“Having a look at the otherwise impressive Galaxy S II phones from Samsung, I noticed that the USB AC power adapter had a ‘familiar’ feel to it to it,” 9 to 5 Mac reports.
“Turns out, it is almost an exact replica, within a millimeter in every direction,” 9 to 5 Mac reports.
“As you can imagine they both put out the same power, 5V at 1A,” 9 to 5 Mac reports.
See the photos in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As if we needed it, yet another reason to continue avoiding Samsung knockoffs:
Boycott Samsung. We no longer buy Samsung-branded products and advise our millions of readers worldwide to also avoid purchasing Samsung-branded products until they cease stealing Apple’s patented IP.
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Lynn Weiler” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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I’m not boycotting a decent company who makes excellent products just because Apple has a little squabble with them. I have a Samsung TV, sound system and disc changer, 23-inch Samsung display which has always looked fantastic on my Mac. Boycott Samsung’s mobile products fine… but that’s just one division.
I’m impressed at how far Samsung has resurged in the last 20 years to become one of the largest contenders against Sony.
I get a little fed up with all the racism on here. You can take Apple’s side here on actual evidence, not on talk of “flat-face” Koreans or “Asian business thinking”
I resent all racism as well. However, the phrase ‘Asian business thinking’ is descriptive of a region without any direct reference to race. It also, sadly, happens to be a fact. I personally consider this fact to be an aspect of general asian culture, not race. It is entirely changeable. Japan’s business culture did a 180º turn from the general Asian ripoff culture. Several other countries in Asia have done the same. South Korean business is still heavily based in ripoff versus invention. 😯
American troops should leave South Korea ASAP and let North Korea to do whatever “The Dear Leader” please with the South (south of DMZ).
Yeah, that’d be an improvement because North Korea totally respects intellectual property.
Vice Chairman & CEO of Samsung & Boards of Director -> Mr. Gee-Sung Choi
President & CEO of Samsung Electronics N.A. -> Yangkyu Kim
President of Samsung Telecommunications America -> Dale Sohn
President & CEO of Samsung Semiconductor -> Charlie Bae
President of Samsun Austin Semiconductor -> Dr. Woosung Han
Boards of Director -> Yoon-Woo Lee
Boards of Director -> Ju-Hwa Yoon
Boards of Director -> Dong-Min Yoon
Boards of Director -> Char-Woong Lee
Boards of Director -> In-Ho Lee
Boards of Director -> Oh-Soo Park
They are all fu_king as_holes.
I’m struggling to see why some people (excluding Apple shareholders) are getting so emotional about this? Samsung’s behaviour is unacceptable yes, but boycott their products? In doing so the only outcome is that you cut down your own consumer choice. Samsung probably wouldn’t care less. The fact is that Samsung products aren’t bad, the company is not run by murderers or using child labour (which you could say would be reason to boycott), and potentially opting to buy an inferior product because the one you like has got a Samsung badge on it is cretinous. Yes, we all love Apple products, but get a grip people and stop being so pathetic.
So you choose to reward a thief because it suits your personal preference.
Okay. You’ve made your point.
Forget Samsung. How about Google?
Google is on the radar! After their poor showing at this past week’s congressional hearings, their ‘no evil’ mask has been officially removed. (Google are proven blackmailers and liars). The lawsuits against Androids are in full force. The means to thwart their web surveillance of users is trivial to obtain and use. Alternative web search engines continue to proliferate, and I don’t mean Boing.
IOW: No one requires Google. Boycott away, if so inclined. My choice is to ‘use’ Google without them every ‘using’ me. 😀
Seriously? You’re all excited because of a power adapter? The Belkin one looks the same. And omigosh, did you see the cable and the USB port? Almost identical!! Really, this is nit-picking. Form follows function. Pick on function, if you like, but there isn’t much to the shape that you can argue about – like any other device you use (laptop, hard drive, TV, toaster, hi-fi gear, writing utensil, etc.), when you reach its simplest form, you have to expect the same size and shape across most brands.
You make a good point. But when you notice a consistent trend of direct similarity over time, you figure out that ripoff is the process causing the observed result.
Let me start by saying that I am a fan of Apple and very much enjoy the products that they produce. Samsung supplies flash memory, DRAM memory and the applications processor of the iPhone 4. They get paid regardless if you’re a fan or not. These companies have symbiant relationships on many levels. What’s the point of a boycott? Didnt stop me from buying the 520 series washer and dryer and plan on getting the new 65″ D8000 shortly. IMO, Nothing came close when I was researching these particular products. There really is nothing to gain wasting energy debating a few consumer products. Leave it to the attorneys. Consumer products are only a small division of Samsung anyway. They make shipbuilding, construction and engineering equipment as well. I doubt they’ll care.
I’m still curious what they’re strategic business plans were that lead them into this?
Samsung must have known they would put their component sales to AAPL at risk. Did they rationalize that by somehow working out that handset sales in a slim margin business was a business opportunity too fat to pass up?
Maybe they felt they needed to take a shot at getting to the next stage and had to become a market-defining player like the AAPLs, Sonys and MSFTs of the world.
I still can’t quite work out what their strategic planning must be.
I noticed the commercial was an Apple knock-off too.
The narrator even sounds like the guy from The Crazy Ones.
This post is childish, apple is a great company with great products, that’s why I own so many if them… But they are also very monopolistic, and are prone to suing anything that has the letter “I” in it’s name. Apple’s lawyers can do whatever they want to do even if it is unconstitutional, and they seem to get away with it. The news articles about searching the iPhone 5 guy’s house recently illustrates that quite nicely. I think that apple should probably sue any manufacturer that has a phone with any sort of touch screen and an off/on button since I’m sure that they own that “IP” too.
I am not a fan of this article, and believe that you all are better than this. Sincerely Tim
What do you mean by Apple is monopolistic?
What is your proof within the actual meaning of the word “monopolistic”?
Boycott Samsung whilst still having sunSung adverts on the front page of Mac Daily News
Y U NO READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE, BEFORE YOU FUCKING READ THE COMMENTS.
This article is about how Samsung ripped off Apple’s tablet and phone, WHY DO I SEE COMMENTS ABOUT TVs AND MACBOOKS?
*sigh* stupid trolls and kids on the internet.
Anyway, I have to agree, the products do look apealing, but awkwardly familiar to their competitor. And in all honesty, it looks like a ripoff. The reason I like Apple is that they’re the ones trying to take the step forward. They’re the ones who make us get rid of our disty floppy disks to move on to USB (and now PC fanboys claim they’re better cuz they have more USBs… without Apple you’d have floppy disk ports instead… another exemple of ripping off in the industry, just saying) and they’re the one who made touch screens nearly standart in smartphones. Seriously, nearly every smartphone I see or MP3 player looks awkwardly familiar to apple products, but at least, they had their own touch, the company’s own feel. But in this case, it truely looks like Samsung is trying to get Apple’s feel, and is ripping off. I’d boycut samsung cuz I want progress to be done; if companies only make ripoff, we’ll never end up with new, more advanced technology. We need companies to make it new.
And now, lets say that we know Apple are the one who introduced this technology, and obviously will be the ones to improve it and get more technology, and now, samsung rips it off, and its ripoffs are cheaper, apple goes bankrupt, and now samsung has nothing to ripoff and no big improvements are added to the technology, no more progress.
I know this sounds a bit extreme, but I’m just saying, if companies aim to, like samsung, only make cheaper stuff than successful products of other companies, we’ll never get nowhere, and it doesn’t sound like samsung will get us anywhere ripping off.