Ondrej Holzman The last year was marked by an endless battle between Apple and Samsung. The California company has accused its Asian juice company of copying its products several times. However, Samsung is obviously not too worried about it, which it proved yesterday when it presented the new Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus. Remember the four-year-old iPhone 3G? Then here you have it in Korean version...
The new smartphone from the Samsung workshop is supposed to be the successor of the previous Ace model and will reach the European, Asian, South American and African markets in the first quarter of this year. However, what interests us above all is the design of the new device. At first glance, the Galaxy Ace Plus is extremely similar to the four-year-old iPhone 3G. And we don't lose this feeling even after a second or third look.
If we compare the official images of both the devices, we can hardly tell the difference. The Korean phone can only be distinguished by a square button under the display and a different location of the camera lens.
Just to recap, the iPhone 3G hit the market in June 2008. So now, almost four years later, Samsung is coming out with an almost identical device, and why it's doing so is really a mystery. We can probably only explain it by the fact that the Koreans want to show Apple that they are not afraid of any legal battles, and that is why they continue to copy its products.
If we digress from the visual aspect, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus offers a 3,65-inch display, a 1 GHz processor, the Android 2.3 operating system, a 5 MPx camera with autofocus and LED flash, 3 GB of internal memory and a 1300 mAH battery.
I wouldn't buy a Samsung phone or tablet just on principle. It's pure raid stealing. I prefer to pay who deserves it.
I share this attitude. Ever since they started copying, the Samsung brand is an absolute zero for me and I have no plans to buy anything from them. And I don't care if it's a TV, a phone or something else. Don't buy Samsung, ever again.
Likewise, a reason not to buy an Apple. Until recently, I was considering a MacBook, but after what's going on now, Apple is a dead brand for me.
what is happening now
:-DDD you are a big joker :-))) congratulations ;-)
And what is happening with macbooks now? :)
I definitely don't think that Apple is a dead brand, but I definitely can't recommend a MacBook - if you really want to do something with it, apart from graphics, avoid it. Slowly, dearly, unasked…
I see that Mr. Roman has probably never worked on a Macbook. I have owned it for more than two years and I am more than satisfied. 1) Even after that time, many notebooks still pack a lot of power into their pockets. If I happen to need something in widli, I turn on parallels and if I want to play a pure win game I simply reboot. Show me a laptop with Windows, on which another system runs just fine (I note that you can work on it normally).
2) Expensive??? See other computers in the same class Vaio et al.
3) Out of date :-P The most absurd statement I've heard about Macbooks and you've never seen Mac OS X before in use. I have never seen better control in my life...
sorry, but for me you are a moron, because as you wrote, you rejected the product only because two companies are judging each other, which has absolutely no impact on you.
I agree
In this way, Samsung is getting closer to Chinese copycat car companies. Absolute zero.
Samsung well, what else can you expect from them...
This is very sad..:-D I don't know why they do this because
1) Can make own design (See Nexus)
2) No one can buy this...
Anyway, I hope that the GalaxyS III will not look the same as any of the previous iPhones..
Nexus was designed by Google :P
In my opinion, Apple introduced the 4S on purpose. He wanted to slow down a step and wait for the release of the Samsung SGS III phone and then introduce the 5 so that they don't have time to copy it.
nothing else can be expected from China to cheap fake products to copies of mobile phones and cars
Korea is not in China.
It doesn't feel the same to me... the iPhone is a thousand times better
I don't understand, Samsung has quality designers who can make really nice and especially original design - see. Samsung Wave 3. Despite the legal disputes, they are just degrading their products. Who will buy a copy when they can have an original like the Nokia N9 or the iPhone itself…
Well, both Wave and Bada OS are OK and Samsung shows what it can do there. It's just those crappy copiers on Android that are cut with red tape. By the way, Android is also a copier !!! http://www.iphonekafe.cz/2011/12/jak-vypadal-android-pred-iphonem-a-po-iphonu/
There were two Android prototypes at the same time, one with a keyboard and a more powerful one with touch controls. Already in 2007, they were even presented in November by Sergey Brin. And since the development of the device takes some time, we can hardly say that it was only created as a reaction to the introduction of the iPhone.
I probably have other sources, so I will complete you for completeness. Yes, we can say that Google has at least copied the look and some features of the iPhone.
In 2005, Apple launched the failed Motorola ROKR. At that time, the first prototypes of the iPhone were already being worked on for approximately two years.
And here's a quote from which it's interesting how Google came to the phone.
Google chief Eric Smith was on Apple's board of directors during the development of the iPhone and iPad, and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin took him as their mentor. You felt cheated. Android's touch interface adopted more and more of the features - multitouch, scrolling, arrangement of app icons - created by Apple.
