Not enough that Samsung came out with a thin-and-flat flip phone called the Blade, or a keyboard phone called the Blackjack, or that their tablet’s charger looks amazingly like a certain 30-pin connector, or that their trade show booth in Germany was chockablock with the icons of iOS default applications…
Now comes the one-two punch: the judge sanctions Samsung for destroying email after already having notice to preserve documents, and evidence in court suggests that Google actually warned Samsung off the design for the Galaxy Tab because they thought it looked far too much like an iPad.
You don’t have to be a MacMac or a fanboy or think Apple is some kind of saintly organization made of rainbows and puppies to realize that as it stands, they’ve got a pretty damn good case that Samsung is a colossal rip-off artist. This is the legacy of that intro speech in 2007, when Steve Jobs said they’d patented the hell out of the iPhone and would defend it. This is the ghost of Steve Jobs remembering the “look and feel” case against Windows and, once again, doing everything in its power to make sure Apple would never be taken advantage of again…