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Samsung Opens New Apple Store In Australia
An anonymous reader writes "Samsung opened its first retail 'Experience' store in Sydney, Australia today and its design and ethos, even in the most generous light, bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the Apple Store. Now, to be fair, Samsung’s corporate color is blue and there are only so many ways you can design a retail experience. That said, it seems difficult to look at Samsung’s store and not immediately be reminded of Apple’s understated chain of brick-and-mortar retail stores which, at the time it debuted, was considered pioneering. And it’s awfully hard to imagine that the similarities between the two won’t further bolster Apple’s allegations that Samsung is a 'copyist.'" This comes on the heels of both companies claiming the other is "anticompetitive" during Tuesday’s summations in the Apple-Samsung trial.
"who copied what again? and don't say it's an electronic store with genius people!"
Flat surfaces with rounded corners. Those tables are infringing.
Tesco stores look remarkably similar to Wall-Mart.
an scruffy balding asian dude with glasses in a black turtleneck and jeans
Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property; A Corporation is the legal fiction that property is a person.
You mean a Genius Bar fight?
Learn to love Alaska
Oh, they say that about everything...
Samsung's tables have rounded corners.
The broad, rectangular wall displays.
Little known fact - not only did Apple invent rounded rectangles, they invented the regular kind too
The airy, spartan layout and open floor plan
And open plan architecture
dedicated customer support desk
And customer service
A group demonstration area.
...demonstrations
Clean lines.
...cleanliness
Blue T-shirts for all store employees.
...and the colour blue.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Applologist.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Also, Apple has just filed a patent for the use of "tables". No store shall be allowed to use "tables" to display product without paying the Apple tax.
That's a lie. The patent only covers tables (and small tables, aka tablets) with rounded corners.
Applologist.
Mod parent flamebait. He's trying to stir up a fight between those Apple fans who insist they should be called Applologist and those who will only accept iPologist.
I can't imagine many other "practicing Buddhists" who'd make a point of always parking in disabled spaces because "Fuck you, that's why."
It was just another ostentatious hipster douche accessory, like the black turtlenecks.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.