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Samuel_Michon on April 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galax...

Samsung doesn't use Google's stock Android UI. It uses its own TouchWiz UI [1], which it also put on its proprietary OS phones and Bada phones.

HTC also doesn't use Google's stock Android UI. It uses its own Sense UI [2], which it also put on BREW and Windows Mobile phones.

Other Android handset makers also created their own custom UIs. Motorola has Motoblur [3], SonyEricsson has the 'UX' platform [4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchwiz

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Sense

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoblur

[4] http://www.xperiax10.net/2009/11/18/se-launches-nexus-ux-pla...

chc on April 19, 2011 [–]

I know all that, but the Nexus S — which is included in Apple's suit — is completely stock Android as far as I know, so Samsung's modifications seem to be irrelevant to Apple's beef with the phones.

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