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Title: Samsung/Apple dispute
Post by: Mr ChriZ on July 19, 2012, 10:46:21 am
Not sure if this has been made visible across the rest of the world but Apple have been ordered to run adverts over here in the UK stating that Samsung did not copy the iPad:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18895384
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/19/apple_samsung_did_not_copy_us/

Title: Re: Samsung/Apple dispute
Post by: Lasse_Lus on July 19, 2012, 12:19:09 pm
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Apple has not commented on the news.

funny, do they ever comment on anything  :)
Title: Re: Samsung/Apple dispute
Post by: MrHaugen on July 19, 2012, 12:21:30 pm
This is great news. I'm so fed up by all of this "you stole our idea" bs. The patent system is so screwed when you can take patent on such generic things as the looks of a Pad. Apple is not the only one being unfair, but they are certainly pushing the limits. It just needs to stop.
Title: Re: Samsung/Apple dispute
Post by: Lasse_Lus on July 19, 2012, 12:25:05 pm
was palm pilot the first, with touch screen and apps ?
Title: Re: Samsung/Apple dispute
Post by: nwboater on July 21, 2012, 02:11:36 pm
These stories always remind me of the fateful visit by Jobs & Wozniak to the Xerox PARC facility way back when. There they saw a GUI operated by a primitive mouse. Guess what they soon after started selling? I have little sympathy for their crying when someone copies something of theirs!

Cheers,
Rod
Title: Re: Samsung/Apple dispute
Post by: JimH on July 21, 2012, 02:45:17 pm
Quote from: nwboater on July 21, 2012, 02:11:36 pm
These stories always remind me of the fateful visit by Jobs & Wozniak to the Xerox PARC facility way back when. There they saw a GUI operated by a primitive mouse.
I think it was called STAR.
Title: Re: Samsung/Apple dispute
Post by: nwboater on July 21, 2012, 02:51:08 pm
Quote from: JimH on July 21, 2012, 02:45:17 pm
I think it was called STAR.

Yup.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star

Rod