Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)

by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | August 26, 2011 5:11am PDT | Image 1 of 15

In Germany, Apple currently looks like it may win a legal battle to keep Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 from being sold in the European Union. Their reasoning? The Galaxy Tab looks too much like the iPad.

Excuse me? The iPad just looks like a freaking tablet to me. It also appears that Apple doctored the Samsung's image to make it look even more like an iPad.

Come on Apple, aren't you a little big to be throwing fits like this? Just because, Android now has 20% of the market, do you really have to try to keep potential competitors out of the marketplace by suing them? I think not.

Besides, let's get real, a tablet is a tablet, and I'll now show, there's nothing new about your tablet format—especially if you consider how often the idea's been kicked around in toys and fiction,

Apple iPhone and iPad: First, let's consider the first iPad, and it's little, but older brother, the iPhone. Yep. Sure enough, it's a tablet. We've all seen it.

http://www.zdnet.com/photos/apple-ipad-design-its-been-done-before-images/6284204