Hans Pedersen

Android has always had voice control. Vlingo is a personal assistant. Yes, it wasn’t as advanced in the beginning, but it was still more useful than voice control. As I said, evolution usually works that way, one company adds a feature, the other takes notes and improves on that best the can. If that competition didn’t exist, we would still be waling around with 10 lbs. cell phones with 2 hours of battery-life today.

You’re constantly going back to the idea that Siri was the first voice assistant, as if a Samsung owner would call Siri a rip-off for being able to play certain songs, find locations and such.

Enough with the stupid car analogies, they were old in the 90’s. It’s a good looking phone. And designed with the purpose to be comfortable to handle. Design is not all about looks.

The data sheet is from a website output. Of course they look the same.

It’s a mobile output that they provide to 3rd party businesses. Send your complaints to Wolfram Alpha if you demand an exclusive look for iDevices. To blame Samsung for that is really dumb.

Samsung does not own Vlingo, therefore Samsung haven’t got the final decision on all of their design choices. But complaining about speech bubbles and a button, which doesn’t even have a resemblance is what I am talking about. You’re looking for, and inventing, non-existent “evidence”. And still you clearly decides to overlook the main issue: That Samsung integrated a voice assistant before Apple even had decided to do that in iOS.

My advice to you is: Stop complaining and realise that Apple does not own the rights to everything they do. To me it sounds more like you’re unhappy that Apple are getting competition. Competition that will make both companies provide better products faster.

Okay, then we agree that Apple were wrong to copy Samsung’s choice of integrating Vlingo. or what? Why am I an idiot? Apple bought Siri in Apri 2010. Samsung had already shown Vlingo preloaded on the Galaxy S before that.

Now, if we are going to talk in terms of companies slavishly copying others, the fact that Samsung showed off an integrated voice assistant before Apple even bought Siri should be taken into account, right?

Okay, I get it. No one by Apple are allowed to use the internet as a source for searches anymore? Is that it?

Am I too blind to acknowledge what?
You’re pointing at things that are common, and designating them as Apple exclusives. There’s the big problem Super Tino. Samsung cannot do anything about your state of mind.

S Voice, called Vlingo, was part of the previous two versions of the Galaxy S phones. You really have to stop with your obsession and realise that evolution includes all brands. Or Can I say, Siri wouldn’t had happened if Samsung hadn’t included Vlingo in TouchWiz?

Google Play.

That will always be the reason Samsung will not create a different fork.

Samsung would have to create a competing content store in all of those 120-ish countries they sell smartphones in. It’s not going to happen.

Uhm? Maybe, just maybe, you ought to look up how Vlingo sounds on the previous Galaxy S phones….

Using a default website background colour when showing website content is copying now?

And shaded buttons? I am pretty sure buttons has been done like that on computers for 30 years at least. I remember the good old C64, where they often made software buttons like that, because it looked good.

The only thing I can tell you is, I have never seen the like of bizarre obsession with common design legacy like fans of Apple devices have.

Does it really hurt that much that Samsung are doing so great?

In a button that indicates it has been pressed? Okay…

If you think the Samsung button looks anything like the Apple one, you’re desperate.

My guess is that Samsung are aware that Google are releasing a more comprehensive service themselves in a few months, making it a really short term investment to buy Vlingo.

It’s nothing to do with disagreeing. It’s more that people who are obsessed with conspiracy theories usually also wear tinfoil hats, to keep “them” out of your head…..

How is that tin-foil hat working out for you?

It’s a “standard” icon for a microphone or dictaphone. Not “invented” by neither Apple nor Samsung.

This is a fairly old Dictaphone by Olympus:

The main reason Microsoft went away from the old-style task bar in Win7 was because you’re supposed to pin the programs there you regularly use. That is why each program only get one icon, and that is why each icon takes up much less space. They made them much bigger so you can identify them easily when you actually need them. That would be really impractical if they had gone for a monochrome colour theme.

Quality control on refurbished hardware from all manufactures are pretty much the same. They run it through standard benchmarks, to confirm that it works. Sometimes this will miss issues, no matter what brand you buy.

The Crucial M4 was long recommended by sites like anandtech as the best option, even though Vertex 3-based SSD’s kills it in write performance, simply because the Marvell controller is more stable. The Marvell controllers are also the most commonly used in enterprise class SSD’s for this reason.

I have full confidence in my Crucial M4, thank you very much. I chose it deliberately because I did the research before I bought it. :)