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Originally Posted by rhari79
Is this really the only reason for all this ruckus?
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No, it isn't. A lot of commenters have neither read Apple's complaint nor the judge's rulings, and simply assert that the Tab was banned because it had a rectangular design.
This is not the case; the Tab was banned because it incorporated *numerous* protected design elements at the same time, including edge-to-edge glass, a rectangular design with rounded corners, a centered display surrounded by an evenly spaced bevel, a metal rim, the use of square icons on a grid in the display...and several other elements.
The problem, again, isn't that the Tab used a couple of these elements; the problem is that Samsung used *all* of them...and that the use of all of these elements was not required to make a tablet. The Nook Color, for example, manages to be a perfectly functional tablet without using edge-to-edge glass, a metal rim, or the use of iPad-type icons...and the little cut out in the lower left of the NC also distinguishes it from the iPad.