Apple-Samsung Design Copying

This cluster focuses on debates about Samsung copying Apple's smartphone designs, UI elements, and features, with counterarguments claiming Apple copies Samsung, including references to lawsuits, patents, and visual comparisons.

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bluedanieru Sep 13, 2011 View on HN

What innovation of Apple's has Samsung copied here?

rmoriz Jul 19, 2011 View on HN

Except when Samsung copies Apple Design

traveler01 Sep 29, 2023 View on HN

Damn even in that Apple is copying Samsung...

Hari_Seldon Mar 1, 2013 View on HN

Samsung copying Apple is not bullshit, it was very overt and obvious to anyone paying attention. it was also proved in court.

zeraphy Jul 2, 2024 View on HN

Taking shot at Samsung as if Apple is 100% original in their designs Dude is a certified Apple sheep

briandear Jul 14, 2012 View on HN

Samsung DID straight up copy Apple. Apple isn't going after other manufacturers, just this specific one for these specific devices. Here's a little side-by-side comparison of what Samsung did: http://atomicsupersky.com/post/26275796849/on-the-samsung-ga...This all could have been avoided if Samsung didn't blatantly copy Apple. I mean, they even copied the same color for the phone icon. If

bpatrianakos Aug 4, 2012 View on HN

Probably because it's hard to prove, it can become a big and arguably irrelevant distraction, and it opens up the possibility for an endless line of "this was inspired by that" from both sides. It's not too difficult to argue that everything was inspired by everything else all the way back to the stone age. The crux of this case is the question of whether Samsung has been copying Apple. Whether Apple copied someone else is arguably irrelevant. Sony can sue Apple themselves if they really think t

guelo Jan 31, 2013 View on HN

Samsung innovates and Apple copies, once again.

endemic Aug 8, 2012 View on HN

It's not necessarily about how the software works, but how it looks. Apple's UI design is very appealing, so to appropriate that in order to sell a different product is wrong. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say Apple was "ripped off," but Samsung definitely looked a bit too hard at Apple for inspiration for some of their products.Looking at the side by side comparisons of product packaging, power adapters, cables, etc. doesn't give me much sympathy for Samsung at this point.

Tiktaalik Apr 5, 2021 View on HN

It's not that Samsung n' co is copying Apple, it's that Apple is making the right design and tech choices for the right reasons and Samsung is figuring this out too and making the same choices.