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Authored by: hardmath on Friday, July 27 2012 @ 12:12 AM EDT |
Microsoft actually licensed specific elements for Windows 1.0 GUI from Apple, and Apple's
complaint was failure to comply with the limitations of the license in Windows
2.0 resulting in copyright infringement of the Lisa/Macintosh "look and
feel".
So that dispute was not exactly "baseless" as one might suspect of
the current litigation. At trial Microsoft prevailed, but ultimately entered
into a cross-licensing arrangement with Apple to settle the
dispute.
--- "Prolog is an efficient programming language because it
is a very stupid theorem prover." -- Richard O'Keefe [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 27 2012 @ 02:09 AM EDT |
Perhaps you read no further than the first sentence of what
PJ has written here then. Samsung came out with no fewer
than 3 Touchscreen Candy Bar Smartphone models prior to the
iPhone launch.
SGH-Z610 was introduced in January 2006. It was their first
effort at producing an intuitive gesture based Touchscreen
Multimedia Smartphone. It had a 3.5" screen, rounded
corners, horizontal speaker above the screen, and listen to
this.... a single ROUND PHYSICAL BUTTON beneath the screen,
flanked by to soft buttons. This was obviously preemptive
and proves this button style phone front layout, if anything
belonged to Samsung.
It was white (like many phones had been before it), had not
one, but two cameras. One on the front for Video Chat that
US carriers were not allowing to be used. None the less this
phone passed through the FCC's doors in August, 2006 going
on sale in September. Though it did not sell well, because
of expense, being a True 3G phone a year before was just
selling a 2G phone.
It had a metal bezel around the outside edge of the phone
and a 3mp camera on back a year before Apple theirs and both
cameras could be used/sent in emails and video chats per
it's own patents Apple still refuses to pay for, as stated
in the above documentation. The Round button what is
referred to as the Home button was then referred to and bear
the symbol for a "Play" button used since the 80's on
various devices as public domain, as is Apple's square
symbol being used for "Stop" function.
On the F700, they abandoned the round button style for the
square or rectangular shape that is still used to this day.
Everything they use in their phone's exterior design today
has it's roots in Samsung's designs that came before the
iPhone was even released or sold. So as I have stated
above.... exactly who copied who? Did Apple's Cart
(container) come before Samsung designed and built even the
original processors (horse)like they claim? Or did Samsung
not only help in designing and furnishing screens,
processors, memory, etc on top of being the first to use a
Single Round Physical Button on a Touchscreen Phone with
Designs patents applied for a month before iPhone was even
introduced???
Now to your ignorant contention that your Samsung phone is
somehow inferior because of button placement, isn't it
therefore logical that the iPhone is also logical inferior?
You make absolutely no sense and fail to recognize the whole
point of what PJ has posted here!!! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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