Consider the wall of apps in this photo of the company’s new shop-in-a-shop in Italy’s Centro Sicilia, which appears to feature not only the iOS icon for Apple’s mobile Safari browser, but the icon for the company’s iOS App Store — three instances of it.
John Paczkowski and Ina Fried:
In short, the document makes the case that the Galaxy (identified as the “S1″ in this document) would be better if it behaved more like the iPhone and featured a similar user interface.
Apple just must love going to court against Samsung.
We’ve already learned that Apple is seeking more than $2.5 billion in damages from Samsung, but newly-released court filings have revealed exactly how much Apple feels it is owed on a per device basis.
Reading the press from the Apple vs Samsung trial lead me to believe that most people don’t understand Apple’s motives for suing Samsung. This lawsuit isn’t about getting compensation for products that were released in 2007 or even 2011, it’s about protecting the products that will be released in 2013 and 2015 and beyond. […]
Mic Wright on his trip to Korea to meet Samsung in 2007:
We were told early in the trip that mentioning Cupertino, Steve Jobs or the iPhone was a no-no. So, showing the due deference you can expect from the British press, we asked every executive wheeled out to lecture us what they thought about the iPhone and how Samsung intended to counter it.
I love that the Brits enjoy causing shit.
It’s a memo that Samsung didn’t want admitted into the trial, and until now had kept it out. But this morning, when Samsung legal counsel John Quinn mentioned the “crisis of design” moment in a question to Samsung strategist Justin Denison, all bets were off, and the memo was in.
“Influential figures outside the company come across the iPhone, and they point out that ‘Samsung is dozing off.’ All this time we’ve been paying all our attention to Nokia, and concentrated our efforts on things like Folder, Bar, Slide,” Shin wrote. “Yet when our UX is compared to the unexpected competitor Apple’s iPhone, the difference is truly that of Heaven and Earth. It’s a crisis of design.”
Oopsie.
[Via DF]
How can there ever be any doubt about how much Samsung rips off its competition.
Samsung wants consumers to buy its Galaxy S III so badly that it’s willing to pay them for their old smartphones.
Priceless.
I bet Samsung stole the forks and knives from the lunch room too.
Apple said in a statement on Monday that its license to include the YouTube app in the iOS operating system “has ended.” Apple noted that “customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser and Google is working on a new YouTube app to be on the app store.”
Seems odd for Apple to issues a statement for an operating system that’s in beta and under NDA.
AT&T has posted a new “Mobile Share Planner” tool to help you figure out if its Mobile Share Plan is a good match with your family’s needs.
Samsung is pulling out all the stops to protect itself from Apple’s lawsuit, but so far everything they’ve done seems like more of a distraction from the truth — they copied Apple’s iPhone. […]
Asked if he told anyone at Apple to copy Samsung’s designs, Forstall replied, “I never directed anyone to go and copy something from Samsung. We wanted to build something great. There was no reason to look at anything they had done.”
HA!
John Kirk for Techpinions:
I do not ask silly questions, like whether a tablet is a consumption device. I do not ask whether a phone or a tablet does “real” work. I do not obsess on the exceptionally rare times when I may use my phone as a tablet, my tablet as a notebook or my notebook as a tablet. Instead, I simply use the right tool at the right time.
That’s exactly what I do.
“[Copying] creates a huge problem in marketing on many levels. We market our product as the hero and how distinctive it is, how consistent we’ve kept it over time,” said Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, as he was questioned by Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny. “Now when someone comes up with a product that copies that design and copies that marketing, then customers can get confused on whose product is whose… If you steal [the way the iPhone looks] you’re stealing all the value we’ve created.”
Sounds like Schiller did a great job in court today.
This hot pink Nokia Lumia polish is designed to match the pink version of the Lumia 900 which was recently introduced in the U.S., via AT&T.
Yeah, everything is just fine at Nokia.
“Our role is to imagine products that don’t exist and guide them to life,” he told the jury.
As opposed to Samsung, who look at products that do exist and copy them.
Russian cell phone service provider MTS says the iPhone is a tough sell to its customers because of Apple’s restrictions.
iMore has learned that Apple is planning to debut the new iPhone at a special event on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, with the release date to follow 9 days later on Friday, September 21.
Yep.
Steven Sande:
Samsung attempted to show how certain iPhone prototypes were influenced by Sony designs. However, Judge Lucy Koh ruled yesterday that Samsung’s lawyers could not bring up the topic in opening arguments.
Let the games begin.
A new report released on Monday by Strategy Analytics shows that Apple’s U.S. smartphone market share is on the rise, while Android declined in the second quarter of 2012. […]
With the exception of Westminster Abbey, Apple’s images look better to my eye.
Samsung Electronics Co, the world’s top technology firm by revenue, reported a record quarterly profit of $5.9 billion on Friday, as rampant sales of its smartphones more than offset a tumble in memory chip prices.
Flock finds the photos you take together with friends and family and magically brings all the photos from each person’s phone together into a single shared album.No more nagging friends to email or post their photos after a night out. No more missing out on that great shot that someone else took. No more taking the same group photo on multiple phones.
Downloaded. This looks really cool.
Hacking experts have demonstrated ways to attack Android smartphones using methods they said work on virtually all such devices in use today, despite recent efforts by search engine giant Google to boost protection.
Open wins.
Sprint says it sold 1.5 million iPhones for its most recently reported fiscal quarter, the same as it did for the previous quarter.
Neil Hughes, AppleInsider: A new, extensive patent application details how a new iPhone model with a near-field communications chip could serve as the connected centerpiece of an automated digitally connected home. I don’t normally mention patents because they are just … Continued
According to Apple the following changes have been made to its Podcasts app:
John Paczkowski:
In February 2010, Google told Samsung that Samsung’s “P1” and “P3” tablets (Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1) were “too similar” to the iPad and demanded “distinguishable design vis-à-vis the iPad for the P3.”
Oopsie.
New research released on Tuesday by Appcelerator and IDC shows that Apple’s iOS has opened a significant lead over Google’s Android operating system in the enterprise market. […]