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The fact that the verdict is based on trivial patents is actually a good thing. Samsung can redesign the phone case and do trivial software changes and come up with 8 brand new phones officially declared to be comparable to the iphone. Am I the only one who thinks rounded edges are so 1950s ?
No, Dieter Rams probably agrees with you.
The fact that the verdict is based on trivial patents is actually a good thing. Samsung can redesign the phone case and do trivial software changes and come up with 8 brand new phones officially declared to be comparable to the iphone. Am I the only one who thinks rounded edges are so 1950s ?
You can't win this game by avoiding infringement. It's never worked that way.
The fact that the verdict is based on trivial patents is actually a good thing. Samsung can redesign the phone case and do trivial software changes and come up with 8 brand new phones officially declared to be comparable to the iphone. Am I the only one who thinks rounded edges are so 1950s ?
Absolutely. I never understood the people drooling over the Samsung Galaxy devices, they all look pretty ugly to me. I have an HTC One S which I consider to be marginally better, but the dream is a Nokia Lumia... running Android.
If you're like me and want to actually compare the listed devices and patents... Design patent '305: Icon interface and grid layout Design patent '677: iPhone design, edge-to-edge glass and display borders, front speaker Utility patent '163: Tapping to zoom Utility patent '381: "Rubber-band effect," bouncing back when scrolling to end of a page Utility patent '915: "Pinch-to-zoom," distinguishing between single-touch…
I get the impression that Samsumg went through three phases in their response to the iPhone. 2007-2008: We need something like this iPhone thing. Let's use Android. 2009-2010: Hmm, Android isn't selling well enough. Let's make our phones look exactly like the iPhone. This is where the S and S2 came from. 2011 onward: Oh shit, Apple is suing us. Let's not be so obvious. Hence the S3.
Jobs is dead and buried, let's bury his hatchet too, eh? This is all very tiresome. I'd love it if this became a widespread PR negative for Apple and became a pyrrhic victory for them.
Doesn't Apple have a patent on multitouch in general? Remember when the first few versions of Android did everything not to step on those patents? When and why did that change?
These all seem to be such frivolous things in relation to the function of a computing device. They have nothing to do with capabilities or performance. Gimmicks. Just my personal opinion.