Surely time to bin anything from Samsung?

Ex-SolentBoy said:
Really.

How can you use nothing from a company that behaves like this?

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/02...vering-default-victory-in-design-patent-case/
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They're just trying to stop Apple pinning them to the ground over an overly generic design for which they have strong evidence of prior art including their own F700...

Are we really going to allow people to patent black rectangles and sue anyone else who makes one?

Besides which, Samsung make most of the parts in current iPhones anyway (screen, processor, RAM etc).... so you'd better bin them too.
 
Apple dont like any competition. Sour grapes IMO.

I have a Galaxy, never an iphone. I have Macs in work for designers, a very expensive PITA.
 
Dont really follow all of Apples defensive court cases, but I thought other countries have thrown this one out? Maybe Apple get a little more protective court sidings in USA that elsewhere, eh?
 
And as the precursor to the Mac - Apple II had an operating system display based on Xerox ideas and hardware based on Commodore it's a bit rich for them to complain
 
Ex-SolentBoy said:
Really.

How can you use nothing from a company that behaves like this?

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/02...vering-default-victory-in-design-patent-case/
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Come on now. This is the result of Yankee owned multinationals trying to keep markets to themselves through American courts. Just imagine what would happen if Apple succeeded and no one else was allowed to make touch screen phones or tablets - because that is their objective.

Better still to boycot both Apple and Microshaft as they are the real culprits.
 
it seems to me that apple are very innovative and whatever they bring to market results in a plethora of very similar products arriving shortly afterwards.
there seems little doubt that others, including samsung, are copying apple designs and apple are right to try to protect their property.
regardless of the outcome of this case, it will be up to the company rather than its consumers to satisfy the ruling of the court, so i might just hang on to my tv, phone and galaxy tab for the time being.
 
markdj said:
I'm glad the replies here reflect my feelings on the matter as this OP is clearly wrong and confused.
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Hopefully someone with eyes will read the post. How obvious does it need to be?

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Ex-SolentBoy said:
Hopefully someone with eyes will read the post. How obvious does it need to be?

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And did Logie Baird go to court when other people started to make TV's? Did Henry Ford throw his toys out the pram when other manufactures introduced production lines? The answer is no.

It could be argued that before the iPhone Apple didnt have a mobile phone, so from who did they copy with that idea, eh?
 
Ex-SolentBoy said:
Hopefully someone with eyes will read the post. How obvious does it need to be?

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That was a very carefully chosen selection from Samsung's enormous range of products that creates an unfairly stark impression. You could equally find a whole series of images from a huge number of manufactures from before the iPhone that look like the iPhone - including Samsung's own F700 and the newspaper reading device in the film 2001 A Space Odyssey.

It's a black rectangle with a screen. It's hardly revolutionary... and there is plenty of evidence that it is just the direction that industrial design was moving in with lots of separate designers reaching similar concepts simultaneously. If anything Apple were a little late to the party - they were just very successful.

It may well turn out to be a tragic mistake for Apple to focus on pointless litigation rather than to continue to try and innovate their way back to the front of the pack.
 
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Ah, the joys of the US patent system, where cases are heard in front of juries lacking even basic technological understanding. And they give awards of hundreds of millions of dollars. That's real justice.

(posted awkwardly from an ipad)
 
Apple have 'borrowed' many innovations from others in media players, personal computers and phones, but this case - on home turf - is their only chance at stopping a product range that rivals/surpasses their own. Android will be their next target. Many think of Apple as a good hard-working underdog to the bad boys of the corporate world and that's simply not the case. Historically, they were not only more devious than Microsoft in terms of 'any measure' to inhibit competition, but also have a track record of litigation. The only losers if Apple win are the consumers - Apple devices, whilst good, are over-priced fads for the fashion conscious not serious devices where longevity and cost matters. If the Mac held the market share that the PC has, it would undoubtedly cost four times as much and have half the shelf life... :rolleyes:
 
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