Apple Shows Jury the Smoking Gun

From the outside looking in on the so-called “trial of the century” – and bearing in mind that it’s only maybe halfway through – but Samsung looks royally screwed. It should have paid more attention when Google told it in 2010 that its tablets looked too much like iPads and should be made “noticeably different.” Apple’s got the Samsung e-mail saying so. It’s also got top designers’ formal evaluations telling Samsung the same thing about its phones. And better yet it’s got a seemingly damning 132-page “Relative Evaluation Report” – that Apple got admitted into evidence Tuesday over Samsung’s strenuous objections – showing the Korean company’s product engineering team dissecting every element of the iPhone in 2010 from packaging design to physical appearance to user interface to operating system architecture to browser, home screen and built-in apps and comparing it side-by-side with their original Galaxy S.

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