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Patent Wars: Apple Hits Samsung in EU
Renegade:
So... this whole thing was because it *looks* like it? WTH?!? That's just ... incomprehensible. They aren't made out of the same type of materials. The size is obviously different- and if it isn't, that means the bezel is. And it doesn't have the same controls. I don't see where this was even a case...
-wraith808 (August 19, 2011, 08:42 PM)
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Don't see?!? What?!? How can anyone not see that Apple invented everything and it all belongs to Apple. We are all children of the mighty Jobs, and Samsung is the defiler of all that is good and holy~! :P
Yeah -- I think your choice of words - incomprehensible - pretty much nails it.
Apple needs to compete on those kinds of issues though -- you know... the ones with no real substance -- because they just don't have much substance compared to others. Their stuff looks cool. But not a lot more.
Like JFC! OSX just got the ability to resize windows on more than the lower right corner!!!
They're grasping at thin air, because that's what they are based on. Apple is not a tech company -- they are a cult. And their entire survival depends on supporting the beliefs that maintain that cult.
So, things like "we invented the black rectangle with beveled edges" are very much REAL in that belief system. They're every bit as valid as the Flying Spaghetti Monster. ;)
Carol Haynes:
Actually if you look at the Apple patent I am pretty sure etch-a-sketch would have a case against Apple.
Now that would be a trial ...
For those who don't remember etch-a-sketch see: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flair-Classic-Etch-a-Sketch/dp/B000E69YJI
In fact you could say the iPad looks like a dumbed down etch-a-sketch because they forgot the knobs!
nudone:
Oh, but the iPad is an Etch-a-sketch - well, you can pretend if you like: http://getaheadcase.com/ipad.html
40hz:
Oh, but the iPad is an Etch-a-sketch - well, you can pretend if you like: http://getaheadcase.com/ipad.html
-nudone (August 20, 2011, 04:53 AM)
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I remeber hearing that expression in the early days of the Macintosh. I think it was John Dvorak that first referred to the Macintosh SE/30 as a $6500 Etch-A-Sketch. ($6500 was the announced "introductory price." Yikes!!!)
;D
iphigenie:
Imagine if someone had gone and sued all these beige boxes everyone was doing for copying their beige box....
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