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The Surprises In the Latest Apple V. Samsung Court Documents

Posted by samzenpus on from the have-a-read dept.

Nerdfest writes "The lawyers behind the upcoming Apple v. Samsung trial have been hard at work filing docket after docket as their court battle looms closer, and many of those dockets have just been released to the public. We're now seeing a lot of previously secret information about the early days of iPhone and iPad R&D, and what's happened behind closed doors at both Apple and Samsung. Surprises include the iPhone design being 'inspired' by Sony product ideas, and that Samsung was warned that it was copying Apple."

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  1. Biased Wired.com article by punit_r · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Wired.com article is totally biased towards Apple.

    An example is the SONY concept phone released in 2006.
    http://www.cellphonebeat.com/sony-ericssons-cybershot-concept-phone.html

    Going by Apple's logic, their version of "inspiration" is removing the slider from the SONY concept phone and making the front all touch (removing the silver buttons). With these two basic modifications, there is no difference between the SONY concept phone of 2006 and the iPhone 4 of 2010. I fail to see why does Apple have double standards when treating with the issue when Samsung / Motorola and HTC are concerned. (rather all popular Android manufacturers)

    The industry was already gravitating towards touch screen phones in 2007. The technology was not ready earlier in terms of CPU power, price/performance ratio and OS maturity for touch only phones to be popular mainstream phones. Apple was the first to released a polished product, granted. But, Apple is behaving as if it owns all rights to a touch screen phone / tablet, which I find ridiculous.

  2. Apple is the white looter by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple is "inspired" by other designs, while Samsung "copies". Gotta love that fanboy doublespeak.

  3. Re:Surprises? by fredprado · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is nothing 100% original in this universe. Actually there is nothing 10% original to tell the truth.

  4. Re:Surprises? by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe Sony didn't patent their design because they are adult enough

    Uh no, because we're talking about Sony here. Remember Betamax? Memory stick? Minidisc? Rootkits?

    --
    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  5. Re:Surprises? by Belial6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And THAT is the first, biggest problem with "IP".