Apple vs Samsung: Did Samsung Copy Apple Or Did Apple Copy Samsung?

As you all probably know by now that Apple sued Samsung on design theft allegations over the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and then followed it with a suit for the Galaxy Tab and the Galaxy and Infuse lines of phones.

Apple succeeded in getting Samsung device sales banned in Australia and then in Europe, however a partial reversal of the decision allowed Samsung to sell the devices in most European countries except for Germany and Netherlands.

Now lately, Samsung has been on a suing spree of it’s own. Samsung lawyers are going after Apple, claiming that both iPad and iPhone infringe on some of it’s patents. Both countries are now fighting like mad dogs in a number of countries: Australia, Japan, Korea, Germany, Netherlands, etc.

Looking at Apple’s claims, one cannot deny that some of Samsung’s products are indeed a lot similar to Apple’s.

Apple iPad vs Samsung Galaxy Tab

Samsung Galaxy S vs Apple iPhone

Most Apple fan-boys will go to World’s End, rescue Jack Sparrow and come back in a bid to prove that Samsung copied Apple. Some may even kill Davy Jones and hijack the Flying Dutchman. (If you don’t understand this, you probably haven’t seen Pirates of the Caribbean movies and if that’s the case then you live a really really sad life in a gutter in Papua New Guinea.)

BUT! (Don’t you hate it when someone says that?)

Did Samsung really copy Apple? Or was it the other way around?

In a recent post at Engadget, it was informed that Samsung has asked Netherlands courts for a preliminary injunction against the iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPad 1 & 2 claiming that these products infringe on 3G patents held by the giant Korean…err…giant. But it’s not this that catches the eye. It’s the comments! If anything, this piece of news now seems like a regular egg in the refrigerator. Unless a chick hatches before it’s eaten.

In the comments, there is another battle taking place between Apple and Samsung cheerleaders. Apple fan-boys are as usual explaining how Samsung copied Apple, but one guy’s comments seem to turn the battle in  Samsung’s favor by explaining how Apple copied Samsung first!

Yes, you read that right.

How APPLE COPIED SAMSUNG FIRST!!!

Take a look at the screenshots:

These are just two screenshots of the ongoing battle between fan-boys of the two companies. Check out the whole discussion here.

NOTE:  I am in no way associated with Engadget, or Apple and Samsung for that matter. The comments in the screenshots are the properties of either Engadget, or the commenters.

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