Since when has an idea ever been the property of a single person or
entity?
Copyrights cover the expression.
Patents cover the
implementation.
Don't be limited in your thinking. So what if Samsung did
was to make things that are similar. The thing is, there are quite a few
differences.
Some are throwing up the examples of cars when it comes to
shapes. I can't say I'm an expert at identifying cars but I know a quite a few
models from a distance. I do know that some models look quite similar and I can
be unsure. One particular pair that I confuse when side on are the Jaguar
XK and the Aston Martin
DB9
A Galaxy S2 is 0.125m long and the Galaxy S is a fraction shorter at
0.122m. A Jaguar XK is 4.8m long, DB9 is 4.7m.
At 2m I can easily tell the
difference between my Galaxy S2 or a Galaxy S and an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 -
from any angle.
I would have to be about 77m away from the cars for them to
occupy the same angle of view as the phones at 2m. At that distance I wouldn't
know which car I was looking at - from any angle.
I happen to think you're
right, with your comment "It is a reaction to a crook", but I happen to think
that you're mistaken about who the crook is.
The OP states that
It is hard to support someone being lazy and feeding on other's hard
work
like a parasite. yet Apple has done just that. It
manufactures and produces very little really that is it's own work. The
hardware is all purchased and assembled by others. It's main contribution is
enhancements/limitations put on an open source operating system and a pretty
gui. Name anything and you'll probably find that others did it before Apple,
but perhaps not with quite the same finesse.
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