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A comment on Apple's suggestions to Samsung to work-around its iPhone and iPad design patents. Parent comment

Re:Apple's suggestions to Samsung to work-around its iPhone ... by nailer on Saturday December 03, 2011 @02:28PM (#3308552)
And the Prada phone. And Jil Sander's clothing. And those stoves with entirely flat surfaces rather than pop out heating elements. And anything made by Dieter Rams for Braun.

Perhaps Samsung is following modern design techniques, many of which pre-date Apple, despite being popularized in the computing world by Apple.

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Re:Apple's suggestions to Samsung to work-around its iPhone ... by pelemele on Saturday December 03, 2011 @02:34PM (#3308565)
If you put money and effort to your R&D, you will try to protect yourself as well.
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Re:Apple's suggestions to Samsung to work-around its iPhone ... by nitrogen on Saturday December 03, 2011 @04:00PM (#3308796)
If you spend millions of dollars on R&D to discover that LCDs are rectangular and that rounded corners hurt less, I don't think you deserve protection.
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Re:Apple's suggestions to Samsung to work-around its iPhone ... by CubicleNinjas on Saturday December 03, 2011 @06:14PM (#3309199)
Prada Phone vs iPhone: They have different buttons. They have different bevel. They use different materials. They have completely different UI. They have completely different feature-sets (expansion/connections/cameras/tech stacks). And no copying was possible because they were announced 30 days apart.

Samsung tablets vs iPad: Same buttons. Same bevel. Same material. Mirrored UI. A clear an blatant copy to confuse consumers.

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Re:Apple's suggestions to Samsung to work-around its iPhone ... by nailer on Friday December 09, 2011 @05:28PM (#3335937)
A little too late to reply but: CrunchPad was 2 years before iPad.
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