“Samsung finally copied Apple’s 2007 iPod touch by releasing its own knockoff in 2011,” Obama Pacman reports.
“The Samsung Galaxy 4.0 Android MP3 Player, priced at $229, even copied the 2010 4th gen iPod touch pricing of $229,” Obama Pacman reports. “Too bad that right before Samsung introduced its knockoff device, Apple unveiled 2011 Pod touch starting at $199.”
Obama Pacman reports, “The Samsung Galaxy player, is of course larger and bulkier, with the bonus of lower battery life.”
See the side-by-sides in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take:
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 Reader “Jax44” for the heads up.]
Buying one now! Not!
Nice photoshopped pictures, the favorite pasttime of iboys.
And if you think they look the same you are blind.
And Samsung has had the one button design on mp3 players and phones before the iphone was ever released.
Wow, do the judges need any more proof than this.
Similar is similar, but that is a 90% direct ripoff.
Unfortunately, the courts will never decide in Apple’s favor against Android. Apple is just throwing money away on lawyers. As far as the courts are concerned, Apple is just a greedy company trying to undermine the smartphone industry as a whole and a blight to consumers who can’t afford overpriced products in a poor economy. Google and Android are seen by the courts as the saviors of the impoverished consumer masses. Apple never stood a chance of winning in the courts. Nor does Oracle.
As for the Galaxy Player trying to challenge the iPod Touch, it may be a good thing. Apple has basically given up trying to improve on the iPod Touch, so now Apple might consider pushing the Touch envelope a bit further. Not adding an A5 processor to the Touch is almost unthinkable for a device that is supposed to be a gaming device. Apple is slacking off completely for a company that practically builds its own processors at a lower cost. Due to its deliberate lack of features, the Touch is not even worth half an iPhone 4S at this point.
You tell them, TheWiseInvestor.
Apple is getting creamed by Android which is going to kill them in the mobile business.
The Koreans are not going to put up with any crap raised up about how they are competing unfairly.
It is a Samsung world.
Get over it MDN.
Uh-huh. Creamed so badly that they’re taking a majority of the profits in the market for themselves. Boy, I’d hate to be Apple and be competing against piles of sh*tty cheap Android phones shoved for little or nothing into the hands of people that barely use them. :rolleyes:
Aren’t Android fanboys the most pathetic things in the world? I mean, yeah, we Apple fans can be annoying, but at least we have the clear success of our favorite gadgets to back us up. Android fanboys come off like a chihuahua yapping at a rottweiler.
——RM
You’re correct, this Obama guy will fund an Android to all union members – it’s part of OWS.
Go suck on an Android- then swallow it.
and please choke and die in the process.
The last person to listen to about investments is the guy who names himself a wise investor. More inclined to follow the money, not the made up name, probably to impress sheep who need a spokeswoman.
Totally interested in actual facts to back up ..”As far as the courts are concerned…” and on and on and on. Exactly which courts are you fantasizing about?
Since you write in the past tense ‘…Apple never stood a chance..” you may be in some future realm. If so, shoot back your back up (and just ranting doesn’t do it.)
Troll.
“Unfortunately, the courts will never decide in Apple’s favor against Android … As far as the courts are concerned, Apple is just a greedy company trying to undermine the smartphone industry as a whole and a blight to consumers who can’t afford overpriced products in a poor economy. Google and Android are seen by the courts as the saviors of the impoverished consumer masses.”
Yes, that explains why the courts have been consistently ruling in Apple’s favour and against Google’s. Oh wait.
You should change your name to TheDelusionalInvestor. It’s more descriptive.
“Apple is getting creamed by Android”
Exactly. Apple is selling every iPhone they can make and rakes in 50% of the entire industry’s profits, meanwhile Android is mired in a losing battle of patent litigation and even the best selling Android handset sells only a fraction of what the iPhone does. It’s only when you lump every Android handset together in a dishonest attempt to fool people that Google’s broken platform looks like competition, which the market has proven it very much isn’t.
Clearly, Apple is getting creamed.
May I suggest changing your name to “Android Fools”?
Im boycotting all android products and companies that make them- like amazon. And I’m no longer associating with people who buy them.
“And I’m no longer associating with people who buy them.”
What if your mom bought one?
After I got married, my wife got a MBP, even though she had always used pcs, and her employer was all pc. When she was asked why the Mac, she said because she didn’t want a divorce.
