Samsung Returns Fire Against Apple Lawsuit

[sykozis]

[citation][nom]kinggraves[/nom]Apple fires off the stupidest lawsuits, but if you've ever seen the comparison images, Samsung's device looks almost identical in shape and interface. Samsung is also releasing a Slider tablet at the same time Asus is releasing a Slider tablet, so they aren't exactly being original at the moment.[/citation]
And Apple has never been "original"... Apples claims to have created the Tablet market....yet Tablets have existed for almost 2 decades... The Palm Pilot was a "tablet pc"...

 

[orionltd]

If apple wants to sue someone, try those ipad / iphone knock offs that are sold on the chinese sites. I saw one that looked exactly like an ipad but was an android tablet.
Regardless of how this turns out, WE lose!

 

[jamesedgeuk2000]

Apple has never created anything new, they just take products already out there and wave their "make it shiny and pump millions into shoving the product down peoples throats" wand at them they have never invented anything

 

[iam2thecrowe]

They should rename their company "Rotten Apple" http/blog.everythingflex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/apple-rotten.jpg

 

[alidan]

here is the thing. once you release a user interface, it should be fair game for everyone to copy.

because once you figure out how to do it right, how many other ways are also right?

look at the fps console market, the old one. pre golden eye they had no idea how to make a fps realy work. post golden eye, they had an idea, than it took till halo to drill into everyones skull, this is how its done on the console. and now, any fps that comes out is minor tweaks to that formula.

so lets see here, a tablet and phone, need a start bar like thing for the most used applications
it also needs thumbnails because they are big enough to push accurately and see what the app is.
you also needs a scrolling desktop, either up or side way, and side way doesn't interfear with the start bar, so there you go.

the only way you could make it better is if you got it to go i menus, and had a accurately stylus like input method, but that is more for a hardcore user, and wont ever be picked up by the moronic public.

 

[Guest]

SAMSUNG FTW!!

 

[xerroz]

I don't care who sues Apple or Google, even if it's for a dumb reason I always pray Apple or Google lose

 

[rajaawad23]

these companies are like children, mummy samsung copied me

 

[acadia11]

[citation][nom]sykozis[/nom]And Apple has never been "original"... Apples claims to have created the Tablet market....yet Tablets have existed for almost 2 decades... The Palm Pilot was a "tablet pc"...[/citation]


Beyond that, the concept of Tablet PC is as old as the pc itself, the first one was designed in 40 years ago with the dynamo by Xerox, and the concept is like 130 years old all together for a machine that takes a pen input, now, go apple. Who the hell would invent a triangle tablet???? I mean are notebooks rectangles or triangles, I've never had a triangle piece of loose leaf paper, apple is just dumb.

