Apple vs Samsung: Susan Kare’s testimony

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Susan Kare, a former Apple designer testified in court on Tuesday. Kare was in court as an expert witness for Apple. According to a Forbes report, Kare revealed that the Samsung’s smartphones and the iPhones bares similarities that was “beyond coincidental”

Susan Kare testimony highlights:

• “It seemed likely to me that Samsung used iPhone screen graphics as a guide “.

•  Kare said that at one point, when trying to pick up an iPhone to make a point when talking to lawyers about the case that she accidentally picked up one of Samsung’s handsets instead.

• “I think of myself as someone who’s pretty granular about looking at graphics, and I mistook one for the other,” Kare said.

• “Wouldn’t you agree once a consumer goes through all those steps to get to an application screen that the consumer knows this is a Samsung phone,” Verhoeven asked.”That once the consumer goes through the phone, sees the Samsung name for several seconds, sees the graphic for ‘Droid,’ and by the time they get to that application screen, wouldn’t you agree that the consumer knows they’re not using a Samsung phone? “I’m not an expert in consumer behaviour,” Kare replied.

• When I was looking at this design I looked specifically at that incarnation of a phone icon, green rounded corners tilted pointing up, a bit of a gradient,” Kare said. “So I see the parts that make a whole, versus the ingredients that make a cookie.”

Source: Forbes