Apple Sues Samsung Over Galaxy Series Phones And Tablets - Polidicks

Thanks Apple, you just helped me decide to buy a Galaxy phone.

I have a Galaxy Tab and it's fantastic.

Apple really has no right to sue anyone after the amount of names and designs they've stolen, hell they even got sued by the beatles.

Apple, you so smart.

[img]http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/compare_iphone_galaxys.png[/img] How can you say that it's not an iPhone ripoff ? Even the UI is almost exactly the same

I for one think the Galaxy looks better than the iPhone.

They look alike but honestly haven't most phones been looking alike since the dawn of cellphones?

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;29316171][img_thumb]http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/compare_iphone_galaxys.png[/img_thumb] How can you say that it's not an iPhone ripoff ? Even the UI is almost exactly the same[/QUOTE] Maybe that's because it's a smart phone, almost all decent smart phones look like that. This is like Ford suing Fiat because their cars are car shaped like fords cars.

I don't quite understand how you can patent a UI, especially one that has been quite common of phones. The desktop icon layout is pretty similar to how my old phone's menu is. The quick bar at the bottom isn't really anything amazing because it's an obvious design choice. Also, a patent doesn't mean as much as you think it does, you can patent just about anything. In the case of big business copying your ideas, all they have to do is prove that your patent would be an obvious application for an expert in the field and it's really easy for them to beat it because they have really good lawyers and connections. It's a bit different when two corporations have this dispute because it isn't as one sided. My point is that there are a lot of patents out there that shouldn't exist and could easily be nullified, and usually are in the case of small developers going against big business. They get nullified a lot less when you throw a ton of money into the law suits.

The UI isn't a ripoff, at first glance it does seem similar though. I've got an iPod (3g, and I've used iPhones in the past) and at the moment I own a Galaxy S (i9k) and I can tell you that the UI is not [I]that[/I] similar whatsoever. If anything it's more fluid and open with what I can do with it. What they've shown in that screenshot is one of the many skins you can actually apply to the phone. There's plenty others which look completely different.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;29316415]Maybe that's because it's a smart phone, almost all decent smart phones look like that.[/QUOTE] Could you post an example of a decent smartphone that ripped off the iPhone UI ? I have never seen one in my entire life. [QUOTE=carcarcargo;29316415]This is like Ford suing Fiat because their cars are car shaped like fords cars.[/QUOTE] No it's not, Apple isn't suing Samsung because they made a phone shaped phone, it's suing Samsung because it's making an iPhone shaped phone