Best Buy Customers Thought Galaxy Tabs Were iPads
Apparently a big Samsung logo on the box isn't a clear enough indication.
Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Left) iPad (Right)As the giant lawsuit between Apple and Samsung continues to heat up in preparation for the July 30th trials, some interesting information makes its way to the surface. Apparently Google along with other companies may have warned Samsung that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 looked a little too much like the iPad. In addition, it looks like a few Best Buy customers may have needed a warning of their own.
According to some recently released legal documents examined by All Things D:
Samsung was forced to release a bunch of documents it had been keeping under seal that show the likeness between its products and Apple’s. Examples outlined in the documents include comments from Samsung workers discussing similarities with Apple’s products, and reports Samsung got from retailer Best Buy that Samsung tablets were being returned because customers thought they were getting iPads. Samsung still has a pending motion to prevent all of this information from being included at trial.
There is certainly an argument to be made regarding the similar design of the two tablets, as this ongoing battle clearly indicates. But is it really so bad that customers would take home the wrong one? Seeing as how the words Apple or iPad are nowhere to be found on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 box, we can't help but shamefully bury our faces in our palms at this one.

That just about sums it up about Apple fan base these days!
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Tell yea the truth if I was apple I don't think I would want this article published. Just shows how stupid some of the I-Sheep truly are.
That just about sums it up about Apple fan base these days!
If they're stupid enough to buy the bad one, they just have to return it. End of story.
I think this story is (MOSTLY) made up just to help the trial. Best Buy and Apple are pretty good friend.
I know people who think those crappy $200 (or less) android tablets are iPads
It just goes to show that people will buy anything with no idea of what they are buying. Imagine for every $100 sold the store gives back $25. The worst part about it, is the stuff brought back was always opened and man handled so we could not put it back on the shelf, we had to send it back to the supplier and get a an inventory credit.
We have a former President that could compete here :-)
-big fat hardware button on the front bezel
-different aspect ratio
-big logo on tablet
-different name on the box
-etc. (list could go on)
yeah, I could see why people would get sooo confused....../facepalm
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Tell yea the truth if I was apple I don't think I would want this article published. Just shows how stupid some of the I-Sheep truly are.
Consumer demand for product functionality dictates the design of the product, much like two different species of organisms utilising the same niche evolve overtime to acquire similar trait due to similar selective pressure in what is called convergent evolution.
What part of "SAMSUNG" on the box could they not understand? Its not like the sales person gave anyone an Samsung when someone asked for an ipad. If they are that stupid to not tell the difference, they should keep the Samsungs.
I recall overhearing someone trying to return a laptop at Circuit City because he didn't like it.
There were shotgun pellets lodged into it. Somebody had shot it. The customer service looked a bit concerned.
As far as I know, there's a big Samsung mark on the box, nothing that comes close to a drawing of a fruit and It's called Galaxy Tab, not somethingPad or iSomething. The packaging of the Galaxy is maybe similar in shape to the iPad's packaging, but how the hell can you package it differently??? Any constructor selling a rectangular shaped device will probably put it in a rectengular box, with the product appearing on the top of the packaging as you open it, and the accessories and manuals below it. That's elementary marketing and from cell phones to digital camera's, every decent manufacturer has used the same layout for about ten years !
The fact that consumers manage to confuse iPads and Galaxy tabs says a lot about how brainwashed the average (or below average) consumers have become with the iPad hype but it doesn't demonstrate that Samsung wanted to fool his customers. Many dumbasses are calling any tablet an iPad or any smartphone an iPhone, but that's hardly the fault of the manufacturer of the device.
When questioned further, the same customers thought they were buying meat in a butchers shop
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Further investiagtion showed severe Alzheimers in the 90 years old customers