May 5, 2006

Samsung Admits Plagiarizing Apple’s Design

It turns out that Samsung Electronics had copied a part of Apple’s design work in its latest model, SKIN.

The plagiarized part is the menu icons of the handset and Samsung decided to change them.

At an interview with Yonhap News about the scandal, the Korean handset maker explained, "To get some new ideas for innovative design, we encouraged the participation of new recruits, which caused the mistake.” [reBlogged from Telecoms Korea]

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