Apple's lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, alleges that Samsung copied the look, product design, packaging and user interface of its products, violating its patents and trademarks.
"Rather than innovate and develop its own technology and a unique Samsung style for its smart phone products and computer tablets, Samsung chose to copy Apple's technology, user interface and innovative style in these infringing products, " Apple said in its 38-page suit.
Really, all of our new products originate from interface with our customers.
Apple's big advantage is controlling all parts of its products, from the user interface to the processor.
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"They only have to provide technical interface information to competitors to allow them to make products that are interoperable with Microsoft Windows, " said Jonathan Todd, the EC's antitrust spokesman.
The modern UI of large typefacing, tiles and horizontal views has been pioneered and tweaked in many consumer products, From the first Windows Media Centers, through the Zune music players, and refined in the Windows Phone 7 range, Metro UI was the clean style of interface that has now been iterated into the latest products.
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It has an interface people are familiar with, and people love the products.
The Fusion ioSphere management system included with the ioFX allows studio IT managers to monitor and manage all Fusion ioMemory products deployed throughout the infrastructure from a single interface, including Fusion ioFX in workstations and Fusion ioDrives in servers.
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However, other developers are more positive about the opportunities the Windows stores offer to showcase their products, and believe the design of the touchscreen interface will encourage users to install more apps.
Analogix is the market leader in providing end-to-end interface connectivity semiconductor solutions for DisplayPort, including the SlimPort family of products.
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However, on the Windows RT variant of the system - which will power cheaper tablets running on ARM-based chips - app publishers will only be able to sell their products through the Windows 8 store designed for the touchscreen interface, with all its associated restrictions.
While the concept is already embedded in other products, ShareBrowse spans individual applications and has a very clean interface.
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One sure bet with Apple products down the years has been their ability to innovate the interface in surprisingly usable ways.
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Zal Bilimoria, mobile products manager at Netflix, claimed on the company blog that the new interface will display twice as many movies and TV shows as the previous version.
To that end, WePay has also opened up its application programming interface (API) to allow its community of third-party developers to create new products based off of its service.
Tops among the eight announcements the company will make about its Marketing Cloud, which is what it calls its online collection of five major ad and marketing products such as social, analytics, and targeting, is a new touch-enabled user interface.
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Consumers using mobile products with the Exynos 5 Dual will enjoy super fast devices with a beautiful high resolution WQXGA user interface.
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"It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging, " she said.
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