Of course once she started using it, she wondered why anyone uses pcs.
🙂 That is hilarious and awesome.
i think you people need some fresh air. seriously, go to the park, pick some flowers for your dear mom. and leave your phone. good grief they are just things! …you kids need to chill on out.
I wish i knew you in a person.
Just so I could laugh in your face, look you in the eye and say “You’re a f*cking idiot”
I doubt your friends will miss you… you sound like a real peach. Lol
The sooner Apple moves its business to other companies the better.
So…Samsubmerging copied the hardware?
OK, where are the integrated laptop, desktop, device & cloud software that spans all devices and the SamsungyCloud server system to sync it all?
Then we get to security and, as Balmer says, Developers, Developers, Developers.
Samsung is late to the game and I don’t hear about them pouring 20-30 billion into a total integrated system.
As good as they can do hardware, the hardware is only the bauble on the watch chain in front of the magician.
While Steve J. the magician dazzled everyone with polished stainless steel and glass he hypnotized the competition into ignoring the thousands of internal software guys at Apple that put all the invisible secrets together over the last 10+ years.
Samsung ought to just stick with making hardware…in my opinion. I doubt they have the guts to match Apple’s secret weapon…software.
“Hubris, thy name is Samsung.”
Hey Kids!
It’s the Spirit of the Age!
If you can’t create, IMITATE!
Samsung is soooo screwed. Another self-inflicted knife into their skull.
Apple has been sitting on its laurels with the iPod Touch for the past few years, so I welcome a little competition. I had a play recently with the Galaxy S WiFi 5″ screen. Nice machine and the perfect size for portable gaming. Hopefully it will spur Apple on to start putting some effort into the iPod line again: larger screen, faster processor, 128GB, etc, etc. Monopolies breed complacency. Always have, always will.
“Sitting on its laurels” how, exactly? Didn’t they add two cameras and Facetime chatting just last year? Now, with iOS 5, the iPod touch can send and receive iMessages wherever there’s wi-fi. And that’s “sitting on its laurels”? “For the past few years”???
Geezus, what do people like you want?! To take a guess: “We want everything the iPhone has except the phone!” Yeah, good luck with that. Carriers don’t subsidize the iPod touch, so the price has to be kept where people can afford it. I’m amazed that the touch takes pictures and video.
——RM
I’m sure this stuff is welcome but if you ask most iPod Touch owners what they really want they will say:
1. Larger screen, preferably 5″ for portable games.
2. 128GB version so I can ditch my old Classic.
3. The same processor as the iPhone.
I don’t want an iPhone without the phone. I’ve already got an iPhone. I want a differentiated device that’s optimised for portable gaming, video and music. I don’t really want a camera or iMessage. I want the iPod to stand proud again and not just be a poor mans iPhone replacement. I want a device that sits in between the iPhone and the iPad.
You may have a point here. and it would be awesome if the iPod touch also got a larger battery in proportion with its 5″ screen. 🙂
Wow! I “really admire” the innovation in Samsung.
In fact, I see such a great future for them. I see it now.
They are so wealthy in their mansions where the doors and windows are made of gold, the hallways are made of junks and their diamond mailbox filled with complaints from Apple.
The bonus part cracks me up.
Maybe now Apple can stop screwing over iPod touch users with half assed effort. They’ve had the contemporary PMP market cornered for a couple years now, and it’s resulted in them taking those customers for granted.
Perhaps this is finally the beginning of an Android assault on PMPs, in which case painting the iPod touch a new color won’t suffice as an update.
Maybe you whiny entitled f***s could explain exactly what the f*** it is you want in the iPod touch that you can’t get now, and how you expect the price to be affordable and profitable without phone carrier subsidy.
I’m so sick of this sh*t. Apple doesn’t add some amazing new feature to their media player, and the mac boards are all “Waah waah Apple isn’t giving us enough!”
——RM
The only thing the iPod touch needs is the ability to buy a data plan. Other than that it is a great device as is.
Nuh-uh! The touch is a “half-assed” effort from a company “sitting on its laurels for years”! Just read the reasoned analysis from your fellow commenters above you.
I just sold my 2009 iPod touch to a friend, because I now have an iPhone 4S. My touch was still an awesome device when I let it go. I can’t imagine how much more awesome it would have been with the cameras added in 2010. And yet, to hear some Apple fans state it, Apple has done nothing with the touch. For. Multiple. Years. Multiple. As in “more than one”. As in farther back than 2010. When they added the cameras.
