Samsung Executive Calls Apple vs. Samsung Ruling 'Worst Scenario for Us'

Let this be a warning

I hope that this is a warning to all Android manufacturers, Apple means business. I hope that Samsung will take the path that Microsoft did and actually innovate instead of blatantly copying.

The best scenario for consumers is to have a choice, and if everyone's copying Apple, the consumers don't have much choice.

I bet they wish they took Apple's licensing offer. Idiots.

The fact pinch and zoom as well as a grid payout with rounded icons can be patented this is completely nuts.

Excuse me while I patent the rear view mirror and sue any car maker that dare use it.

I dont see how samsung is supposed to get around pinch and zoom, its an essential component to a touch screen.

Remind me of the wildly popular touchscreen phones that had it before Apple.

They were warned so... what's the big deal? :p

Damn near all the patents Apple got are frivolous. Its disgusting seeing how they got patents on such loose and obvious pseudo technologies, the whole system is broken.

This isnt bad for just Samsung, its bad for the consumer as well.

"When the iPhone debuted, it was widely criticized for having no buttons/keys. Now people think the iPhone’s design is “obvious.”
-Dan Frakes


He is exactly right. No one else took the risk to bet the company on changing the whole phone interface . Not one of the phone market leaders, not Nokia, MS, RIM, Samsung or Motrorolla. They were thrilled to be selling you the same old **** and had no motivation to change anything. How was that for the consumer?

Apple did. Apple was the only one that tried. They spent years developing and took the risk to bring it to market. It took an outsider with an entirely different take on things to bring fresh ideas to a stale industry.

And NOW, it is obvious? People thought the iPhone before it was announced would have a freaking click wheel. Thats how obvious the iPhone was to pundits and the phone industry.

I find it hard to believe that they are "shocked". I feel like this was so obvious that it would be hard for anyone to convince themselves otherwise.

Maybe they are just shocked they finally got called on their blatant copying

The fact pinch and zoom as well as a grid payout with rounded icons can be patented this is completely nuts.

Excuse me while I patent the rear view mirror and sue any car maker that dare use it.

I dont see how samsung is supposed to get around pinch and zoom, its an essential component to a touch screen.

Gee,too bad!

You wouldn't stop copying :apple: products, you refused all licensing agreements to pay :apple: for their intellectual properties,backed by patents, duly procured, you lost, now pay the Piper, end of story:cool:

The fact pinch and zoom as well as a grid payout with rounded icons can be patented this is completely nuts.

Excuse me while I patent the rear view mirror and sue any car maker that dare use it.

I dont see how samsung is supposed to get around pinch and zoom, its an essential component to a touch screen.

I can't speak for anyone else, but the first time I used pinch and zoom was on an original iPhone, and I thought it was the most ingenious feature I'd ever seen on a cell phone. The idea that this wouldn't be a patent-able feature would never have crossed my mind. I would consider it to be a huge advantage over other methods of zooming on smartphone screens, but the idea that it's "essential" is laughable. Just because someone came up with a really clever way of doing something doesn't mean that everyone else can copy it because it's "essential".

Oh, and the automobile rearview mirror was patented by William P. Hammond in 1922, who presumably could have sued anyone that copied his invention for 20 years, at which point patents are generally considered part of the public domain.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=45dqAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=1437974&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=true

Damn near all the patents Apple got are frivolous. Its disgusting seeing how they got patents on such loose and obvious pseudo technologies, the whole system is broken.

This isnt bad for just Samsung, its bad for the consumer as well.