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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 09:02 PM EDT |
Clearly my post is not to accuse Apple of copying Samsung. As I
don't think either one of them attempted to copy each other in the
first place. Samsung like Apple was just doing what they do best.
Design, Engineer, build the machinery (like Foxconn did) to make
their parts, assemble them and send them to market. They are
probably the best Concept to Market Manufacturer in the business.
No doubt since.... if it was really true, that they copied iPhone,
they accomplished the impossible in ONE MONTH!!!
That's just so ludicrous and I don't know why Apple would risk
their own reputation by making such outrageous claims. Not a whole
lot different than if Samsung claimed that Apple copied them. The
only thing I wished to show with my comment above is that neither
party would be able to prove such an accusation.
But the LG Prada was actually on market prior to iPhone launch.
The former Apple designer who had been instructed to make a phone
that looked like Sony's would, is all because contrary to Apple's
claims (that they developed iPhone locked in a cocoon), they were
very much in the thick of the World of Design.
They knew at iPhone MacWorld launch what they were showing of the
competition was years old prior art designs. They knew then that
their UI wasn't even close to Desktop OS X and they knew that
contrary to Steve's claims, that they were not responsible for any
part of the manufacturing of the iPhone. That was all up to
Foxconn! ...who I'll say again did a miraculous job of getting
iPhone to market!
Yet... Steve Jobs of Apple (a pure software company, who
outsources their manufacturing no different than MS or Google),
put up this quote at iPhone Launch by Alan Kay, "People who are
really serious about software should make their own hardware." So
is that not an out right lie? He basically led them to believe
that Apple was a hardware manufacturer. Which they aren't by any
stretch of the imagination!
And to accuse a company that prides itself on it's #1 or #2 in R&D
spending, is just plain asinine. Especially since they also also
spend BILLIONS on CAPEX, that is impossible for Apple to spend,
because they own no factories to spend it on. Samsung again this
year is spending $42 Billion on CAPEX alone! ...now that's a what
Alan Kay was talking about! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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