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Apple adds Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note to amended 'Galaxy Nexus' complaint

Apple Insider : Apple on Friday filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, adding two versions each of the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note to its original claims of patent infringement against a number of Samsung smartphones and tablets. (Apple, Industry, Phones, Samsung, Web)

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thebudgetgamer  +   259d ago
People aren't gonna be happy about that.
http://cdn.chud.com/2/23/23...
Noctis Aftermath  +   259d ago
If this doesn't show how anti-competitive apple is, i dont know what does.

Galaxy s3 looks ugly due to them designing it so that it looks clearly different, but apple is basically trying to say anything that's rectangle shaped with a touchscreen = IPHONE COPY!!!!!!!

Also the note has a huge ass screen(so does S3) how the hell could anyone mix them up when you put them next to each other?

Apple have patents on the most stupid shit, now im not saying samsung and other companies do not have stupid patents, but apple is the one going overboard with patent claims trying to sue all it's major competitors to stop them competing so they can have a monopoly, fuck them.

TLDR; Apple makes good products but seems to think that because they started the smartphone revolution that they deserve a monopoly.
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fatstarr  +   259d ago
funny thing is the iphone 5 is copying the galaxy s3 -_-

i despise apple for this one, kill away your biggest threats thats how to succeeded and create a monopoly
solid warlord  +   258d ago
Well since Apple are an American company, its likely only in America that apple can only win patent. Europe, Japan an korea and rest of the world Samsung will win.
tachy0n  +   257d ago
samsung won in japan, i cant believe crapple is too much of a pu&&y to go face to face towards google. Galaxy S3 is basically the best phone you can get right now, ask anybody.

funny because like a week ago i went to the mall and the apple store was almost empty while the microsoft store was exploding with people.
hellvaguy  +   259d ago
Apple exec: Hey lets sue Samsung today. They have this regtangular piece of plastic that makes phone calls when you hit send.
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TKCMuzzer  +   259d ago
"Slide to Unlock". Is there nothing Apple aren't claiming for, I've never seen a company so scared of competition that they are trying to sue them for everything. If Apple actually invested the money and added something decent to their forthcoming devices instead of charging Premium prices for very little upgrades then maybe they would not have to worry about the competition.

"We are Apple, how dare you make a Smartphone better than ours, we have many customers willing to splash out each year for very little change, how dare you give them an alternative"

Next they will be claiming to have invented the phone.
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HD_GAMER1989  +   259d ago
have to admit that samsung galaxy s 3 looks almost identical to the iphone 3gs just slimmer and minor button details. apple is only suing them cause the plagiarism is so ridiculously obvious. i agree with points from both sides im not biased.
Noctis Aftermath  +   259d ago
So what options are their for phone makers concerning touchscreen smartphones? large touchscreen, 1-3 facebuttons, rectangle shape, preferably thin.

^^^^ please show me how to make a phone that looks nothing like an apple smartphone whilst sticking to those guidelines.

People can't seem to understand that the touchscreen replaced the number pad so there is no need for more then a couple face buttons, and the rectangle shape has been the shape of all phones for fucking decades, apple only made a few changes to the already existing design and then they come in and want to claim it for themselves.
I_AM_ CANADIAN_1989  +   258d ago
This is my mobile account but I am hd gamer and to clear things up I was just stating why apple is suing Samsung didn't say it was right. Competition is good for the consumers and if apple succeeds at destroying competition with their nazi patent infringement witch hunts were all screwed. What apple is doing is so rediculous but it could set a horrible standard in the electronic world . Pretty Soon tv companies will be suing each other for all for being square and thin And black. Not to mention tv remotes. If u want to compete apple make a reliable product that is well priced and you'll beat samsung with out being cheap sons of bitches. Apple needs to nut up or shut up and separate their products from samsung instead of wasting time trying to destroy them...0_o
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I_AM_ CANADIAN_1989  +   258d ago
Also looking closer at my friends samsung galaxy s2I think apple is full of shit and I think it bs that they only one because the case was held in the USA. If you look at the Samsung phone it's completely different doesn't even feel like an iPhone it's lighter it's wider it's made of plastic bezel it has touchscreen face buttons. The camera is in the middle of the phone the charging port is different the mic speaker is at the back of the phone the volume lock buttons are different if somebody mistakes a sammsung smart phone for any iPhone they deserve to be shot on sight. Apple is abusing the system. They should be worrying about keeping their loyal fans happy with new improved reliable and economically priced apple products, but instead their trying to destroy Samsung to hopefully pursuade the haters to buy there products. why can't cell phones be like TVs. People aren't gunna start making round shaped TVs instead of rectangle just to be different. A electronic product should be prosecuted when even just minor difference exist.
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KwietStorm  +   259d ago
Are you being sarcastic when you say the Galaxy S3 looks identical to the iPhone 3GS?
I_AM_ CANADIAN_1989  +   258d ago
would u believe me if I said yes lol haha
KingPin  +   259d ago
exactly what did apple really invent.