Sorry for going on about this, but I have a low tolerance for blinkered stupidity tonight.
——RM
So what’s “blinkered” about have a data plan for the iPod? My last year iPod has a great camera, but the iPad has data plans available-I’d like that on my iPod. I’ve had iPods since the first click wheel model, and I’m on my third touch.
Relax Robin.
It isn’t worth the effort swatting at insects.
Ignore them and they disappear.
I think some of you Samsung supporters are missing the point.
It’s wrong to steal IP. That’s the end of it.
I am all for competition. But I’d like to see something new, not another Apple knock-off. Samsung is showing that they have a serious lack of ethics.
I think some of you Samsung haters are missing the point: nobody gives a shit! Samsung is acting within the parameters of the law. The only thing Apple can do is out innovate them. Make sure your product is the best, sell it at an affordable price and customers will have no reason to buy the clone version.
Again, although it’s a waste of a beautiful Sunday to waste time to respond to made up theories, when you say: “Samsung is acting within the parameters of the law” are you referring to trade dress laws? What’s your understanding of them?
I agree it is to time to start boycotting all Samsung products — not just the
Mobile copycat devices, but tvs, appliances, etc.
I predictsamsung will lose money on this thing.
A boycott isn’t even necessary, natural selection in the consumer market will take them out
Well, I can tell you, as an Android owner… they’ll need all the luck they can get.. the media experience on Android is ridiculously bad…the whole OS just kinda jutters and wretches around.. and everything sort of winks at you as a ripoff of iOS. It’s insulting. Which is why, you know.. I love my iPod touch.
I just checked out a Sumsung Galaxy Tab at Best Buy today.
Anyone who would confuse it with an iPad has got to be darn near blind.
Boycott Samsung.
iPod Touch’s new advertising campain:
“Get LESS for LESS! With the new 8GB iPod Touch now priced at $199.99, consumers no longer want or even need the 3.2MP back camera, GPS (with offline map app support), expandable storage, Bluetooth 3.0, haptic (i.e. vibration) feedback, dedicated receiver speaker for VOIP calls, FM tuner, and replaceable battery found in the 8GB Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 priced at $229.99. Why pay MORE for MORE when you could get LESS or LESS?!”
Claiming that the iPod Touch has no room for improvement violates intellectual honesty. Furthermore, such an acknowledgement, far from diminishing the iPod Touch, should instead get Apple fans excited and clamoring for MORE AND BETTER iPod Touch features like those found in the new Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0.
No single competing device without an Apple-class well integrated content delivery/management infrastructure like iTunes is ever going to take down the iPod Touch. So Apple should take this opportunity to learn from the competition on this one and make the iPod Touch, once again, incomparable. Rome initially scoffed at the barbarians at the gates. Hubris is found in both camps.
Sigh. The iPod touch market is not the same as the iPhone market. The iPod touch is not subsidized by phone carriers, and is aimed at people who don’t want to or can’t spend the money on an iPhone. (This is more true than ever now that the iPhone is on all three of the largest US carriers. “My carrier doesn’t have the iPhone” is no longer an excuse for most people.)
Because of this, it would be stupid for Apple to turn the iPod touch into some kind of “god device” that’s everything the iPhone is without the phone. (Hell, some folks want a 3G antenna, or full phone functionality so it can be used as a VOIP device.) If they did that, they would have to raise the price to where it would no longer suit its target market.
I believe Steve Jobs himself said the iPod touch was meant as an affordable entry point into the iPhone app ecosystem. To keep it that way, the price has to be kept reasonable. And if that means that entitled Apple nuts don’t get all the bells and whistles they fantasize about, well, tough. Buy an iPhone.
——RM
Read (don’t waste your time, but scan) “thewiseinvestor” above and then this one. Both are promotions, not trolls. They are not written like normal writers. They’re written like sales pieces, with a nod that Apple could be better, maybe even as good as Samsung, if they just…………….It’s highly unlikely somebody is sitting at home on a Sunday and crafting sales pieces, which leads back to the folks at Samsung. The marketing peeps are thinking “we can trick those Apple people who want more things on their iPHone, iPad, iTouch” and make it look like a real letter from a real person who is just like them. Look for more of this, I’m sure. Not sure how they will deal with FRAND issues. That’s a hard one for the marketing guys as they won’t be the ones in court for Samsung.
