1) For a company so adept at copying it's ironic that they can't get the brand name spelling right.

2) @ jrargosta, Remember that conversation we had about the previous comparative document? I don't have the same view on this one. I'd say it's ambiguous, at best, what was the author's slant because he did mention the usability aspect of the End Call button but there certainly seems to be some "follow the leader" going on here instead of thinking for one's self that I think will hard for a jury to ignore.

If only Samsung were better at "Hidung"...

Of course! This is the most obvious way in which you can make improvements to your product - By comparing it to a successful competitors' Product, what's new in it guys, GROW UP!

Okay apart from the sarcasm, this document is..... well, unbelievable. But I'm pretty sure Samsungs' counsel will find a way to justify this too.

Wow, I didn't think it was THAT bad. Samsung, you truly did copy Apple. I don't know how you are going to get past this one

I love how they are pretending to try... "Move loading to the middle of the LCD" like the iPhone. "Make the call end button large with nothing around it" just like the iPhone. When going through the slides I was waiting for "Just copy the iPhone and get it over with".

Wow! After looking at that document, it is extremely clear that they picked darn near every screen and copied the iPhone. Sometimes in appearance. Sometimes in the UI usability. These were all things that Apple spent so much time on... the little details. This is exactly why Apple spend so much careful time in R and D. They don't always get it right, but they're right more than they're wrong in my opinion.

Granted Apple cannot do much about most of this, but what it does indicate is that Samsung was definitely clearly trying to copy the iPhone.

Question: Are all of the "Directions for Improvement" instructions aimed and Google to improve Android or are these features that Samsung cobbled onto Android and they need to improve? I guess, I'm a bit unsure how much Samsung hack and patched the stock Android OS.

It would be interesting to see how those screens in question look now. I'm betting that they look more like the device on the left than they do the device on the right.

Wow. I've been skimming through this document and it is absolutely stunning how systematically they worked to copy the iPhone design aesthetic and UX. Now one commenter said that yes, this is the type of review you'd expect, but being in the UX industry for about 10 years, there is a difference between reviewing your own screenshots and making direction, and comparing another product, making direction and giving an engineer the "correct" UI on the left side. As another review stated, they didn't say it, but it was heavily inferred that they copy the UI/UX on the left.

This is wholesale copying of everything that made me go "wow" when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone.  This is stuff that was not obvious then and made the iPhone something brilliant. Here we see Samsung picking that apart and giving direction as to how to copy all those usability features that Apple spent years refining.

The article is correct that this does not necessarily mean they violated design patents (although some of these directions definitely show that they were doing just that), but it does show how they used the hard work and design genius of Apple's designers for their own benefit.

$2,500,000,000?

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$25,000,000,000.

Where the hell would these companies be, and this industry be, without Apple to teach them fucking everything. There wouldn't be a template of 'how to do it right', so to speak. 

Pathetic.