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Samsung Ordered To Hand Over Unreleased Designs To Apple
An anonymous reader writes with an article in Edible Apple "Samsung last Wednesday was ordered to hand over to Apple five as-of-yet unreleased products so that Apple can compare them to their own offerings ahead of litigation. Apple of course claims that Samsung's products blatantly copy the look and feel of Apple's iOS devices."
'nuff said. In all seriousness though is it time to start demanding a criminal investigation of Apple? Their basic strategy appears to be to steal IP, then manufacture product with the cheapest possible hardware with a work force just above slave labor, occasionally sacrificing a few workers in the process. Then make it impossible to swap out parts without the machine self destructing and the average Joe will not even know his shiny new mac is built out of garbage. And that's just the front end. Apple is supposedly the most valuable IT company based on market cap, but have yet less than 10% of the market in in personal computers and very little presence in servers and supercomputing. Oh yeah, Mr. Jobs has already been caught backdating stocks. Not saying Apples books are cooked... they are more likely deep fried. Basic psychology tells us when criminals get caught they often perpetrate a much larger fraud in order to prove they are smarter than the justice system. And so far they are. Let's see how high that stock can go! Now I'm going to go back to listening to my iPod.
I'm not arguing with their logic but having dealt with both of the products you mentioned I can't say I agree that the Galaxy Tab is better in pretty much any way. At best the new 10.1 inch tablet puts them on even footing except that Honeycomb wasn't really ready for prime time last I checked and Samsung isn't exactly a shining star of after the sale support, especially in the software arena where they have been historically very poor with their phones. If Samsung can put the same level of service into their software updates that Apple does then there will be a real competition here and the benefits of Android will really shine through, especially at with the lower price point.
Disclaimer: I do not own any Apple products and run Gingerbread on my phone.
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