at least, that's what they say. Stumbling across lapschticks manufacturer schtickers.com today, I found resemblances that are more than a coincidence: schitckers.com is using laptopskins.net's own laptop photo to promote their own stickers.
Checking the the dates via the wayback machine, it turns out schtickers.com had been presenting their stickers as frontal photographs since the launch of their site:
then, in december 2006 laptopskins.net launches, as far as we know as the first site displaying laptop skins in a 3D position:
sometime in january of 2007, schtickers.com suddenly begins using the same angle, the same laptop model, lighted in the same way, to promote their laptop skins:
Taking the detail image from their site, resizing it a little and comparing it with what we consider to be the original image it turns out that the laptop photos are identical.
Well, it's good to see we seem to have had the right idea to present the skins like that - that makes us proud. And obviously, the photography seems be good as well - good enough for schtickers.com to use, anyway. Would have been nice to be asked though - copyright is copyright.
