Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Dec 2010 21:57 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Well well well well well, paint me red and call me a girly scout. I've been saying for months now that there's much more collaboration between Apple and Microsoft than their respective fanboys want to believe, especially when it comes to fighting Google and Android, which both companies partly do via patent suits. More evidence for this has emerged today. Remember CPTN Holdings, the consortium led by Microsoft which bought that bundle of patents from Novell? Which other companies are part of this consortium? EMC. Oracle. Apple.
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RE[6]: A defensive action by Apple
by Tony Swash on Fri 17th Dec 2010 21:15
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Member since:2009-08-22
There was nothing available in the market remotely like the iPhone before Apple created it. With that single phone launch Apple remade the phone industry and redefined what a phone could do. Every smart phone since has just been trying (and failing) to catch up. Mostly by copying iPhone.
RE[7]: A defensive action by Apple
by Thom_Holwerda on Sat 18th Dec 2010 08:45
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Member since:2005-06-29
RE[7]: A defensive action by Apple
by lemur2 on Sun 19th Dec 2010 11:08
in reply to "RE[6]: A defensive action by Apple"
Member since:2007-02-17
There was nothing available in the market remotely like the iPhone before Apple created it. With that single phone launch Apple remade the phone industry and redefined what a phone could do. Every smart phone since has just been trying (and failing) to catch up. Mostly by copying iPhone.
One of the patents with which Nokia are suing Appple is a patent for the "swipe" gesture which is so much a part of the iOS user interface. Another one is the "app store".
http://politicallyillustrated.com/index.php?/lpnh/2057/
Nokia added more salt to Apple's wounds on Thursday by filing a suit in Europe alleging that the U.S. technology company violated 13 patents, including a basic touch-screen maneuver, without permission from Nokia.
“The Nokia inventions protected by these patents include several which enable compelling user experiences,” Paul Melin, a Nokia vice president, told The New York Times. “For example, using a swiping gesture on a touch screen to navigate content, or enabling access to constantly changing services with an on-device app store, both filed more than ten years before the launch of the iPhone.”
“The Nokia inventions protected by these patents include several which enable compelling user experiences,” Paul Melin, a Nokia vice president, told The New York Times. “For example, using a swiping gesture on a touch screen to navigate content, or enabling access to constantly changing services with an on-device app store, both filed more than ten years before the launch of the iPhone.”
Just fyi.
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2007-09-06
Yet.. in all those cases.. Apple copied someone else. The company is fantastic at designing products.
They are experts at looking at an existing market then delivering a refined product based on lessons from all the other existing products. Trying to cast them as the victim always copied from is a bit weak though.