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Right now Amazon is pretty much going to expand into everything possible because they need to keep expanding, so they will be experimenting with various industries, I wouldn't be surprised if they started selling their own branded TV's, laptops, refrigerators, washers, dryers, or pretty much anything you have in the house soon.

Yep, just like Apple has done with the Apple TV and their famous iPhone branded stoves.

My point was that people who need to carry around a machine capable of doing desktop-style work should carry light laptops - rather than paying for a high-spec'd phone that can do those things

Because,

1. Bigger is better
2. I like backpacks
3. I heard a laptop battery can stop a bullet
4. More computers is better

http://www.blogcdn.com/de.enga...

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RIght - next they'll be playing football on LED game machines. how I fondly remember these single purpose machines. Also remember figuring out a bug that if you played a split offense and moved the QB down one row you could stand still and wait several moves and the defense would move past you. Leaving the goal wide open.

Image of one such device: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.eng...

Indeed. He looks like (late) Rodney Dangerfield on steroids http://www.blogcdn.com/www.man...

Beating test cycles by engineering to the test is hardly a new phenomenon, and it is the bulk of why current EU tests are being replaced by new standards currently in development that are harder to game. Even with this improvement, expect some level of optimization for test conditions while either ignoring or even harming real world performance.

The relentless cycle beating has had a myriad of harmful effects beyond just not accomplishing the purpose.

• * Regulators start to believe their emissions goals can actually be met, even when they realistically cannot while maintaining adequate driving performance. People just don't baby the throttle the way the NEDC does.
• * Somehow, the problems the controls were intended to alleviate aren't getting any better, so they crank them down tighter. The engineering gets even more optimized for the test. The cars get nice "green" certifications, and everyone wonders where the smog is coming from.
• * Often, this engineering means smaller engines and turbos, which inevitably don't last as long as the larger displacement engines they replace. It also means increased mechanical complexity. Guess who picks up the tab for this? Us.
• * The smaller, boosted engines may do just fine in emissions testing, and even performance testing on the dyno, but often they are not as good as the larger, naturally aspirated engines they replace for real-world tasks. This is particularly true with trucks, where you'll see V-8s being replaced by turbo-4s. They may still have the same or even better power on paper, but they now have spool-up lag and have to operate in a higher RPM range to haul cargo and/or passengers, and really can struggle with towing loads due to the lesser torque.

It remains to be seen that diesels with urea injection "cannot realistically meet emissions goals". VW wanted to avoid that system on these cars for various reasons.
Meanwhile, it's immensely clear that emissions are hugely cleaner than they were pre1970; performance is as good as or better; and today's little engines working hard last 200k easily while the big lazy v8s of the day would be lucky to hit 100K.
And big rig diesels have always been mainstays of turbocharging, other than the GM Rootes blowers, precisely because they are driven more on highways and run at a narrow range of rpms for long periods of time compared to passenger cars and turbo lag isn't encountered very often, and the increase in efficiency is worth big bucks, and diesels are more efficient that gasoline engines which are not direct injected. http://forums.anandtech.com/sh... And torque is not less with a turbocharger, http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aut... http://image.fourwheeler.com/f... http://www.gizmag.com/bmw-adds...

Self driving cars don't preclude private ownership by you. Or ownership of a 7 person SUV sized vehicle.

No, but other posters have implied that owning your own vehicle won't be needed once we have self-driving cars.

While that is true for many, I enjoy owning my vehicle, not because I like paying for it, but because I like it kept in the condition that I leave it in and that no one else touches it.

Or if you own the 7 person vehicle to rent a 1 or 2 person vehicle to commute in.

Costs will be lower and likely most insurance and taxes will be mileage based. So you will have incentives to use the lowest cost vehicle from various sources.

People who own 7 person SUVs generally don't want to rent little econo boxes to commute in. If they did, they would own one. If you commute every day, renting makes no sense, you might as well own it.

http://www.blogcdn.com/slidesh...

That is what I drive, same year, same model, same color, right down to the power folding running boards (when you open a door, they lower and extend to make a larger easier to use running board than fixed boards provide).

It is big, it gets terrible gas millage, and I don't care. It also weighs 3 tons which makes my kids safer in any multi-vehicle accident. It has every bit of safety technology generally for sale today. A rental truck isn't likely to have the $1,500 optional adaptive cruise control with auto emergency braking.

I did not buy such a truck to go rent a little econobox.

