LG Calls Apple A 'Copycat'

When Apple unveiled its new iPhone last month – you
Though LG was quite website, LG has finally spoken up, in broken English. At a press conference in Spain, head of LG's Mobile Handset R&D Center, Woo-Young Kwak (no relation to Long Duk Dong) expressed what appears to be displeasure, perhaps even an allegation:

“We consider that Apple copycat Prada phone after the design was unveiled when it was presented in the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006.”
We take that to mean 'Apple stole our idea.'

But, for the skeptic, isn't four months a little short for industrial espionage turnaround? Maybe not, but Apple says they've been working on the iPhone for a lot longer than that, filing 200 patents in the meantime.

It may be more realistic to imagine that Apple saw the pics of the LG phone floating around the Internet and decided to get a jump on them by launching iPhone a week ahead, which is a really smart move, and may actually explain why Apple revealed it six months ahead of time, before the FCC had even approved it.

Kwak should have just admitted, "Apple stole our thunder."





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