Before 1950
1888: U.S. Patent granted to Elisha Gray on electrical stylus device for capturing handwriting.[31]
1915: U.S. Patent on handwriting recognition user interface with a stylus.[32]
1942: U.S. Patent on touchscreen for handwriting input.[33][34]
1945: Vannevar Bush proposes the Memex, a data archiving device including handwriting input, in an essay As We May Think.[35]
1950s
Tom Dimond demonstrates the Styalator electronic tablet with pen for computer input and software for recognition of handwritten text in real-time.[36]
Early 1960s
RAND Tablet invented.[37][38] The RAND Tablet is better known than the Styalator, but was invented later.
Late 1960s
Alan Kay of Xerox PARC proposed a notebook computer, optionally using pen input, called the Dynabook: however the device is never constructed or implemented with pen input.
1966
In the science fiction television series Star Trek, crew members carry large, wedge-shaped electronic clipboards, operated through the use of a stylus.
1982
Pencept of Waltham, Massachusetts markets a general-purpose computer terminal using a tablet and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard and mouse.[39]
Cadre System markets the Inforite point-of-sale terminal using handwriting recognition and a small electronic tablet and pen.[40]
1985
Pencept[41] and CIC[42] both offer PC computers for the consumer market using a tablet and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard and mouse. Operating system is MS-DOS.
1989
The first commercially available tablet-type portable computer was the GRiDPad[43] from GRiD Systems released in September. The GridPad was manufactured by Samsung,[44] modified from the Samsung PenMaster which never made it to commercial distribution. Its operating system was based on MS-DOS.
Wang Laboratories introduces Freestyle. Freestyle was an application that would do a screen capture from a DOS application, and let users add voice and handwriting annotations. It was a sophisticated predecessor to later note-taking applications for systems like tablet PCs.[45] The operating system was MS-DOS
In partnership with Fujitsu, the Poqet Computer Corporation announced the arrival of the Poqet PC.
1991
The Momenta Pentop was released.[46]
GO Corporation announced a dedicated operating system, called PenPoint OS, featuring control of the operating system desktop via handwritten gesture shapes.[47][48] Gestures included "flick" gestures in different directions, check-marks, cross-outs, pig-tails, and circular shapes, among others.
NCR released model 3125 pen computer running MS-DOS, Penpoint OS or Pen Windows.[49]
The Apple Newton entered development; although it ultimately became a PDA, its original concept (which called for a larger screen and greater sketching abilities) resembled the hardware of a tablet PC.
1992
GO Corporation shipped the PenPoint OS for general availability and IBM announced IBM 2125 pen computer (the first IBM model named "ThinkPad") in April.[50]
Microsoft releases Windows for Pen Computing as a response to the PenPoint OS by GO Corporation.
1993
Fujitsu releases the Poqet PC the first pen tablet to use an integrated wireless LAN[51]
Apple Computer announces the Newton PDA, also known as the Apple MessagePad, which includes handwriting recognition with a stylus.
The IBM releases the ThinkPad, IBM's first commercialized portable tablet computer product available to the consumer market, as the IBM ThinkPad 750P and 360P[52]
AT&T introduced the EO Personal Communicator combining PenPoint with wireless communications.
BellSouth released the IBM Simon Personal Communicator, an analog cellphone using a touch-screen and display. It did not include handwriting recognition, but did permit users to write messages and send them as faxes on the analog cellphone network, and included PDA and Email features.
1996
ViA, Inc. releases the ViA Tablet PC.
1999
The "QBE" pen computer created by Aqcess Technologies wins Comdex Best of Show.[53]
2000
PaceBlade develops the first device that meets the Microsoft's Tablet PC standard[54] and received the "Best Hardware" award at VAR Vision 2000
The "QBE Vivo" pen computer created by Aqcess Technologies ties for Comdex Best of Show.
2001
Bill Gates of Microsoft demonstrates the first public prototype of a Tablet PC (defined by Microsoft as a pen-enabled computer conforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running a licensed copy of the "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition" operating system)[55] at Comdex.
2003
PaceBlade receives the "Innovation des Jahres 2002/2003" award for the PaceBook tablet PC from PC Professionell Magazine at the Cebit
Fingerworks[56] develops the touch technology and touch gestures later used in the Apple iPhone.
2006
Samsung introduces the Samsung Q1 UMPC.
Windows Vista released for general availability. Vista included the functionality of the special Tablet PC edition of Windows XP.
On Disney Channel Original Movie, Read It and Weep, Jamie uses a tablet PC for her journal.
2007
Axiotron introduces Modbook, the first (and only) tablet computer based on Mac hardware and Mac OS X at Macworld.[29]
2008
In April 2008, as part of a larger federal court case, the gesture features of the Windows Tablet PC operating system and hardware were found to infringe on a patent by GO Corp. concerning user interfaces for pen computer operating systems.[57] Microsoft's acquisition of the technology is the subject of a separate lawsuit.[58][59]
HP releases the second Multi-Touch capable tablet: the HP TouchSmart tx2 series.[60]
2009
Asus netbook, the EEE PC T91 and T91MT, the latter which features a multi-touch screen.
Always Innovating announced a new tablet netbook with an ARM CPU.
Motion Computing launched the J3400.
2010
MobileDemand launches the xTablet T7000 Rugged Tablet PC which runs a full Windows OS and features include an integrated numeric keypad, bar code scanner, credit card reader, etc.
Apple unveils the iPad, running Apple iOS.
Quaduro Systems unveils the 10" QuadPad 3G Plus, a 900 gram Microsoft Windows based 3G tablet PC with 8 hours of battery life.
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Tab, running Google Android.
bModo launches the bModo12 which runs the Windows 7 OS and features include 11.6" TFT-LCD display, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth® 2.1, USB2.0, SDHC slot, unlocked SIM card Slot, miniHDMI connector, OMTP Jack, a webcam, a mic, etc.
Neofonie releases the WeTab, a MeeGo-based slate tablet PC, featuring an 11.6 inch multi-touch screen at 1366×768 pixels resolution.[61]
Dixons Retail plc unveils the Advent Vega, a 10" tablet PC running Android 2.2, having a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra chipset, 512 Mb of RAM and ROM, 1.3 MP camera, WiFi b/g connectivity, Bluetooth 2.1, a micro SD card slot, a USB port and a 16h battery life for audio playback and 6.5h for 1080p video.[62]
Dell Announces the Inspiron Duo A flip screen Netbook and Tablet PC hybrid
HP releases the Slate 500, running a full-version of Windows 7
2011
Motorola announces Xoom Tablet, a 10 inch tablet powered by the upcoming Android 3.0 Honeycomb
Asus announces the EEE Pad MeMO (7 inch tablet), EEE Slate EP121 (Windows 7 tablet), EEE Pad Transformer (10 inch tablet with Android and docking keyboard that transforms it into a laptop form factor) and EEE Pad Slider (10 inch tablet with sliding screen over the QWERTY keyboard) [all tablets use IPS display]
Dell showcases the Streak 7 tablet and says it's working on the 10 inch Streak 10
ZTE announces the ZTE V11 that runs Android 3.0, and the Z-pad. [63]
Apple announces the iPad 2
Toshiba announces the Toshiba Tablet, a 10 inch tablet powered by a Tegra 2 process and Android 3.0 Honeycomb [64]

 

[acadia11]

Oh and note that Samsung introduced the first "Pad" tablet as they called it the "GridPad" in 1989, now please Jobs do what you do best, stealing ideas and claiming them as your own, and stop suing like you came up with the ....

