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It seems like the lawyer may have fucked up, or it may be some brilliant Perry Mason-eque trap. But if the latter, why fight the memo's introduction into eviden
by podperson 14y ago
It seems like the lawyer may have fucked up, or it may be some brilliant Perry Mason-eque trap. But if the latter, why fight the memo's introduction into evidence in the first place? So I'd guess it was a mistake.
Anyway, the memo by itself doesn't damn Samsung, but in context with, oh, the radius of curvature of every corner of key products being changed to exactly match Apple's devices, the color and arrangement of icons, the color and choice of materials, and the design of packaging all matching -- it seems pretty damning.
Yesterday we had the internal memo revealing that most returns of the Galaxy Tab were literally caused by customers mistaking it for an iPad.
Burger King for a long time had a strategy of building new restaurants near newly built Macdonalds because it knew how much effort its rival put into researching locations. This seems kind of unethical, but apparently is perfectly legal competition. Samsung builds its restaurants near Macdonalds, copies the menu, erects a golden M over the entrance, and serves takeout in white bags.
- cyclinghacker 14y agoI've heard more than one person refer to their Android tablet as a "fake iPad", like it's some sort of designer handbag.
- Wohlf 14y agoJokes on them, the Nexus 7 is a better product IMO.
- mcantelon 14y agoKind of like how Apple modeled themselves after Sony. Interesting that this sort of legal battle never happened with car manufacturers as cars from various manufacturers tend to share fashionable design attributes.
- cube13 14y agoThat's because they license the hell out of their patents to each other.
- philwelch 14y agohttp://www.inipsoon.com/Patent/patentnews/071120037536469139.html http://www.inipsoon.com/Patent/patentnews/071120037536469139...
- podperson 14y agoThere's a difference between modeling yourself after someone -- "Sony is cool because it cares about quality and design, and we should too" -- and slavishly copying them. Samsung certainly doesn't model itself after Apple. It just copies their product designs down to the packaging and marketing.
- blu3jack 14y agoEven better: for years Barnes & Noble bought out the contract of every location that Borders tried to open in NYC, and opened a B&N there for the exact same reason -- and also to keep Borders out of NYC. In the rest of the country they did the open-across-the-street trick whenever possible. Of course, Borders went on to screw the pooch all by itself later, but that's a different story.