"Annoying" Samsung copied iPhone - Apple exec

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Apple exec says "annoying" Samsung copied iPhone design

Samsung "ripped off" Apple's technology and used it to create a "poor" copy of the iPhone.

That is according to comments from Apple senior vice president for worldwide marketing, Greg Joswiak, in a newly-released Wall Street Journal documentary on the evolution of the iPhone over the past 15 years.
 
Xerox Parc want a word with Greg Joswiak...
LG Prada phone also want a word.

EDIT: For those that don't know:
Apple copied/stole GUI concept from Xerox
LG Prada preceded iPhone and had most of the design features - rectangular device, with touch screen.
 
Yeah no this guy is wrong. Google had two prototypes. One was a blackberry clone and one was a full touchscreen phone. https://www.osnews.com/story/25916/...rototype-killed-by-the-iphone/#comment-517243
Even if there was no iPhone, there is a good chance that Sooner would have been dropped, since while it was a good idea to get Android out quickly from a hardware perspective, the software schedule was much longer. I don’t recall the exact dates, but I believe the decision to drop Sooner was well before the iPhone announcement
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backstreetboy said:
Yeah no this guy is wrong. Google had two prototypes. One was a blackberry clone and one was a full touchscreen phone. https://www.osnews.com/story/25916/...rototype-killed-by-the-iphone/#comment-517243
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That is true, but iPhone lit a fire under Google. And Samsung may not be where they are now if it wasn't for iPhone. We could still be sporting bigger and bigger Nokias. iPhone may be a remix of old dead ideas, successful remix at that, but the device redefined mobile phones and Samsung sure are copying them. At one point they even started releasing their accessories white like Apple. They seem to have stopped that with the last or so generation of phones.
 
I will always support that Apple makes some great kit.
BUT, Apple loves to forget that a fair chunk of what they have built was predated by other products/brands/companies.
 
backstreetboy said:
Not really. They worked on the software in 2005 before the iPhone was launched. Then they had to wait on the HW to catch up as well. The iPhone didn't change anything.
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No.
It's well known that Google's original plan for Android shifted gears dramatically once Apple unveiled its own iPhone in early 2007. However, the documents exposed in court show how great that shift was and how little Google originally planned to disrupt the status quo in mobile phones.
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Oh my glob are they still jarping on about that even though Apple have been shameless about ripping off and "borrowing" designs and technology. Hypocrites
 
system32 said:
Xerox Parc want a word with Greg Joswiak...
LG Prada phone also want a word.

EDIT: For those that don't know:
Apple copied/stole GUI concept from Xerox
LG Prada preceded iPhone and had most of the design features - rectangular device, with touch screen.
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So that means, Samsung and Google stole their original designs from Xerox, LG and Apple.
Android was released a year and 3 months after the first iPhone
 
ConfusedR said:
So that means, Samsung and Google stole their original designs from Xerox, LG and Apple.
Android was released a year and 3 months after the first iPhone
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Correct.
Everyone gets ideas from everyone - Apple included.

I'm not happy with Apple claiming they are the inventors / innovators and that other stole their stuff when they do exactly the same and in this case they were not even the first.
Apple [Greg Joswiak] trying to rewrite history.
 
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system32 said:
Correct.
Everyone gets ideas from everyone - Apple included.

I'm not happy with Apple claiming they are the inventors / innovators and that other stole their stuff when they do exactly the same and in this case they were not even the first.
Apple [Greg Joswiak] trying to rewrite history.
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Curious to know - What would you say was an example of a precursor to the iPod, iPhone and the iPad that you'd cite as examples?
 
quovadis said:
Curious to know - What would you say was an example of a precursor to the iPod, iPhone and the iPad that you'd cite as examples?
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MPMan F10, IBM Simon and Windows CE devices from the late 90's
 
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