Samsung doesn't copy Apple

Look at the marketing material on Samsung's website for Galaxy S II. The shadows and reflections on the phones are identical too. I am willing to bet that someone at Samsung got a good laugh out of trying to copy Apple's mojo. Still don't think Apple should have had their devices banned, however.

i give you the in store icons but thats probably just a human error...
charger seen square usb chargers before
when you open what do you expect to see...htc moto,they do that too
if there charging port is similar size to the ipads,what do you want them to make a wrong size port or just use more plastic when its not needed...
i tell you what apple and samsung do have in common...they keep it streamlined and simple thats all...cant no one else make streamlined and simple product rene...you really must hate samsung cause they are actual making your special apple scared..what you dreaming about that apple are the only company left...bet you were dissapointed that apple could not trademark multi touch just so they could sue everyone then..did you also think it was alright for apple to alter images for the lawsuits...bet you thought that a rectangle with screen is not a standard requirement for a tablet and should be tradmarked...like apple products thats okay...but to live drink and apple is so bloody ___...you can fill in the rest yourself

this is getting old. exactly how many of these useless article do we have to see everyday?

I'm an avid Apple fanboy but I sure get tired of seeing articles like this. Somebody call PETA, cause this horse has been beat to death.

Haha. Its one thing to imitate. Its another to copy. That's just crazy. Clearly they are trying to be like Apple. Even down to the way they package their products.

I stopped reading this site because of posts like this, and I stop back for the first time in weeks, and this is the post I see. I pretty much can't stand reading anything Rene writes.

If samsung copied apple, does that mean apple copied digital photo frames?

Booooohooooooo

Fuck off fanboy

I came to this post from an Android Central tweet and hate it.
Also, get on with the program and let us login with Google+

is it me or is samsung taking cues from Apple for its commercials now (see below)...the whole "We Are Samsung" and "We Believe In"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g92G128lW40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
Just sayin'

No one really knows except the companies themselves so they take it upon themselves to settle it out in the courts the media covers it and you read it as news thats it i guess. wether apple copies sam or vise verse i think its wrong to copy or imitate or iritate or mimick or tail along for the winnings of someone elses works. its not fair someone makes it then your backend shadow is there to track your footsteps i think this is wrong for either of them but technology and the consumer benefit by having more than just one company i just dont think they need to assimilate themselves with a side who is winning. If you want to be different that something you have thats different if you dont then dont copy its sending out a bad signal. i dont know i am commenting from what little i know i know samsung did have and toshiba also did have some technologies like this before im not sure who was first to be totally honest. Whats really funny is samsung makes screens and chips for the apple devices. so now they sue themselves sort of i guess. Crazy.

I guess they could be saying hey look were just as good give us a chance.

To me its a case of confirmation bias. I mean, Apple's USB connector looks like every other USB I've ever seen. And the voice app - I bet OS/2 Warp's voice app used a microphone motif in 1994. And we've all seen hundreds of software applications that use the gears icon for settings. It ain't original just because Apple uses it.
Albeit, I'll give them the packaging and power connector. But really, so what? Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And don't tell me about user confusion in the market place - how many people have ever bought a device on how the packaging or power connector look? And not to mention that every washing machine, car, shoes, keyboard, tin of baked beans and a million other consumer products all have the same basic shape.

I have a iPod touch, ipad , and a i mac , my choice of phone was the Samsung droid charge . If i had to rate them , I would have to say , apple should start copying Samsung and Android .
I don't see a tablet messing with the ipad yet , but out of the phones , Samsung is the best phone on the market today. A friend of mine just got the galaxy s2, i don't see how any Apple fan boy could dispute Samsung's throne.
Its clear to me why Apple wants to keep taking shots at Samsung in court, and its not because of no box and charger, that's one big smoke screen

...and Samsung is still the better product ;)

It is so obvious that Apple is copy Samsung in everyway... fools. That's why I would never go for Apple products

Hahaha :D stupidest post i've seen today, and it's quite an accomplishment :D

Everyone wants to be like apple and everyone who doesnt own one wants to be a douche about it! Just cause you can't time a bite from the big apple doesn't mean you should make a softer apple for you to chew! Be innovative and make your own shit, and for the trolls stfu go play with your rinky dinky droids your product are below blackberry in the buyers market! Woman lie men lie numbers don't !

Amen... Between Rene and Gruber, the whole blame everybody Apple is the greatest EVER angle, and some bush league sports commentary is covered.
Put down the pom poms and look at some of Apple's faults every now and then.

Agreed again. Between Apple's stupid attempts to ban the competition and some ignorant judge somewhere (and don't even get me started on that idiot from FOSS patents who pretends to be THE expert at US Patent law), it's no wonder the phone carriers, here and abroad are starting to say enough is enough. Their money tree isn't filled with Apple exclusively. In fact, unit sales and total revenue there isn't a one of them that don't make more off the competition than they do Apple.
It's my prediction that Apple is going to find itself in the very precarious spot they did in the 80's when retailers started dropping their products from their shelves. Don't give me the B.S. argument that they can't afford to not have Apple. People, contrary to what this blog and others like it tell you, aren't lining up every day to buy Apple products. Yes there is excitement over something new but that is the case with everybody. Initial fervor hits and then attention spans go elsewhere.
How many on this site can attest, and provide proof, that every time Apple puts out a new Mac, iPhone, iPod etc they rush out and immediately buy it cause it's simply, "The greatest advancement in technology in all of human history!"????? If you have the finances to do that I congratulate you. Put some of that money wasted into bettering your community and helping those in need. Apple doesn't need it.