Must all people who write well must be company shills?
This level of paranoia is truly stunning.
The iPod Touch’s hardware is falling behind the times, certainly behind the iPhone 4. This is a fact. And now competitors are stepping into a perceived feature vacuum. If you think otherwise, then I invoke the famous words of The Simpson’s Principal Skinner, who, after shouting, “Come one Edna, you know these kids have no future!”, followed up with, “Prove me wrong, kids! Prove me wrong!”
There, an entire post without mention the S* company. Can we move on to substantive rebuttal now?
“Must all people who write well must be company shills?”
People who visit websites about Apple and proceed to post advertisements for the Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0(priced at just $229.99!) that read like they were cribbed from a press release are company shills, yes.
“This level of paranoia is truly stunning”
And that confirms it. if it looks talks like a company shill, if it walks like a company shill, and it denies accusations of being a company shill by saying something to the effect of “omg you people are stunningly paranoid”, you can be 100% sure it’s a company shill because that particular response is right out of the Company Shill Handbook.
Do you still want a more substantive rebuttal? Okay, here: consumers living in the real world don’t care about 3.2MP back cameras, GPS with offline map app support, expandable storage, Bluetooth 3.0, vibration feedback, dedicated receivers for VOIP calls, FM tuners, or replaceable batteries.
Samsung is trying to compete with Apple by cramming their devices full of meaningless specs that only basement dwellers and neckbeards care about. That approach has never worked, because as it turns out, basement dwellers and neckbeards are an incredibly tiny and unprofitable market to cater to. Yet none of Apple’s would-be competitors have learned this lessons, which is why their media players, phones, and tablets fail like clockwork to steal Apple’s thunder.
And the CEOs and board members sit back in dazed astonishment, because they’re idiots, and wonder why consumers didn’t flock away from iPods to their wonderful Zunes and Samsung Galaxy Players with their replaceable battries and Bluetooth 3.0.
So they heap some more meaningless specs on to the next product generation and the dance of failure continues, all the while I can’t get Einstein’s definition of insanity out of my head.
P.S.
I happen to like Korea a lot, please tell Samsung to stop giving it a bad name
Warning (don’t waste your time, but scan), “Iceberg? What iceberg?” is obviously an Apple employee attempting to deflect any criticism of Apple’s current product line. The insistence that no Apple product ever has room for improvement is right out of the Apple Employee Handbook. Also note the Salem witch trial-like logic claiming that anyone who denies being a shill for a competing company must, ergo, be one. Classic.
The clincher was the claim that iPod Touch owners don’t want ANY of the awesome hardware features currently found in the iPhone 4. Stereotypical corporate response to an obvious product deficiency.
The most damning and, frankly, disturbing comment was the unsolicited opinion about Korea. Apple’s HR may need to locate this individual and discuss the possibility of sensitivity training to shield it from possible liability.
Why can’t corporate operatives like this allow readers of independent sites the freedom to exchange product opinions in forums without being molested by their disgusting and selfish corporate espionage and interventionism.
You watch. The accusations will come flying right back. Classic. Absolutely classic.
Point well made.
I can understand Apple’s intentional bridling of iPod Touch development as part of a broader strategy to shepherd people into buying an iPhone. However, Apple’s willful stunting of the iPod Touch’s growth naturally attracts PMP competitors who are both willing and able to maximize the capabilities of WiFi-only devices for those who either do not want/need or who cannot afford to pay for a cellular data plan in order to get the latest in smartphone-like functionality. No doubt, the big money is in getting smartphones into people’s hands and setting them up with a voice+data plan. However, there is still money to be made off WiFi-only devices. It appears that Apple is gambling that it can afford to make few or no changes to the iPod Touch and still maintain both its WiFi-only PMP market share as well as its gateway funnel for iPhone adoption. There may be some minor WiFi-only losses due to serious competitors like the Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 (which is essentially a WiFi-only smartphone), but I think Apple’s strategy will be largely successful only up until the time that a serious iTunes competitor arises. If/when that day comes, the iPod Touch will likely get some major upgrades or, as silverhawk1 suggests, perhaps a data-only cell plan. In the meantime, the iPod Touch’s hardware features are beginning to fall behind the times, certainly behind the iPhone 4. No protestations to the contrary can change that fact.
you kids need to calm down. there’s more to life, really, go see the pyramids or something. or just go on a walk.
Physician, heal thyself.