“Samsung Electronics Co. called the first of as many as seven Google Inc. witnesses to begin making its case in a $2 billion patent trial that Apple Inc.’s true target in the lawsuit is the Android operating system,” Joel Rosenblatt reports for Bloomberg.
“Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s vice president of Android engineering, testified yesterday in federal court in San Jose, California, about the development of the Android operating system used in Samsung phones. Apple contends, and Samsung denies, that several Android features in Galaxy devices infringe the iPhone maker’s patents,” Rosenblatt reports. “As the world’s top two smartphone makers spar at their second U.S. jury trial, Samsung is trying to show that Apple’s claims are a cloaked attack on Google in an attempt to blunt smartphone competition from Android.”
“Lockheimer’s opening testimony was aimed at buttressing Samsung’s argument that Google, which isn’t a defendant in the case, was more than capable of creating an operating system without copying Apple’s patents,” Rosenblatt reports. “The executive said he joined Google in 2006 and that the company was already at work on Android, which was an independent company Google acquired in 2005. In that period, as phones were becoming smartphones, Google’s aim was to provide an open-source operating system for free.”
“Asked by Samsung lawyer John Quinn if Lockheimer’s team ever copied anything from the iPhone, the witness replied, ‘Not that I’m aware,'” Rosenblatt reports. “‘We like to have our own identity,’ he said. ‘It was important that it was our ideas.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
Court had to be adjourned early because Lockheimer’s nose grew so long it blocked an exit door.
…it was so long, it could pick-up station KLIE in Seoul.
Did you know that station identifiers beginning with ‘K’ are only found in the USA? There is a big world out there and much to learn. The world isn’t just the USA.
it’s joke, bonehead.
…in related news, pine wood marionettes don’t actually come to life.
Did you mean ‘it is a bonehead botvinnik joke? To make your ‘joke’ funny, do your homework first.
lol…you may be the first person in history to die from anal retentiveness.
Are you speaking about the conditions of your birth? Surely your mother couldn’t have retained you in that cavity until your birth 9 months later.
Just go back to bed and try again around 11am. This day isn’t going well for you so far.
It’s nearly 5 pm where I am. Did your mom flush twice after you were born?
then you must be in hell with Satin.
Again, you show your limited knowledge of the world. Look it up on the internet. Learn something. I dare you.
lol. please stop, you’re making me spit coffee on my monitor.
OK. Seeing as you said “please”.
Wow, you’ll stop at nothing will you?
Your “teachable moments” are rejected and so you do your best to demean and belittle those who are keeping it light?
You are a sad little man.
You took the time to say that to me? Who is the sad little man? Get a life.
Our honorable oriental brothers and sisters have dubbed 3l3c7ro “Baht Ho,” in deference and respect as the first human being whose anus has reversed excretion.
Apple is like a broken record playing the same old tunes again and again. They need to get a new bandmaster. Look at iOS 7, it’s theft of everything in Android.
And everything you see on the other side of a mirror is real too?
That’s not entirely true. Obviously some things were taken from inspiration of other platforms including Android but to say the whole OS is a theft of Android is a gross misrepresentation of the matter. Additionally many things (like multitasking) pre-date Android as a whole and was implemented in a way that was way more elegant than Android. I own both so I try to be as objective as possible.
Ok fine, we get it Apple. You feel like you were stolen from… And guess what, I agree with you. None of this stuff was confidence and they obviously peed themselves when they first saw the demo of the iPhone and realized that their first attempts to create a smartphone paled in comparison. I get it, and I agree.
However, don’t act like you don’t take inspirations from other places, other companies, other peoples ideas too. Heck the notification center I enjoy so much on my 5S is directly ‘inspired’ by Android and there is absolutely positively 100% no way to deny that fact. Even the ‘Today Screen’ offered in the notification center is an attempted reproduction (albeit a poor and crippled one) of some of the Google Now functionality. So really guys, come off it. Samsung does it, Google does it, and guess what…..? YOU DO IT TO! So stop acting like douche bags and use that wasted litigation money to bring us more and better products and services. -Yours truly, a real Apple fan not a yes man fan boy- /end rant
There is a huge difference between “take inspiration from” and “blatantly copy.”
Yes, this can’t go on… behold!…
let’s all fall into each other’s arms and be friends ( again? )
nothing bad really happened.
– sob, whimper -…
…and roast some S’mores over the campfire and sing “Kumbaya” and “We Are The World” and tell band camp stories!
Well there’s another thread shot to hell with the tantrums coming from an immature audience.
I want to see Andy Rubin and Eric Schmidt take the stand in defense of Android. Separate those two and see if they can keep their stories straight.