Apple vs. Samsung Comm352

The fiasco between Apple and Samsung is absolutely ridiculous. The fact that Apple won the lawsuit was completely due to the fact that the jury was filled laymen and not with electronic and business professionals. If this were to be a fair trial the jury would have to be made up of application developers, business men, and copyright experts. I completely agree with the statement made by Darren Murph from Engadget when he said "Looking at the closing arguments alone, it was plainly obvious that showing a jury full of laypeople Product A vs. Product B and asking them -- in a roundabout way -- if they looked alike would lead to an Apple victory." This is a perfect example of how the lawyers took advantage of the ignorance of the jury in order to get a sketchy victory over Samsung.

Apple is being completely hypocritical with this lawsuit. If they wanted to be completely fair then they should also be paying fines to Android and Windows7 OS for the aspects they have incorporated from them. I personally have an android phone and have enjoyed the awesome convenience of Google Talk for several years. Apple now has the exact same feature that does everything that Google Talk does only they have added a voice that talks back to you and are calling it Siri.

The fact is that now that Apple has won this lawsuit, the friendly sharing of ideas between innovators has ended. Now everyone will be defensive about their ideas and there will be countless lawsuits over everything. The market will get ridiculous and cell phone sales will fall. I will personally never purchase an iphone as android has been ahead of them in every aspect from the beginning. Unfortunately, I think that android phone sales will fall because now there will be so many restrictions on cell phone development. 

In conclusion we will basically have to get used to a very bland and straight cut OS if we are not apple customers. We will have to deal with less choice and more round about ways to do what we used to be to do with the touch of a button, or the pinching of our fingers. Android will have to be careful though, if they get too bland and straight cut, they might be getting a lawsuit from Blackberry.

This video shows yet another innovation that Samsung has created. I have researched and tried to find a video for the iphone but every video is either a concept video or a parody. Apparently they are so paranoid that someone will steal their ideas that they won't even advertise them.