Uh, "allegedly"? I've been posting proof of this nonsense for months.

They need taken out behind the chemical sheds and shot. Some good ol' Room 101 action for them. Monetary damages aren't even enough anymore. Buying back all old device stock and being forced to have a committee oversee all future designs isn't enough. The fact that Apple will use this suit to win in every other country imaginable to do the same thing isn't enough.

I'd want them out of the phone business entirely.

"You want a monopoly!"

I want competition. And since in five years they've refused to actually do their own thing, it's evident they never will.

Some of those are very obvious. Sunflower for photos? There's no other picture they could have used? And a phone has to be a 1980 vintage handset against a green background? Give me a break.

Others, though, are not so obvious. The messaging icon doesn't impress me as an obvious copy. It seems generic enough. The contacts one also doesn't impress me much - although the binding on the left of the icons is perhaps suggestive. Notes? What else does a note look like? If they had chosen post-it notes, then people would have been complaining about Apple's Stickies. That one looks pretty generic. Settings? Could go either way. The music one also doesn't look like an obvious copy. After all, what represents music more than a couple of notes and a CD?

Like the rest of Asia, Koreans obviously struggle for original ideas.

I never realized that Samsung's music icon is basically the old iTunes icon color corrected to purple.

The only reason you copy icons is to make your device look like an iPhone.

Originally Posted by jragosta 
The messaging icon doesn't impress me as an obvious copy. It seems generic enough.

Oh, yeah. That icon sure had to use green. And the tail sure had to be on the same side as Apple's.

White paper with blue lines, white paper with red lines, white paper with a black top, white paper with a red top, yellow paper with a black top... About seven thousand different combinations that wouldn't be a direct rip of Apple's stuff.

That's the only one that I think Apple will have trouble getting unanimous assent over, unless you go by the image I posted, in which case it's blindingly obvious.

How about anything else ever, since that's an exact duplicate of the iTunes icon? You honestly don't think they didn't copy anything there? Honestly?

The iTunes 9 logo, FYI:

According to The Verge one of Apple's expert witness faltered under cross examination from Samsung.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/6/3223372/peter-bressler-testimony-apple-samsung-trial

Originally Posted by jigjag69 
Legal pad is yellow paper ...no way around that one

Because notes cannot--and have not in the history of human writing--be taken on any other medium than a legal pad. 

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Originally Posted by jragosta 


What I think is irrelevant. What matters is what Apple can prove. And some of these are going to be harder to prove than others.

Some are clearly total rip-offs of the trademarked icons, the others seem inspired by the spirit of them (similar color combos, sunflower leaves), though whether those violate the trademark may be a tougher call just because... they're such BAD rip-offs. But the intent is fairly evident across all of them with maybe the exception of the gear for their settings. I think people would have a really tough time mistaking that ugly blue gear for what Apple has, though using a gear for that I guess could be considered copying - but I know I've seen gears used for setting stuff over the years. Wrenches too.

But at least half of them seem like a pretty easy demonstration of direct copying, which maybe helped Samsung sell more of their knock-offs. Hopefully they get to pay Apple for that priviledge now.