Samsung Loses Apple Patent Case
Just my humble opinion
That didn't happen.
Back in 2007, Apple did the tech world a solid and released an amazing device, but it was a device far from original. They basically took the time to take a lot of great ideas that had been tried previous and fine tuned them to the user experience and in that created something where the sum was far greater than the total of the parts.
In a nutshell they vastly improved the quality of what was out there.
Now granted maybe Samsung did try to make their ph...
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then some engineer noted that they should do "these changes" based off their findings.
Besides....the icons you're saying that Samsung copied look nothing like Apple's icons.
1) Xerox invited Steve Jobs and the Mac team to PARC.
2) Xerox viewed it as a dead end technology and had no intentions to bring it to market
3) Xerox was given Apple stock for their usage.
4) Apple developed heavily on the PARC language.
Xerox was given Pre-IPO stock back in the 80's (it was negotiated back and forth) for Apple in exchange for letting them visit PARC and sending an engineer back and forth to help Apple with it.
The lawsuit Xerox filed in 1989 was Xerox patent trolling after their own Alto successors failed and they prematurely cashed in their Apple stock. (most of it was ruled invalid.)
Read about it here.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516 ... »
And before he became a patent troll, Steve Jobs used to publicly brag about his theft of Xerox tech, saying that 'good artists imitate, great artists steal, and I am a great artist'
Xerox was given Pre-IPO stock back in the 80's (it was negotiated back and forth) for Apple in exchange for letting them visit PARC and sending an engineer back and forth to help Apple with it.
The lawsuit Xerox filed in 1989 was Xerox patent trolling after their own Alto successors failed and they prematurely cashed in their Apple stock. (most of it was ruled invalid.)
Read about it here.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516 ... »
Also, regarding the Picasso quote, Apple very much did 'steal' Xerox's innovation in the artistic sense- they saw a lot of potential and better execution than someone else's idea. Samsung did not 'steal' in the art...
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