, people will notice by themselves the inspiration and gain respect for Apple as trend-setters and industry leaders, even in their ads. This is flattery for Apple and not worth suing.
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I don't believe you can sue anyone for copying your ad.
The lawyers would take care of instigating it if it's actually possible to sue and win. :D
 
neiltc13 said:
Arn - if you want to lose me as a reader, continue posting articles like this. I don't come here to read opinionated nonsense and believe it or not I also don't come here to find out what Samsung is doing.

At the top of the page it says "news and rumors you care about" - try living up to your own slogan.

All the advert shows is people using the product, like almost any other TV advert.
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Agreed. I've read but not posted on this site for the past couple years, but stories like this are just stupid.

Just thought Arn might like to know that he's losing clicks posting this stuff. I won't be back.
 
The historical truth

Asian companies will never be truly successful until they stop the culture of copying the West. That's the truth. Sony, you may remember, started postwar as another Japanese brand that made knockoffs. They got to be a world company by inventing and innovating. Sony's first pocket transistor radio was the iconic device of the early, pop-infused '60s. It was something that American electronics firms hadn't done.
 
FloatingBones said:
Korea has a strange relationship with America and the English language.
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It seems like that's happening more and more everywhere. The same was true when I visited France in 2005 as far as shirts were concerned. The French aren't as interested in English quirks for speaking.

The internet is creating culture and yet destroying it, at least linguistically.
 
Is there a more evil company than Samsung?

Their executives have a great job. Everyday they come into work and take a look at what Apple is doing, then they assign their engineers the task of copying what Apple is doing.

They must get a lot of golf in.
 
onepost said:
Agreed. I've read but not posted on this site for the past couple years, but stories like this are just stupid.

Just thought Arn might like to know that he's losing clicks posting this stuff. I won't be back.
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If anything, MR is gaining them. The story is getting re-posted here and there across the web, and it's all pointing back to MR. As it should be. Let as large an audience as possible witness what Samsung is doing.

Kudos to the MR management for having the guts to call it like it is.
 
Think Different?

Message to other hardware vendors: if you want to beat Apple, don't copy - if it's already out then you are too late. Go do your own thing....
 
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