Apple Claims Samsung Copied iOS Icons, Shows Strong Evidence To Back It Up [IMAGES]

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While from the outset, it does appear that Apple and Samsung are fighting over the design of “black rectangles”, newly released evidence from the courts shows just how blatantly Samsung copied Apple’s design ideas*. Check it all out after the jump.

Six pieces of evidence were presented by the Apple legal team in court yesterday. These pieces are actually images of icons used by Apple in stock iOS apps – Phone, iTunes, Contacts, Photos, Notes, and Settings – compared with their equivalents in different Samsung smartphones that use the custom TouchWiz user-experience which runs on top of Android.



As you can see in the images embedded below, the extent to which Samsung has copied the icon design is embarrassingly shameful. Using a traditional image of older, landline phones is fine, but Samsung doesn’t stop there. Their icons have the almost the exact same green color and pattern. This is repeated in the TouchWiz music app icon which has a CD behind a music note that looks exactly like the iTunes icon from a year ago. The same goes for their photo gallery app which uses – of all the flowers in the world – a similarly yellow sunflower that Apple uses for its Photos app. Settings too uses a mechanical gear.

Many will argue that the symbols[..]ociated with these apps – traditional phone, CD with music note, mechanical gears – are generic, and that is true. But Samsung could’ve made more effort to differentiate their icon designs. They could’ve used a different color and orientation for the Phone icon, a different music note for the Music icon and a wrench / screwdriver for their Settings app icon, but they did none of that.

We’ve only posted three of the six evidence documents here. You can check out the rest over at CNET.

*You may have heard me saying on these pages how Apple is wrong with being so aggressive with Samsung. Well, I still believe that Samsung’s latest products – the Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab series of Android tablets – look significantly different than any product Apple has ever released; it’s just that their older designs like the Galaxy S and the TouchWiz icons shown in these articles look a lot like Apple’s iPhone 3GS and icons on iOS.

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damn, this !! getting serious. lol

!! touchwiz, everybody knows it bit apples style cosmetically, but the whole iOS vs android shyt is wack...

judge should just tell these 2 to shut up and who ever wants to take control of the phone market make the BEST phone and the people will fallow

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!! apple greedy[..] !!s, howbmany icon options are there !!?

so apple invented telephones now [pic] !! dem niccas.. and !! iPhone users 2 nicca..

lots [pic]

So its come to this... Icons... [pic]

I won't front on this, I always thought Touchwiz was counter productive as a mutha!!a - spending money on some Apple clone software styling that just wastes space with those ugly[..] iOS look alike icons & if I was to ever cop a Galaxy S3 or Note I'd replace it with CM10 with the QUICKNESS. This is on Samsung wanting to copy that. Even with THIS, all Samsung have to do is just change the jpg or png images in photoshop that make up the icons with a quick firmware update and no more court case [pic]

Now Apple's beef with Samsung's Nexus on the other hand... that's something entirely different where the court actually entertains Apple's bullsh!t a'lil too much [pic] [pic]

!!ING ICONS IS THIS !! REAL?

LIKE DEAD[..] IS THIS !! REAL? DOES THIS !! EXIST RITE NOW? LIKE DEAD[..] IS THIS DEAD[..] IN COURT?

IS THIS STEVE JOBS PLAN? OR ITS THESE NEW CATS?

the music icon dont look the same at all.

samsung copied them, everyone knows this

right because using the note and a circle are the only ways to make a "music" icon. Specifically, THAT NOTE. Samsung has done a nice job of building and getting to where they're at, but their foundation is based purely on ripping apple hard. These asian !!s can't do it any other way. [pic]

The judge should tell apple u yust got samsung lol

Apple got a point here [pic]

So this is where we are suppose to pretend that there were no icons that looked like this before Apple 'created' them?...

basically

none of them even look the same

That hate is strong in here lol nicca as soon as apple dropped the iPhone, EVERY phone maker was copying their style. There wasn't one phone out that resembled the iPhone. Apple set the standard for smartphones. Stop acting like they didn't. There are countless icons and designs other phone makers could have made buuuuuuuuuuut they didn't so...[pic]