Passing by has just lost out by Passing Gas.. To late!

Yes it was the best read of the day and more importantly “it brought a tear to me eye” also !

Thanks NHL, Beating around the bush has never been my forte either.

BTW, the word is “grille” not “grill.

In re the Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge grilles, what I tried to say was that they have no real ongoing and easily recognizable design. Detroit changes grille design rather often but the basic grille designs of European marques from the 50s are recognizable 60 years hence.

Rolls and Lincoln? You may be right – I didn’t realize that.

You really ought to find out where along the way you lost your stench of humour.

Plus, it wasn’t just hardware designs. Samsung was found to have WILLINGLY copied aspects of iOS that Apple had received patents for.

This guy’s a moron. Yes, Apple ushered in the era of large screened touch-operated mobile phone/computers. So everyone started using a 3.5″ screen (or larger) for their phone with touch input. Nothing wrong with that, except for when they had to copy Apple’s technology to make it happen.

Seriously, have you driven a car with a built-in GPS lately? The function and interface would make a grown man cry. We had to depend on our IPhones instead and I can’t wait to see what Apple will do with the new Maps app coming soon.

Think big picture and you will see why it is good for Apple to win.

Every laptop for sale today is a copy of an Apple Laptop design.

Apple has iPhone designs, working models and patents that all predate the LG Prada.

There were App stores in every computer shop on the planet before 2005.

Apple, with Kodak, invented digital photography and the digital camera.

Photos, with a text message, have been sent since shortly after Al Gore invented the internet.

iPhones have external antennas.

Actually, the GUI and the mouse were invented about 10 years before Xerox started working on it.

You lose Troll.

LED lights have been around since portable, hand held radios.

Putting them on cars and trucks on the dashboard happened a couple decades ago.

Putting them externally on vehicles happened before Audi’s sexy frontal placement.

As for trade dress, no car company copied Audi’s LED light designs.

You lose troll.

Using his thoughts, I’m going to copy everything he writes and publish it as my own. You have a problem with that Mr. Shaughnessy?

Tough. Move on. Create.

1- Chris Bangle has now happily left BMW after he ruined their styling and made $70,000 BMWs look like mutant Toyotas.
2- Opel is Government Motors- the German Edition. It only flatters/fools itself if it thinks it competes with Audi, BMW & Mercedes.
3-Audis do not look any more like a Mercedes than any 2 cars with doors a trunk and a hood might. If you cannot see the difference, you need to see an eye doctor.

What kind of efftard wrote this? SameSong’s Fandroid Fake iFones were a direct ripoff of Apple’s IP. If it were a song on YouTube Apple would have issued a take down notice on day 1.

The airline industry promised “competition” and each participant airline undertook crazy “competitive” measures to kill one another. Today the airline industry is one of the most inefficient sector in the economy. The airline industry suffers and the public has to endure this inefficiency.

The banking industry promised “competition” and they undertook risky competitive measures like the alchemy of converting bad loans into high-grade investment products. In the end Wall Street bankers tank the whole economy both domestically and internationally.

The PC industry promised “competition” but what we see is mediocre products at commodity prices. Tech giants like HP, IBM, Dell and Compaq who feed on such promises do not compete in a rational and moral sense but cause irreparable harm to themselves and to the country. Microsoft, the sustainer for these dimwits is itself now in a technology backwater. Google, which now take the mantle of Microsoft by promising “free competition” is killing domestic innovation and selling the country to foreigners like Samsung. Look at what Google’s promise has wrought to domestic giants in the industry. All of them make losses and Samsung eats up the giant share of the Android lunch.

On the other hand, Apple which has never succumbed to Wall Street wiles and tech punditry actually practiced true competition. While the rest of the industry were sleeping, Apple with its innovative spirit managed to come out with world-smashing products one after another that others were awed to believe that Apple’s design is the only way to produce a smartphone or a tablet. Therefore the only way to compete is to copy Apple’s design.

Fuckin’ a, with a name like that no wonder they are a clueless, entitled little twat. Not only someone who has never produced anything worthwhile in their life, they are actually incapable of doing so.

Shaughnessy is as big an a&$hole as the members of the phone hardware design team at Samsung.

Do Forbes editors even read what they publish?

Something tells me the ‘Zen’-inspired Steve Jobsian simplicity is not thought to be a ‘trend’ around Apple Campuses.

No, use a cattle brand. Screw the tattoo.

Another socialist dumdum. Sorry Haydn Shaughnessy who writes for Forbes, but you’re a blithering idiot to not comprehend the deadly impact on creativity when what you create cannot be protected and of benefit to specifically the creator.

The big fat BLIND SPOT of socialist attitudes is the deadly impact of hard core socialism on INCENTIVE. Without incentive, there is NO creativity. You want an example?

CHINA

Figure out why China: Criminal Nation, is entirely INCAPABLE of being creative/innovative no matter how well they educate their students. It’s because totalitarian / communist / hard core socialist systems KILL INCENTIVE!

Wake up and smell the royalties from creating something. Take your idiotic ‘flattery’ concept and shove it back up where it came from. If you can’t conceive of why Samsung deserves all the hell it has inflicted on ITSELF, then why are you working for a ‘business’ magazine? Has modern business become so corrupted and moronic that it has NO ability of self-evaluation? You certainly indicate that to be the case, Haydn Shaughnessy who writes for Forbes. Not good.

In addition, Apple is not and cannot sue others that has the same design as their Macbook Air, which is the ultra-thin notebooks. Read this article to understand more about the battle of the “MBA” – http://english.cw.com.tw/article.do?action=show&id=13106.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/02/17/in-depth-analysis-androids-notification-bar-patent-and-how-apple-may-or-may-not-infringe-it/

Google didn’t come up with it and doesn’t have a patent

So copyright protection should only be extended to the unsuccessful? There is something very wrong with this line of thinking- that rule of law does not apply- sympathy should pick winners and losers, not the truth. This is a fundemental problem with western cultures: Success means you are evil and should be brought down. Here in Asia I do not see that as much. Success is considered something to strive for. Maybe that’s why countries here get more productive, while the West stagnates. Apple went from the margins to the richest company by designing products people enjoyed and wanted to buy. So now that makes them evil in the minds of journalists? Tell me, at what point in history did the design team go from brilliant and good to evil and pathetic? Was it the moment you wanted to buy their products? All Hail to the mediocre! Good luck with that line of thinking.

manufacturers should be able to make clones of Intel chips, copies of Windows for free and I can copy this writers — Forbes – post and put my name on it and collect ad revenue right?

according to this writer Forbes shouldn’t sue me for copying its articles instead they should just concentrate on CREATING NEW stuff (which I can also copy? ).