Apple FTW.
These other companies should start innovating themselves rather than copying Apple.
Wonder when will Apple sue Google themselves?
Legal blows continue to rain down on Google's Android partners. In a preliminary ruling, the US International Trade Commission said Apple isn't infringing the patents of rival HTC Corporation. The ITC is a popular venue for intellectual property cases because it can stop the import of goods, which was what HTC wanted it to do …
Newton launched in 1993 and was canned by 1998. I wouldn't exactly call it an auspicious endeavour for Apple. Indeed Jobs killed the program. And Apple wasn't the first to produce PDAs either. Psion had PDAs before the Newton and they and Palm arguably had vastly more success popularizing the format.
They're all as bad as each other. Plenty of other industries, the automotive industry for example, are made up of companies offering similar products (all containing four wheels, steering wheels, engines, gear boxes, etc), and not suing each other for it. They really should drop the legal action and compete on making the best products.
Let us not forget: Apple started this blocking nonsense. Admittedly the Samsung tablet does look just like an iPad, but the mobiles are all being blocked on spurious terms.
Here's hoping ait all blows over soon and we can get back to using our consumer power to determine what gets bought and what doesn't.
OK Judges are supposed to be fair and unbiased... it's in the name.
iPhones are very popular.
So if a judge owned an iPhone, would he really rule in favour of banning sales of it in his home country?! Would he really?
I half wonder if he didn't own an iPhone when he made his inital ruling, then one appeared on his doorstep the following day signed. Lots of Love, Hugs and Kisses from all at Infinity Loop.
Call me cynical, but...
US Court sides with US Corporation over import and sale of Taiwanese Corporation product (Apple over HTC)
US Courts side with US Corporation over import and sale of US Corporation product (Apple over Samsung)
Apple can't have invented *everything*
I foresee the day when the Far East decides the US just isn't worth the effort. It's only a big market if you can keep your markup suitably high, and lenghty legal battles don't make for profits. Trade in Euros instead of Dollars and concentrate on the emerging markets. America is bankrupt anyway, and while it claims to be a democracy, it is really a Corporatocracy.
Apple can't have invented *everything*True but they don't claim that - just that the others have slavishly copied Apples work ?
"I foresee the day when the Far East decides the US just isn't worth the effort. " It will never happen - the Far East are fantastic imitators and copiers, but don't generate a fraction of the ideas of the west. Thats why there are no Chinese products out there that the west craves. All they do is make our stuff. Everything is imitation.
When was the last time that far east companies came up with anything that wasn't a copy of something created in the West ? Sony Walkman I think, but even thats pushing it as it was just a smaller copy of something that already existed.
Slavishly copied?
I'm holding an LG GD510, also known as the "pop". First released at the end of 2009 or thereabouts. Predates the iphone 4 by about a year. Now from a distance, if you aren't paying too much attention, it does actually look a *lot* like an iphone. It's got about the same dimensions,in bright light it's about the same colour (admittedly very bright light), it's got roughly the same radius on the corners..
What I'm trying to say is, you seem to believe that apple invented this look, but I'm holding a device that disproves that.
Now stop slavishly copying and trying to pass off on my name or I'll sue you.