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Samsung withdraws 7.7in tablet from Germany
KOREAN ELECTRONICS FIRM Samsung has pulled its just launched 7.7in Galaxy Tab tablet out of the IFA trade show.
The firm removed the device from display on Friday after it was banned in Germany following pressure from Apple.
The two companies are indulging their lawyers in a patent war over the designs and shapes of their tablets and Apple seems to be winning.
Although Samsung is fighting claims of copying, Apple says that it has "slavishly" ripped off its designs. Samsung threw out an argument that in fact they had both used a design first seen in Stanley Kubrick's film production of Arthur C. Clarke's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, but this was perhaps more diverting than legally convincing.
This latest move, the banning of the new Samsung 7.7in tablet device in Germany, during a German trade show with all of the consumer electronics press in attendance, was a bit disruptive.
Samsung's decision to remove it from display, just as the idea of it being in stores was being ushered out of a courtroom, should make for a few sour faces at the company.
"The product is not on sale yet but we've decided to respect the court order," Samsung spokesman James Chung told Reuters.
The Galaxy Tab 7.7in tablet was announced at IFA along with a smaller tablet smartphone hybrid called the Galaxy Note. µ
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Apple needs to drop the bully tactics and sell the market on it's devices and software. It is clear that Apple is concerned with a viable threat to it's products yet the consumers are the ones paying the price (literally and figuratively). Competition is the driving force behind new product development and innovation. Truth is that Apple refuses to make a smaller tablet, thus how is Samsung infringing on Patents? I think it is time the consumers take a stand and file a class action lawsuit against Apple for market disruptive false Lawsuits.
in the 1998 mini-series Invasion: Earth, a British show. Not sure if that's significant, since it's only about 13 years ago.
I discovered this totally by accident, but thought I'd mention it. Also, if we really want to get into it, the usage appeared to be Google Maps-like, so the scene could apply to more than one possible tech lawsuit, lol.
"..this was perhaps more diverting than legally convincing."
Care to explain? If it was used as a movie prop then the (rather obvious) design of a tablet is prior art, it's very very simple and even understandable for journalists you would think.
But anyway, I don't get why they removed it from IFA, they should put it in a display with a sign 'competing tablet apple does not want you to have' or something similar, or maybe 'available in other countries, sucks to be you' or 'android ipad apparently...'