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The Surprises In the Latest Apple V. Samsung Court Documents
Nerdfest writes "The lawyers behind the upcoming Apple v. Samsung trial have been hard at work filing docket after docket as their court battle looms closer, and many of those dockets have just been released to the public. We're now seeing a lot of previously secret information about the early days of iPhone and iPad R&D, and what's happened behind closed doors at both Apple and Samsung. Surprises include the iPhone design being 'inspired' by Sony product ideas, and that Samsung was warned that it was copying Apple."
Guys- is it ever any surprise that apple copies a design? They design well, but that is because all of their work is second generation. They take a concept then make it shiny, and sell it. They don't make concepts. Hell- the apple 2 was literally a XEROX!
Wow. Are we so far out in computing history that we don't remember the difference between an Apple ][ (designed in 1976 and first sold by Apple in 1977), and the Lisa (first designed by Apple in 1978 and first sold by Apple in 1981)?
And oh, BTW, Apple didn't "copy Xerox". Apple was shown some technology that Xerox PARC was working on, then they started riffing on it, bringing many improvements. Then, Apple LICENSED the tech from Xerox.
They stole NOTHING.
They most certainly don't have to play the game. They weren't playing the game until Apple fired the first shots. However, since you appear to be in full fanboi mode (BTW, Jobs may have known how to use the RDS, but you don't seem to posess that knowledge) I suppose nothing can possibly move your opinion the slightest bit, no matter how much fact and logic you are forced to mis-interpret or forget in order to do it.