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Side note: To anyone who thinks power running boards sound silly, take a look at the up and down pictures...

Folded up:
http://www.automotiveaddicts.c...

Extended:
http://www.automotiveaddicts.c...

They are lower and wider than fixed boards, they give a cleaner look and less wind noise at speed, they are easier for kids to use, etc.

They are also a $1,600 option, so you won't find them on any rental truck.

Yes you want it. There are two things the humungous DSLR lenses give you: More light so you can capture images in dark situations with less noise. And shallow depth of field.

We''re finally reaching the point I predicted in the early 1990s when the first digital cameras with reduced sensor size came out. That spawned endless debates about what exactly the sensor size did to the depth of field. It turns out when you reduce sensor size, you increase depth of field. This results in photos that look like they were shot with a point and shoot modern digital cameras - everything in the photo is in sharp focus. This happens in the 35mm point and shoot because the lens has a small aperture (ratio of lens diameter to focal length). In digital cameras it happens because they use a tiny fingernail-sized sensor.

To generate creative effects like isolating the subject of a photo from the foreground and background using focus, you need a DSLR with a large lens and large sensor. Would the photo of the Afghan Girl been so striking if the dirty wall of the refugee camp behind her had been in sharp focus?

You can simulate shallow depth of field in software by blurring portions of the photo. But this is usually just a guess based on location in the photo. e.g. Blur the bottom and top third, leave the middle third in focus. It ends up looking rather fake, which is bad unless fake is the effect you're trying to achieve. (That last one's a real scene, it just looks like a miniature because shallow depth of field is also characteristic of photographic miniatures. Your brain has seen it so often that it associates extreme shallow depth of field with miniatures.)

With a sensor which also captures 3D depth info, the sensor and lens size limitation is gone. You can perfectly blur the image in software to simulate any depth of field, from shallow, to deep. Even effects not possible with optical lenses, like non-linear depth of field, are possible. The only remaining reason to lug around huge DSLR lenses is for low-light photography with little noise.

I'm confused, to they refer to this kind of Tesla : http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/10/tesla-model-s-fire.jpg?

As far as I could discern, in the 11 days listed here all they did was install the charging ports at a place which already had suitable electrical infrastructure (at a hotel parking lot). It wasn't a full service station in the middle of nowhere. Also, look at service capacity. It takes ~30 minutes to "refuel" a Tesla Model S with 150 miles of extra range. A gas station, meanwhile, will easily do 400+ miles in less than 5 minutes, so it has about 16x higher overall throughput - for a single gas pump you'd need to install about 16 charging stations. Now of course gas stations don't always have fully occupied pumps and that's the point, so that almost whenever you arrive, there's a free pump available. Replace all the cars on the long-distance highway with EVs and you'll need a service station about an order of magnitude larger in size (i.e. your typical 12-pump gas station becomes a parking lot with over 100 chargers). Hydrocarbon fuels have their advantages and high energy density is one of them. The problem isn't the fuel itself, it's the source. If we made hydrocarbon fuels (e.g. dimethyl ether) from electricity in a carbon-neutral way, you could view them as a very dense chemical battery with pretty much infinite cycles, no charge loss, insanely quick recharge times and all support infrastructure already in place.

We already have a workaround for smaller screens.

Funny that for all the bitching about the "chiclet" style keyboard back then, now I see way too many laptops (and even Macs) that are using what looks like the same style.

I laugh and laugh at the Mac's chiclet crap. They're horrible to use for touch typing, just one step above a membrane keyboard.

To be fair, AFAICT (*) "chiclet keyboard" is a word that seems to have changed its meaning over the years. In the PC Jr's day (again, AFAICT) it referred to *rubber-keyed* keyboards with the "chiclet" appearance. Rubber keyboards- like the PC Jr's- are not fun to type on.

The present-day Mac desktop keyboards often called "chiclet"- like this one- are, to be fair, not rubber keyed.

That said, I'd now like to agree with the parent and grandparent... they're still absolutely f*****g awful, style-over-substance garbage. I was typing on one (like the image above) today, and it's utterly horrid. I would blame it on the keys' lack of travel, but I've used laptop keyboards that are actually quite nice despite that. It may well be the "chiclet" layout, can't say. I've used it before as well, so it's not a case of being unfamiliar with it.

On the same machine I'd already swapped out the equally overrated "Magic" mouse mainly because its low profile might have looked good, but it was odious from an ergonomic point-of-view (i.e. nothing to hold in the hand, and I don't even have big hands).

