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If you copy something, and the copy is better than the original in some way, is the copy still a copy?

When do you get to call it innovation?




Did you buy the Galaxy Camera? That was the real first product that they can say something original. Unfortunately, nobody supported them. How about Galaxy Watch? It was the second, and also nobody helped.

Have you checked out Bada SDK? Have you used KIES manager?

Or, what's your point? Are you telling me that they really have something better? So they're not a copy?

In which way? Do you mean the Android which comes from Google? Because Android is just an assembly? Are you talking about [AMOLED](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z8I5oMxbO9Q&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...). Or are you talking about TouchWiz widgets? Which looks so similar to iOS, even Google warned them to stop copying. Or Wacom tablet in Galaxy Note series? I know some people want it for Wacom tablet. Is it also Samsung's innovation just like Android which is also a Samsung's innovation?

It's irony that the word "Android" is actually a legally registered exclusive trademark owned by Samsung in Korea. Any other companies can't sell a phone named "Android" in Korea. So maybe you're right. That's very innovative strategy. But personally, I don't think real innovators won't do such crap.

Please tell me only one thing they really made better rather than copying other one. Not just larger and more. Because you won't call adding one more wheel to a Toyota truck as an innovation.

I am not talking they're not trying. They sometimes try, and any trial for original product horribly fails. Isn't it true?

They really suck at original or innovation. But for copying? Oh they're supernatural. They're doing it over decades, and even has been supported from government for that.

It's simply because you can't derive originality or innovation by copying others. If you ever have tried to make something new, or better, you should know that you must break existing one first. Copied but better? That's impossible doesn't make sense at all.


I didn't know that Google let Samsung register Android as a trademark in South Korea, that's pretty strange.


There's a story. Here're details.

An unknown Korean company registered the word "안드로이드" which is the Korean representation of "Android" as exclusive trademark in Korea, and Samsung negotiated with them and bought (or leased) fully exclusive right for the trademark from them. So other companies can't use the Korean word in their product in Korean market.

Google also registered trademark of the Korean representation for that but only in limited fields, (computing hardware/software), so there was no problem to register the trademark for any another fields (mobile phones, advertising, games communications, internet service, radio, TV …).


When it's packaged and sold as an Apple product.




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