Stupid jury kills innovation/competition and hands Apple a monopoly

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Superman4 said:

disolitude said:

WTF are you people talking about?

Do some research and look at the phones which were sued and patents that Apple sued them with. Looking at the phones in question, Samsung "willingly" copied the Iphone and its features.

People that know me know that I don't like Apple but I hate seeing lack of common sense.

Actually if someone that knows about both phones looks at them they would realize the pictures are doctored.  The home page for the Android based device looks nothing like that. They are purposly in the apps menu to make it look similar. 

It's funny to see so many people claim that this image has been doctored or cherry-picked by Apple and isn't representative of the Galaxy S.

The image was cherry-picked by Samsung's own marketing people, precisely because that screen looks more like an iPhone than any other Android phone screen:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/samsung-announces-galaxy-s-android-smartphone/

None of the intellectual property that Samsung was found guilty of infringing is required to make a smartphone. Not Apple's trade dress (ie, look and feel), not slide to unlock, scroll bounce-back. Samsung is a big boy, fully capable of making its own unique designs and interfaces, but the only way it's going to do that is if it gets spanked for its serial plagiarism. Yes, serial. Before Apple was the market leader, Samsung was stealing designs from the Blackberry and the RAZR.

Lawsuits like this actually promote innovation. Samsung will be forced to craft its own design, it's own solution to unlocking a touchscreen phone, it's own method of signaling the end of a page to a user. Who knows, maybe a Samsung committed to developing new ideas instead of photocopying their biggest rival will come up with the Next Big Thing and actually kill the iPhone.