Urgh.

(*) Based on what I've read from US sources. I live in the UK, and the expression "chiclet keyboard" wasn't used over here in the early-to-mid-80s (because "chiclets" gum wasn't sold here either). We simply called them "rubber keyboards".

Designed in California
Assembled in the USA

Which other companies do that for any of their products?

If you can't find one, you're probably not trying very hard. Pull up this map on the huge ass touchscreen in every Model S:
http://www.blogcdn.com/green.autoblog.com/media/2013/05/tesla-supercharger-map-for-2015.jpg

I'm not aware of any prior art.

The Nokia 6131 NFC debuted at CES2007.

For that matter, all my credit cards have had passive NFC chips in them for the past few years. I have yet to see a reader work with them though - Every now and then I try just waving my card near a reader with the usurped volume symbol on it, only to have the cashier look at me like I have two heads because it never works and no one uses it.

Putting the same tech in a heavier device doesn't really seem like much of a win. Yes, most people already have one; how often do you lose or break your phone compared to your credit cards, however? I've killed three phones in my adult life, but have yet to break or lose a credit card. And that doesn't consider things like dead batteries, no cell service, etc.

Most of the time, you're going to be charging it at home, overnight. For that, charging stations are unnecessary if you're staying in-range.

Hypothetical situation: You come home after a long (200+ mile) journey, plug in your almost-dead EV, and go watch the news.

Two hours later, an evacuation order comes out and you must leave the county NOW, but your EV only has enough charge to get you to the other side of town. Solution?

Granted, emergency situations are typically few and far between... but they are inevitable, and those are the times you need reliability and expedience the most.

An eight-year warranty isn't "abysmal battery life."

To most people, that's going to depend on cost. If replacing the batteries every 8 years is the same or more than they would have paid for an equivalent IC based vehicle, EV's aren't going to win any fans among the Plebes.

The Supercharger setup comes very close to solving the long-trip problem, though. When you have 200+ miles of electric range and get get 150 more miles for half an hour at a Supercharger (with time to stretch your legs, get a snack, etc.), it's a lot less of a problem.

Sure, when you have access to them, and there's not a line of people waiting to charge up; not a problem today, but we're talking mass adoption. If you think waiting 10 minutes on the slow-ass old man at the gas pump is bad right now, wait til he tries to figure out that new-fangled charger-majiggy, and you're the fourth car back.

If I were in the market for a high-end luxury car, the Model S would be at the top of my list.

To each his own, I always say; were I in the market for a $60,000 - 70,000 ride, I think I'd be leaning more towards one of these bad boys.

I use a $10 bluetooth ELM327 adapter and the free version of Torque for Android. It doesn't do any of that chirp stuff, but it easily could with the right software. On top of that, access to ALL sensors and codes.

Not only that, the GPS in our trucks at work do exactly what this thing does.

It's not new, it's not even a good price.

This is a step in the right direction. Now if only unfriendly customer feedback would get them to retract Metro we'll really be in business.

Seriously though, how obvious was it that there would be a huge negative reaction to the change of licensing terms for Office? As usually, the more MBA's you get involved in things the dumber the collective IQ of an organization gets.

Wait to you see the blinding white of of Office 2013! May god have mercy on your soul if you have a flickering flourscent light 60 mhz CRT you stare at all day with it.

Other than that it has some nice improvements under the hood. Cloud integration, an app store with app addons like Firefox has with its browses, GPU acceleration, detailed collaborative editing, and Metro support. I have the dark theme which is a medium gray (it is void of all colors) and I have been running it for almost a month.

It is cool because you can look at a paragraph in Word and see -edited by Jamie 1/29/2013 tag. The document changes work like Im conversations. But the gui,,, just makes me want to go back to Office 2010 similiar to Windows 8. Shame, but potential for something new as addons for cloud services will be the next major reason to upgrade office this decade. Perhaps Office 2015 with Windows 9 will be mature and nice again?

Where are those useful hacked PS3s I heard so much about?

They're busy.

Naw - step two is making the tracking bullet from Tom Selleck's classic 1984 movie: Runaway.

Image

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heMboVN12r0

Step three will be the spiders!

I'd like to see what kind of goofy car designed around a Guy Fawkes mask would look like!

A Fisker Karma comes pretty close...

Here is a Chevy Volt with a gun rack.

You mean like this?

