"Siri - define hypocrisy"
"Hypocrisy is the state of pretending to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have. Hypocrisy involves the deception of others and is thus a kind of lie."
Apple has been back in a Shanghai court this week defending claims by a local company that Siri voice assistant technology infringes one of its patents. Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology is suing the fruit-themed tech giant’s Apple Inc and Apple Trading (Shanghai) businesses for alleged IPR infringement. In Shanghai No. 1 …
For its part, Apple’s lawyers are apparently maintaining that although the two products are designed to perform similar tasks they do so thanks to different underlying technology.
Isn't that the defence Samsung normally uses which Apple claim isn't a defence at all?
Intellectual Property protection is a bit of a one way street in China, but then Apple live by using the (utterly broken) USPTO patents for 'a device with a screen', 'a device' and 'a thing' in the hope of catching someone else out and making innovation dangerous with litigation threats.
Not sure which horse to back here, but they're in court so maybe they'll both lose.