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Legal action is always the last resource many companies use in order to claim what they feel is rightfully their own. We all remember the late Steve Jobs on stage for the launch of the original iPhone back in 2007. One of his memorable phrases when finishing his announcement of Apple's new multi-touch technology was: "and boy have we patented it!" Now that said, we know Apple didn't invent multi-touch. We even talked about the whole process in this week's podcast. What Apple did do, is precisely what Steve Jobs said, they did patent it in the same way Thomas Edison took most of Nikola Tesla's glory. As Steve Jobs would always quote Picasso: "Good artists copy, great artists steal". In the same line of Picasso, let's just start by being honest here, Samsung did behave like a "good artist". As we also discussed in our podcast, Samsung did copy Apple. For those of us that owned the Samsung BlackJack line, it was clear that their design changes dramatically with the launch of the iPhone. As we unboxed the Samsung Galaxy S, it was clear that it looked like the iPhone 3GS. As Brandon unboxed the Galaxy S II, he even mentioned how it looked "too much like the iPhone 4″. And for those of you that saw the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the rest is history. At times when the Gingerbread app tray scrolled vertically, the Galaxy line scrolled horizontally. At times when the icons were all different, Samsung made them rounded squares like iOS always did. Samsung's design has clearly evolved today <b>...</b> |
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Steve Jobs Quotes Picasso: GOOD ARTISTS COPY GREAT ARTISTS STEAL – How about Apple vs. Samsung
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