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2010/10/bananajr6k.jpeg

These days it's not limited by the cord length.

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You missed my point. I can make fonts smaller on a higher-DPI screen without hurting overall legibility

Only to a point, and the PPI difference is bot enough that you could fit the same content into the space a Nexus 7 offers and have it be as readable.

7" vs 8" is not at all.

Aspect ratio matters.

I can't think of any non-large-screen aware app on my Android devices, and I have many. And I'm not talking Angry Birds here.

Really, list some and lets see how the iPad versions compare.

I find it curious now that in two posts you have not listed a single app.

Anyway, the obvious reply to this complete non sequitur is that both tablets have plenty of software to run,

Which again is wrong, and the apps DO matter because that is as much a part of usability as is construction.

That's your personal subjective opinion, and many disagree. Objectively speaking, it's fairly obvious that soft-touch plastic is less slippery than aluminum

I agree that it is, but I've never found it different enough to matter.

The entire market has seen Apple slide from uncontested dominance of the mobile space with iOS, to 35% of the market, in three years of Android.

And yet application developers still target iOS first. So why would that be?

The answer is that the market has a LOT of devices that are Android for purposes of that 35% but only barley smartphones. I know, I have one myself.

In all the stats that matter iOS is still hammering Android. There is and always will be a place for other OS makers besides iOS, but Android users seem unwilling to admit that Apple is still handily on top, and looks to remain so for a long time - Android activations are no longer increasing, and the iPhone now has spread to quite a lot more carriers with cheaper entry options than they used to have.

I'll let you have the last response on this as it's pointless unless you are going to speak to the far more interesting strategic aspect of all the smaller tablets, which I attempted to initiate discussion on but you ignored for the lame and very tired Android vs. iOS arguments that actually have nearly zero bearing on what will bring people to chose one of these smaller tablets.

Microsoft extended the concept with tiles - thus avoid any design issues with iOS and Android. The tiles are effectively widgets and you can see all your update stuff right there on your "home" screen (whatever it's called on WP8).

Microsoft might never have heard usability problem "Information overload" when they designed Metro.

Few of many Metro design flaws are that it is step-less scrolling up/down, meaning that user can not easily just recall app/widget position in Metro and scroll there with few finger flicks. Instead user needs to focus to screen so she/he doesn't scroll pass the wanted tile.
This was fixed with Android and iOS by having a steps for every screen (with Android, you can chose different animations or no animation etc for it) so recalling the widget/icon position is much easier as person only needs to remember "it was on second page, top left corner".

The other huge design flaw in Metro was live tiles. In usability design, GUI should not randomly change it look. As user can not trust for memory what kind tile is he/she looking for. So instead just searching "gallery app", user needs to recognize and separate photo gallery app from person and group feeds or even from weather tiles what shows pictures. With Android and iOS, it isn't problem because icons do not randomly change their look. In Android, icons can be set to include notifications like ballots of un-answered calls or received un-read messages, but they are not disturbing user like Live tiles.

User needs to more focus to phone when using Windows Phone, than focusing to task what he/she was doing. Like with Android and iOS, user can just focus what is needed in natural way. Like in real life, if you want to hit nail to wall, you first search nail, then hammer and you place them to wall and you just hit nail with a hammer. Same thing is with Android and iOS, you know what you need to do, if you want to do something to photo, you simply send it to other app what does the job. If you want to view photos, you open gallery app because you know the wanted content (pictures) are located there.

The idea of having information right available with once glance, works well only when information amount is _very_ limited. Like when driving a car, you don't need to see oil pressure, tire pressures, door locking status, window position status, is radio turned on or off, are you pushing what pedal etc. You only get actually know what is important at that time, limiting information to speed and rpm gives user time to focus the surrounding of the car - actual driving. That is one reason why navigation systems etc are now wanted to limit or even ban from cars as they draw focus from driver. Same thing is with phones and other multimedia devices (who would want a TV to car for driver use?).

Windows Phone 8 is for serious ADHD kid dream to come true Metro 7.5 vs Metro 8.0 as you never need to simply complete the task, but you can just search and make queries what is continuesly changing in the GUI. When even a basic web desgin usability guidelines say that information should be limited what is shown to user at time, it is mystery how someone at Microsoft really allowed them to push Metro forward? Only because it was visually different from iOS and Android?
WP would be better without Metro, even the Zune interface (menus and apps itself use Zune UI) is OK when compared to Metro.

