Comments on: The Apple Roundup: Has Apple already made its point in court?

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:46:57 +0000

“Apple wants to ban from the U.S. market any smartphone that looks remotely like theirs.”

No, I don’t agree with you. Apple wants to ban from the U.S. market any smartphone that looks *almost exactly* like theirs.

“It wants to do that despite the fact that there’s a tablet remarkable like the iPad in 2001, a 1968 movie…”

A 1968 movie? What did you do, spend two hours researching the distant past?

By: Tassos Kouris

Tassos Kouris — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:52:44 +0000

Yes you really must be reading about a different trial… I am not connected with Apple in anyway, but to see a copycat like Samsung to try to sell ridiculous stories when the truth is evident, as an artist, I find that this is violation of common sense…. If they want to be alike let them pay for it… or let them find something original… I find imitating a compliment, but copying, as an artist I have found it often and it is an insult… There is not parthenogenesis in design but cloning is bad…

By: riwaterman

riwaterman — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:07:48 +0000

Wow, Michael, you must be reading about a different trial than I am.

By: Michael W. Perry

Michael W. Perry — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:19:55 +0000

No, unless Apple’s point was to portray itself as a the world’s largest corporate jerk, this dispute is far from over. Apple hasn’t won. In the long run, it may end up a loser in the same sense that Microsoft’s long battle with the DOJ destroyed its mystique.

The Apple-Samsung court battle will be with us for a long time. By excluding evidence favorable to Samsung on technicalities and including similar evidence from Apple, these two judges make an appeal almost certain and may even end up with a mistrial. You can’t treat a dispute this big as if it were a minor traffic violation.

We should also keep mind what this is all about. Apple wants to ban from the U.S. market any tablet and smartphone that looks remotely like theirs. And it wants to do that despite the fact that there’s a tablet remarkable like the iPad in 2001, a 1968 movie, and despite the fact that Apple copied a Sony design for the iPhone. The result, if they are successful, with be a lot of weird looking tablets and phone with even weird UIs.

Unfortunately, Apple executives seem intend on keeping the one aspect of Steve Jobs that they should have killed, his zeal to slander and destroy those who got in his way. Jobs had enough sense to keep that part of his persona out of public view. They don’t.