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| Samsung's iPhone-to-Galaxy SI comparison |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-08 06:23:54 |
| "The 2010 report, translated from Korean, goes feature by feature, evaluating how Samsung's phone stacks up against the iPhone. Authored by Samsung's product engineering team, the document evaluates everything from the home screen to the browser to the built in apps on both devices. In each case, it comes up with a recommendation on what Samsung should do going forward and in most cases its answer is simple: Make it work more like the iPhone." Pretty damning. We still need to know a few things: how many of these were actually implemented? How common are these types of comparisons (i.e., does Apple have them)? Are these protected by patents and the like? And, but that's largely irrelevant and mostly of interest to me because I'm a translator myself, who translated the document, and how well has he or she done the job? |
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| Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-08 06:57:05 |
| Everybody looks at everybody, the problem with Samsung is that they looked too much making them look too much like Apple. |
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| Common practice |
| By HangLoose on 2012-08-08 06:57:42 |
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I dont understand what is the fuss all about as if Samsung is the first company to EVER do this in history. It is common place, among companies I worked for, to list all the pluses and minuses of competing products to know where we stand. We used to disassemble entire engines to know what process was used by the competitors. Samsung needs to clarify this to the jury. Even though Apple is pointing fingers at Samsung, same could be said about them "copying" mp3 players, cameras and so on. |
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| Comment by kovacm |
| By kovacm on 2012-08-08 07:05:30 |
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> How common are these types of comparisons (i.e., does Apple have them)? of course they have them! :D http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engad... otherwise we would not have this trial today ;) |
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| so what? |
| By sergio on 2012-08-08 07:08:35 |
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Every company in the world does this kind of analysis, no surprise here. Apple influence is undeniable but I think they are spending a lot of energy in these stupid litigations. More engineers and less lawyers please! |
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| RE: Common practice |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-08 07:11:02 |
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If anything they LEFT stuff out of the iPod compared to the MP3 players on the market at that time. They improved an experience. Samsung just wanted to make their product look more like the iPhone and only the iPhone. It's hard to pinpoint to what device Apple modeled their <any> device. Apple tends to take existing ideas/products and build something they think should work better. For example they took the GUI idea from Xerox, but their own GUI version was much more advanced and user friendly. Samsung doesn't want to make it better, they want to make it the same. Now a lot of companies do this and it's hard to blame them when it's easy and cheap to do and you don't have so much money to spend on R&D like Apple, but Samsung went to extremes. |
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| RE[2]: Common practice |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-08-08 07:18:02 |
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Uh, without Samsung's R&D budget, there would be no iPhone. Edited 2012-08-08 07:18 UTC |
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| RE[3]: Common practice |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-08 07:24:26 |
| Then we should thank Samsung that the iPhone changed what we expect from our phones in 2007. |
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| I often ask |
| By sherriffwoody on 2012-08-08 07:31:20 |
| What would cars be doing if Mr Henry was like modern technology firms. Would most cars be using 4 wheels, would most cars have a stereo in the centre, would most cars have an indicator switch on the steering column. I mean come on tech companies. Imagine every industry acted like you, imagine appliance makes saying you can't have a two slice toaster cause we did it first. Accept the copy or similarities as a challenge and improve on it or your own design.Accept the challenge or wither and die. I've had enough of your stifling tech advancement. |
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| RE: I often ask |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-08 07:37:20 |
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If we made the tech industry more like the car one we'd need a license before we could use our devices. Considering the large number of idiots on-line this may not be a bad idea! |
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| standard practice |
| By unclefester on 2012-08-08 08:10:24 |
| It is standard practice to benchmark or even reverse engineer competing products in virtually every industry. Move on..nothing to see here. |
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