Android is so far best because it allows user to customize it as they want it to look and work. You don't find other Android phone same looking if you actually spend little effort to do so. I have said it now 2 years that one reason Android is awesome is because user can tailor it for their needs and demands, while WP can not. But now Microsoft made same argument with WP8, that WP is better than Android or iOS to allow users tailor GUI for user itself, not another way around.

I hope someone would show how to do anything like this, but with Windows Phone (7.8 or 8): Android custom "home screens"

If it is an idealogical must that has nothing to do with actual functionality that's your right. If the issue is one of functionality however, there isn't actually any loss.

As for why you are wrong that there shouldn't be an ethernet port: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/07/dsc01883-copy-1342021663.jpg

That's a picture of the Lenovo ultrabook, which is actually slightly thicker than the rMBP. I think the problem with include one is obvious.

Sure. Here it is, next to my Xbox360 and PS3.

Acer could have used win7

Why? So they could be laughed at? If you are going to try to argue for Windows 7 on a consumer tablet forget it. That ship sailed and it's called the USS iPad.

or asked for win8

Really? 3 years ago? It didn't exist. And even if it did, where would they get the touch based ecosystem? Or are you laboring under some delusion that traditional mouse/keyboard apps are going magically to start appealing to consumers on a tablet.

they still don't have a tablet for win8

So, what is this? CGI mock up? That took 10 seconds to dig up on Google. And with that I'm bored with this as you obviously have no idea what you are talking about and are making it up as you go along.

prada vs iPhone

Galaxy vs iPhone

The trouble with your accusations is they are simply wrong. Prada and iPhone are similar, with obvious differences. No one would mistake one for the other. Galaxy and iPhone are so similar in shape and software function many will mistake one for the other, as Samsung intended.

prada vs iPhone

Galaxy vs iPhone

The trouble with your accusations is they are simply wrong. Prada and iPhone are similar, with obvious differences. No one would mistake one for the other. Galaxy and iPhone are so similar in shape and software function many will mistake one for the other, as Samsung intended.

Yes this is exactly how innovation and progress is made. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2011/09/samsung-copying-cjr.jpg

You can just feel Samsung push the limits of progress.

Yeah it's not like Samsung did ever go out of its way to make a product similar to Apples. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2011/09/samsung-copying-cjr.jpg

Exactly though like a trademarked image. The closer you make something to the Coke logo the more likely you're going to get in trouble over it. But that doesn't stop you from using red / white and wavey lines. That was the point I am trying to get in that it's trying to best describe an ipad and having some of those features isn't an issue. Making something that's a clone of an ipad is.

It's hard not to claim that Samsung is trying to make their device as similar to the ipad as possible given all the evidence in this image. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2011/09/samsung-copying-cjr.jpg

sure, they help you avoid the chinese knowing what you are searching for. but you still can't search for it!

Why do people run their mouths when they have no idea what they are talking about? As can be plainly seen in this screenshot, it is quite clear that you can search for it by simply clicking the "search anyway" link. Google is just being helpful and letting you know that you are probably going to not be able to get much of a response and it is out of their control.

The meaning of a symbol can extend way beyond the lifetime of the object it is based on.

In the UK the sign for a speed camera shows a Hasselblad-type bellows camera, not because these cameras are in common use, but because the symbol is highly-recognisable when travelling along a road at speed - much more so that a generic, rectangular digital camera symbol would be.

(Plus, with OSs like iOS, the concept of manually 'saving' a document is almost redundant - the average Joe is moving to systems where documents are simply created and then auto-magically sync'd to some central cloudy place)

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2010/08/the-watchmen-babies-15411-1236292714-6.jpg

And while it might be an authoritarian's paradise, it would be as dreary and dull as north korea.

It's not dreary and dull in NK at all, at least not in that department - it has cute chicks instead of red light cameras (and red lights). ~

Metrosexual is a design language

It's terrible and hideous. Just take one look at it and sit there with a straight face saying it is anything other than pure garbage. Metrosexual is a joke MS fad and will be quietly be taken out back and shot when Win8 fails to gain traction and windows phone continues to collect dust on retailer's shelves worldwide while 3 times more expensive Android and iPhone phones fly out the door.