 

[jasonh8806]

alright suing samsung is dumb since they supply apple with the A5 chip but seriously all of the people on this site seem to be blinded by their own hate for a company just b/c they do well. Apple doesn't use the most high end hardware but they do come out with products that are well designed, people like, and just plain work. Has anybody thought maybe the fact that apple makes their iOS streamlined for the chip they use in the iphone/ipad means that they don't need as much horsepower for the same end user experience. As long as the product "just works" what does it matter what it takes to power it. Apple releases products that may not be the first one ever but when did the modern-day tablet market blow up? When Apple released the iPad... They take this technology to a mainstream market and people love it. Not everybody gives a crap whether their phone has the "best processor" or biggest screen. That's left to all of the nerdy guys who are trying to compensate for something else. Get over it, Apple is the "cool" thing to have. iPhone, iPad, iPod and even their macbooks are trendy and people want to buy them which is why they charge so much for them. The fact that their is so much bashing about them is astonishing to me but it comes back to maybe people are just mad and jealous that the majority of non-tech savvy people just want a cool looking phone that works. So honestly, get over yourself. If you don't want an Apple product, don't buy one, it's that simple... Just b/c you talk bad about them on this site doesn't mean anything is going to change. They will continue to sell millions of products to a lot of people and there's nothing you can do about it.

 

[memadmax]

[citation][nom]surfer1337dude[/nom]I hink steam should sue them all, they have had a square with rounded corners for their application icon for years before them[/citation]

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bustapr]

I hope Apples mind control device server device breaks down and all the macfags in the world notice that there is much better stuff out there.

 

[rooseveltdon]

[citation][nom]jasonh8806[/nom]alright suing samsung is dumb since they supply apple with the A5 chip but seriously all of the people on this site seem to be blinded by their own hate for a company just b/c they do well. Apple doesn't use the most high end hardware but they do come out with products that are well designed, people like, and just plain work. Has anybody thought maybe the fact that apple makes their iOS streamlined for the chip they use in the iphone/ipad means that they don't need as much horsepower for the same end user experience. As long as the product "just works" what does it matter what it takes to power it. Apple releases products that may not be the first one ever but when did the modern-day tablet market blow up? When Apple released the iPad... They take this technology to a mainstream market and people love it. Not everybody gives a crap whether their phone has the "best processor" or biggest screen. That's left to all of the nerdy guys who are trying to compensate for something else. Get over it, Apple is the "cool" thing to have. iPhone, iPad, iPod and even their macbooks are trendy and people want to buy them which is why they charge so much for them. The fact that their is so much bashing about them is astonishing to me but it comes back to maybe people are just mad and jealous that the majority of non-tech savvy people just want a cool looking phone that works. So honestly, get over yourself. If you don't want an Apple product, don't buy one, it's that simple... Just b/c you talk bad about them on this site doesn't mean anything is going to change. They will continue to sell millions of products to a lot of people and there's nothing you can do about it.[/citation]


Apple makes mediocre closed products and calls them "magical" or "revolutionary" and smug ignorant sheep like you come here on this site spewing garbage while those of us who actually know better sit back and watch, android is already on its way to becoming the dominant platform and there is nothing you can do about that either, see the difference between us and you is that we worry about what works, when we buy high end phones we buy the phones that are actually high end not the "cool thing to have" that line is for teen agers, just because your phone is popular it doesnt mean its the best only idiots subscribe to that ideology....hence your comment

 

[Thunderfox]

I don't hate Apple simply because it is popular. I hate it because it overcharges drastically for everything it sells, taking advantage of people who don't know any better and creating a cult-like fanbase who are brainwashed into supporting it in spite of the fact that it is bending them over a barrel. And it encourages them to be smarmy douchebags in spite of their own ignorance.

 

[Fodr Kreatr]

One word: Apple

 

[stoogie]

I despise Apple to all my hearts content. Please just go away no one wants your overpriced mediocre crap.

 

[Guest]

Mannheim! 2 "n" plz.

 

[jwdavisjr]

Good products, bad products, there's never a good excuse for so much arrogance..

 

[Camikazi]

So is this the point where they start going downhill till the company almost dies? It seems like history is repeating itself and Apple can't seem to LEARN from what it did wrong in the past. All that is missing is the board kicking out Jobs again.