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Is Samsung's Galaxy tablet computer 'not cool'?
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Enlarge textThe age old question of Apple versus Samsung stepped up a notch overnight, with a British judge calling Samsung’s Galaxy tablet computer, “not cool.”
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It comes as Samsung won a patent battle against Apple.
The iPad maker is trying to stop its South Korean rival from selling the Galaxy, claiming the product infringes its registered design.
In other words, it is saying Samsung copied it.
But in his ruling, Judge Colin Birss said of Samsung’s Galaxy, "They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design," adding, "They are not as cool."
He also said the Galaxy is much thinner with unusual details on the back.
Apple is trying to protect the very market it created by launching the iPad years ago. It now owns 65 per cent of the tablet computer market.
Do you think the Samsung Galaxy is ‘not cool’?
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The Tablet was designed many years before the Ipad
This whole argument is just Greed on Apples part and you can't blame them. However the Tablet has been a design from about 200 years ago, yes the story of Moses had Tablets of stones for communication. These new versions have Circuitry and processors and digital media. By the way the I-Pad would not be as it is today if it weren't for the likes of Samsung and other component manufacturers anyway. So time to get on with being in a competitive World APPLE!
18 Jul 2012 17:29 AEST
From: South Perth
Tres not cool
Show me a person using a tablet computer on the bus or in a cafe and I'll show you a dork. That goes for you too iPad owners.
13 Jul 2012 14:01 AEST
From: Turner
What is so cool about it?
I have a Samsung tablet and don't think it is a cool thing. But at the same time, I can't see the fuss of having an Ipad is a cool thing either. So the argument is irrelevant!
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