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Forums - Gaming - Stupid jury kills innovation/competition and hands Apple a monopoly

 

Describe the Jury's decision.

Smart: Apple did it first... 47 17.67%
 
Stupid: You can't patent... 216 81.20%
 
Total:263
NiKKoM on 25 August 2012
Turkish said:

lol.. yes let's trust random internet users with wrong info to give us the truth

the Samsung F700 was announced feb 2007 and released november 2007
http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-samsung-f700-prada-phone-rumors-debunked-20147320/




 

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Michelasso on 25 August 2012

 

You were saying? :D



Lostplanet22 on 25 August 2012

Good! Instead of trying to much to create products that look/are similar like the ones from Apple they should try to create their own succesfull products. Is so sad..



 

the2real4mafol on 25 August 2012
ishiki said:
the2real4mafol said:

Samsung may of copied back then, but the iPhone 4s and Galaxy S3 couldn't be more different (galaxy s3 actual size is much bigger than iPhone 4s)


That's the S3, the one that's copied is the S1.

The S3 is an awesome phone and not like the iphone... probably partially because of this.

How much copying that should be allowed is debateable. People weren't allowed to use the scroll wheel on the original Ipod. Sony got in trouble because they infringed on the rumble feature.

However, I don't see how you can argue that the original galaxy wasn't trying to be like an iphone. Which puts holes in the argument. (why would company's want to copy a design if there's nothing new or great about it?)

I wasn't saying that samsung didn't copy iPhone, what I was saying was that they haven't done it since the first galaxy s, it probably was a starting point for samsung until they got there own design, to make it what it is now. Copying is wrong but i don't think apple should be baning some of samsung's products because of it (probably so ipad's sell even more!!)



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the2real4mafol on 25 August 2012
Michelasso said:

 

You were saying? :D

Phones have changed so much in so little time!!

Weren't that long ago when people used phones like these!!



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Michelasso on 25 August 2012
the2real4mafol said:

Phones have changed so much in so little time!!

Indeed. So why is the Galaxy S identical to the iPhone?! Samsung has been loooking for troubles. Or maybe not, one of the reasons why it got the market could have been that they copied the iPhone design indeed. $1 billion is nothing, Samsung should give to Apple all the revenues (hmm... let's say the profits) it has got from the iClones. That fine is justy a small bill to pay considered the huge $$$ Samsung saved in R&D.



SnesTea on 25 August 2012
ishiki said:
curl-6 said:
ishiki said:
curl-6 said:
Apple are too big and too powerful, they overcharge for crappy products that people buy for how "hip" they are.


reminds me of the wii :P.

It's not like google is much less powerful or (evil) with it's android OS... And it's not like the above picture doesn't look like it's copied from apple either.

I have a gaming PC, an ancient phone and use linux for some things, it's not like I like apple much. But google's just as bad.

Except the Wii had great games while Apple has great nothing. :p

It is an obvious copy, but frankly, Apple deserve to be ripped off, it's not like they ever come up with anything original.

They make good stable OS's, unlike microsoft until windows 7 XD.

nintendo deserves to be losing hundreds of millions of dollars... oh, nvm.

XP was awesome.

And Nintendo is making bank on every single thing they sell. Try harder.



Kresnik on 25 August 2012

What a load of rubbish.



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the2real4mafol on 25 August 2012
Michelasso said:
the2real4mafol said:

Phones have changed so much in so little time!!

Indeed. So why is the Galaxy S identical to the iPhone?! Samsung has been loooking for troubles. Or maybe not, one of the reasons why it got the market could have been that they copied the iPhone design indeed. $1 billion is nothing, Samsung should give to Apple all the revenues (hmm... let's say the profits) it has got from the iClones. That fine is justy a small bill to pay considered the huge $$$ Samsung saved in R&D.

I have no idea, why they copied but it feels like apple tries to bully every phone/ tablet company out there, so they get richer. That's what it seems like. 

But, the S2 and the S3 are nothing like iPhones, so it shouldn't matter to much.

Don't you think Apple makes enough as it is now. I mean it's now richer than the oil producing nation Saudi Arabia (21st richest country) @ $622 billion!! I think Apple has way too much money now.

Indeed, the fine is small because all these companies are MASSIVE!!! but who's to say who's original and who's not, especially if they came out at a similiar time. Plus galaxy S looks more like a iPhone 3GS than an iPhone 4 



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Dark_Lord_2008 on 25 August 2012

Competition and innovation is dead. Apple win a sham law suit because they are a bigger corporation than Samsung.