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Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple?

Posted by samzenpus on from the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.

hype7 writes "The Harvard Business Review is running an article that's questioning the very premise of the Apple v Samsung case. From the article: 'It isn't the first time Apple has been involved in a high-stakes "copying" court case. If you go back to the mid-1990s, there was their famous "look and feel" lawsuit against Microsoft. Apple's case there was eerily similar to the one they're running today: "we innovated in creating the graphical user interface; Microsoft copied us; if our competitors simply copy us, it's impossible for us to keep innovating." Apple ended up losing the case. But it's what happened next that's really fascinating. Apple didn't stop innovating at all.'"

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  1. Does Apple Truly Innovate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perhaps we should ask the experts at Xerox PARC.

  2. It's a blood feud by DCFusor · · Score: -1, Troll
    So, apple "steals" from open source for their opsys, and monetizes it, and now they are bent about android coming from open source and not charging for it. I get it. They *failed* to copy Apple's model (or Disney's). Apple is frightened that they won't have the insane margins, highest in the industry by far, unless they actually do innovate, and have lost their main man that had the actual visions and took them all the way from vision to reality.

    Remember Steve saying he'd spend their last time to stop android? It's not about facts, its about emotion.

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  3. Apple by aglider · · Score: 0, Troll

    does!

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  4. Re:What Innovfation? by camperslo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple did considerable development beyond what they bought. And they didn't steal anything. Apple did offer to license the disputed technology to Samsung, and has always been willing to pay the basic industry standard rates for glue technology.

    The anti-competitive behavior of Microsoft was very damaging to Netscape, Apple, and many others. It is fortunate that Apple recovered. Many others didn't.

    This Harvard writer doesn't seem to be very insightful or even well informed. It also seems that many coming out of business school are severely lacking ethics.
    One thing is for sure, it wasn't business school types that made Apple successful.
    Is this another MS paid blogger? One was exposed posting pro MS revisionist history to the IEEE. It looks like we're being flooded with corporate "free speech".

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/17/microsoft_pay_zeldman/

  5. Re:What Innovfation? by hillbluffer · · Score: -1, Troll

    BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT! Thanks for playing, please try again. Apple is suing Samsung based on how their product _LOOKS_ a so-called "Trade Dress" patent. Regardless of how much work Apple, Inc had to do to "make it fit" in a cheaper machine, they never licensed the design of the GUI from Xerox PARC! http://goo.gl/u38CE In Steve Jobs own words ON VIDEO: "Good artists copy, great artists steal" Interview with Steve Jobs (1994) about the creation of the Apple Macintosh. Did Steve Jobs steal from Xerox ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU