Three Ways that Samsung is Copying Apple

Let me get this straight: If the majority of consumers prefer a specific style -- NOBODY else except the first company is ever allowed to make one?

When I was young, all stereo components were "silver" aluminum. Then, a few years later, all are black. Isn't that "copying"?

Don't all flat-panel TV's look virtually the same? Big screen, as thin a bezel as possible, hidden speakers, buttons maybe on the side?

Same goes with computer monitors.

All companies want to make things whose designs people LIKE. Apple does not own that. All it means is that Samsung (and others) *also* know people like clean-looking (few buttons) devices.

My Samsung Galaxy Nexus has *zero* buttons on the front. Apple has one. If they ever get rid of that button, then THEY are copying Samsung!

Aww the people that copy others are crying when they get copied. Oh the irony...

This article screams Apple bias IMHO.. Everything in today's society is built on other things.. Originality is pretty much impossible & all these vague patents are further stifling creativity and innovation.

Steve Jobs was quoted as saying "Good artists copy; great artists steal". Where as Samsung is simply copying in this instance (if you can even call it that).. Apple has on many occasions stolen (examples are the Apple name from Apple Records, the original iPod interface from Creative Labs, refusing to pay Nokia for 3g patents till years later after they lost a law suit)

When Jobs accused Gates of stealing the GUI. Gates replied: "No, Steve, I think its more like we both have a rich neighbor named Xerox, and you broke in to steal the TV set, and you found out I'd been there first, and you said. "Hey that's no fair! I wanted to steal the TV set!"

Apple just want Samsung and other competitors to look ugly and force everyone to buy their expensive products.And as another of the ways to get money"sue".Like cars or autos almost all have similar features but they never sue each other.Good thing apple doesn't make cars or else they'll sue them and force them to make cars driver side in the middle,run backwards or sideways.Apple wake up! this is a competitive world where products get better due to competition,they may look similar but will be better than the others and its your move to make it better,show them what you can do-better.

Click on the Author's name and read some of his other articles. This guy has no clue what he's talking about, but that doesn't seem to stop him from writing crap like this.

Apple... Stop crying over spilled milk. Just build a better product then Samsung and see who sells more..

How come we never see articles about how Apple copies others? The ipad looks ALOT like old MS tablets afterall...

Oh, yeah, like Apple never stole anything off of anyone else.

Star Trek had the idea of the PADD long before there was an iPad.

There's only so many ways you can design a tablet and smartphone.
Samsung having Apple apps in their showcase? What, You know Samsung doesn't make the apps.
You can't blame them for the UI, Android and iphone almost has the same kind of UI anyway.
On the Galaxy, it has 4 buttons on the bottom, whereas ipad only has one.

Apple copied everyone else anyway. Back when they introduced the iphone, their was already a voip phone out they using the name iphone. So Apple stole the name.
Android had voice control assist before the iphone.
Apple copied Android notifications.
Apple copy's alot from other people also.

And wasn't there Windows XP tablets before the iPad?

Thirty years of fraudulent proprietary technology while the rest of the universe clones, Apple should grow up and accept reality—IBM was sportsmanlike— so lighten up, Apple.

Every smartphone company makes a phone that has four buttons. Do you see them calling each other copycat and having hissy fits? No, that is the specialty of Apple fanboys like this writer. Samsung makes a phone that has one button like the iphone, and its their cheapest phone. Wow, a real win for you there Apple.

And showing a booth that is of unknown origin and blaming the company Samsung for it? This article reeks of desperation.

Apple used photoshoped resized images in court to make Samsung and Apple products look more similar. This is the kind of thing that they do. Out of like 40 different smartphone models that Samsung offers, this has one button like the iphone. Big deal. Every phone manufacturer right now has a model that has 4 buttons. Do you see them calling each other copycat crying foul? No, Apple fanboys just need the attention, they want everyone to think that they invented the touchphone.

Is the fool who wrote this article twelve? apple didnt come up with these ideas....they did what almost all companies do....they steal them from someone else

You have to be 12 years old or not like using critical thinking very much to gain the full effects of what this article is trying to accomplish.

Does the Samsung product cause assemblers to jump out of windows at the factory as well?

JHC, this is like saying Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux "copy" OSX. The cold hard FACT is that Apple copied virtually everything in its operating systems and hardware from some other innovator. Steve Jobs talent was as a huckster - seeing something that had commercial appeal and monetizing it. Jobs was no innovator. As for android phones and tablets and the iPhone and iPad, the argument can just as easily be made that Apple copies from those devices - front and rear cameras, dual core processors, wifi tethering - those were all features of Android devices before Apple SLAVISHLY copied those features in the iPhone and the iPad.

The patents that Apple has relied on to contest Samsung and Android devices are mostly LAUGHABLE and are more indicative of a broken intellectual property system than of Apple protecting any substantive innovation. Seriously - its like if Ford sued GM for using the steering wheel or placing the brake pedal to the left of the acceleraor pedal. It's like GM suing Ford over the concept of seatbelts. It's like General Mills suing Post over the idea of brand flakes with raisins. It's like Scion suing Chevy because the Spark "slavishly copies" the iQ design.

The writer of this article has poopie for neurons.

The boxes kinda look the same but most of the other claims are so weak it hurts my head just to have considered them.

If Samsung is copying Apple, they must be doing a great job since I've owned both products and Samsung is still going strong. I am never buying Apple again.

apple is not a US company, NO! they use the words AMERICAN PHONE maker to fool americans but it is actually made in communist china by the forced political prisoners. APPLE is a disgrace