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Samsung stole ideas from its customer.
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 05:03 AM EDT
Umm, You are aware that *Steve Jobs* said that Apple "is shameless about
copying others' ideas" right?

And that the Samsung phones are more of an evolution of their easier designs
than copies of Apples as far as the hardware is concerned. (If Apple was
concerned about the software, they should be going after Google)

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Samsung stole ideas from its customer. Nope.
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 05:33 AM EDT
Never invent history the reality will come back and bite you.
America is built on stolen ideas. No original thought in sight.

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Samsung stole ideas from its customer.
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 06:47 AM EDT
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.

j

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