I suppose it was only a matter of time before this sort of thing happened – Apple Inc has officially sued Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. saying that their Android line of products too closely resemble Apple’s own iPhone and iPad lines. In particular, they’ve said that the Korean-based electronics group copied the look and feel of it’s iProducts to create the “Galaxy S 4G,” “Epic 4G,” “Nexus S” and the “Galaxy Tab” touchscreen tablet.

The lawsuit stated the following inside what’s more than likely about a billion pages of harsh words and name-calling: “Rather than innovate and develop its own technology and a unique Samsung style for its smart phone products and computer tablets, Samsung chose to copy Apple’s technology, user interface and innovative style in these infringing products,” the lawsuit said, continuing on to call Samsung a big bunch of copycats and that the teacher really ought to make them go to a time out.

Samsung and Apple have declined to comment thus far, also apparently not accepting calls from their own mothers, who are also reportedly mad at them for different reasons. Also meanwhile, Samsung is more than likely thinking about those chips they’ve made for Apple products, thinking about taking their basketball and going home.

That said, this could be a very, very big deal and smash the crap out of the industry if anything sticks.

[via Wall Street Journal]

28 COMMENTS

    • They would be investigated by the DoJ and international bodies if they decided to cut off shipments with chips or anything of the sort. Yes Apple could move to another manufacturer when the agreement is up but that won’t happen overnight.

    • They would be investigated by the DoJ and international bodies if they decided to cut off shipments with chips or anything of the sort. Yes Apple could move to another manufacturer when the agreement is up but that won’t happen overnight.

    • It won’t be easy to look for another chip manufacturer. They tried to do that before with TSMC but they weren’t able to meet Apple’s requirements. Samsung has the most advanced microprocessor facility in the world (aside from Intel, but they only make x86 processors) so I guess Apple is stuck with Samsung

  4. Apple needs to grow up and get over themselves. They have lost the mobile market. Everything they make looks the same. Their OS is boring and old.

  5. Rather than innovate, Apple would rather spend its time suing a competitor’s product. Sounds like Apple is hearing footsteps… Companies tend to sue on infringement when they feel they are loosing the battle on innovation… just my two cents.

    • Their original “innovation” of the iPhone was to basically copy several other ideas and merge them into a device, thus we haven’t seen any further “innovation” because Apple can’t innovate. The Mac OS came from Xerox pretty much and have they innovated there? Nope! Just took BSD and threw some Macish eye-candy on top of it.

      People need to realize Apple doesn’t innovate. They develop interesting products based on other ideas that they copy and are great at marketing them.

  6. Rather than innovate, Apple would rather spend its time suing a competitor’s product. Sounds like Apple is hearing footsteps… Companies tend to sue on infringement when they feel they are loosing the battle on innovation… just my two cents.

  7. OMG, What if one car looked like another, or a house, or a spoon …whatever apple….your being a little insecure. Make a great product and make Itunes more friendly and you would not have to fear Android so much.

  9. Oh yeah cause a black square is so innovative! I’m sure Samsung has plenty of patents to counter suit, I’m sure they will settle and nothing will change. Apple needs to stop being such block heads. If their closed system is not working, has never worked, and will never work then maybe they need to make some changes.

  10. Oh yeah cause a black square is so innovative! I’m sure Samsung has plenty of patents to counter suit, I’m sure they will settle and nothing will change. Apple needs to stop being such block heads. If their closed system is not working, has never worked, and will never work then maybe they need to make some changes.

  13. “This is the year of the copycats, they cannot compete with us in performance, price or form factor….and if they can….WE WILL SUE THEM!!!…”

    • lol

      maybe Samsung or Google should sue Apple for having folders and “multitasking” on the iphone since Android was there first.

    • lol

      maybe Samsung or Google should sue Apple for having folders and “multitasking” on the iphone since Android was there first.

  14. “This is the year of the copycats, they cannot compete with us in performance, price or form factor….and if they can….WE WILL SUE THEM!!!…”

  15. Look and feel lawsuits are so 1980s. Thrown out in the famous Visicalc vs Lotus 123 case years ago. Surrey Apple, time to think different.

  17. I wouldn’t have cared about this if they didn’t mention the Galaxy Tab! This is grade A retarded (A for Apple), I mean Steve Jobs went out of his way to say 7″ tablet form factor wouldn’t work, and Apple doesn’t make anything with a 7″ display and probably never will, no one has ever mistaken my Galaxy Tab for any Apple product.

    Apple is a dirty company, run by dirty people.

  20. Oh man, you mean I can sue someone if his girlfriend looks hotter then mine? Damn, whats the next frivelous crap they keep coming up with?

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