As much as Apple would
love for Kwon Oh-hyun
to turn up at court and tearfully confess to being a copycat, that's
probably not going to happen. Instead, Cupertino's lawyers are burrowing
through Samsung's history in search of a legal smoking gun, and one of
their latest submissions has been presented as just that. It's a
132-page document written in 2010 by Sammy engineers that directly
compares the iPhone against the Galaxy S
and makes recommendations about how the latter should be more like the
former. The excerpt shown above, which focuses on the aesthetics of
icons on the rival handsets, even appears to contain advice about how
Samsung should copy Apple without
appearing to copy them so
much, whereas the full document embedded after the break reveals how
all-encompassing the internal guidance was. On the flip-side, Samsung
may well argue that any responsible company should compare itself to its
competition in this manner, and you can bet there's an army of lawyers
beavering away right now to make that sound convincing.
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