Mossberg reviews Samsung Instinct, accidentally previews iPhone 3G

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kookoobirdz @ Jun 12th 2008 8:49AM

What I want to know is why patents don't protect the iPhone look/function more, or any other device for that matter. That Samsung couldn't look much more like an iPhone, same as several other phones coming out. Seems like people only get busted when they deliberately try to fool people that their product is somebody else's. But why should people be able to make something so similar and benefit from the originator's work?

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Omagus @ Jun 12th 2008 12:29PM

If this were the case, no one other than Motorola would even be allowed to make cell phones period.

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Duscrom @ Jun 12th 2008 10:25PM

Yeah, people only care when it's the iPhone, which itself is a rip-off of the Prada.

If they could patent a look, we'd have no cellphone industry. There would be One flip phone, One Slider, one candybar, one touch screen phone. And they'd all cost $2000

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vanboy @ Jun 13th 2008 3:42AM

All I can say is you have no clue about the history of phone design to come out with stupid comment like that. iPhone's design is old. Many others have had similar designs WAY before Apple.

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kookoobirdz @ Jun 19th 2008 3:16PM

Thanks vanboy. That's helpful. The question, as you might have read, was about Apple or ANY OTHER DEVICE. It was a question about patents, using Apple as the example. It's great that you could chime in just to be ugly though. kthx

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