"Windows 8 changes a lot of things about how the operating system works, but one of the features Windows traditionalists will find jarring is the lack of a Start button. Although the button's functions are still present in various places, users may miss its easy click-and-start-typing familiarity. Well, Samsung's bringing it back. The all-in-one PCs Samsung unveiled this morning are the first Windows machines to sport the S Launcher, a simple widget that acts just like the old start button." This is not from The Onion. I repeat, this is not from The Onion.
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Member since:2011-05-12
Anyone can use it as far as I am concerned. It may not be very original, but people are used to it.
But if you are called Samsung it may be wiser to be a little more creative or base the look on another dock/launcher and not the OS X one.
People with half a brain cell will start making links with Apple product even when there are no (intentional) ones and Samsung's brand name will start to feel like a cheap Asian copy of premium western products.
Member since:2012-08-26
That is ludicrous. You do realize that Samsung had this in development prior to the verdict? Why would they not continue through on that development choice? Apple did not create the 'dock'.
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2005-07-06
so it's the apple have used it now no one else can use it!
Edited 2012-08-29 08:40 UTC