“In recent weeks, some have suggested that Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone was designed by lawyers specifically to work around Apple’s ongoing patent infringement case,” Sean Hollister reports for The Verge. “When the question was put to Samsung design VP Chang Dong-hoon earlier today, though, he denied any such thing.”
“Our change in smartphone design is part of a five-year plan, not a sudden turn-around.” – Samsung design VP Chang Dong-hoon, May 22, 2012
Hollister reports, “He insisted that the curved shape of the Galaxy S III in particular had undergone hundreds of iterations, a rhetoric we’ve heard before: For Samsung’s design team, Apple’s allegations are personal.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Little known fact: When translated to English, “Chang Dong-hoon” actually means “Copy Jony-Slavishly.”
Possible smoking gun there for Apple’s legal team.
Here’s another: Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
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