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Samsung: Android's Multitouch Not As Good As Apple's

Posted by timothy on from the when-the-facts-are-on-your-side dept.

itwbennett writes "Hoping to avoid a sales ban in the Netherlands, Samsung has said that Android's multitouch software doesn't work as well as Apple's. Samsung lawyer Bas Berghuis van Woortman said that while Apple's technology is a 'very nice invention,' the Android system is harder for developers to use. Arguing the bizarre counterpoint, Apple's lawyer Theo Blomme told judge Peter Blok, that the Android multitouch isn't inferior and does so infringe on Apple's patent: 'They suggest that they have a lesser solution, but that is simply not true,' said Blomme."

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  1. As good a time as any other by Compaqt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I just found this post today:

    AT&T (yeah, them) is the one that invented a grid of colorful icons, half a decade before Apple.

    http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/08/30/4453/

    Add this to the prior art file.

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    1. Re:As good a time as any other by Compaqt · · Score: 3, Interesting

      >Doesn't mean anything unless AT&T patented it.

      Oh, so people have been doing $X for years, and it doesn't matter until Apple comes along to claim it all for itself.

      Got it.

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    2. Re:As good a time as any other by anomaly256 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/site/about/xerox.big.png vs http://www.markshuttleworth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Apple_Macintosh_Desktop.png

  2. Re:What's wrong with this picture by shaitand · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the summary, " 'They suggest that they have a lesser solution, but that is simply not true,' "

    " He's lying your honor, their Samsung multitouch is almost as good as Apple's"

    I find it interesting that you edited them saying just as good to be "almost" as good.

  3. Re:Patents. Copyrights. by BasilBrush · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As always it is with all gov't regulations, laws, the actual effect is the exact opposite of the supposedly desired one, and it's always negative for the people.

    So the law against murder actually causes more murders and is negative for the people. Amazing what you learn on Slashdot.