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Originally Posted by jjallenupthehill
No it's not. Why that size icon, why that spacing? Why the dock? Why the rounded corners? Why the tile format? While the screen dots? Why the faux iTunes icon? I also had Palm devices (and Handspring and Clie) and virtually all of the icon themes were pictures not tiles.
The point is that there are so many copied items, that it goes beyond mere influence. Just look at the evidence there with the charger, icons, interface, external design. How coincidental that there is simply a case of 'influence' there? I go back to the point I made earlier. The Samsung Galaxy model has so much more in common with the iPhone than it did with its original F700! If it started from the same place with the same design and developed it in isolation, the issue would never have arisen. We might, just might have had a design that was superior to the iPhone.
I would argue that's a different issue. That's endemic across the whole technology industry. It seems that almost everyone is suing everyone for technology infringements of one kind or another. There has never been as large a case of blatant copying.
No, if you re-read what I wrote, I have accepted that Apple took inspiration from other products. That is natural and acceptable. But when you have 2 products where the similarities are so much more evident than the differences, and across every aspect of the product, that goes beyond 'inspiration'.
I know how inspiration works, but you never, ever take something and copy it so that it looks almost exactly the same. If I did that with a building, I would be sued - no question.
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A company is suing to get Apple to remove all apps that have the word "memory" in their title. It holds same trademark for this word in many countries though not US. (It is for a board game.)
Usually common things like geometric shapes, plants, animals, colors, words, can't be patented or copyrighted or trademarked unless there is some unique characteristic. ie a 3 eyed bowlegged green cow for example.
Using pictures for words or meanings goes back to cave writing, to languages all over history.
The laws need to be changed or the people making the decisions on these things need to be corrected. Common sense needs to be applied.