Whoa! I knew Apple was after Google for its Java architecture, but now the Samsung Tab for UI:
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=16416 I'll be a bit unpopular here and say, Yes, it really does look like Samsung did very little original work here .. after all they're a hardware outfit doing little more than cosmetic "branding". But it's based on Android, so shouldn't Google be the target? I suppose it is, but Samsung is getting the brunt of it all. This is going to be quite a battle .. looking at the article's image, the average consumer would have assumed it was a nice, smaller sized addition to the iDevice line. In the phone world, I know Google has a "standard UI" and that most handset manufacturers mess with it to be their own (often making a mess of things and wasting your battery for you!). It seems Android phones have not had this level of patent threat from Apple. The OS is certainly not an infringement. But I guess the UI and look-alike design is under attack. -- Owen
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