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Apple and Samsung are battling it out in German courts about the Galaxy Tab 10.1 possibly stealing ideas from the iPad (among other things), so Samsung went ahead and changed the design of the Tab in Germany so it wouldn’t look like an iPad anymore. Um, OK.
This morning we heard Samsung’s side of the story after Apple tried to get the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet blocked in Australia. Samsung remains adamant that an ‘Australian model’ will still launch ‘in the near future’ — but now, as expected, that definitely won’t be next week. Here’s what Samsung has to say:
First we heard that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 had been blocked in Australia. An injunction? Not so responded Samsung late yesterday, “The Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the Australian market will be released in the near future.” As you’d expect, that opened up an absolute tonne of questions — what exactly is Samsung’s plan? Gizmodo asked, and here is their detailed response.
Today started with big news: Apple had blocked Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 from being released in Australia — an injunction as iTnews reported. But in a carefully worded, almost cryptic statement this afternoon, Samsung says that “no injunction was issued” and that the “Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the Australian market will be released in the near future.” Say what now? That’s not what we’ve been hearing all day…
Apple has won a decision in the federal court that prohibits Samsung’s Galaxy Tab from going on sale in Australia until patent disputes are resolved. The injunction means no Galaxy Tab 10.1 launch next week, and further expansion to the legal battle over 10 Apple-owned patents covering the touchscreen and “look and feel” of the iPad.
When Gizmodo recently asked DisplayMate to do a detailed tablet display comparison for us, who’d have thought that the revised Galaxy Tab 10.1 would edge out the iPad 2? The new 10.1 model is also said to be thinner than the tablet o’ magic, but will it be cheaper? We’ll find out next Thursday when Samsung promises to reveal all.
