Samsung lawyer Bill Price may have given Apple a whole new
appeal to the market with his closing statement in the Apple VS Samsung patent
infringement case.
Price’s closing statements indicated that Samsung felt that
although some of Apple’s patents had been copied, they were not necessarily
patents that should only apply to the iPhone. Price said, “Apple has tried to
mischaracterize these patents so they are the iPhone. These patents are very
narrow…Apple doesn’t own beautiful and sexy.”
That final sentence could be taken as an admission that
Samsun simply did not have the design talent to build a phone that was sleek
and appealing, the way the iPhone has been since it first debuted. It almost
sounds like Price is admitting that Samsung was defeated in trying to engineer
its own line of beautiful smartphones, so it poached Apple’s design for its own
devices.
It appears that the technical genius behind the iPhone is
not all that Samsung and other Apple rivals hope to overcome. Rather, instead
the aesthetically appealing design of the unit, coupled with its intense
versatility holds sway over competitors.
Many of those who delve into the technical realm would
disagree that Apple has great success due to its marketing, but rather choose
to believe that it is merely the technical beauty of the product that sells.
However, even the most technical minded person would have to agree that Apple’s
product design is very beautiful and appealing to the public.
While the engineers may find it hard to believe that many
people flock to the attractive design of the iPhone, iPad, and other Apple
products without knowing the full technical capabilities of them, it happens
every day. In fact, the average consumer probably uses less than 50 percent of
their iPad’s true capabilities, choosing simply to surf the web and play games.
I guess, when you get right down to it, Apple does own beautiful
and sexy…and owns it well.
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