Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jan 2012 18:28 UTC
Hold on to your panties, because this should come as a surprise: I'm actually agreeing that Samsung is copying Apple. The Korean company just released a new entry-level Android smartphone, and it's called the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus. While Apple's previous complaints regarding Samsung's supposed copying were obviously nonsense, this Galaxy Ace Plus, on the other hand... It's almost as if Samsung is giving Apple the finger by copying the iPhone 3G(S) almost verbatim.
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They could have easily picked another girl, even a girl that looks like the Apple one, but why pick the same one?
Perhaps to drive home a point. They're both selling tablet shaped Turing machines with touch screens, cameras, wifi, etc. Anything you can do with one you can do with another.
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She shouldn't be banned of course, but what are the odds of her appearing in the Samsung commercial? It seems she was picked because she was in the Apple ad.
They could have picked any other girl, I'm sure there are a lot more out there.
If Samsung is accused of copying Apple they shouldn't have casted this girl, because she hasn't got anything to do with their or Apple's products design and technical wise, but she did appear in an Apple commercial.
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In the case of Samsung - when you abandon your customers as with the case of refusing to provide a ICS update for Galaxy S owners then what is left to restore your name other than to copy your closest competitor that has a high retention and repeat purchase rate. Around 1-2 years ago I was pretty neutral on Samsung to the point of indifference but the decisions they've made over the last several years has pretty much convinced me to avoid their company like the plague - they've well and truly shown that their douchbag ways that beat the douchbaggy of Apple, Microsoft and Oracle combined in some cases, especially when it comes to backing their own products for the long term via software and firmware updates/upgrades.
Edited 2012-01-05 02:00 UTC
RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510
by Laurence on Thu 5th Jan 2012 08:26
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In the case of Samsung - when you abandon your customers as with the case of refusing to provide a ICS update for Galaxy S owners
Except they might be now because of the backlash when the original story broke.
then what is left to restore your name other than to copy your closest competitor that has a high retention and repeat purchase rate.
What you've done is raise two completely unrelated point and try to correlate them.
Samsung won't have done this because of any lost reputation due to the GalaxyS-gate of 2011. More likely they've done this because Apple have been behaving like school bullies trying to pinch lunch money. However I still think this is a stupid move by Samsung - whatever their motives - as it totally undermines their arguments that they're not out to copy Apple but in fact their products are a natural design.
Around 1-2 years ago I was pretty neutral on Samsung to the point of indifference but the decisions they've made over the last several years has pretty much convinced me to avoid their company like the plague - they've well and truly shown that their douchbag ways that beat the douchbaggy of Apple, Microsoft and Oracle combined in some cases, especially when it comes to backing their own products for the long term via software and firmware updates/upgrades.
I think you're being a bit melodramatic there. Samsung are no worse than most handset manufacturers for post sale support. While I'm not saying that's "right", it's certainly a bit righteous to single them out specifically.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
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"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
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Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
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The most remarkable thing, for me, is the girl in their Apple-eqsue commercial. It seems like they deliberately not only copy Apple, but also want it to be known to the world. They could have easily picked another girl, even a girl that looks like the Apple one, but why pick the same one?
When they are under legal fire by Apple you should think they don't want to give Apple's lawyers any extra arguments/prove that they are copying Apple stuff.