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Samsung Opens New Apple Store In Australia

Posted by samzenpus on from the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.

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.

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  1. I thought the O'Brien skit was a PARODY by wisebabo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sure you've seen this (but if you haven't it's pretty funny). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YciM_54HzZk

    At about 1:04 they talk about the Samsung "Smart Tutors". I thought this was part of the parody! Now I'm wondering how much of the rest of the video is true.

    By the way, how much of the following do you agree/disagree with? If there is a high correlation between all of these perhaps, for everyones sake, we could just shorten disagreements by separating people into two groups. No judgement here, it just would save everyone a lot of time.

    Thinks Evolution is just a theory
    Thinks Global Warming is not real/is a conspiracy
    Thinks Obama is a socialist
    Thinks Obama is a muslim
    Thinks Obama was not born in the United States
    *New* Thinks Obama will hand over sovereignty of U.S. to U.N. (Lubbock county judge)
    *New* Thinks vaccines cause autism (Donald Trump)
    *New* Thinks "legitimately raped" woman are biologically capable of preventing pregnancy (inherent in Republican Party Anti-Abortion Platform)
    Thinks cutting government spending during a severe recession/depression is the appropriate thing to do
    Thinks the U.S. health care system is the best in the world which justifies it costing twice as much as the next major country (Germany) while neglecting millions
    Thinks Apple products are markedly inferior to the alternatives
    Thinks Samsung didn't copy Apple

    So, if people sort themselves into two groups say one called "Republicans" and the other say "Democrats" and would identify themselves as such, we could save everyone a lot of grief.