I have never bought an apple product. There is always something better at a cheaper price. ALWAYS. It is too bad that most people purchase brand names, not the product themselves.

I agree. I'm surprised how conversational the document is. I would expect a lot of lawyer jargon.

Really, the only thing I would have to "bash" on apple is the fact that we have seen them do this countless times, to numerous groups. Samsung obviously has the money and power to fight back, but what about all the smaller and unheard of companies that faced the wrath of apple? Its pretty wrong.

As for iPhones. One simple solution will make huge changes on the market - disallow mobile operators to supply phones with long term contracts. Phones must be sold separately.

I'm sure Sony is kicking their self for not patenting their design. According to that link how come those companies that invented those technologies are not coming forward to say they invented the technology like the multi-touch? Interesting to see how this trail is gonna turn out.

Aren't visual design features normally trademarked instead of patented? What's odd is things like the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster, the headstock shape is trademarked but not the body shape.

I still use my circa 2003 Sony Minidisc player because it hasn't stopped working perfectly.

I'm against most patent law. I've been on the other side, and the idea is to make your claims as broad as possible, like a spider's web. Even if you don't have a working technology. The reality is with billions of people it is beyond possible for independent individuals to come to the same or similar solutions. To penalize someone's hard work because they didn't have the fastest, sneakiest patent lawyers is silly, and in the end limits inventiveness.

someone mention ecosystem created by Apple as genius move and i agree ... but that was closed system controlled from one source ...and irony is that first Apple commercial was 1984 spoof and IBM as big brother...and now most downloaded app for iphone is Jailbreak...Steve Jobs success formula was not design or tech innovation , it was a way to make customers a part of special elite club ... for few hundred (thousands) dollars u become someone who is better and sophisticated than rest of herd ...same technique now used by red camera ... go to redusers and feel that cult atmosphere ...all Jobs hippie talk didn't change a thing that Apple always been rich man toy and how many poor people would have chance to get their first computer if apple was only option ....now when innovation well is empty their way to control market is to sue all people who try to push technology beyond apple possibility to fallow .... apple is a dinosaur and looks like a meteorite is coming ....

IMO, patent and copyright laws have gone too far. They're defeating the very reason they were introduced long ago, and that was to promote innovation

@JanH

First, you need to lie in interviews and books, and after your competitor catched you, you need to find "Purple". I think the name is symbolic :-)

No, Apple was saved by Jobs, they didn't kill kodak (no need for it) they don't slow tech progress and in our best interest they need to stay and go on innovating like they did in the last 10 years.

Do you remember pre-iphone smartphones? Low quality hardware together with a painful to use OS/interface and a 200 or 300 pages manual to read. Prices? As high as the iPhone and even more.

But now those days have gone by and you can get an excellent Samsung Galaxy SIII with an excellent Android OS. Thanks to Apple.

you are right Vitaliy ...its just a gadget company ...phones , tablets and music players ... there are much more interesting technologies we could talk about ... and i didn't say they kill kodak but they act as a vulchers ...and Jobs save Apple with Bill money ...

I just can not understand why this is so sesitive with Apple always.

It is just a reality, so we need to live with it. :-)