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How To Avoid Infringing On Apple's Patents
bdking writes "In a public legal brief (PDF), Apple offers numerous design alternatives that Samsung could have used for its smartphones and tablets to avoid infringing on Apple's patents. Basically, as long as competitors' smartphones and tablets bear no resemblance to smartphones and tablets, everything's cool."
Did apple patent gestures? Because i'm giving apple one right now.
Also, don't grow apples
Obviously Apple is holding it wrong...
Front surfaces that are not black or clear
The screen on the Galaxy tab is on the back.
-- Terry
Can't hate them entirely though, Apple made my life easier, I know who to ignore when outside and when dealing with people in general.
Ah. A user. Idiot! Some/many people want it to JFW, which it does.
Apple made my life easier too, by being instantly useful by family members and so far resisting f***ing up fairly well. Besides, it does actually work quite well, right down to recognizing that users are going to plug in PC keyboards on a Mac. Apple anticipated that they'd want to redefine an Alt key to be a Command key, so enabling that is a thirty second job which works instantly (no reboot necessary). Beats futzing around with xmodmap.
I own no Apple hardware, nor do I want any, but I appreciate their thorough attention to detail. Considering what they charge for iBaubles, that's at least something.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
According to the fanboi's on the first day jobs created light
THAT's how samsung can get out of this - by having no case.
we can carry around a screen, battery and circuit boards connected by wires!