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Samsung Halts Galaxy Tablet Promotion In Germany

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-tablet-for-you dept.

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."

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  1. Re:It just shows how stupid the patent law is. by webmistressrachel · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  2. Re:It just shows how stupid the patent law is. by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

  3. Re:Android devices before and after the iPhone/iPa by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  4. Re:Android devices before and after the iPhone/iPa by X.25 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  5. Re:Android devices before and after the iPhone/iPa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, 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.