Originally Posted by
ScottC
Yeah, Samsung can't innovate.
Which is why Apple has historically always turned to Samsung for their displays, processor technology and DRAM inventions.
Apple may have cornered the market on rectangles and bouncy icons, but REAL innovation all came from others. Apple products rely heavily on the innovation of others - like Nokia, Motorola and Samsung. Your new LTE in the iPHone? The result of a decade of research from almost every telecom company in the world - all except Apple:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_timeline
There is no denying that Apple has done something amazing with the iPhone, but don't let the flossy exterior trick you into thinking they invented everything inside that phone.
They never claimed telecom tech was part of their core competency (though they've bought up a sizable number of patents which make up the LTE patent pool).
Obviously software, services and UX are not part of Samsung's core competency, which is why they copied Apple, producing 150-page document comparing Apple and their implementation of the UI and UX.
So that's why the Galaxy S3 touts S-Cloud, S-Voice, etc. Blatant copies of iOS features.
Samsung has been producing phones for longer so of course they've produced patents for 3G and now 4G (though LG has double the number of LTE patents apparently).
But for incorporating those patents into the ITU standard, they promised to accept FRAND terms. Now they're suing Apple with those, because they have nothing in the way of UI and UX patents, which are the secret sauce that makes smart phones sell.
Remember the Samsung Blackjack? That's from when they were copying Blackberry just before the iPhone came out. Hey if Samsung used all their LTE patents to make a LTE version of the Blackjack, would they sell a lot of those?
It's a good thing for them Google came along and decided to copy Apple. The original Android plans were also focused around making Blackberry clones.