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I couldn't really digest that full article, so from what I scanned through it, confusedly, I came out with this line of most notice (and I mostly agree with what you yourself said at the top, btw).
"This iPhone prototype looks like the first iPhone that was released by the company but has square corners.
Another from 2011 shows Samsung's Product Design Group noted it was "regrettable" that the Galaxy S "looks similar" to older iPhone models.
Furthermore, third-party designers warned Samsung that the Galaxy S "looked like it copied the iPhone too much". They warned that "all you have to do is cover up the Samsung logo and it's difficult to find anything different from the iPhone".
Samsung hit back with its own court filing, seen by Fairfax Media, claiming that Apple's iPhone wasn't its own invention but in fact based on Sony products."
Oddly enough, in Samsung's quest to do whatever they can to go around the obvious, being that Apple's success in the Smartphone business is why they changed the way their products looked.... they're essentially now saying that they copied Sony, then?
What I don't understand about this very odd Sony presence now, is that Sony never released anything resembling an iPhone to the markets, correct? Are they accusing Apple of being inspired by Sony design, which is vastly different from Samsung literally copying the first iPhone due to its success, or are they accusing Apple of actually copying a *Sony product*? Because I never heard of any Sony before the iPhone that literally and actually looked like the iPhone, inside and out.
"This iPhone prototype looks like the first iPhone that was released by the company but has square corners.
Another from 2011 shows Samsung's Product Design Group noted it was "regrettable" that the Galaxy S "looks similar" to older iPhone models.
Furthermore, third-party designers warned Samsung that the Galaxy S "looked like it copied the iPhone too much". They warned that "all you have to do is cover up the Samsung logo and it's difficult to find anything different from the iPhone".
Samsung hit back with its own court filing, seen by Fairfax Media, claiming that Apple's iPhone wasn't its own invention but in fact based on Sony products."
Oddly enough, in Samsung's quest to do whatever they can to go around the obvious, being that Apple's success in the Smartphone business is why they changed the way their products looked.... they're essentially now saying that they copied Sony, then?
What I don't understand about this very odd Sony presence now, is that Sony never released anything resembling an iPhone to the markets, correct? Are they accusing Apple of being inspired by Sony design, which is vastly different from Samsung literally copying the first iPhone due to its success, or are they accusing Apple of actually copying a *Sony product*? Because I never heard of any Sony before the iPhone that literally and actually looked like the iPhone, inside and out.
