I feel sorry for Samsung. I don't know how anyone can buy an Apple product without feeling ashamed anymore.
Yes, Samsung made products that looked kind of similar to Apple ones. Big whoop. Competition over litigation, I say.
Yes, Samsung made products that looked kind of similar to Apple ones. Big whoop. Competition over litigation, I say.
Not everyone Samsung copies is a huge multinational:
A lot of companies sue over dumb shit - Samsung included. That's the nature of the corporate battleground. I really don't care as long as they aren't suing end users for things that I do with a phone (which includes pretty much every thing you can do with a phone).
http://www.scribd.com/doc/102317767/Samsung-Relative-Evaluat...
And if so is it a bad faith to do these types of analysis inside your company on your products since it exposes you in court?
How has the auto industry get getting along so long without suing each other into the ground?
Yes, but not to this level. This is a guide book to imitating another platform.
>And if so is it a bad faith to do these types of analysis inside your company on your products since it exposes you in court?
No. I'd suggest that Samsung did go over the top with this.
>How has the auto industry get getting along so long without suing each other into the ground?
They haven't. The automotive industry is extremely litigious, it just doesn't get page views, dead-tree or internet.
I'd bet Samsung didn't really have a well developed UX design group behind their software/UI initially. Then they were brought to their senses by a competitor and did a thorough analysis and comparison to improve their products and compete. I just can't see what's wrong with that.
I'd bet that had Samsung done an analysis of the iPhone that was evaluating the first-principles and then had a separate team work from those first-principles to design a clean UI they would have been much better off. Really though, having emails and presentations that say "we need to make our phone more like the iPhone" is pretty damning. It seems like they've done a better job recently when they just go and do their own thing.
Though I don't believe anything "intellectual" should be property, I buy products because they are good, period. As long as Apple continues to make better products, I'll continue to buy them without any sense of shame whatsoever.