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Samsung Wants To See iPhone 5 and iPad 3
tekgoblin writes "The suit against Samsung that Apple filed back in April has been full of surprises recently; Apple even asked to see some of Samsung's future devices. Now, Samsung is requesting to view Apple's upcoming devices such as the iPad 3 and iPhone 5."
I've seen this before. The way to see the future with the concentration of sheer corporate power.
not gonna click it to find out, but I'd be surprised if parent's link wasn't goatse
"I show you mine if you show me yours."
they never did.
About the same, yeah. Don't click it
It appears you would be correct sir. Why oh why do I always forget..
Oh goddammit. I didn't need that right before bed.
Man, the trolls must be off their game or something, because this one's REALLY obvious.
I found the comment that this may delay their release the most interesting. If true, perhaps this will stop Apple and others from abusing the legal system in the future. Smart move on Samsung's part.
goatse warning! I'm still recovering.
While I completely believe Apple is paranoid enough to believe that everyone is stealing their generic unappealing design, it's frightening that a judge can tell Samsung to pull down it's pants and cough.
Turn on TinyUrl previews. It saves lives.
It will be a thin cuboid.
I don't know if you'd noticed or not, but a lot of people really do try to steal Apple's designs, or at least their thunder. It's the step between (5) observe with mounting horror and a hint of awakening greed how well the Apple product is doing in its newly impacted niche and (7) boast proudly that Apple's not the only one to have a design in that niche.
Incidentally, (4) is "complain how generic and obvious the Apple product is, and decry how it can't possibly amount to anything in its selected niche." Whether (4) is an honest reaction or a premeditated defense against claims of (6) is left as an exercise for the reader, and probably best judged on a case-by-case basis.
You cannot truly appreciate Dilbert until you read it in the original Klingon.
I want to see them too.
... But isn't it apple suing Samsung for copying their design?
I can see why a judge wants Apple to see the next Samsung models, but I fail to understand why would he ever grant Samsung permission to check future Apple releases.
...comes around. This should prevent Apple from taking Samsung's designs and running with them. Although I still fail to see how or why one should be allowed to patent a design. It's not like it's super secret if it's on the outside...
Hyperbole: I use it liberally!
High likelyhood of being a Goatse link. Proceed with caution
Good-bye
Apple and Samsung employees/execs/lawyers are not viewing eachother's designs. The review is done by a supposedly unbiased third-party who will simply look for any infringement. No one from either camp gets to stare at what im starting to believe is some sort of circuit board porn
I want secrutz too!
Somebody probably outsourced his trolling to India.
And to proxies, so trolls won't see your IP.
The three laws of thermodynamics:(1) You can't win. (2) You can't break even. (3) You can't even quit.
are Samsung rally that dumb to copy Apple even in court?
So Apple is suing samsung because Samsungs products are as close as possible to full copies of Apples products, they get to see the future samsung products to verify if they are indeed iPhone 4 and Ipad 2 copies. Now Samsung is saying "We want to see iPhone 5, so we can errrrrr, not copy it better" ?
People really allow redirectors to run scripts on their machines? You have discovered many idiots. Congratulations!
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Samsung and Asus now look like the biggest threats to Apple, in phones and tablets respectively.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
Watch Johanna Blakely talk at TED about the fashion industry.
It's got a number of rather interesting points:
- designers take creative input from anywhere
- logos on goods are the only thing you cannot copy
- the customers for copied goods are not the customers a designer would normally have anyway, something the music and film industry might have to start thinking about (Microsoft understands this better - it's what they use for initial market penetration).
Worth watching, whatever side of the IP fence you live..
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Here's a thought: don't click on links that use url shorteners. This isn't friggin twitter, they can paste a full url.
You mean, Windows on iPad is a better sight than goatse?
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/cell-phones/samsung-believes-iphone-5-could-be-nexus-s-copy/12060.html
Also interesting speculation that Samsung could keep its new ultra high resolution display screens away from Apple for a period of time to keep them behind the curve.
These are interesting times...
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
You do realize that the Nexus S is considered an INFERIOR product and even a DOWNGRADE from the original HTC built NexusOne.
Why would Apple want to copy a crappy product?
Is it possible that these two companies are using this lawsuit, that may go nowhere, to collude on pricing, by comparing technology? Just a thought.
That is very true. The rich see designer items as a way to show off how rich they are to the common folk. They have been doing this for a very long time.
I for one will abstain from aquiring a fancy pants tablet until the technology, security concerns and a proper attitude towards privacy and user security are championed for the sake of securing solely user benefits and not having manufacturers dump mediocre products onto the market.
Hrm, I want an A4 sized, double paged, ebook reader for pdf files, not an iPad.
I honestly hope this only angers the judge. What the fuck kind of argument is "I need to see their future un-anounced product to make sure I don't copy the trade dress of their current product?"
Or are they honestly saying they're afraid apple will sue them for releasing a product that could be confused with some future never before announced apple product? If that were to happen, samsung would be the one suing apple for trade dress infringement.
Well was dumb and clicked, but I don't know if the URL is f'ed up, ad-block in Chrome messed with it or what.. but it came back with an invalid URL that shows this in the address bar:
data:text/html;base64,PHRpdGxlPllvdXIgdXJsIGFudGktc2hvcnRlbmVyIHdvcmtzPzwvdGl0bGU+PGltZyBzcmM9aHR0cDovL2JpdC5seS9lakdqdEsgaGVpZ2h0PTEwMCUgLz4K
(Edit to add to earlier comment)
I guess a WIN for Chrome!
This webpage is not available
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Well I guess there went the rumor of the iPad3 having super Amoled display from Samsung
I mean that's kinda... nothing. Are you really that excited over something so stupid?
You could get more people putting goatse stickers on bus stops in busy sections of town.
Is that an iPhone in that ad, or a Samsung? I'm really finding it hard to tell these days.
isn't the presence of branding a dead giveaway?
"My troll attack"
What sad little dipshit.
they have stickers?
Works in a default install of Firefox but not a default install of Chrome.
well, 17 of those are from me.. so don't get too excited.
It's a URL using the "data" scheme, not a script.
I see this as a pre-emptive strike, so that after they spend $$ engineering their tablet, Apple can't come along and say, "It looks like our new one. Pay up."
I doubt that what they're really after here is visuals of the new designs. They're probably simply after Apple's refusal to provide them, which serves as a bit of legal cover.
to all those Apple products that looked so much like older Samsung products. Right.
In the end user is going to have great device to hold in his hand.
I think what's sadder is that there is already talk of iPad 3 and iPhone 5 so soon after the release of iPad 2 and iPhone 4 - it just goes to show you how Apple views its customers to be milkable for complete replacements on an annual basis.
Still, as the saying goes, "A fool and his money are easily parted".
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Samsung copies Apple's designs. And Samsung pre-announces their new stuff with pictures galore in the press. Apple keeps the wraps on everything until product announcements in contrast. Samsung's new items are remarkable in their similarity to already existent Apple designs. So to the unofficial eye, they are violating the design patents, and more.
So Apple asks for copies of the unreleased devices. Not realizing the irony of their position, Samsung copies Apple's legal designs and requests copies of Apple's unreleased devices. Not that anyone has seen them yet. Unlike Samsung's devices which have months of pictures in the press.