Samsung not content with, allegedly, copying the iPhone, has now launched a apparent rip off of the Mac mini.
Samsung’s new Chromebox, launched to showcase Google’s Chrome OS, looks identical to the Mac mini, even down to the circular opening on the bottom.
Samsung and Google have teamed up to launch the Mac mini-like device to coincide with the release of the latest version of the Chrome operating system.
The Chromebox includes an Intel Celeron B840 Dual Core 1.9 GHz processor, features a 16GB SSD and 4GB of RAM.
Samsung and Apple are currently embroiled in a dispute over patents.
Apple is also at loggerheads with Google over Android, Steve Jobs famously said that he wanted to go “thermonuclear” on Google because he believed they had ripped of iOS.
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SwissMac said on Fri, 01 Jun 2012
Funny how if you are an individual you get extradited for piracy, but if you're a massive Korean copyshop people think you're great.
I've given up buying Samsung products, and I used to buy them. Copying in such a barefaced way though is just a step too far for decency and I don't see why I should reward them with my money for stealing the ideas of others. They're just a nasty company.
MWin said on Fri, 01 Jun 2012
Oh, how I agree.
Samsung is a brilliant and terrible company: potentially great products, but faulty implementation.
This year's 'latest model' is constantly released to correct the unrectified (and unrectifiable?) faults of the previous 'latest model' of 6 months before. If something on your phone/TV/DVDplayer etc., doesn't work, the idea is that you put up with the fault until the next model is released, then buy that. My second Samsung 'internet enabled' TV still does not keep its wifi settings when switched off, even though all my Mac laptops and desktops (and Nintendo Wii) do.
Treat Samsung with caution.
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