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Samsung Halts Galaxy Tablet Promotion In Germany
An anonymous reader writes "Samsung Electronics said Sunday it has pulled its latest Galaxy tablet from the IFA trade show in Berlin, after a German court approved an Apple-requested injunction — the latest move in a wide-reaching patent dispute between the two firms."
Apple has no injunction against any Samsung 7" tablet, and hasn't tried to get one
Samsung itself, along with hundreds of news outlets, would no doubt be interested in hearing your theory. Do you have the slightest shred of evidence to back it up?
There is NOTHING unique about the iPad, certainly nothing unique that other manufacturers do.
Shape and size? The natural results of designing a case around a screen, CPU, RAM, battery etc.
Material? Common in the Hi-Fi and A/V industry. Copied, blatantly, by Apple.
Software? OS? Walled garden? Unique, and UNWANTED by everyone that hasn't bought this tablet!! (and uncopied by any other maker!)
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Shape and size? The natural results of designing a case around a screen, CPU, RAM, battery etc.
Don't forget that Apple actually lied in court by showing distorted images making the sizes look the same when they are quite different. The previously did the same thing with the Galaxy Samsung S phone so this is a well tried tactic by Apple
That's disingenuous. Also before the iPad were things like the Nokia N700 (Maemo) and the SmartQ series (Ubuntu/Wince/Android). The SmartQ devices, in particular, look a lot like the Samsung design, yet predate the iPad by years.
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http://www.designer-daily.com/android-device-design-before-and-after-the-iphone-ipad-18040
To deny the obvious design cloning is to reach an extreme level of Apple-hating that even I can't understand.
http://i.imgur.com/NbDRW.jpg
The graphic linked to is informative.
Did your linked page originally came from realitydistortionfield.com?
The LG Prada phone was winning design awards months before the Iphone was first announced. Note that this article on the Prada phone is dated before the Iphone was first announced: http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/
Likewise, the Ipad closely resembles prior tablets. Here's the Crunchpad prototype from six months before the Ipad was first announced: http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype/
Here's the Knight-Ridder concept tablet from 1994 (16 years before the Ipad was first announced): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBEtPQDQNcI&feature=player_embedded#at=139
Sorry fanboys.
Apples claims will not stand up to reality.
Yet, so far, in numerous courts, around the world, their claims are standing up.
I read a review of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 the other day, which stated it was currently the best consumer tablet out there, comparing it positively to the iPad 2 (Norwegian site amobil.no). Naturally, some asshat fanboy commented on it, stating outright that the reviewer was corrupt and that no other review had found the 10.1 remarkable at all, so I googled it and read some other reviews. Not one said the iPad 2 was lightyears ahead, most seemed to think they were about equal in quality, with some pros and cons for each.
So basically, you're full of shit.
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