In a recent interview, the Chief of Marketing of Apple Greg Joswiak said that Samsung ha “copied iPhone and then he put a bigger screen in it ”. A sensational accusation said on the occasion of the fifteenth birthday of the Apple smartphone.
According to Apple, Samsung copied the iPhone
The reporter for the Wall Street Journal Joanna Stern shared a documentary on the evolution of the iPhone in the United States it debuted on June 29, 2007. In addition to interviewing several iPhone users, he asked the iPhone co-creator Tony Fadell and the head of Apple marketing Greg Joswiak what did they think.
In a piece of the interview, the reporter asks why Android smartphones got a bigger screen before iPhones. And speaking of the impact that Samsung and other smartphone makers had at the time, the Joswiak’s response sounds like an accusation of plagiarism.
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“They were annoying. And they were annoying because, whatever, they plundered our technology. They took our innovations that we had created and made a meager copy, and they just put a bigger screen around it. So, yes, we weren’t too happy ”.
The reference to the larger screen is that the Galaxy S4 came in at 5 inches, while iPhone 5 only had four. Only the following year Apple adapted to the new trends with the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus.
We remember that Apple in 2011 accused Samsung of copying the design of the iPhone for your Galaxy smartphone line. The judge initially awarded Apple a billion dollars, although they later lowered the compensation.
In 2018, Apple closed that process by settling with Samsung. But he publicly stated that “Apple ignited the smartphone revolution with iPhones and it’s a fact that Samsung has clearly copied our design “. A worry that, apparently, in Cupertino they have not yet forgotten.