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Apple currently aggressively took legal actions againest the reval: HTC and Samsung. It required ITC(International Trade Commission) to block the import of several HTC and Samsung devices to USA for patent infringement during July.
And currently Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.0 had held sale in Austrilia for the same reason. While Techcrunch, BRG just reported of the details of these issues instantly but doesn’t give attitude. Is Apple too aggressive? Do you support Apple or Samsung? You don’t care?
I found an article “Is It Time for Apple to Stop Suing Competitors?”. The author thinks it lacks of evidence that Samsung copies Apple’s design with a tone that Apple troubles a lot. I’m not interested at what he said. But the comments people left show how people think of this issue.
Gprovida said
“Competing on innovation is one thing, but competing on copying another company's investment and risk is another. Clearly it is possible to bring innovation to the market, WebOS, MS Windows 7, and RIM OS are examples. But it is more expensive and much easier to copy a successful model, Apple iOS, than make the investments and take the risk.
While I believe the patent pool on Software is a questionable practice and too many patents are too general and business process related, I think Apple's innovation and risk needs some kind of protection and enforcement.
The consumer can certainly get short term savings from copying Apple's design, but why would companies take the enormous investment and business leap into the dark if their successes are easily copied. So in the long run innovation and consumers are hurt.
I recall all the cell phone manufacturers and bloggers saying Apple was nuts and would loose. They views were not inherently wrong and Apple knew the risk. Given their gamble paid off, they should be able to reap the benefits and let real innovation be the competition. “
While I believe the patent pool on Software is a questionable practice and too many patents are too general and business process related, I think Apple's innovation and risk needs some kind of protection and enforcement.
The consumer can certainly get short term savings from copying Apple's design, but why would companies take the enormous investment and business leap into the dark if their successes are easily copied. So in the long run innovation and consumers are hurt.
I recall all the cell phone manufacturers and bloggers saying Apple was nuts and would loose. They views were not inherently wrong and Apple knew the risk. Given their gamble paid off, they should be able to reap the benefits and let real innovation be the competition. “
15 Jul, 04:13 PM2
Most people have the same attitude, Apple is doing the right thing to protect innovation and patent. This makes me a little confused. In China, most things are copied. Renren, Chinese version facebook. Weibo, Twitter in China. Most of them borrows the original idea and adapt them to local situation. Is that infringe the patent?
In our attitude, iPhone clone definitely avoided the patent as they copies the appearance and try to sell them with the concept of iPhone clone. As it is known to all, full touch screen phone is highly demanded. Then Samsung and HTC adapts their plan to launch full touch screen smartphones. Isn’t that Ok? Can we say they catch the trend and not copy? And for RIM, without improvement, their share falls largely. They want to change and therefor they delivered Blackberry playbook. Who can say Blackberry playbook isn’t inspired by iPad? To me, their looks are hard to distinguish.
It was said a lot of people are waiting for iPhone 5. I think people know the difference between Samsung Galaxy and iPhone. And people discussing which they choose between Andriod and IOS means there is big difference there. We can share the concept and make own products. It’s allowed, isn’t it?
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