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Samsung supposedly uses screenshot of Apple Maps app in promo

by Kelly Hodgkins Oct 18th 2011 at 11:00AM

Samsung goofed when it included a modified screenshot of the iOS maps application (above right) in one of its promotional pieces. The promotion shows a Samsung Android handset with Google Maps that unfortunately is not the Android version. It has a rounded text entry box and teardrop push pins that are found in an older version of iOS maps. This particular shot appears to match a three-year-old Flickr image (above left) that's used in a post by Laura Scott at BlogHer.

Samsung is fighting Apple tooth and nail over accusations that its Galaxy lines of devices copy the design of the iPad and iPhone. The Korean company is not helping its cause with high-profile blunders like this.

[Via AppleInsider and Jeremy Philippe]



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Yomachaser

Learn Samsung! Learn!!! This is like WHOPPER only worse.

October 19 2011 at 1:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MPercentTwentyM

You'd think it would be easier to just grab a screenshot of the Maps app of one of the dozens of iPhones and iPod touches laying around their R&D labs than go digging around for a three-year-old image on Flickr.

October 18 2011 at 9:39 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
macserv

:corporatefacepalm:

October 18 2011 at 6:32 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
kvnptrck11

and doesn't know how to center them? Or is that just how the phones screen is supposed to be?

October 18 2011 at 1:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
egojab

Awaits fandroid "there are only so many ways to advertise a maps product" or "this isn't a simple, understandable mistake" or "Apple didn't invent the map" excuses.

October 18 2011 at 1:28 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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egojab

"is a simple, understandable mistake"

October 18 2011 at 1:28 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
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macserv

Actually, it's a really damned easy one to avoid. There's no way in hell any editorial department with a shred of competence would ever let it happen. But that's just me being crazy.

October 18 2011 at 6:32 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down
Jon Dean

Macserv, the poster was correcting a typo.

October 25 2011 at 9:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down
tabaloon

I wonder whether stealing is a part of Korean business culture we're failing to understand and recognize? Maybe Samsung is raising a shrine to Apple and its design? Maybe in Korea there's no other way to say "I can't compete with you" than to steal design and ideas? Wow, we might have missed the whole thing altogether and accused Samsung unrightfully, while all along they ere actually asking for help in their innocuous, roundabout way!

October 18 2011 at 1:19 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
heathmaxie

LOL...Wow...not the kind of mistake you wanna make when your fighting patent and copyright disputes!!

October 18 2011 at 12:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mountainman

On an unrelated note, I work less than a mile from Efrain's - great place to grab Mexican!

October 18 2011 at 12:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
3gfisch

Haha
Stupid idiots

October 18 2011 at 12:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David

"Supposedly?"

October 18 2011 at 12:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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