I mean, just look at it. It looks like what a 2nd grader would come up with after eating a box of crayons and throwing up on a sheet of construction paper. It's ludicrous and hideous. There are settings in every modern operating system to jack up the fonts and icon/menu sizes. Going to the extreme of just making every menu element a 300x100 pixel target is absurd and will destroy the post first 30 minute new user learning curve. They've essentially took the complete beginner approach to interface and sacrificed all usability beyond that point. It's so sad it isn't even funny and it deserves to go into the trashbin of history along with Bob, Me, Vista, Don'tPlayforSure, etc.

They are all just "ipad". Everything else is just descriptions on websites, etc.

Look at the "2" -

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/03/ipadrev610.jpg

How is this is just like this except for "it's a keyboard and it's thin"?

the screen is certainly reminiscent of an iMac

Jesus Christ... It is an LCD monitor so it looks like an LCD monitor. Dell Monitor looks the same oh noes!!! http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/08/dell-e2210h-lcd-monitor.jpg

Visually there's no difference between BB OS 3.5 (released in what, 2003?) and 7.0.

OS 4.5 shipped on the 8700 in mid-late 2000s: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/05/5-29-08-blackberry-8700g.jpg

OS 7.0: http://www.muycomputerpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BlackberryOS7-2.jpg

So.. what were you saying again? (And of course this is just a still screen shot - there are visual and design changes that run much deeper than can be shown this way.)

no one expects General Motors to advertize their latest car in south central LA,

A lot of cars are being presented with dull and dystopian looking backdrops these days. Cases in point:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/06/50633-d-cap-.jpg
http://www.imperial2009.com/images/2012-Toyota-Scion-FR-S-Concept-Rear-Angle-View-01.jpg

Makes the car stand out more I guess.

There's also an ad for a little Kia hatch (Soul?) that shows it driving through a ruined city, and an ad for the 370Z that looks like it was shot in Detroit.

Uhm, no, they come up with exactly the same design, shown in Kubrik's "Odissey":
Motorola Xoom:
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2168/xoomtabletinterfacescre.jpg

Asus Prime:
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5830/asustransformerprimetf2.jpg

Kindle Fire:
http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/classifications/Tablets/amazon/Kindle%20Fire%20(home%20angle%201)s-420-90.jpg

Oh, and, interestingly, Samsung's on Photo Frame, that came before ipads:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/samsungpictureframe.jpg

"Community design" that caused Samsung's ban in Germany depicts generic tablet:
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/6268/00018160700011source.jpg

Isn't it iPad tht is suspiciously simliar to Samsung Photo Frame (2006)

That whole "business partner" thing is about Samsung selling hardware parts to Apple, not assembling final products, the latter is done by Foxconn slaves.

Could you have a look at this:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/samsungpictureframe.jpg

Then this:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kNKGiOZzAXI/Tmn0ElsA4PI/AAAAAAAAHNo/aK3FT0z-9zI/3AlUc.jpg

And stop spreading myths about "rip off"? The worst part is about rounded rectangular icons. Maybe one out of ten on my Galaxy S looks like that.

Samsung's revenue is 3 times bigger than Apple's. Company makes major advances in technologies, they have best screens on the market, again developed in-house.

And no, buying technologies made by startups is not R&D investment. That includes withdrawing an existing app from app store and making it a major feature in the next gen phone. Neither does assembling your product using existing technologies.

Anyone recalls any other "don't hold it that way" phone pretty please? That's how product development works at Apple.

Out of major players Apple was the first company, that tried to simply ban competitor's product by abusing legal system. (they also tried that two decades ago vs Microsoft, but that time they've failed) German's can't buy German version of galaxy tabs, because those are rectangular with rounded corners. Just like Samsung's photo frame, released in 2006:

They never tried to "submarine their telecommunications patents", because they don't have any. They've patented anything they could, like "multi touch on mobile devices". They've re-patented ancient "connector with magnetic lock" technology, by simply adding "in mobile devices" to it. Damn, they even hold "community design" for "rectangular device with rounded corners". That's truly innovative, costs billions of dollars spent on snacks for R&D.

Interesting comparisons. Just from the first link (hardware design), it looks like there's a better case that Samsung is copying Apple on phones than it is on tablets. (Incidentally, the iPad trademark matches the earlier Samsung picture frame on every single point,

Ohh? Let's check every single point (and not just the front) mkay?

Except Samsung had unobvious uncluttered rectangle tablet year before iPad. Because it's so damn unobvious that other input means aren't neccessary when you've got touchscreen.

And what you don't get is that "form follows function". All tablet designers were headed in that direction:

eg.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/samsungpictureframe.jpg

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Tablet.jpg