Apple again accused of tampering with evidence in case against Samsung

By on Aug 19, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Legal August 19, 2011

Dutch technology news site Webwereld on Friday uncovered new images that suggest Apple may again be tampering with photographic evidence used in its case against Samsung. In this instance, it appears as though an image submitted to a court in the Netherlands intentionally misrepresents the South Korea-based company’s Galaxy S II smartphone. While the Galaxy S II is both wider and taller than Apple’s iPhone 3GS, the image Apple submitted as evidence shows a device that is exactly the same height as the iPhone that appears next to it. This past Monday, Webwereld revealed that Apple may have altered the dimensions of an image of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in an effort to make it look more like the iPad when submitted as evidence to a German court. While that instance seemed extremely dubious — Apple’s legal team actually presented an image where the physical proportions of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 were altered to match the iPad — the Galaxy S II image seen above appears to just be reduced in size. The accusations are serious nonetheless, and Samsung’s legal team is undoubtedly examining the images in order to determine whether or not to take action.

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  • Anonymous

    The one thing Apple appears to have learned from AT&T is how to be evil.

  • Anonymous

    apple is pathetic

  • really…

    What’s next, will they sue Dell because their laptops are square with round edges, hinge on one side and have all the letters of the alphabet arranged in the same order?

  • Anonymous

    Interesting how one of the worlds arguably smartest companies would make such a stupid mistake. Right? Doesn’t say much about the state of American companies and American business. Oh well, we are Goofans (aka Apple Haters) anyway, so we will believe anything anyone says against Apple. That’s the nature of irrational hatred.

  • Anonymous

    Apple is looking a bit desperate…never mind scummy here.

  • Anonymous

    BREAKING NEWS!!!

    Apple has just sued Geometry itself – for all the squares and rectangles.

    This changes the entire geometry math!

  • Anonymous

    as an apple fan, stop that apple. please

  • http://twitter.com/gnomehole The Gnome

    This is dumb.   A person doesn’t hold them side by side and just compare the size, they look at the overall package.   Its clear even without a size difference this is an iPhone clone.

    These conspiracies about lawyer doctoring are just Fandroids last ditch effort to avoid whats obvious… Samsung should have stuck to innovating on its own vs. copying.   Being slightly bigger doesn’t change that fact and I have no doubt thats why the images are shown so size isn’t the determining factor.

  • http://twitter.com/kcneal kcneal

    I think there might be significant differences in “tampering with evidence” as the title suggests vs misleading evidence.  Wouldn’t tampering mean they modified existing logged evidence (very serious problem) vs some degree of lying to the court.

  • Stevethepirate

    Can’t wait for Steve jobs to die already.

    • Irishfascist1986

      Kind of harsh don’t you think… I’m no fan of apple but Steve Jobs has done a lot over the years towards technology… Don’t be a dick.

      • Stevethepirate

        Steve jobs is an arrogant prick and I will gladly piss on his grave when he dies.

        There is no corporate philanthropy at apple. Fine that’s your right to act like a cheap scumbag. But like a total hypocrite he takes a donated organ? Fuck him.

        In fact anyone that works there can rot. People blast traders and bankers…do you know how much wall street donates to charity?

      • Irishfascist1986

        who gives a shit what traders give to charity, Steve jobs doesn’t have to donate one dollar if he doesn’t want too, the guy created a multibillion dollar company out of his damn garage with one other guy, and how else is he going to get an organ, you cant really make one? only other way is to have it donated to you, something is definitely wrong with you if you think Steve jobs is worse than wall street brokers and bankers, not even in the same league.

      • Steve Blow Jobs

        Ill gladly join you. I bet that POS didn’t have to wait for that organ either. You know for a fucking fact that the arrogant little Cynthia nugget he is just cut in line which in turn, a couple people will probably die. He doesn’t care about anyone else but himself. He’s a liar, a thief and now a killer.

        May Stephen Jobs spend an eternity in hell!

      • Stevethepirate

        He is 100% worse. You can take the ignorant route and blame bankers or you can use your brain.

  • Irishfascist1986

    Kind of harsh don’t you think… I’m no fan of apple but Steve Jobs has done a lot over the years towards technology… Don’t be a dick.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S3HF2LNXO3LNEGF3W2OQCBRUBE BenjaminB007

    I hate to say I called it, but the moment I saw the Samsung Galaxy S, I knew Samsung was playing in the red zone.  I don’t know whether it was intentional or not, but I couldn’t see a lot of innovation there.  Same with the pads

    • Stevethepirate

      Touch screen slab phones with icons weren’t invented by apple. I think that credit goes to the LG Prada, which apple copied when it was shown off in September 2006.

  • Italiankid

    I hope Apple loses and get’s what it deserves for editing the images!  Pure evil.   Go Samsung Go!

  • Anonymous

    lets see here:
    (a) is it sold in apple stores?(b) is that the actual homescreen?(c) does it have a dock connector from last decade?(d) does that phone have “SAMSUNG” written all over it and “with Google”?

  • Helio

    You have a mistake here. This whole case regards the Galaxy S, as explicitely said in the original article in Webereld.

  • Iceman12578

    The size issue is moot simply because the point of the lawsuit is to see if they are similar enough that a consumer could confuse the two. Its not often that a consumer would have both phones in their hand or right next to each other to compare, on websites, advertising, etc, they will appear the same cuz they won’t be right next to each other to compare relative size. Apple lawyers are correct in their assertion here.

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