Samsung official claims Apple plans to release 7.85-inch iPad this year: Adding to rumors of a smaller iPad from Apple, an unnamed Samsung official allegedly told an Korean publication that the company plans to release a 7.85-inch tablet later this year. (Via www.appleinsider.com) Hmmm. Can’t imagine why someone from Samsung would want to start a rumor that Apple will release yet another iPad later this year. Can’t see why you’d want to start such a rumor, hoping that some less-informed people would hold…

Coffee Time: Market Share vs Profit – journal – minimally minimal. Have to love his last set of images, comparing Apple’s product line to Samsung’s. Thanks to John Gruber for linking to this.…

Samsung ambushes Apple’s iPhone 4S launch in Sydney. Wow. This is sort of just. Sad. If you’re THAT shameless and desperate to make any sales that you have to resort to this sort of thing, don’t you have to re-examine your life, or something? The worst part is that Samsung isn’t going to be luring anyone from buying a 4S with this. Anyone crazy enough to be in an iPhone line for several hours doesn’t care much about a couple hundred dollar discount. So they’…

> **Don’t copy other people’s stuff** > It seems obvious – but don’t copy Google’s (or anyone else’s) trademarks or logos. Even for a short-term experiment. It might seem tempting to piggy-back off the success of a popular name, but it’s not worth the risk. Big corporations don’t understand, even if you’re “trying to do the right thing”. via [makingmoneywithandroid.com](http://makingmoneywithandroid.com/2011/09/how-to-make-250-a-day-and-get-banned-from-the-android-market/)I think this story demonstrates, more than anything about Google, just how justified trademark infringement cases are. People…

> Samsung showed off a new but not yet functioning 10.1 inch Galaxy Tab with a case just .33 inches or 8.6 mm thick (iPad 2 is .34 inches thick, a difference of a quarter of a millimeter) and reportedly weighing 1.31 pounds or 595 grams (iPad 2 is 1.33 lbs or 600 grams), after [describing](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/04/apples_ipad_2_prompts_samsung_to_improve_inadequate_parts_of_galaxy_tab_10_1.html) its [original](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/…