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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 alphakappa on Saturday December 03, 2011 @05:56PM (#3309151)
Design variations are possible. Apple changed their design when they went from the iPad 1 to the iPad 2 (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/ipad-2-vs-original-ipad-w...) - The design is different enough for anyone to immediately tell whether the tablet is the iPad 1 or the iPad 2. I'm sure Apple will redesign this in the future and it will be immediately obvious that it's not the iPad 2.

Just as it's possible to tell the difference between a BMW and a Toyota Corolla, it is possible to make the design different enough while working within the constraints of a tablet (flat screen, bezel etc)

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Re:Apple's suggestions to Samsung to work-around its iPhone ... by magicalist on Saturday December 03, 2011 @06:24PM (#3309219)
That's silly.

There are many ways Samsung could make the galaxy tablet more differentiated from the ipad, but it's far easier to tell the samsung apart from either of the ipads than they from each other. The ipad2 is definitely more refined than the original, but clearly a redesign of that magnitude would not be anywhere close enough to satisfy Apple.

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