Comments on: Apple, Samsung Dispute Likely To Turn On 1994 Knight-Ridder Tablet

By: MarkS2002

MarkS2002 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:30:34 +0000

It doesn’t take much of a memory to recall Samsung’s reaction, after iPad2 was introduced, that they would have to redesign their Galaxy to compete (match?) the Apple product. I suppose this is the problem with every leader, that the pack of “Me, toos” are always snapping at their heels. Hey, Samsung, show us something amazing. Not just a bigger screen; how about a big idea?

By: jaemurl

jaemurl — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:50:01 +0000

Troll, look at Asus transformer prime and tell me that doesn’t look like an ipad.
You think you can design a 10″ tablet without it looking like rectangular screen?

By: RadioFreeOmaha

RadioFreeOmaha — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:48:31 +0000

We do know this much: Samsung did “slavishly copy” the look of the iPad. Want to own a slavish copy? You the slavish type? And how embarrassing is it for Samsung and its executives to be outed as nothing but slavish copiers? It’s always the corporate PC types that don’t have a clue.

By: not an apple fanbot

not an apple fanbot — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:25:03 +0000

Except that the patent is not for a manufacturing process but is effectively for the design therefore it (1) it shouldn’t have been granted because one shouldn’t get patents for aesthetic designs or (2) the Knight Ridder mockup is prior art. Either way there is no valid patent.

By: not an Aplle fanbot

not an Aplle fanbot — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:23:02 +0000

If that is true then the Apple Knowledge Navigator video is prior art and Apple didn’t disclose it during its patent application and therefore the patent is invalid.

By: I

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:06:27 +0000

It’s not about invention, it’s about invalidating a form factor patent that was given illegally because the idea was stolen.

By: Counsel Dew

Counsel Dew — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:35:50 +0000

actual working tablet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenPoint_OS

there were others before even Go bought penpoint…

By: AppleFUD

AppleFUD — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:48:00 +0000

amen!

people often forget that many tech gadgets start out as sifi ideas. . . then someone thinks, I wonder if we can actually make that. then they set out to do so–they may invent many things along the way to make it a working device but that doesn’t give them the right to claim the design someone else came up with, even if it was for a demo, movie, etc. . .

By: AppleFUD

AppleFUD — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:42:46 +0000

You do realize that tablets were made long before the ipad? And mobile hardware wasn’t able to do what a tablet like the ipad needed in order to be produced, right?

sometimes the idea & design come before the technology is available to implement it, thus it’s only a matter of time = obvious–you know, like the digital music player (ipod) that was designed/invented by a UK guy that apple blatantly copied.

By: AppleFUD

AppleFUD — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:39:24 +0000

Doesn’t matter–it’s the idea that counts. Besides, we should remember that Steve went to design a tablet based on what an MS employee said MS was doing with a tablet (most likely the courier) during dinner with Bill Gates. . . . yeah, it was all Steve’s idea ;) ;)

The prior art existed and not only in the Knight-Rider tablet. One only has to look at PC tablets and see that over time as mobile hardware increased in power and allowed for slimmer form factors that the keyboard & hard drive would be lost to leave only the screen–after all most PC tablets are designed so the screen folds over the keyboard to look exactly like an ipad, 4×3 ratio and all.

The fact that so many blogs went off on the which is the ipad questions proves how many blogs are backed by apple and/or apple fans spreading misinformation/pro-apple info.