iPhone OS Caused a 'Crisis of Design' at Samsung
Was Samsung Just Caught With Its Hand in the Cookie Jar?
If it looks like an iPhone and if it feels like an iPhone, it must be an iPhone. Not necessarily. It could also be another smartphone, a Samsung smartphone, for example. A company memo recently released as part of the Apple-Samsung trial seems to confirm that Samsung may have been working on a blatant copy of the iPhone.
The memo, published by All Things Digital, and brought up in the arguments of legal counsels in the court case between Apple and Samsung appears to not have just one smoking gun against Samsung, but several in a rapid fire succession. Here are some examples:
“I hear things like this: Let’s make something like the iPhone.”
“When everybody (both consumers and the industry) talk about UX, they weigh it against the iPhone. The iPhone has become the standard. That’s how things are already.”
“Do you know how difficult the Omnia is to use? When you compare the 2007 version of the iPhone with our current Omnia, can you honestly say the Omnia is better? If you compare the UX with the iPhone, it’s a difference between Heaven and Earth.”
Of course, these are product discussions that are held in many industries about many products. Intel's competitors may have had discussions that surrounded around the thought "let's make something like an Ultrabook" (purely speculating here), but the Samsung emails are rather damaging for the company under the aspects of the accusation that it has copied the iPhone.

It's called innovation.
could not have said it better.
competition is what drives technology. all these documents prove is that samsung said: hey, our products need to improve, and they did that. Anyone who can't tell an iphone and a samsung apart needs glasses.
these apple lawsuits are getting ridiculous.
It's called innovation.
could not have said it better.
competition is what drives technology. all these documents prove is that samsung said: hey, our products need to improve, and they did that. Anyone who can't tell an iphone and a samsung apart needs glasses.
these apple lawsuits are getting ridiculous.
It is like Wolg Gang -ing on Samsung, and everything that is not Apple
So what you're saying is it can't run crysis....
Aren't they copying Google Maps by adding turn-based navigation to their in-house Apple Maps?
Aren't they copying every other Smartphone manufacturer by adding 4G instead of just 3G?
Do you see where I'm going here...?
I do think (and hope) that they may be shooting themselves in the foot in the long term, though. Many techies already think Apple is losing its touch. And who does the "average consumer" listen to about tech? That's right, their geek friends who know best!
Fingers crossed.
I won't say I like the design of the iPhone but it's iconic.
It's also a blatant copy of danish designers Jacob Jensen (B&O) and Piet Hein (Super ellipse).
In fact if you actually READ the memo then it appears that it deals with early ideas regarding UI design. This article may as well have been written by Apple
Samsung compared its products to competition Apple to make its products better, so Apple feels like they deserve money. So my question is, where did Apple get its idea for the notification drop down screen? and why does the Siri icon look exactly like Google voice search icon? So in Apple's eyes, it is ok to copy Android, but nobody can mimic them.
Don't pretend that auto companies copy each other. You do not have a GM knock off of the Mini-cooper, or a Dodge knock off of the Ferrari. In fact the Porsche 911 was the 901 at first. But the French carmaker Peugeot claimed the copyright to any car names with a numeral zero in the middle, so when the 901 went into regular production in the fall of 1964, its name was changed to 911.
http://www.edmunds.com/porsche/911/history.html