So now LG is Copying Samsung

[poofyhairguy]

LG plans to tweak its software, however, and make it even more similar to Samsung’s smartphone.

The company has announced a new “Value Pack” update for its Optimus G Pro that will add a number of Galaxy S4-like features to the device.

The Optimus G Pro will have a new “Smart Video” feature, which is essentially a rebranding of Samsung’s Smart Pause technology, that will pause a video when a user’s eyes are not focused on the screen. The update will also include the ability to use both the front and rear-facing cameras at the same time and a Pause & Resume video recording feature.

http://bgr.com/2013/04/12/lg-value-pack-update-optimus-g-pro-431312/

 

[Robert Munch]

Lame.

 

[wirednuts]

wow... so they add the double camera penetration shots, but when you later go to jerk off to your girlfriend on the video you MUST look at the screen at all times while trying to keep it up?

is LG run by a woman?

 

[s44]

So now?

Isn't the G Pro about the most obvious copy ever, right down to the button shape?

 

[Rottie]

Does Samsung care about LG copying?

 

[corkyg]

They are both Korean companies. Samsung is in a suburb of Seoul, LG is in Pusan.

 

[scott14522]

It's kind of refreshing to see a manufacturer add features to a phone. Too often, to get any new features you have to buy a new phone.

 

[Hunt3rj2]

It's a different culture. In Korea it's no big deal because otherwise Samsung would have zero competition. They saw nothing wrong with the obvious attempts at ripping off the iPhone with the original Galaxy S, why would they see anything wrong with this?

 

[Mopetar]

It's a different culture. In Korea it's no big deal because otherwise Samsung would have zero competition. They saw nothing wrong with the obvious attempts at ripping off the iPhone with the original Galaxy S, why would they see anything wrong with this?

This is just a stage of industrialization. Before Korea, Japan was ripping off market leaders, who ripped off market leaders before them. If you look back at U.S. history, there was a time when U.S. companies were doing the same thing.

We can argue all day about whether or not it's moral, legally right, or what-have-you, but it's just a step along the path. In another 20 years there will be someone else doing it and Korean companies will be complaining about it.

 

[Dari]

This is just a stage of industrialization. Before Korea, Japan was ripping off market leaders, who ripped off market leaders before them. If you look back at U.S. history, there was a time when U.S. companies were doing the same thing.

We can argue all day about whether or not it's moral, legally right, or what-have-you, but it's just a step along the path. In another 20 years there will be someone else doing it and Korean companies will be complaining about it.

Maybe. Maybe not. In China, there is a culture of immorality that I've never seen anywhere else on earth. Korea is somewhere between China and Japan wrt this.

 

[WelshBloke]

It's a different culture. In Korea it's no big deal because otherwise Samsung would have zero competition. They saw nothing wrong with the obvious attempts at ripping off the iPhone with the original Galaxy S, why would they see anything wrong with this?

I think its more that we are at a stage where we think giving similar functionality in trivial areas is something controversial.

Imagine if we had the same attitude to MacOS, Windows, Linux and any other desktop OS's.

Do people bitch that you can copy and paste in all of them? That you can use a mouse to drag windows around?

Lets be honest. The desktop OSs are a damn sight more similar than the mobile ones and we don't complain about them copying each other to the same extent.

This is purely a land grab by the mobile OS players. They are trying to carve out their little bits of territory and they don't want to share. Its just a shame that so many consumers want to support them in this endeavour.

 

[BladeVenom]

They are both Korean companies. Samsung is in a suburb of Seoul, LG is in Pusan.

So what does that mean? They are friendly rivals, or they hate each other?

 

[Hunt3rj2]

I think its more that we are at a stage where we think giving similar functionality in trivial areas is something controversial.

Imagine if we had the same attitude to MacOS, Windows, Linux and any other desktop OS's.

Do people bitch that you can copy and paste in all of them? That you can use a mouse to drag windows around?

Lets be honest. The desktop OSs are a damn sight more similar than the mobile ones and we don't complain about them copying each other to the same extent.

This is purely a land grab by the mobile OS players. They are trying to carve out their little bits of territory and they don't want to share. Its just a shame that so many consumers want to support them in this endeavour.

It's not really about functionality, it's about cloning. Apple made a phone with very specific look and feel, with an OS of similarly specific look and feel. The international Galaxy S completely ripped off entire parts of it. The Galaxy S2 stepped it down a bit, but it wasn't before the S3 that things really changed.

 

[Graze]

Could Samsung do anything but copy people's patterns?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4122548/samsung-and-lg-at-odds-over-eye-tracking-patents

The feature at the center of the controversy is called Smart Pause by Samsung and Smart Video by LG, and lets users pause a playing video by looking away from the screen. LG says it applied for the relevant patent in 2009 (as well as other eye-tracking inventions as far back as 2005) and plans to check if Samsung's phone infringes when it launches next month.

 

[Dari]

So what does that mean? They are friendly rivals, or they hate each other?

I'm not sure if they hate each other but the venom they throw at each other is very unusual in a business environment. One time Samsung called LG "stupid" or "retarded". Maybe it's common over there but using such words is odd to me.

 

[corkyg]

Odds are that what they said was in Korean, and you are quoting someone's translation, which could be subject to interpretation.

And, as usual, there are indications of mutual cooperation . . .

http://www.oled-info.com/will-samsung-adopt-lgs-wrgb-oled-tv-architecture

 

[Dari]

Odds are that what they said was in Korean, and you are quoting someone's translation, which could be subject to interpretation.

And, as usual, there are indications of mutual cooperation . . .

http://www.oled-info.com/will-samsung-adopt-lgs-wrgb-oled-tv-architecture

I don't think so. Besides, that "cooperation" was forced on them by the Korean government, which was worried that their bickering was distracting them from what their competitors in Japan and Taiwan were doing. Anyway, it unraveled quickly and they started suing each other again shortly after.

At the peak of the dispute, Kim Hyun-suk, vice president of Samsung’s digital media business, derided LG developers calling them “stupid s----” in a media briefing on March 8.

 

[Staples]

I wonder if Samsung even cares. Samsung has been closely copying Apple for the past few years to the point of blatantcy. Guess more can play at that.

 

[indy2878]

I don't know how it is in South Korea business wise, but in Japan
there's a term called KEIRETSU:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu

Its basically a term used for a group of companies who work together
to stay afloat. Sometimes they would share their financial resources with one another....


Its like saying a company like Microsoft is part of a group along with Yahoo, IBM, National Semiconductor and the group is referred to "X group"... etc... And they pool in and share resources to help one another compete in the market....