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Apple Launches New Legal Attack On Samsung
walterbyrd writes "Apple Inc has asked a federal court in California to block Samsung Electronics Co Ltd from selling its new Galaxy Nexus smartphones, alleging patent violations. In a suit filed last week in San Jose, Apple said the Galaxy Nexus infringes on patents underlying features customers expect from its products. Those include the ability to unlock phones by sliding an image and to search for information by voice."
So taking someone to court because they copied your design is "mugging"? (talking about the original lawsuit, not this one)
Interesting.
DISCLAIMER: I think patent lawsuits are stupid.
I just laugh at all the comments over the years. Every time Apple applies and gets a new patent, every Apple lover replies with "b-but but but they'll never use them! And they're probably doing it to protect themselves!" or some other lame excuse.
No they don't. You might be confusing it with Microsoft. Apple has a long track record of enforcing it's patents. And anyone that follows Apple knows that.
Though what is interesting is, *for Apple to do this*, must mean that they are scared. Very scared. Can't compete with inferior tech, so let's litigate.
Which makes no sense. Patents are enforced against inferior copiers all the time. Do you actually follow patent news? You seem to be just spouting wishful thinking.
No. The alternative is that they win the market BY BUILDING A BETTER PRODUCT.
Apple do build a better product. Then Samsung copies it. No wonder Apple sue.
Not scared. Pissed. Android steals sales from Apple using Apple's innovation. Innovation in the form of bringing the user experience together in the right way. I'm not sure if this is the right forum considering the above poster that couldn't spell Samsung got modded 5 insightful, but Apple led the phone business out of the wilderness. They didn't invent touch screens, they didn't event mobile technology, or surfing the web on your phone. Hell they didn't invent a single damn thing on the phone if you want to be academic about it. What Apple did is make it work for the first time. Do you remember how disappointingly shitty phones were before 2007?
Look at the phones Samsung was putting out in 2007 like the Blackjack. Back then they copied Blackberry. Samsung is like a factory sized photocopier.
But what upsets me about Android and Samsung is that the phones and the platform just suck. I hate developing on it. Terrible architecture, 1990s state of the art programming language, poor performance, terrible tools. If you want to buy a phone right now other than an iPhone because you can't bear the thought of owning an Apple product. Consider Windows Phone 7. It is at least an interesting platform that deserves some love.