research shows......

siri - well thats exactly like the xiaoi bot, a 2010 chinese assistant for android.

the rounded corners with home button design - meet the samsung F700. the designer of this phone wasn't allowed testimony in the court case. seems fair right?!!

a simple icon homescreen - sony erricson M610i did. a year before the first iphone.

slide to unlock - that was officially Windows CE, 2 years before the iphone.

notification bar - well we all know thats an android feature. three years too late Apple.

talk about patenting shit that seems obvious to the rest of the world. guess if the next phone can make a call, sms, IM, use internet....apple will sue them.
KwietStorm  +   259d ago
The whole thing is disrespectful to us as consumers. Have you read about all the contradictions in the jury's "decision?"
LordMe  +   259d ago
I had not seen that... Can you find a link for me, please?
rob20090  +   258d ago
Apple didn't even invent Siri, they bought it.
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jerethdagryphon  +   259d ago
READ those patents ,

effectivly predictive text, search functions, and im not sure either right clicking for functions, or pressing a button to get a result.

those are ridiculous patents

oh there sueing them again also....
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hackersmacker  +   259d ago
.... I'm sick of people saying
"rounded rectangles and smooth edges"... That's not what won in the patent battle. The main thing was the over scroll bounce. Apple legitimately created this, and was the first to do so on a phone. @kingpin look at the announcement/release dates...

samsung f700: http://www.gsmarena.com/sam...
Apple iphone: http://www.gsmarena.com/app...

Windows CE is barely related to phones, and does not hold A slide to unlock patent that is in any way applicable to phones. Fair game. I will not defend Siri, because I hate siri. I don't know what apple was thinking with the notification bar. I honestly do not. Stupid move, apple.
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KingPin  +   259d ago
thanks for the announcement dates there pal. now then tell me why oh why did Apple not decide to put a stop to this when it could back in 2007. was their head so far up their ass that they thought samsung wouldn't be competition? now that samsung is killing them they decide to take action. a whole 5+ years later.

and i said slide to unlock was OFFICIALLY released on windows CE. doesnt mean it wasnt available on other mobile phones. My SE P910i had slide to unlock.

only a blind apple fanboy will stand behind this decision and look at it as fair.

Biased decisions, in Japan, samsung infringed no patents. In America, Apple wins the decision. Yet in europe, NEUTRAL territory, Samsung products are all good and are not infringing on any intellectual property. clearly even you can see something isn't right here.

as for the notification bar, i hope Apple gets their asses handed to them. show them what its like to nit-pick on small things.

as for features, i certainly hope developers of custom roms can sue too because a lot of custom roms look and feel way better than stock roms. im sure even google sees what they can borrow from custom roms and adds it to official roms.

no corporation is bigger than open community development.
RBdrift  +   258d ago
I think the Palo Alto Jury was horrendously biased on Samsung. I actually have some faith that the California supreme court well through out the case. Tell this day I still cant believe Samsung didn't try and get the court moved to a neutral city.
chukamachine  +   259d ago
Apple phones are overpriced for sheeple with no brains.

The same people that buy apple are the same idiots who buy xbox360's.

