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Samsung makes eerily close copies of the iPhone As a former iPhone-owner gone (Samsung) Android I resent that comment. iOS is a one-dimensional, inflexible and

by trezor 15y ago

Samsung makes eerily close copies of the iPhone As a former iPhone-owner gone (Samsung) Android I resent that comment. iOS is a one-dimensional, inflexible and locked down platform which bored the hell out of me and this was the primary reason I went over to Android. Android and Samsung's phone (the Galaxy S, which I have and which they are sueing for) is nothing like the iPhone and every single day I'm very happy for it.

AllenKids 15y ago
Apple certainly thinks very different, and the court will decide, won't it?
- poppysan 15y ago
  I think they are merely trying to intimidate a competitor...
  - AllenKids 15y ago
    What you think is not important in the court. I too think these kind of lawsuits are boring as hell, luckily there is a system to sort it out, it may not be perfect, but that's what we've got and a whole lot better than a flamewar.
    - poppysan 15y ago
      I never intended my opinion to be law, just my own view. No flamewar on my side...
      - AllenKids 15y ago
        Oh, I'm not accusing you of that. It's just how things supposed to be handled, Apple and Samsung are all big boys. We as costumers really should not be bothered with their petty squabble to be honest. Nothing drastic will come out of this case.
berberich 15y ago
Android the platform might be nothing like iOS, but Ir does appear that Samsung went out of its way to make their phones look like iPhones[1]. [1]: http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analysis/ http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analys...
- trezor 15y ago
  To be fair, they look like any other smartphone which is black and has a touchscreen. Apple cannot be granted a patent on being black. Not even black with rounded corners. That's not how the world works. And if we dig deeper, behind the PR-piece which Apple seemingly is winning (here on HN at least), lets compare the iPhone to Samsung F700, introduced in 2007, before the iPhone. http://phandroid.com/2011/04/20/did-apple-really-steal-their-iphone-design-from-samsung-pot-meet-kettle/ http://phandroid.com/2011/04/20/did-apple-really-steal-their... I mean... It may not be all black and white, but lets not grant Apple a blanket-right to make rounded, glossy things and assume everyone else is stealing from them.
  - saddino 15y ago
    Actually, that's exactly how the world works. Design patents and trade dress protection can indeed protect the look of a product, even a color from use by competitors, e.g. Tiffany's defends its "robin's egg blue" color used to sell jewelry: http://www.scribd.com/doc/102788/tiffany-v-ebay-III http://www.scribd.com/doc/102788/tiffany-v-ebay-III
  - onemoreact 15y ago
    Umm, those are really not that similar. IPhone does not have navigation elements at the bottom of the screen. It adds a text description under the elements vs. the top. It includes status information as ribbon across the top and does not plaster their logo on the screen anywhere. Also, none of the icons look similar, their screen is significantly diffrent shapes and even there buttons have different shapes. And most importantly I think the number of people that would confuse the two is tiny. Not to mention one was released in Febuary and the other with a clearly better interface was released four months later.

by trezor 15y ago

AllenKids 15y ago

Apple certainly thinks very different, and the court will decide, won't it?

poppysan 15y ago
I think they are merely trying to intimidate a competitor...
- AllenKids 15y ago
  What you think is not important in the court. I too think these kind of lawsuits are boring as hell, luckily there is a system to sort it out, it may not be perfect, but that's what we've got and a whole lot better than a flamewar.
  - poppysan 15y ago
    I never intended my opinion to be law, just my own view. No flamewar on my side...
    - AllenKids 15y ago
      Oh, I'm not accusing you of that. It's just how things supposed to be handled, Apple and Samsung are all big boys. We as costumers really should not be bothered with their petty squabble to be honest. Nothing drastic will come out of this case.

berberich 15y ago

Android the platform might be nothing like iOS, but Ir does appear that Samsung went out of its way to make their phones look like iPhones[1]. [1]: http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analysis/ http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analys...

trezor 15y ago
To be fair, they look like any other smartphone which is black and has a touchscreen. Apple cannot be granted a patent on being black. Not even black with rounded corners. That's not how the world works. And if we dig deeper, behind the PR-piece which Apple seemingly is winning (here on HN at least), lets compare the iPhone to Samsung F700, introduced in 2007, before the iPhone. http://phandroid.com/2011/04/20/did-apple-really-steal-their-iphone-design-from-samsung-pot-meet-kettle/ http://phandroid.com/2011/04/20/did-apple-really-steal-their... I mean... It may not be all black and white, but lets not grant Apple a blanket-right to make rounded, glossy things and assume everyone else is stealing from them.
- saddino 15y ago
  Actually, that's exactly how the world works. Design patents and trade dress protection can indeed protect the look of a product, even a color from use by competitors, e.g. Tiffany's defends its "robin's egg blue" color used to sell jewelry: http://www.scribd.com/doc/102788/tiffany-v-ebay-III http://www.scribd.com/doc/102788/tiffany-v-ebay-III
- onemoreact 15y ago
  Umm, those are really not that similar. IPhone does not have navigation elements at the bottom of the screen. It adds a text description under the elements vs. the top. It includes status information as ribbon across the top and does not plaster their logo on the screen anywhere. Also, none of the icons look similar, their screen is significantly diffrent shapes and even there buttons have different shapes. And most importantly I think the number of people that would confuse the two is tiny. Not to mention one was released in Febuary and the other with a clearly better interface was released four months later.