or I will sue you SO HARD!

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/apple-fears-samsung-tablet-will-seduce-customers-court-told-20110929-1kyl5.html#ixzz1ZMn4ScCB


Do 'free spirits' still like to pretend this corporatist oligarchical puppet panto of a company is still the making products for THE ARTISTIC SOUL?

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I guess Apple's iPad won't seem so exciting once folks realize that the Galaxy/iPad are essentially just smartphones with 10" screens.

Hell if Microsoft pulled half the crap that apple has recently people would have stormed the gates by now.

Yeah, f'ing apple. I do own a Galaxy Tab 10.1. Nice device so far. Still waiting for the 3.2 version tho' :( I own Verizon 4G Galaxy Tab 10.1. Only the wifi Galaxies get 3.2 update...

Fully read the article, wow, Apple is so scared.

Was this terrible, terrible pun unintentional?

It not surprising what is happening, regardless of whichever camp you are in.

this means that the next version will be the same thing as today's version, but on a 12" screen.

my, look at the jumps and leaps on technology

You mean the "free market camp" and the "apple camp"?

Sad that people cannot think up an original idea, or, admit that Apple got it right and everyone else screwed up or didn't have the resources to commit to an R&D plan for tablets.

Because everything Apple has ever made is in no way shape or form an iteration of a previously established concept. Everything they have ever made has never been done before, they are the truly creative people, and everyone else is riding on their coattails, AMIRITE?

Small touch screens existed, as did cellphones. Combining the two doesn't give Apple any exclusive rights, and it didn't take a massive leap in technology to accomplish. I'm pretty sure i heard of cellphones with a touchscreen that existed before the iPhone, also, but i can't find a link amidst all the "OMG iphone" hits.

but I must give them credit for ergonomics.

I'm waiting a little bit to see how the new Kindle turns out. I was pretty close to getting a Nook Color until I heard about this.

And my reasoning for owning something like this is to have a device I can browse PDFs in an emergency (Veritas VxVM/VxFS, EMC Networker/AlphaStor, old Sun server docs etc). So I really don't need a lot of the fancier stuff a device like the iPad has - and certainly not at that price.

I remember that. It was a book which couldn't be sold due to copyright issues. But I am told that one can pop one's own PDFs onto the things and that does interest me.

Just like the iPad, you mean?

Their interfaces and devices are always fantastically well designed physically and virtually.

Funny thing about that is once upon a time there was no such thing as an OS as we know it today, and everyone was using horrible things like DOSSHELL. Then a small independent company comes up with a brilliant idea about how to present information in a more pleasing way via a mouse interface, using windows. They named an entire operating system after this idea, and Windows was born.

If Microsoft was as greedy and power hungry as Apple, they would have then sued everyone who ever used graphical windows in a similar way, which includes Apple. But they didn't.

I think Apple had their GUI first, not Microsoft.

But, didn't both Jobbs and Gates copy the GUI from Xerox anyway?

Apple doesn't have the best inventors

Apple doesn't have the best coders

Apple doesnt even have the best computers

Apple does however have the best runners for running to the patent office

Apple got there first with the iPhone and it took 5 years for the competition to compete effectively, now it's the iPad's turn.

or I will sue you SO HARD!

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/apple-fears-samsung-tablet-will-seduce-customers-court-told-20110929-1kyl5.html#ixzz1ZMn4ScCB


Do 'free spirits' still like to pretend this corporatist oligarchical puppet panto of a company is still the making products for THE ARTISTIC SOUL?

I think you will find

Cults, Religions, Apple Product Worship and some drugs effect the same area of the brain. The Addiction Center!

The best way I can explain Scientology and the people who practice it is by comparing them to drug addicts. The same example can be seamlessly applied to Hipsters and their worship of apple products.

They get a "high" and that lasts until the next iProduct comes out. They need to spend money to get the "fix" they need and if somebody comes between them and their Scientology/Apple Product/Drugs they will see them as the enemy.


I am actually thinking about doing a paper on the brain and how this sort of intoxication affects people.

Twist words much?

'back when the original iPhone was released, there were no phones that had touch-screen and a decent user interface. Yes, I consider that a first, with stacks of R&D behind it.

Whereas the real phone manufacturers like blackberry and Nokia didn't commit enough to developing new technology. The shareholders can clearly see that Nokia screwed up and are loosing market share at an exponential rate.

Tablets are similar, no one was even thinking about committing to that market and they took it by storm.

There is room in the market for more competition - but until they make something which is original, they are looking at the crappy end of a law suit.

Actually, Nokia had one. I owned it. I don't recall the model name right now, and I can't be arsed to go look it up for the likes of you. Stylus phones have been around for a while before that.

Again, all Apple has ever done is refine already existing technology. Then call "foul" when others do the same.

You clearly know more than I do on this topic - so I'll step aside to your knowledge on the history of mobile phone technology.

I would say this: if any other technology existed prior to Apple entering the smartphone market, why is everyone copying the design, GUI layout and general phone look of an iPhone and now, iPad?

Hell, I'll go further and say that companies appear to even cop their promotional videos on their websites, namely Dell and HP.

Apple are doing something right and I wish I bought shares in them 10 years ago, when they were still the poor underdogs.

AK

Looks at his HTC android phone notices that the OS looks sod all like a iphones...refiles alleykat as a clueless apple fanboi.

Looks at his HTC android phone notices that the OS looks sod all like a iphones...refiles alleykat as a clueless apple fanboi.

Tablets are similar, no one was even thinking about committing to that market and they took it by storm.