“When Apple’s patent battle with Samsung heads to trial next week, the iPhone maker plans to build its case using its Korean rival’s own words against it,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD.
“An unredacted version of Apple’s trial brief bluntly states that Samsung was well aware that its smartphones and tablets bore a striking resemblance to Apple’s iPhone and iPad and that the issue was one the company discussed internally,” Paczkowski reports. “Among those documents are a few purported to show that Samsung not only deliberately copied certain characteristics of the iPhone and iPad, but was also explicitily warned away from doing so by various third parties, including Google.”
Paczkowski reports, “In February 2010, Google told Samsung that Samsung’s ‘P1’ and ‘P3’ tablets (Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1) were ‘too similar’ to the iPad and demanded ‘distinguishable design vis-à-vis the iPad for the P3.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Again, Samsung’s lack of business ethics is appalling. Hopefully the jury will see the blatantly obvious, too.
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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Google: come on Sammy, you can’t copy Apple.
Sammy: Are you serious?
Google: nahhhh, just kidding, I had you going there…
Both laugh then stop as they see nuke streaming toward them, and who is that riding the nuke…
Both: is that Steve?
Steve: Yeehaaa, wanna know evil!
Act 2…
Now *that’s* funny. 🙂
gentlemen, there’s no fighting in the war room.
It was clearly a plot to deplete our precious bodily fluids…
+100000
LOVE that movie
1 to all the above. Got a good laugh out of that – thanks.
that should be 1 …
Damn – “plus 1” – my plus char keeps getting stripped out.
Why does MDN always show Galaxy Tab in landscape iPad in portrait? Seems the similarities are even more striking when viewed “apples to apples.” Just wondering.
because it’s the only photo they have…
> but was also explicitily warned away from doing so by various third parties, including Google.
Google warned Samsung about copying Apple…? That’s REALLY funny! One key reason the Samsung Galaxy looks so much like an iPhone (in addition to the hardware) is because Android screen looks so much like iOS. If the Galaxy ran an OS that looked like Windows Phone or WebOS, Apple probably would not have taken legal action.
Stock Android dosen’t look much like iOS to me, granted you can tell they copied a lot of the base UI and feel of iOS but in stock form its laid out differently with the search widget and only a couple of launcher icons.
Samsung built their own launcher and UI layer that they slap on Android and that thing is a freaking dead on knockoff if you ask me.
At least Google made a half @ssed attempt at adding a UI with some unique features and layout. Samsung literally went for a carbon copy look and feel.
It must have been like two thieves trading tips… “well if you leave the DVD player and just take the TV the cops will have a harder time proving you were a totally heartless bastard!” Lol
now Apple have fun to threat Samsung. but the day of crying is coming close than they will enjoy more. Samsung manufacture 85% with their own products. but Apple makes only unibody. other parts are all dealt with subcontractor. nothing Apple manufacture itself. soon, they will perish if they don’t make their own parts.
I agree much to what saying you. Apple need for ideas of the newness bring about failure big. Hide behind profits of billions does apple company. Shutter down of company & money shareholders give back to.
lololol
Google should take its own advice and stop copying apple, it’s android is a ripp off itself
Interesting how the before Android phone resembles a Blackberry and the after phone looks more like an iPhone. Slavish copiers longer than previously thought.
Court date reckoning coming soon.