10-28-2011, 06:16 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I agree that the lawsuits are way out of hand. Companies have decided they would rather litigate than innovate. Think how awesome iOS might be right now if they were directing all these legal dollars towards R&D. Patents were never intended to cover the very finite items that we see receiving patents today. We see such obvious things as swiping or touching a screen to interact with it being given patents. Patents are NOT supposed to be granted to obvious ideas, yet that's been completely ignored over the years.
Having ranted about this, Jobs does have a point. Android originally was going to include a keyboard and was targeting RIM. When the iPhone was announced, they changed directions and went with an icon based touch screen system. However, rather than worrying about Android, they would have been better off figuring out how to make it irrelevant buy improving. Instead we saw extremely slow upgrades to the software, and only in it's latest 5th release do we see them actually "catching up".
It's really best for all of us if companies are forced to continue to improve and innovate. Those of us that are former WM users no first hand what happens when the incumbent feels no need to innovate and improve. The laws are supposed to reflect that, but unfortunately they have been greatly twisted by incumbents over the years simply to stifle competition and innovation.
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