Creative Sues Apple

E IS mC(Square) writes "Looks like Apple's legal problems are not yet over. ZDNet reports that Creative has sued Apple over their iPod interface. From the article: 'Creative Technology said Monday that it has filed two legal actions against Apple Computer, charging the popular iPod infringes on its patented technology. ... In both cases, Creative says that the iPod and iPod Nano infringe on a patent the company has for the interface in its Zen media player, a patent granted last August.'"

Comments

Bullshit

[TheNoxx]

Right, so when can Apple sue Windows for making a GUI file system for their OS? Eat shit, Creative. If the judge files for the plaintiff in this, I will personally kick him in the teeth.

Re:sweet

[odourpreventer]

then designed, packaged and marketed them all together successfully

This sounds strangely familiar. What was that company's name again? Oh yeah, Microsoft.

Pick your poison....

[crhylove]

Itunes is basically an alarmingly poor piece of code that runs essentially like a virus or spyware.

Creative has a sound card monopoly and doesn't write decent drivers for any platform, or any drivers for Linux.

Whoever makes it into the computer audio space and isn't a total asshole like these guys is going to dominate the market. Don't count on Sony, either, their track record is OBVIOUSLY bad.

Anyone wanna go halves with me and start a real computer audio company and bury these guys?

rhY

ZEN iPOD

[mkw87]

Everyone (at least that I have talked to) who has owned an iPOD as well as a ZEN has said that the ZEN is much nicer than the iPOD (the newer ones at least), and, you don't have to put up with shitty ass itunes and DRM issues. With the ZEN its drag, drop, listen. Yes, I have used both, and chose the ZEN over the iPOD not just b/c of the DRM shit, but because I just like it better. Now if only there was a magic way for all ID3V tags to just work....