Apple suing Samsung.. AKA let’s not bicker and argue about who copied who

Tablet wars!

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Yes. They look the same. Looks like my windows desktop. Way too many icons on it. iPad came out April 3, 2010, and Samsung’s came out in November the same year. But that’s just tablets based on the phone OS.

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Samsung came out with the phone first. Granted iPhone looks better but it was not first.

Speaking of which. Take a look at this device that came out in 2001.

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This is the Compaq TC1000. (picture from http://www.thevooner.com/feature/2003/01/09/tc1000/tc1000.htm)

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(Picture from https://picasaweb.google.com/networks.brian/COMPAQTC1000#5258278975137737922)

This little device came out 9 years before the iPad. It was a little on the expensive side and kind of a flop. But I remember Bill Gates said this form factor was the future. He was right too, it just wasn’t running Windows. Microsoft may have had a little better success making a WinCE version.

But maybe it’s all a descendant of this:

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TRS80 Model 100! That’s kinda like a tablet.. lol. and in 1983 it was the bomb! We used this in school in the fifth grade to program this:

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Hero Robot. Not sure how my train of thought got to the robot. Other than the fact that robots are cool. Well, Except saxophone playing robots trying to take my hobby away.

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Bottom line. Robots will enslave humanity. So this tablet thing. Not that big of a deal.

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