Android is the future. iphone needs to die.
HalfNerdHalfAmazing  +   258d ago
This the stupidest comment I ever heard you actually wanna take a cheap shot to all Xbox 360 owners why you mad cause ps3 sucks when it comes to playing online
dkgshiz  +   258d ago
How did the PS3/360 get involved in this? Oh boy
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dkgshiz  +   258d ago
They are priced identical to any new phone out there. Stop making malarkey up. I'm not a fan of Apple either but don't stoop so low that you need to make up non sense to defend your hatred. An unlocked Samsung Galaxy S3 right now is like $800. An unlocked iphone 4s is anywhere from around $600-$700.
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jukins  +   259d ago
well this is what happens when a company has hordes of cash to waste. I mean they could invest those billions into innovation but why do that when you just invest Millions into lawyers and take a chance on snuffing out the competition. I hate to say it but its time congress gets involved and does something about the patent system. Its sad when a company has a lawsuit against another company in every damn country. Only in the USA have they actually succeeded which kinda shows how messed up and abused our patent system is.
mcstorm  +   259d ago
Im getting really sick of this apple thing. There were picking on HTC a few years ago because they were the next biggest to Apple and now that Samsung are top of the tree they are going after the.

The iphone looks like other phones that have been out. Take alook at this old windows mobile for the early 00s and tell me the iphone shape looks alot different to this one. http://pockethacks.com/wp-c...

Im mot saying is a exact copy but you get my point.

Apple are starting to become the new Microsoft where they think they can stop peoplle from gaining market share by taking them to court to try and stop there devices ect.

The iphone when it came out blue everyone out the water in terms of ease of use and lack of issues but since then not much has changed and both Google and Microsoft have given us new mobile os's that are just as easy to use but also offer better service than the iphone and because of this apple will start to lose there market share over the next few years and unless they change the look of the iphone in that time they will start to slip away like blackberry have started too.
KMCROC54  +   257d ago
Just wish it would happen faster.
Kos-Mos  +   259d ago
Welcome to STUPID usa!
KingPin  +   258d ago
so true.

gay marriages is legal in 6 states.

having sex with a horse is legal in 23 states.

welcome to the home of Apple.
Kos-Mos  +   258d ago
I don`t mind gays marrying, I don`t mind people fucking horses as long as they don`t bother their neighbors. And if people are offended they can fuck themselves. Let people have their freedom, but that apparently that don`t apply in the biggest country in the world.

Ps: There are man good things in Usa as well. But something needs to be done about their laws which prevents freedom.
HalfNerdHalfAmazing  +   258d ago
apple is suing Samsung & HTC simply because android is taking over if android wasn't sellling so many phones apple wouldn't been bitching about how similar they phones look
Somebody  +   258d ago
So Microsoft was punished for trying to monopolize its market but Apple is given a free rein to do whatever it pleases?

I remember during the MS Anti-Trust hunt days every news media painted MS as the evil guy that stifle innovation by being anti-competitive (buying up companies, patent buying). With Apple today those same news media are doing everything NOT say a bad thing about Apple's patent flaunting. What happened?
HD_GAMER1989  +   258d ago
Its because apple is against an Asian company and Americans nowadays are too stupid and proud to not be biased little bitches. dont consumers realize apple winning this lawsuit does not and will not benefit you in any way even if your an apple fan. competition is what drives innovation and cheaper more affordable products. If you like apple then buy apple if you like samsung buy samsung. Companies need to let their products earn them respect not there lawyers. Apple`s IOS is falling behind android ios 5 pretty much copied bbm and android. IMO iphones build quality is top notch though. I have an iphone and ill admit its a solid phone made of solid material metal and tempered glass whereas samsungs are all plastic you can hear them creak when you hold the phone to tight, but this is my opinion. everyone deserves an opinion and I hope apple doesnt take that away. Apple fan boys need to realize the only real way to win a electronics war is on the assembly line and price tag not in the court room. unless your a greedy bastard and owns stocks in apple just sit on the sidelines because youll regret what you say when you realize the moment apple won 1 billion dollars from samsung was the moment they began to coast and price fix their products. A sucker is born every day.

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