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| Samsung adds start menu to its Windows 8 PCs |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-28 18:18:38 |
| "Windows 8 changes a lot of things about how the operating system works, but one of the features Windows traditionalists will find jarring is the lack of a Start button. Although the button's functions are still present in various places, users may miss its easy click-and-start-typing familiarity. Well, Samsung's bringing it back. The all-in-one PCs Samsung unveiled this morning are the first Windows machines to sport the S Launcher, a simple widget that acts just like the old start button." This is not from The Onion. I repeat, this is not from The Onion. |
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| RE[10]: Oh dear |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-29 15:23:51 |
| No, I mean if Samsung doesn't want to get stuck with a copycat image they shouldn't provide any reasons for people to do so. |
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| RE[4]: Oh dear |
| By mrstep on 2012-08-29 15:49:28 |
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NeXT had a dock. OS/2 had a dock. The Win 95 task bar was (debatably) an ugly version of a dock (ignoring the launching aspect). Nobody is saying that implementing a dock is novel. There are flat docks, disjointed docks, tile docks, any number of ways to make it look, yet Samsung ends up copying Apple again with a shelf under the icons, including icon reflections on it. Seriously? Whether it's legal for Samsung to do it, and whether the legal system is screwed up is another issue,... But. It. Is. Just. A. Copy. Again. Apparently that's what Samsung does. Hopefully you never come up with any product idea that Samsung takes interest in. ;) |
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| RE[5]: Oh dear |
| By nej_simon on 2012-08-29 19:04:34 |
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And here I thought I was replying to a post that claimed that Samsung copied the visual style of the OSX dock when in fact another desktop environment used the same visual style way before Apple. But hey, don't let your lack of actually having read the thread get in the way when you want to reply right? |
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| RE[6]: Oh dear |
| By Morgan on 2012-08-29 19:12:07 |
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My point was that the concept of a dock goes much further back than Samsung/Apple. Apple inherited the dock concept and code when they absorbed NeXT, and as Mellin pointed out, it existed before NeXT too. To put it another way, electric guitars have had magnetic coil pickups since the 1930s, but you don't see Yamaha suing Fender because they both use them. That's because the concept has been around longer than either company has been making them. And the reason I replied to you in that tone was because you are incorrect in the first place; Apple had a dock in the very first version of OS X, which was a few years before Project Glass. Edited 2012-08-29 19:14 UTC |
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| RE[11]: Oh dear |
| By Mellin on 2012-08-29 19:17:52 |
| apple is the copycat |
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| RE[12]: Oh dear |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-29 19:29:24 |
| I'm starting to suspect you are some kind of bot, because your replies don't really connect to what I write and they almost seem random. |
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| RE[7]: Oh dear |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-29 19:32:30 |
| Docks there are many, shapes and sizes, but the Samsung one looks like the Apple one, not like the Acorn one. |
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| RE[8]: Oh dear |
| By Morgan on 2012-08-29 19:40:12 |
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And? How is that remotely significant? A dock is a dock is a dock, and no matter how it's dressed up, the functionality is the same. You could put an image of a cat chasing a mouse down the surface of it and it would still be a freaking dock. As others have said, the design is the same since at least the 80s; just because Apple, Sun and Samsung all put a 3D effect on it doesn't make it patentable or worth suing over. But who am I kidding, Apple will soon be suing us for humming or singing along to the songs we download from iTunes, if they can patent a way to monitor it. I'm so sick to death of that fucking company. |
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| RE[5]: Oh dear |
| By elektrik on 2012-08-29 19:43:17 |
| Don't forget the Microsoft Office 97 "Shortcut Bar" that you could add icons to... |
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| RE[9]: Oh dear |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-29 19:48:03 |
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If it doesn't matter why chose to make it look like the dock from the company people accuse you of copying? It will just add fuel to the fire. I've already spotted a number of articles on several sites noticing the resemblance. No need to get ill, Apple isn't suing Samsung over it and I don't expect they will. |
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