The Great Smartphone War
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Source: huffington Post
On August 4, 2010, amid the bustle of downtown Seoul, a small group of executives from Apple Inc. pushed through the revolving door into a blue-tinted, 44-story glass tower, ready to fire the first shot in what would become one of the bloodiest corporate wars in history. The showdown had been brewing since spring, when Samsung launched the Galaxy S, a new entry into the smartphone market. Apple had snagged one early overseas and gave it to the iPhone team at its Cupertino, California, headquarters. The designers studied it with growing disbelief. The Galaxy S, they thought, was pure piracy. The overall appearance of the phone, the screen, the icons, even the box looked the same as the iPhone’s. Patented features such as “rubber-banding,” in which a screen image bounces slightly when a user tries to scroll past the bottom, were identical. Same with “pinch to zoom,” which allows users to manipulate image size by pinching the thumb and forefinger together on the screen. And on and on.
Steve Jobs, Apple’s mercurial chief executive, was furious. His teams had toiled for years creating a breakthrough phone, and now, Jobs fumed, a competitor—an Apple supplier no less!—had stolen the design and many features. Jobs and Tim Cook, his chief operating officer, had spoken with Samsung president Jay Y. Lee in July to express their concern about the similarities of the two phones but received no satisfactory response.
Read more: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/06/apple-samsung-smartphone-patent-war.print
for all you samsung fans read about a really scummy company filled with thieves. I will never buy one of their products. Go ahead and defend them.
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Kurska
(5,739 posts)Essentially just a modern day techno-toy, used as a distraction device by the majority of the public. If one billion dollar corporation lifting ideas from another billion dollar corporation truly bothers you that much, I'd suggest refocusing on the real problems in the world.
Interesting read though.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Yeah, a LOT.
brooklynite
(94,483 posts)Solid legal thinking.
Xithras
(16,191 posts)None of these companies are actually "worth" defending. Pick your technology based on what works best for you.
LiberalArkie
(15,708 posts)If Apple had done the iPhone a few years earlier then Samsung would have won and there would not be an Apple today. GM, Ford, Microsoft and IBM had a history of stealing ideas and putting the small upstarts out of business. Samsung and Google thought they could do the same thing. Just business as usual. That is why Jobs said when he introduced the iPhone that is is heavily patented. They guys in the audience roared in applause, because they understood what the other companies were going to try.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,868 posts)And your source says Huffington Post and your link is Vanity Fair.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)That's all I need to know.
The thieves are the lawyers.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)you just don't know.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)
Tikki
(14,556 posts)That is how it works for me.
Tikki
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,868 posts)It' a phone, you talk to people on it and check messages. It's not a life altering decision.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)rat-fucking each other.
Am I supposed to be outraged?
And like Steve Jobs has any right to be indignant about people stealing shit from him?
wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)and took 10,000 Pioneer employees out. you defend this shit.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Until then, fuck Apple, fuck its fucking slavish acolytes, and viva Samsung.
I hope that is clear enough.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)YOu can still say fuck Apple, but anyone that says viva Samsung, hasn't a clue.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I thank Carlos Slim for enabling me to have a stupidphone that can take pictures, take a few minutes of video, text, and talk...all for a hundred bucks a year.
A pair of jerks engaged in a billion dollar battle...and who pays the bill? Who's paying all these legal fees?
No one can claim a total victory in the global litigation wars. In South Korea, a court ruled that Apple had infringed two Samsung patents, while Samsung had violated one of Apple’s. In Tokyo, a court rejected an Apple patent claim and ordered it to pay Samsung’s court costs. In Germany, a court ordered a direct sales ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, ruling that it too closely resembled Apple’s iPad 2. In Britain, a court ruled in favor of Samsung, declaring that its tablets were “not as cool” as the iPad, and unlikely to confuse consumers. A California jury found that Samsung had violated Apple patents for the iPhone and iPad, awarding more than a billion dollars in damages—an amount that the judge later ruled had been miscalculated by the jury. In the debate over setting the damages, a Samsung lawyer said they were not disputing that the company had indeed taken “some elements of Apple’s property.”
They tack those lawyer bills on the price of the devices!
wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)and took 10,00 employees of Pioneer out. you defend that.respect intellectual property.
JustAnotherGen
(31,798 posts)I come from the p.o.v. of a device launch expert a few years back - who launched 57 hand sets in 23 months.
Look - they all laugh about how your kids are becoming thumb dominant. They all use slave labor. They all overcharge for their products.
Every last one of them.
No one is good or bad - they are just trying to hold onto their business model.
In a sharp twist/turn of events - your phone is now only as good as the apps you can run on them - regardless of which manufacturer you are.
Just don't buy this 'good guys vs bad guys' nonsense.
I repeat - they all are laughing at the consumer because the consumers are ALLOWING them to make your kids thumb dominant.
Keep calm and give your kids a paintbrush, markers, a hammer, a book . . .
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)on something that was common sense and used by many in the industry.
The GUI was an invention of Digital Research that Apple stole. The mouse was an invention of Xerox that Apple stole.
Some patents like "one click shopping" issued to Amazon were not real inventions but as stupid as "use a fork with your left hand to grab meat and cut a bite-size piece with a knife in left hand prior to inserting said fork in one's mouth"
The technology was new and there were not enough savvy patent examiners so many of the patents issued to tech companies were essentially for stuff that everyone in the tech industry was doing at the time.
Apple deliberately killed Adobe Flash to push their own software and Apple tightly controls the apps that go on their devices in order to create a monopoly.
I hate monopolies and thank spaghetti monster for Samsung.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S5 three weeks ago and it is amazing! Viva Samsung.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,729 posts)Please feel free to re-post in General Discussion. Thanks.