Apple taking on the world

Didn't Symbian have row of icons before Apple?
 
Dolby said:
Didn't Symbian have row of icons before Apple?
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But did Nokia patent it?

Unfortunately what did happen is that someone in the US patented common sense and never took it to market - now no one is allowed to use it. :-/
 
I find it hard to believe that a company would damage its own reputation and brand on such petty items. The only conclusion I can make is that their innovation dept must be running on empty.
 
Barge said:
But did Nokia patent it?
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Probably not ...

But no one in their right mind that an evil giant would come along and start crap like this. I mean to patent a row of icons ... really? If I was Nokia back then I'd also not have thought about it
 
HBee said:
I find it hard to believe that a company would damage its own reputation and brand on such petty items. The only conclusion I can make is that their innovation dept must be running on empty.
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Couldnt agree more. Like google-Motorola for instance. So petty!
 
For me, it is blatantly obvious that Samsung intentionally tried to make their early touchscreen phones "more like Apple", and the internal memos from Samsung prove this. Google even warned them not to copy Apple.

It took Apple 5 years of R&D to make the first iPhone - Samsung copied it and had their first "competitor" in the market in a matter of months. They should write the $1b off as development costs and move on.
 
The best written article on this matter to date. The author shares my sentiments exactly. I've always maintained that Apple should/could have dealt with this in other ways that would enhance their brand/image, not degrade it to bully status as is happening now. Innovation was needed in dealing with the copycats, not litigation all across the globe. The impression I can't help getting is that Apple has run out of fresh ideas. If only this article was published sooner.
 
BruceA said:
It took Apple 5 years of R&D to make the first iPhone
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... clearly it wasn't enough since it was a horrible 'smart' phone lacking basic features like multi tasking :/
 
Dolby said:
... clearly it wasn't enough since it was a horrible 'smart' phone lacking basic features like multi tasking :/
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Amazing then that every phone manufacturer has been trying to catch up ever since! Before the iPhone was launched in 2007 the Blackberry was the most popular smartphone. Where are they now? The original Android prototype phone were based on the BB design - they quickly switched to touchscreens after the iPhone was released.

Remember, the original iPhone was only available in the US, so Samsung made phones that deliberately looked similar, and flooded the rest of the world with these lookalikes.

Samsung have improved their designs, and the S3 is a great phone, but they grew their smartphone business based on originally copying the iPhone design, and then improving on that.
 
I'd be interested to pinpoint exactly when Apple stopped being able to innovate. Presumably sometime since they released the first ever retina-quality laptop display in June. Terrible for a company to decline so irrevocably in the space of 3 months.
 
cerebus said:
I'd be interested to pinpoint exactly when Apple stopped being able to innovate. Presumably sometime since they released the first ever retina-quality laptop display in June. Terrible for a company to decline so irrevocably in the space of 3 months.
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I assume this is sarcasm?
 
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