Don't trust Herr Meuller
He is (apparently) a paid shill in the pocket of those lovely people from Washington State.
His comments on this topic should be taken with a really big pich of salt.
Samsung has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission seeking to ban the import of Apple handsets which it claims are in breach of its patents. The filing relates to the ongoing patent spat between Samsung and Apple. The ITC has the power, if it thinks that a patent is being infringed, to prevent infringing …
It's a preemptive strike. If Apple had filed with the ITC first then Samsung imports may have been banned. As you suggest the ITC is very unlikely to uphold the Samsung complaint, but if Apple file a complaint now the ITC won't find in their favour either because to do so would be clearly a sign of bias.
Samsung may have got wind that Apple were planning to file a complaint with the ITC.
Don't I recall some senator suggesting that the US government should not use any Lenovo products because, being manufactured in China, they may contain nasty James Bond style spying kit?
If a senator is daft enough to believe that then it's not too much of a stretch to believing that all that Chinese manufactured "american" hardware is also packed to the gills with bugs.
I fully understand the commercial perspective view of company's and shareholders but wouldn't it be nice to live in a patent free world were all advancement in technology is shared and progressed?
From a technical perspective Apple is slowly moving away from the thoughts and aspirations of end users. I would hope that their end goal is not to sue the world, but to advance and be of benefit.
Although I don't have a great love for Samsung and their lack of originality they do provide good quality goods at realistic pricing, something Apple is unable to do.
I fully understand the commercial perspective view of company's and shareholders but wouldn't it be nice to live in a patent free world were all advancement in technology is shared and progressed?
From a technical perspective Apple is slowly moving away from the thoughts and aspirations of end users. I would hope that their end goal is not to sue the world, but to advance and be of benefit.
Although I don't have a great love for Samsung and their lack of originality they do provide good quality goods at realistic pricing, something Apple is unable to do.
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Apple needs to pick up a history book, the last time they tried a look and feel lawsuit things didn't end so well for apple... This lawsuit was heading up during another time when Steve jobs wasn;t at the helm, and it failed miserably.\
I believe this one will suffer the same fate...
Xerox needs to sue all of them for creating icons in the first place. Look up the Xerox Alto. As for rounded corners on icons, I remember OS/2 having rounded corners on most of the icons. This is just insane. Apple's lawyers either need to lay of the nose candy or go back to chasing ambulances.
This kicked off with Apple challenging Samsung for allegedly ripping off the overall look and feel of mobile phones, the Alto hasn't inspired any mobile that I can see.
Oh, and the Xerox PARC work that ultimately spawned X-Windows, GEM, MS Windows, Mac-OS and all the others was actually a continuation of work that had started at Stanford in the 1960s (PARC wasn't founded until 1970).
Conveniently ignored by many is the fact that Xerox bought Pre-IPO stock in Apple and sent engineers to help them build the original Macintosh OS, so it's ridiculous to suggest that Apple "ripped off" their work.