Jobs tried to discourage Google from developing Android. In 2008, he went to Google headquarters in Palo Alto and argued with Page, Brin and the head of the Android development team, Andy Rubin. (Schmidt was on Apple's board at the time, so he barred himself from discussing the iPhone.) "I said we'd guarantee Google access to the iPhone if we had a good relationship, and we'd guarantee them an icon or two on the home page," he recalls. But he also threatened to sue Google if it continued to develop Android and use iPhone features such as multi-touch. At first, Google avoided copying certain features, but in January 2010, the HTC brand introduced an Android mobile phone that boasted multi-touch and a number of other aspects of both its own and the iPhone. And it was on this basis that Jobs declared that Google's slogan "Don't be evil" is nonsense.
Well, that quote reminds me of the book Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, but it sounded better in English.
I would be quite interested in whether these paragraphs come from Isaacson's sources or from Jobs. I never stopped being surprised - a person who used to behave completely rationally and perfectionistically started behaving absolutely insane when it came to the question of Android. I would not consider information from him to be authoritative in such a state. A similar reaction would probably be earned by anyone else who would try to enter the area that until then was dominated by Apple.
The only thing Google has ever stolen from Apple is percentages of market share.
Yes, the quote is from the Steve Jobs book.
Yes, Jobs was choleric. But I don't know how you would behave if your partner (with whom you have an agreement not to compete with each other, who has access to an as yet unannounced system and phone) gradually used your ideas and added them to his system. You have been developing, innovating, testing and funding something for several years, and then someone comes along who copies your idea and uses it for their own profit.
Yes, there were touchscreens, but they were controlled with a stylus. There were a lot of other things that were already there, but Jobs had to come along and bring all these technologies together and make them the iPhone.
Why do you think former Google CEO Eric Smith had to leave Apple's board? He had access to iPhone information and used it for Google.
And how is it possible that once friendly companies are suing each other?
If Jobs had not combined these technologies, sooner or later someone else would have done it. I do not deny that he was a genius and a man in the right place, but he was neither the first nor the last.
Eric Schmidt has resigned from his post on Apple's board of directors. Primarily because he wanted to avoid an investigation by the US Antimonopoly Office.
Lawsuits are now more or less caused by Apple. And Android device manufacturers are being challenged, not Google. So if Apple thinks Google is the culprit, why isn't it suing it directly and targeting device manufacturers? I understand his strategy, but if he really has such a compelling argument, why doesn't he launch a frontal attack?
And would these legal tussles end after the eventual destruction of Android? Maybe for time. Other platforms would appear that would begin to take away Apple's percentage of the market and everything would repeat itself.
Well I do not know. The fact is that Apple came out with the iPhone and nobody would buy it here. We didn't understand the queues they showed us on TV. After a few years, the iPhone is with us, but it is a fact and I am an avid Apple user (iPhone3,3GS,4,4S,MACBOOK,iMAC,MACPro,Apple TV) that in the last few months I am getting tired of how basically nothing works when I need it. For example, FindMyiPhone - it still worked quite well, but MyFriends - it almost always doesn't work... I won't even describe what I experienced with iP4S after the last update. When I calculate how much I put into the iP4S, I wonder why?
I no longer share your enthusiasm that Apple is the best, YES IT WAS, but the question is, WILL IT???
I also have a SAMSUNG GALAXY SII - I sell Android apps, I couldn't find a developer for APPLE, the fact is that the phone is really good.
Like every product, Apple products also have their flaws. They are made by man and he is fallible. Apple lost its head, its mind, when Jobs left involuntarily. I will have a very hard time. It's a big shame for Apple.
You're talking to me from the heart!!! I'm also tired of reading about terrible products that just work, and then staring at a non-functioning computer that has bitten again when I absolutely need to issue invoices, or to solve why I can't access documents in iCloud.
Not to mention the fact that out of 3 devices from Apple, I sent one to be replaced straight away (scratched iPad) and I will complain about the other 2 (iPhone 4 – stupid home button and MacBook Pro sleep does not work).
Steve, it just doesn't work!
Samsung did not disappoint. Everyone has to identify themselves somehow.
Samsung stinks even through the packaging, but I've had a TV from them for a few weeks and I can't praise the Samsung bug.
Are you looking for a problem where there is none? Just by the way - the devices differ in size, the transition of the bottom of the iPhone is rounded, the Galaxy Ace Plus this transition is beveled. Speaking of the back, there is basically no similarity due to the placement of the camera and speaker elements, and by the way, the iPhone had the speaker somewhere else and definitely did not have a flash in the 3G version. The two devices are therefore not interchangeable.
