“Samsung takes pride in its distinctive designs and as a restless, competitive culture Samsung Chief Strategy Officer Justin Denison testified in the fourth day of the Samsung-Apple patent trial in U.S. District Court in San Jose Monday,” Brian Caulfield reports for Forbes. “However Apple lawyer William Lee pounced after Denison described Samsung’s ‘hyperbolic,’ management style as Samsung’s lawyers referred to an internal email that described a ‘crisis of design’ at the company.”
“Objections from Samsung’s lawyers were repeatedly overruled by U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh, who noted Samsung ‘opened the door,’ to such questions, since Denison discussed the email earlier in his testimony,” Caulfield reports. “Lee took the opportunity to have Denison walk through the email in front of jurors: ‘All this time we’ve been paying all our attention to Nokia, and concentrated our efforts on things like Folder, Bar, Slide, yet when our [product] is compared to the unexpected competitor Apple’s iPhone, the difference is truly that of Heaven and Earth,’ according to the email. ‘It’s a crisis of design.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: And so Samsung decided to stop copying Nokia and instead slavishly copy Apple.
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David E.” for the heads up.]
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Heaven: Apple iPhone
Earth: Dirtbag thieves Google and Samedung
How do like them Apples?
Slowly the cats get let out of the incriminating bag. I sure hope Apple gets billions of dollars from Samsung and stops using them as a manufacturing partner. You wanna copy Samstung? Then you ain’t got no class you bottom feeder Samscum and deserve to be treated with nothing but sneering contempt.
Busted!
Boom
As MDN continually illustrates, a picture is worth a thousand words. This trial also proves to me that Apple has no intention of abandoning the iPhone’s iconic design and UI. The next iPhone will be instantly recognizable as an iPhone. Otherwise why bother with this mega-lawsuit? If this was only about money, then it would have settled before now.
You got it Larry. The form factor will be tweaked ala iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro/Air, but it won’t change from its highly recognizable look and feel. It’s called ‘trade dress”, and no matter what Samsung says, it is patentable.
You bet it’s patentable. Several years ago in Texas a chain of Mexican restaurants named Taco Cabana used an indoor patio concept. Then another chain, Dos Pesos, appeared and copied it exactely. The court’s penalty for “trade dress infringement” was so severe, the whole Dos Pesos operation was turned over to Taco Cabana, lock, stock and tacos.
Good to see that some courts get it.
It was unfortunate that the food at Dos Pesos was superior to that of Taco Cabana. I stopped going there for breakfast on Sunday after the Taco Cabana takeover.
I was at DMV this morning to register a car. Of course the wait is an hour plus and so I am texting, surfing, checking email on my iPhone. In looking around I see about a dozen others doing the same. Clearly using iPhones, but on fellow near me is covering his phone carefully. It is only when it slipped out of his hand I saw it was a clone. It was obvious he suffered from iPhone envy. Two iPhones had funny animal cases, one a frog, one an owl. Those were owned by two young girls, about 12 I would guess. Wow, everybody has an iPhone. At least in Santa Clara county. Note to self: Buy more AAPL
i see I all the time.
Those that have an android in public do tend to fall Into two categories (IMO anyway)
1. As you describe, hide/conceal.
2. The “I hate apple” crowd. Not afraid to bash the iPhone by repeating the baseless bullshit claims of android superiority.
I had a guy tell me the other day that iCloud was googles idea that apple stole… I asked him to explain the iTools>.mac>MobileMe>iCloud progression, He had no idea what they were.
I hope they make a movie out of this. Should be awesome! This is way better than the celebrity drama nonsense.
It’s already more entertaining than movies and the last man who smiles will be AAPL.
SameShit always copies somebody else. They did and they will always do. Check the link!
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=12793
i came SO close to buying a Blackjack back then… I went Blackberry instead.
This is not only a trial of copying, but the future of software patents.
If Samsung wins then software patents are almost worthless and all companies might as well copy successful products.
If Apple wins, it will limit who can enter a new market in future, and VisiCalc can sue Lotus 123 and MS for MultiPlan/Excel, etc.
Jeez Louise, bald-faced ripping off of ideas is contemptible enough, but the inherent laziness displayed in the copied icons is almost as bad! Samsung couldn’t even be bothered to make a token color change, or a minor graphical modification, to the icons! Lazy, just lazy…
Die, you gravy-sucking pigs!!!!