Document Reveals How Samsung Used iPhone as Reference

[tuanmai]

132 pages of trouble for Samsung.

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[christarp]

Oh my. Look what we have here. Samsung deserves whatever it has coming its way.

 

[Ironslice]

I call bullshit. If my car is worse than someone else's car, and his car has a GPS, I'm gonna add a GPS to my car. You can't just patent *CAR WITH GPS* and claim it was your invention.

 

[cuecuemore]

The big problem with our broken paradigm is that "we" (well, not I, nor anyone else with have a brain) think this is a bad thing. In reality, this is how innovation should work!

 

[gigantor21]

If the government wants my Galaxy S3, they'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands.

 

[clubsaucekiller]

Can't wait for the Samsung fanboys to try and defend this one.

 

[Guest]

It's pretty clear that's a copy&paste. My question here if we believe that is innovation why we need all those mobiles in the market? Let's only make one modele and every body makes a copy for his own

 

[dalethepcman]

The document outlines such groundbreaking stolen ideas as "The date displayed on the Calendar should match the current date on the phone" "Landscape mode should be supported when the phone is turned left or right, not left only" "Pressing the NEXT button should not change the case of the alphabet"

This sounds like a bug list from a very early build of Samsung's phone.

As was pointed out, it is natural to compare your product to the current market leader and try to make you product better. All of that being said, there are some items where they certainly wanted it to work just like an iphone and the text clearly shows that, but most of them seem to be limitations of pre-gingerbread android that were automatically implemented courtesy of Google.

The question of the day would be if anything in this entire document relates to round icons, rectangular devices, silver bezels, and prompting to automatically call a phone number when its received in email or text messages, which after reading the entire thing, does not appear to be.

 

[Guest]

I'm sure most all companies have some kind of comparison with their market competitors. In my opinion this proves nothing as far as saying they copied the iPhone, or any of it's features; which by the way, Android does have a good majority of the nice ones before Apple integrates them into it's IOS for the iPhone.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]clubsaucekiller[/nom]Can't wait for the Samsung fanboys to try and defend this one.[/citation]

If this is a violation of copyright then the entire legal system can expect to handle just copyright cases for centuries.

This just goes to show how the patent system, copyright system, etc are all out dated and need to be reformed.

 

[pronger12]

they both stole qwerty, they must be banned from using qwerty keyboards and use dvorak instead

 

[schnitter]

Making a list of bugs/errors/things that need to be improved on your device is normal and good practice, listing "iPhone has this and we don't" is what will, ultimately, bring Samsung down. Samsung should have steered away from its inferior TouchWiz and run pure Android as default.

 

[s3anister]

Samsung Used iPhone as Reference

I was under the impression that every good company/corporation does this by taking the best designs and ideas and applies them to their own designs and ideas to improve their own products.

 

[aznshinobi]

If the iPad Mini releases with the 7" can Google/Asus sue Apple for taking the Nexus 7 into heavy consideration as competition? What I'm drawing from this evidence is that if you look at competitors products, you can sue them for it.

 

[Guest]

Is Apple really going to argue they've never looked at anyone else's products?

 

[therabiddeer]

[citation][nom]spanky1337[/nom]Is Apple really going to argue they've never looked at anyone else's products?[/citation]
Of course! Apple never got the idea for a smartphone from anybody else, they were the first! Same goes for the iPad!
/sarcasm

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]spanky1337[/nom]Is Apple really going to argue they've never looked at anyone else's products?[/citation]

Haha good point, if this was turn around against Apple they would be screwed instantly.

 

[oj88]

Copyright and patent laws are set not only to protect the interests of individuals or companies, but to protect the economic interests of the whole nation. If the jurors vote in favor of Samsung, there will be a flood of foreign companies doing the same things. Don't blame the jurors being patriotic if Apple wins the case in the end.

 

[darkavenger123]

I am sure cavemen have draw squares and circles on sand back then. They can sue the shit out of everyone today. This is crazy....patenting a look and feel which is so subjective and generic. If a draw a painting of house and sun and tree, ...if i can patent this, i'll be trillionaire in no time.

 

[turquish]

Apple is not a US company. There manufacturing is in china. The parts for the iPhone/iPad don't come from US companies. The new new screens for iPhone 5 are Sharp and LG manufactured. Neither are a US company. Both have subsidiaries in the US. So if the jurors are patriotic it doesn't matter whether Samsung or Apple wins.

 

[hotroderx]

Let me get this straight I wanna make sure I understand correctly. Samsung took the top model phone at the time. Sat down compared it to there flagship phone. Then using the information they gathered from comparing the phones they setup a chart. They then made improvements to the product using the data they found.

Maybe Apple should take a look at its own past before slinging mud
http://www.zurb.com/article/801/steve-jobs-and-xerox-the-truth-about-inno
I am just saying.

 

[psychotek71]

apple iphone sucks

 

[freggo]

I fail to see the problem.
One day long ago someone took a station wagon and chopped off the rear half of the roof.... and Bingo... the pickup truck was born.
Now everyone make 'em.

Cameras have a lens and a round button to take the photo. Should we make it a square button just because someone patented the 'round' button as a feature ?
Give it a rest Apple. It's a friggin phone, and YOU did not invent phones to begin with.

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]Ironslice[/nom]I call bullshit. If my car is worse than someone else's car, and his car has a GPS, I'm gonna add a GPS to my car. You can't just patent *CAR WITH GPS* and claim it was your invention.[/citation]

BS? If that was bad enough, what about Apple's patent on touchscreen buttons' square with rounded edge shape?

 

[Meatymutawings]

the problem for samsung is that they aren't "improving" upon the iphone, they were studying iphone's features to match up with it, if you go through the entire document, samsung did make a lot of improvements that wouldn't have been done without taking the designs from iphone, I think its fair for samsung to take some punishment for what they did.