Apple Sues Samsung Over Galaxy Likeness to iDevices

Guyver
Guyver K:264820 19/04/2011
Could not believe this just made me lol hothardware.com/...
Seriously it's a tablet how much more different can you make it.
M@ndyz
M@ndyz K:159279 19/04/2011
they dont look that much the same.. :S
FOD
FOD K:201 19/04/2011

Guyver said: Could not believe this just made me lol hothardware.com/...
Seriously it's a tablet how much more different can you make it.



Yeah Apple is such an arrogant company that they even try and own the style of how a tablet should look..... makes me want to smash my iphone, ipad, mac and ipod. :P
Heller
Heller K:142768 19/04/2011
Be surprised if this case actually goes anywhere. Soon Apple will try and sue the creator of square or triangle or rectangle..... -_-
Guyver
Guyver K:264820 19/04/2011

FOD said:

Guyver said: Could not believe this just made me lol hothardware.com/...
Seriously it's a tablet how much more different can you make it.


Yeah Apple is such an arrogant company that they even try and own the style of how a tablet should look..... makes me want to smash my iphone, ipad, mac and ipod.




lol

heller said: Be surprised if this case actually goes anywhere. Soon Apple will try and sue the creator of square or triangle or rectangle.....




They will sue farmers for growing Apples :P

I think they have gone too far with this effort, and like mentioned in the article why haven;t they gone after all the companies that make knock off products look exactly like iPhones and iPads?
FOD
FOD K:201 19/04/2011

Guyver said:

FOD said:

Guyver said: Could not believe this just made me lol hothardware.com/...
Seriously it's a tablet how much more different can you make it.


Yeah Apple is such an arrogant company that they even try and own the style of how a tablet should look..... makes me want to smash my iphone, ipad, mac and ipod.


lol

heller said: Be surprised if this case actually goes anywhere. Soon Apple will try and sue the creator of square or triangle or rectangle.....


They will sue farmers for growing Apples
I think they have gone too far with this effort, and like mentioned in the article why haven;t they gone after all the companies that make knock off products look exactly like iPhones and iPads?



You'll love this....

www.gizmodo.com.au/...

Poor woolworths, soon they wont even be able to sell apples.
Ledski
Ledski K:3593 19/04/2011
^ I do hope that is a joke, it looks nothing like it.
Doyl
Doyl K:66478 19/04/2011
The infringement is not so much over the tablets, but the smartphones.

Iphone 3GS


Samsung Galaxy S




I own a galaxy S and I can tell you now that it really is like the iphone, but due to having android on it, mine is nothing like apple's product.
Just the general shape and a single physical button at the bottom are similar.
stublu
stublu K:22052 19/04/2011

Ledski said: ^ I do hope that is a joke, it looks nothing like it.


lol it is, and it was from 2 years ago too :P
Guyver
Guyver K:264820 19/04/2011
Seriously woolworths? They are not even in the same market...not even close [Facepalm]
MoeMan
MoeMan K:20361 19/04/2011
i backup samsung 100% of the way... apple just cant take that Galaxy is overtaking it... *_*

*******waits for Galaxy S2***********

[yawn] [yawn]
Ren-dog
Ren-dog K:28110 19/04/2011
Omg...... Somebody got hit on the head to hard. (glares at gabe)
abuu91
abuu91 K:18277 19/04/2011
Another Galaxy S owner here. Mine is rooted on 2.3 and runs a totally different launcher so the interface isn't anything near comparable the the iPhone. Externally though, how different can a touchphone appear?

In how many ways can a company present menus and icons? Every time Apple tries to sue it just seems so stupid and trivial.

Take the case of Apple V Creative over the media player interface many many years ago. Apple was counter-sued for that after Creative proved they had the UI style out there first.
gdmatt
gdmatt K:64315 19/04/2011
People take others' ideas and build on them. Apple need to get over it. Just because they rip their customers off.
l3ailey
l3ailey K:20530 19/04/2011
Really, are you serious Apple? [Facepalm]

They're not very smart when it comes to suing people (See WoolWorths case above ^^) , but I'll still buy their products anyway. :P
Guyver
Guyver K:264820 19/04/2011
I'm actually surprised that these actions haven't alienated more Apple fans, seems a little off putting to me.
deicide
deicide K:13392 19/04/2011
most of the apple fanboys dont research the iphone or anything. they jsut buy it. so this wont put them off because they dont care.
Matteh
Matteh K:144762 19/04/2011
It's a bit embarrassing. :S

I heard about the WoolWorths issue, made me laugh. :P
Guyver
Guyver K:264820 19/04/2011

deicide said: most of the apple fanboys dont research the iphone or anything. they jsut buy it. so this wont put them off because they dont care.



Most but not all, like all things I guess. Reminds me of my work mate he's a big Mac fan (likes Mac but not interested in the rest of their range of gizmos). Anyway he got a shock when one of the IT gurus at work told and showed him a few stories about Jobs and Apple. there's a lot of dark and shady stuff that's happened in the past.
MoeMan
MoeMan K:20361 21/04/2011
what's actually funny about this whole thing is that samsung supply apple their screens........
deicide
deicide K:13392 21/04/2011
samsung dont supply apple their screens, lg do. but samsung supplies pretty much all the nands and processing cores at a very good price.
King
King K:89914 21/04/2011
Why is a company suing another company so shocking? :P It happens erryday
deicide
deicide K:13392 21/04/2011
its not that theyre suing, its what their suing about and who their suing
King
King K:89914 21/04/2011
Fine

Why is what their suing about and who they're suing so shocking?

Happens erryday [MOG] =P
deicide
deicide K:13392 21/04/2011
theyre trying to sue samsung because their stuff looks like an iphone. which is fair enough. but its things liek theyre trying to sue because it is rectangular and has round corners. theyre isnt much you can do to change that, lots of stuff has it. Also because of the way the box is. they think because it has a box where you open the lid and see the phone and nothing else, tis a clone of their design. Suing for the user interface, because its a graphical row of icons.


Its who their suing because samsung provides most of the technology used in their iphone and ipad. lg now supply the screens but samsung provides the nands and processing chips at a very good price. If samsung decide to go " you were mean to us. were not making stuff for you anymore." iphone quantities will drop and the price will rise. alot.


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