Document Reveals How Samsung Used iPhone as Reference

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]NightLight[/nom]the real question is, how did apple get (steal) these internal samsung documents.!no seriously, the person that made these documents deserves a raise, he did his homework. They took their basic product, copared it with the competition (and i'm sure they didn't only compare to the iphone) and tried to bring out a better product. There's nothing wrong with that.[/citation]
Apple didn't stole this document. Samsung showed parts of this document in court and Apple asked the court to force Samsung to provide with the full document as evidence.

 

[idono]

[citation][nom]NightLight[/nom]the real question is, how did apple get (steal) these internal samsung documents.!no seriously, the person that made these documents deserves a raise, he did his homework. They took their basic product, copared it with the competition (and i'm sure they didn't only compare to the iphone) and tried to bring out a better product. There's nothing wrong with that.[/citation]

I'm quite sure there's more to these dosucments. That's quite possibly just a fraction of the actuall documents.

 

[southernshark]

Well think of all the money Apple saved by having Samsung build its products for them instead of doing it in the USA.............

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]tobalaz[/nom]Ford had a car with 4 round wheels first.Chevy made a car with 4 round wheels next.Chevy is obviously stealing the round wheel so Ford should sue.[/citation]

Yeah, but Ford did not invent the 'car' either 🙂

 

[eddieroolz]

All seemed great in Samsung's reality distortion bubble, but then it came crashing down.

Now many of the commentators here are furiously trying to defend Samsung's practices. It's downright hilarious, since many of you were the ones that were highly critical of the iSheep in the first place.

 

[eddieroolz]

[citation][nom]s3anister[/nom]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.[/citation]

That's perfectly acceptable - many companies do that. GM tore down the Lexus LS when it first launched in the late 80's and analyzed it thoroughly.

However, it becomes an infringement, and potentially criminal if the said company simply copies many features outright, and adjusts the rest of their features to look exactly like the competitor's product.

 

[ojas]

haha i wonder when apple will sue samsung for using the same silicon in the electronic components 😛

 

[pacioli]

Wow check that out... They had 99 problems but a %#$^@ ain't one

 

[mikat]

Are these the best two examples you can find? Seriously? The day-number is on the calendar app icon. Holy Jumping Jehosephat!

 

[WyomingKnott]

Doesn't one normally look at a competitor's product when designing a new one?
It seems that the assertion is not that the iPhone was slavishly copied, but examined during the design phase.

 

[The_Trutherizer]

I'm sorry.. I'm behind Samsung and all the other manufacturers that have to deal with a company that patents every little small thing they can think of on their devices whether it's been done before or not just adding the suffix "- on a mobile phone". This is corporate bullshit at it's rankest. In the real world real people want companies to do their darnedest to come up with better value, better designed products. A serious rethink of the whole patenting system is in order. It needs to allow for little things like the fact that what is good for corporations are not neccesarily good for human beings.

 

[bastard]

Apple shot themselves in the foot with this document.
Samsung can sue them for industrial espionage and get Apple s 100bil.

 

[kgbdk]

[citation][nom]turquish[/nom]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.[/citation]

That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. The iPhone and iPad use parts from all around the world. Guess what? Every other smart phone manufacturer in the world does the same thing. There is no such thing as a smart phone made entirely in one country. Integrated chipsets are manufactured by Qualcomm, Broadcom, Intel, etc. Intel, Qualcomm and Broadcom are all U.S. companies. Apple is a U.S. company. They design their products at their headquarters in Cupertino. All of their design engineers are at their U.S. headquarters. They outsource their production like every other tech company in the world, including Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Netgear and many other perceived U.S. companies. In fact, they outsource to the exactly same factories at Foxconn sites as Apple. But you don't see anyone criticizing Microsoft for Chinese labor laws, I wonder why? Some people hate without knowing the facts.