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I'm sorry, why the downvote? This is about Samsung creating a product that's not a copy of Apple right? The Home, Back and Menu actions are required by Google

I'm sorry, why the downvote? This is about Samsung creating a product that's not a copy of Apple right? The Home, Back and Menu actions are required by Google and who suggests manufacturers make them hardware inputs. They're not "differentiating their product from Apple", they're complying with the specified requirements to run the OS they chose. They could have innovated by making them gestures or a touchpad or something, but they didn't. Switching applications with home buttons and other OS behaviors are not Samsung's ideas, they're part of the stock Android OS. For Samsung's actual contributions to the product, compare their first Android device, the I7500, to their Galaxy II line. Which direction did the design travel? I7500: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2009/04/i7500_samsung.jpg http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2009/04/i7500_... iPhone: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/iphone-4-top-new-1.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/iphone... Galaxy II: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/04/11z428207gsii.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/04/11z428...

nodata 15y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I guess the reason is that it's irrelevant which parts Samsung invented, and which parts Google invented since the point is that Apple didn't. But Apple's new version of iOS "copies" several of the features from my phone.
- evilduck 15y ago
  You original reply was to this: I find Samsung's inability to innovate and subsequent willingness to carbon-copy the iPhone and iPad to be reprehensible and wrong. It's sad that Samsung seemingly can't come up with much original on their own. And you countered with an HTC G2 example, tangential to the Samsung vs. Apple story. My point was circling back around to the linked story and GP post which was Samsung vs. Apple. Feature copying between Google and Apple is an entirely different debate. Samsung is very clearly trying to ride Apple's coat tails in ways that HTC and Google are not.

nodata 15y ago

I didn't downvote you, but I guess the reason is that it's irrelevant which parts Samsung invented, and which parts Google invented since the point is that Apple didn't. But Apple's new version of iOS "copies" several of the features from my phone.

evilduck 15y ago
You original reply was to this: I find Samsung's inability to innovate and subsequent willingness to carbon-copy the iPhone and iPad to be reprehensible and wrong. It's sad that Samsung seemingly can't come up with much original on their own. And you countered with an HTC G2 example, tangential to the Samsung vs. Apple story. My point was circling back around to the linked story and GP post which was Samsung vs. Apple. Feature copying between Google and Apple is an entirely different debate. Samsung is very clearly trying to ride Apple's coat tails in ways that HTC and Google are not.