“Apple presented a massive 132-page internal Samsung document that showed the South Korean firm comparing every inch of the iPhone with its early Galaxy S phone in its patent ruckus yesterday,” Brid-Aine Parnell reports for The Register.
“The internal Samsung report, translated from Korean, goes over every aspect of the iPhone and looks at how the equivalent feature of the [Galaxy S phone] matches up,” Parnell reports. “Unfortunately [for Samsung], it also says none-too-subtly that the S phone would really be a lot better if it was more like the [Apple iPhone].”
Parnell reports, “At every feature discussed, recommendations for improvement are given with reference to the comparison to the [Apple iPhone]. In the comparison of both phones’ icons, there’s also the direction to ‘Remove the feeling that iPhone’s menu icons are copied by differentiating design’ – which Apple is pretty much reading as backing up its allegations.”
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Smoking gun? Blood stained axe?
Nuclear blast crater?
Justice will prevail and Samsung will pay Apple in the end. People start boycotting Samsung products in a show of support for innovative Apple!
2015 = AAPL = $1055
how exactly is 2015 = $1055? You need to nest your shit son.
He has been posting stuff like this for years, J Bone. It is just his way of expressing optimism about Apple’s future.
Curiousity killed the cat! You Copycat!
Was there a cat on Mars?
Not any more. 🙂
Justice will prevail and Samsung will pay Apple in the end. People start boycotting Samsung products in a show of support for innovative Apple!
Not really. Samsung will pay a small fine, and people will buy whatever the telcos push at the lowest price.
And then, fresh on the heels of a jury verdict siding with Apple, the Department of Justice will begin investigating Apple for constraint of trade.
tomL – could not agree more.
I am in the market for a camera. The wife comes to me, Samsung has a great camera, look at all the features…. Not that a good search and review would counter “great” with inferior, but immediately, it was… Uh.. no, let’s go Panasonic.
The way to shop for Samsung products:
What competitors product does the Samsung product look like?
Buy the competitors! Samsung only copies from the best!
Lesson over
Catch their balls.
Not just a smoking gun… an entire tome of smoking guns.
Samsung “We don’t copy, we compete”….yeah right!
Game over for samdung.
If I was the judge – case closed.
I award $4 billion in damages to Apple and a global blanket ban on all samdung phones and tablets.
Global ban? Nice. If only…
Why didn’t Samsung delete this report like they did the emails?
Maybe because of Page 74:
“Deleting e-mail is too complicated.
On S1 user selects all e-mails they do not want to delete and then press the grey “Do Not Delete” button on the black bar to delete the unselected message.
On i-Phone you swipe your finger across message and press Delete.”
I’m just making it up of course, but after seeing many of the examples it actually sounds plausible.
That’s pretty goddamn funny.