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Re:Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line ... by chc on Monday April 18, 2011 @08:26PM (#2461243)
Correction: It's Google's interface. Apple is suing all of Google's hardware partners, but the software Apple is complaining about is Google's. It isn't in the All Things D article, but TechCrunch's coverage includes the important fact that the suit includes the Nexus S, which is stock Android: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/18/apple-sues-samsung-claims-i...
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Re:Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line ... by Samuel_Michon on Monday April 18, 2011 @09:02PM (#2461311)
Samsung doesn't use Google's stock Android UI. It uses its own TouchWiz UI [1], which it also put on its proprietary OS phones and Bada phones.

HTC also doesn't use Google's stock Android UI. It uses its own Sense UI [2], which it also put on BREW and Windows Mobile phones.

Other Android handset makers also created their own custom UIs. Motorola has Motoblur [3], SonyEricsson has the 'UX' platform [4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchwiz

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Sense

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoblur

[4] http://www.xperiax10.net/2009/11/18/se-launches-nexus-ux-pla...

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Re:Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line ... by chc on Monday April 18, 2011 @09:17PM (#2461344)
I know all that, but the Nexus S — which is included in Apple's suit — is completely stock Android as far as I know, so Samsung's modifications seem to be irrelevant to Apple's beef with the phones.
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Re:Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line ... by Groxx on Monday April 18, 2011 @08:43PM (#2461276)
Phone vendors customize the default UI pretty heavily sometimes. In this case, it appears they customized it to make it look more like iOS.
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Re:Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line ... by chc on Monday April 18, 2011 @09:18PM (#2461347)
As also mentioned elsewhere, the Nexus S — which is included in Apple's suit — is completely stock Android as far as I know, so Samsung's modifications seem to be irrelevant to Apple's beef with the phones.
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Re:Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line ... by Groxx on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @07:22PM (#2464635)
/me looks around for Nexus S photos

Yeah, there there's too much of a difference (IMO), especially as the device itself looks substantially different. Android, I think, looks plenty different to avoid the suit - the Galaxy S in particular, though, doesn't. Not sure what their aim is there.

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