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Bonovox - from the beginning of the case I have always felt that Samsung was guilty of the tap to zoom and pinch to zoom as Apple's yes came up with that but I did not know they didn't license it to Samsung.

On 2012-08-26 16:21:08, rikken wrote:
What have Apple "invented" besides shapes and colors ? Screens ? Prosessors ? Memory ?
Does anyone have a list ?

I'll try images to explain to all of You what is what, because there is some serious misunderstanding here...






Now a little explanation:

Picture 1: This is a copy, notice the look of the phone and the name is like iPhone, to confuse customers into buying their product. Now this is bad, and this should be excluded from market. Note that Apple didn't sue sciphone

Picture 2: This is not a copy, the look of the phone, the dimensions it's different (Notice the scale is about 99,9% right, not like the shit comparision on internet where SII has the same height as iPhone...). Now it might look alike, but it's still not a copy...

On 2012-08-26 19:20:13, djin wrote:
If apple sued sony over xperia T, htc over one x, and samsung over s3, there is no way they could ever prove they looked similar. But with s1 and s2, they had their point.

Apple and Samsung each enjoyed a victory and suffered a loss in their legal battle over smartphone patents. A South Korean court ruled that both companies sold products that infringe on each other's intellectual property, leading to damage awards and the banned sale of their products.
A three-judge panel ruled that four Samsung products infringe on Apple's "bounce back" patent, which deals with a screen that bounces back to a visible area when a user attempts to scroll beyond the edge of a document or photo. The panel ordered Samsung to pay 25 million won ($22,000), and banned the sale of its Galaxy S II, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Tab, and Galaxy Tab 10.1 in South Korea. The court also ruled that Apple violates patents Samsung holds for mobile data transfer. Apple must now pay Samsung 20 million won ($17,650) and stop selling the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 in South Korea.
Apple and Samsung have concluded their patent fight in South Korea, but litigation between the two companies is far from over. A jury is now deliberating an Apple v. Samsung case in the U.S., and similar lawsuits or complaints to regulators are active in nine different countries.

On 2012-08-26 19:19:15, worf1000 wrote:


Tell me, what have Sammy invent?

On 2012-08-26 14:51:00, Bonovox wrote:
I just don't get the rectangular shape bull shit. Nearly all touch screen phones have a rectangular shape with a home button. I cannot believe a court judge passed that.

On 2012-08-26 16:21:08, rikken wrote:
What have Apple "invented" besides shapes and colors ? Screens ? Prosessors ? Memory ?
Does anyone have a list ?

Raskin, who named the Macintosh after his favorite fruit, joined Apple in January 1978 as employee No. 31. The Macintosh was launched in 1984, but Raskin left Apple in 1982 amid a well-documented dispute with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Raskin was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a visiting scholar at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 1970s when he first visited Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC. (Apple is often accused of copying Xerox's graphical user interface--GUI--into the Macintosh operating system).
"When PARC was in its first few years I was often a visiting academic there, taking part in discussions and viewing with delight some of the developments going on there; I trust that people there also took pleasure in finding in me someone who was already on much the same user-interface wavelength," Raskin later wrote. "I didn't have to be sold on the idea that UI and graphics were of primary importance to the future of computing."
Raskin said he told Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple's other co-founder, about what he had seen at Xerox the first time he met them in their garage in 1976, but that he stopped visiting Xerox when he went to work for Apple "to avoid any possible conflicts of interest."