You also conveniently left out Nokia, Motorola, Sony, LG... All of which made phones long before Apple came along, all of which innovated and created things that Apple copied in the original iPhone and all of them since. The smartphone isn't the exclusive domain of Apple.
And to your point about all of those things predating Android... Nobody said they didn't. But Android did those things before iOS 5 didn't it? Haven't seen any attempt to make good on that from Apple have we?

Youre not 100% right. Last summer I had the samsung fascinate and put it on craigslist to sell. Every person that called me said they wanted it because it looked just like the iPhone which wasn't on Verizon at the time. Samsung knows what it is doing and you are giving the consumer a little bit too much credit.

The problem is that there should not be a choice. We have laws in this country, and there are similar laws in other countries, that allow a patent holder to exclude alternative products from the market altogether. The point of those laws is to give people incentive to invent stuff by allowing them exclusive rights to exploit their inventions for a period of time, after which the technology becomes public domain. Consumer confusion is not the issue (that's a trademark issue). This is patent. If somebody copies your patented invention, you should be able to make them pay, and Apple is trying to do just that.

It really has. The other smartphone expert sites can report on the phones without crapping all over the competition. Is there another iphone blog where the news is reported without the fanboyism?

Your statement doesn't make sense. Apple is not suing samsung saying they hold the patent on inventing a cell phone.

apple is dead on mobile. Android is the present and the future. Everyone copys everyone, cell phones, cars, boats, digital cameras, furniture.
apple is desperate but there's no way back to top. apple was steve jobs.

Maybe because he likes to read about Apple news?

It's funny because when we saw iOS5 there were obvious ripoffs that Apple is touting as their own creation. Either because they are from Android or from Jailbreak developers. Everyone copies everyone and I think Renee is drinking way too much kool-aid lately....

Lmao

Screens are rectangles. So basically, your only design options are a rectangular phone, or a rectangular phone with rounded corners. And there's no patent on white boxes. I think people are getting excited about nothing.

i like turtles

I do think that the packaging, in particular, does seem to be bit too similar. I would imagine there are other ways to make the out of the box product experience amazing without overly copying Apple's format. However, on the other hand giving Samsung grief for using standardized USB components is not just plain silly, but downright intellectually dishonest. The icons look like the typical icons seen everywhere, and one would expect them to look similar; it's called branding. Finally, using a microphone as a graphical representation for recording seems to be pretty standard. Apple didn't invent the mic nor was the iPad/iPhone the first products to use such graphic imagery. It's a bit arrogant - and mind-bogglingly stupid - to think that only Apple can use a mic to represent mic-in.
There may be many valid critiques of Samsung, and that is fair. However, to nit-pick on silly things such as using a USB standard is just small-minded and silly.

Toyota doesn't copy Ford. Except for doors. And gas powered. And marketing. And 4 wheels. And windshields. And so on ...

Where would the fact that Samsung is one of Apple's largest part supplier stand in all this, according to you?

lol alot of that stuff samsungs been doing since before apple did any of this. Box art, cables, how a tablet lays in a box (seriously? that's included?) etc. facepalm. Anybody forget that apple became big by STEALING themselves?

rediculous, we want sleek devices, there are only so many ways that you can change things without making them look bulky. I've only ever used apple and am pretty disappointed at the shinanigans that keep going on, tell you what, make more then 2 devices and then we'll talk.
Thanks

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/4395/samsungapplecopy.png

its a bout the design of the products and by apples thinking yes there ipad does look like digital photo frames...now if other companies were as petty as apple they might have actually patented such a vague design of it and started suing

Who cares!?

Is any of these part of the lawsuit ?

Such an idiots iPhone fan, open your smart ass phone and you will find A4 chip by Samsung there, and memory card and other electronics chip done by Samsung! So your iPhone are Made in Koria! LoL
Samsung going to sue Apple by stealing 20 technology and put them into iPhone5 , it will be band in Austrelia!
If you punch of noobs, do not comment here bull shit!

How dare Samsung use a white box! Apple invented the white box!
I wonder how much money it's costing our taxpayers defending all of these products that aren't made here. Let China do it. Oh, wait a minute...

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Get over it and enjoy your Apple products.

Love that you're scraping the barrel of things Samsung have copied. The packaging? seriously? Do you actually think Apple invented how to pack a box in that way. The design is logical, put a big picture of the product on the front of the box, who doesn't do that? And the charger? you do realise that there is only 1 type of USB A connection, and that the charging end wasn't actually designed by Apple themselves right? And then a single application. Out of the 10's of apps apple has on its phone, do you honestly think that not one of them has used another companies app design for inspiration on their own? You seriously need to stop crying and get out of your apple bubble.

Ummm Samsung built some of apples components didn't they? And if apple is so secure in its product what is this obssesive need to sue?

you should so continue to update all these new pictures

LOL Samsung does not own that booth, they are not even sure where that picture came from. What an iboy liar.

What is most blatant is Apple's entire i-Product naming system.
The iAudio CW100 was an mp3 player that came out a year before the ipod even did. Apple rips off the i-name and then has the gall to call iAudio copycats. That is Apple.

Very good smart phone.