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There's an actual debate going on right now about whether or not Samsung copies its design from Apple. This is nuts.
Of course Samsung swipes ideas from Apple, you just have to look at their designs side by side.
The funny thing about the Apple versus Samsung debate is that Samsung has been stealing from everyone for years now. It's not an Apple exclusive thing.
Are all of Samsung's designs stolen? Of course not. That's not what we're saying. But, there are a lot of products through the years that were clearly inspired by a rival.
http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-copies-2012-1?op=1
Samsung will be writing a check for Billions.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Practically every invention or design is derivative of earlier designs.
Too bad that our culture has lost the thread that embraces that concept.
Read the free E-Book, "Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig:
http://www.free-culture.cc/
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Apple has done it too. *gasp!*
onehandle
(51,122 posts)This was about out and out theft of a current product that took years to develop.
With Samsung, one day it did not exist and the next day it did. Their internal documents talk of a 'crisis of design' and that they would 'do what Apple did.' Google, Nokia and others warned Samsung to not blatantly copy overnight. Samsung did not listen. There is so much overwhelming evidence, it's ridiculous.
This post from a couple of years ago illustrates what happened well before Samsung took it too far:
http://www.marco.org/2010/08/19/a-smartphone-retrospective
Apple isn't suing the others. They were smarter about their copying.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)great composers steal." - Igor Stravinsky
orwell
(7,773 posts)...not everyone gets caught.
Does anyone remember the Xerox Star?
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)libel for this when it is standard practice across the industry, and has been for at least 50 years, is absurd on its face. But the avalanche of copy-cat lawsuits that will follow will just crush what anemic innovation remains for years to come.
This reminds me of when Microshit went nation shopping looking for some country that would let them own the word windows.