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Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes

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ahoyhere wrote: post #352
mibbitier wrote: post #340

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"pinch to zoom" is obvious. It's practically the only way you could zoom things on a touch screen. It's like patenting the steering wheel. Don't pretend it's innovative or took any time whatsoever to come up with. It's blatantly obvious and should never have been granted.

If it's obvious, why didn't it exist on any of the touchscreen products which went before the iPhone?

It likely existed on the first light-pen devices from the 80s. Apple just happened to popularize it.

Re: Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes

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forensic wrote: post #283
angryasian wrote: post #253

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Not only that, its going to set innovating in the mobile space back even farther. While Apple outlines every decision meticulously for planned obsolescence, Google and others take a more throw something out there, see if it works and run with it approach. With both strongly competing it pushes the entire industry forward faster.

It's easy to argue that they aren't competing. Apple innovates in their sphere of innovation, their competitors copy them and produce cheap knock-offs attempting to cash in Apple's R&D. It's not competition when one company does ALL the innovation and other companies just copy them and try to win on price. It would be competition if Google tried to out-do Apple, but they don't. Samsung doesn't compete with Apple eith…

are you serious, so initially Samsung copied Apple theres nothing you can see that Apple copied from Android ? Look at IOS5 and you will see a lot they copied.
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