On the (probably adopted) graphics, you would also see the difference when viewed from the side, unfortunately the author of the graphics (it is hard to say whether on purpose) shows a different side for each device (iPhone = left side, Galaxy Ace Plus = right side). The location and color of the buttons are different. The Galaxy Ace Plus has black buttons and an opening for a strap above them, the iPhone buttons are silver. Again, zero similarity.
I don't think that Samsung's goal is to imitate the appearance of the already established 3G/3GS model, and especially for a low-end phone, which the Galaxy Ace Plus undoubtedly is.
In short, there can be no confusion, either due to the different design elements of the two devices, or the glaring differences (SAMSUNG lettering above the display on the first, silver apple on the second).
And instead of a similar article, a more useful review of some interesting application could have come out.
The android alone speaks volumes about the quality.
Why put Android 2.3 in a new phone when version 4.0 is already out?
And otherwise, yes I agree they look almost the same.
God, these words can really only be made by a swindled apple-crusher (but given the address of the website where I am, I guess there is nothing to be surprised about). It's a phone for God's sake, a big display in a slim body….how can someone patent this on design? For God's sake....it's like someone patenting a window..."in the block of flats across the street from us, they broke the windows!!!!!!" This is the same bullshit as the iPad and Galaxy tab dealing... People, go out and solve something important...for God's sake
Dear Kayo,
go outside, please calm down there and stop your hysterical babbling and screaming.
Anything can be patented, such as an engine, a production process or even a design. In particular, there are more than 200 patents for the iPhone in total, and these certainly do not only concern the design, but also the user environment, the placement of the antenna, etc.
I do not care! It looks nice! Android is cool iOS too so why not!
of course it's not a complete copy of the iphone 3g, but they look and look a lot alike, I wonder which iphone has ever looked like any other phone? samsung has excellent technology in televisions and the design of their televisions is, in my opinion, 2 years ahead, but phones and tablets are useless. I'm just stealing opinions, it's nothing original. apple is beautiful to look at, refined, unique with excellent performance. and Samsung is trying to catch up by copying the ideas of others. I don't claim that apple is perfect, but in my opinion it is the unit for the phone market
make an ad that people are idiots because something like that can't even be pulled in front of people .. and then they'll copy it :o)
sóó it's fak zeros
But they did not make fun of the Apple product, but only of those blind people waiting in line, who liked the device (Galaxy S II), but only until they found out that it was not Apple - then they quickly condemned it without trying it (which is not Apple after all can't be good) and kept waiting.
Therefore, their advertising was not targeted against an Apple product at all.
What can I say... the appearance is eye-catching and despite the strong saturation of the market, it is definitely possible to come up with something new. On the other hand, why not? The iPhone 3g(s) sold a couple of million (I have a 3gs myself) and that's certainly thanks to the design. In my opinion, interchangeability is out of place unless a person is truly illiterate. There is probably no point in speculating about the functionality of the Apple product and the rest of the world. I have been happy with Macbook and OS X for a long time. And there, or there something works and something doesn't...but at least it can be called "Operational" and "System", which I can't say with Windows, except for 98' and 2000...then it's all downhill. Microsoft still needs to be surprised, but since I work with music, I don't have high hopes for it.
I wouldn't buy a Samsung, HTC, Nokia...etc for one main reason = OPERATING SYSTEM.
And for another, I hate "mixing up" models - that's the E55, Z75, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy S..Galaxy Nexus... I don't know what else.
I prefer one thing - IPHONE
It has always been copied and will continue to be copied. It's sad, but it's done, and Samsung is a big fool if it can't incorporate some of its interesting ideas into it, so that it's not so obvious...
I'm just waiting for the Samsung logo to change to a pear :D
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Dad is going for an apple! I have everything Samsung again! Both pedal like wine, no problems with anything! The fact that someone is a monkey in something is beyond me! I don't care :-D. We all have the same shit! My life is still the same in spasms, I won't do it. At least I have something to choose from, not like the Comanches! For me, once is freedom, so let everyone do what they want!
Samsung makes a few top phones and a bunch of crap. Their "support" corresponds to this. Their marketing is quite similar to selling those disposable paper cameras. You take a picture and you have to buy a new one. You can no longer get the new movie (OS update) in the normal way.
The worst thing is that a cheaper model with them means a cheated model, with low-quality components, camera optics, little memory, etc. Then Android comes into the mix and pushes it to the market with a nice margin for the seller. A couple of sales training sessions and the new model is already being happily planned.
Hello, I have a Samsung galaxy ace and I would like to ask if anyone knows if the black glossy back cover from the samsung galaxy ace plus would fit a normal samsung galaxy ace? :) Or. where can I get the back cover from the galaxy ace plus? Thanks:)