Apple Sues Over iPhone Smartphone Skins

ghostcorps writes "Australian Newspaper 'The Age' reports that developers of iPhone skins (skins for smartphones that resemble the iPhone) have been legally attacked by Apple. Beyond that, bloggers who have reported on the skins have been threatened with legal action as well. From the article: 'Ironically, Apple's attempts to have the files removed from the web have only given the skins greater publicity, and they have already begun spreading to other websites. The issue marks a distinct change in tone for many bloggers and journalists, who just last week praised Apple for its 'revolutionary' and 'game-changing' phone despite being unable to conduct a proper hands-on test of the product.'"

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Apple first should settle its trademark issue

[someone1234]

... with Cisco. It is so repugnant how these companies try to stiffle creativity.

Wow, looks like an iPhone, and wow Apple suing?

[TheNetAvenger]

Wow, looks like an iPhone, and wow Apple suing?

#1. Myself and many others already stated that Windows Pocket PC Phones were just as capable as anything advertised by the iPhone, and have been around for YEARS now. In addition, have full developer support and tools for writing applications for them.

#2. Apple suing? How novel... Oh wait, that is their motto now, right? Mess with our reality distortion and we will sue you...

I don't care WHAT *nix runs under OSX, it is still shocking that /. has bent over for Apple left and right, and Apple is far more closed and arrogant than MS ever could have been. Apple is becoming the new Sun/Oracle, instead of actually innovating good products, they use PR spin and attack anyone that sheds light on their lies.

So go buy your iPhone, and Windows Pocket PC phone users will be saying, welcome to the 21st century, we have been here for a while.

Also keep supporting OSX and Apple like they are an OSS *nix company, when they have dismantled, stolen, and CLOSED more *nix code than any other company in history. Just look at the closing of Darwin for Intel, even though closing it is on shaky ground regarding the BSD interface to the kernel that they have also closed.

So, wow, iPhone so revolutionary, it can be mimicked on old Pocket PC Phones...
LOL

(BTW you can get more than 8gb on a Pocket PC Phone and better Media support as you are not even locked into Windows Media on the device - you know, third party development helps keeping users from being locked in to the vendor's software...)

If I wanted a closed OS Phone, I would buy a Razor, they do as much as the iPhone as well, have 3G, can watch TV on them, browse the net or access the office at DSL speeds, all things far beyond the iPhone...

abuse me, punks

[drinkypoo]

do you know what this is?
It's abuse of moderation, bitches

(With apologies to Kanye West)

I hope the iFanboy who moderated me down realizes that the reason we call pretty much all Apple fans fanboys is that there are so many highly visible members of the community who act like 'em.

When Apple zealots stop moderating people down for things with which they disagree because they drank the Apple Kool-Aid, people will stop calling them iFanboys.