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Originally Posted by simmer2
For all you Apple lovers out there, think about it for just a minute about what they're doing...they are trying to gain control of the flow of information. What was once an open source internet will slowly become controlled and closed, and we'll all be paying out our asses for it.
I'd highly recommend "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu for those interested in the Information Industry.
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Nice conspiracy, but it's actually a lot simpler: Apple is a company who's recent success is based largely on its brand, and its brand is based to a large extent on the physical appearance of its devices. As such, defending against devices that copy its brand is one of the most important things that they need to do to protect their market share and their bottom line. It has a lot to do with company profits and nothing to do with attempting to 'gain control of the flow of information'. Sure, accuse them of being a greedy corporation; I have no doubt that they are. But there's no nefarious plot afoot to control the Internet.
Whether there's patent infringement here... I wouldn't be able to say without actually using one of the Samsung devices. But it does seem foolish by Samsung to take a software look that Apple is already suing them over, putting it on a physical device that strongly resembles Apple's product, and then attempt to bring it to market without resolving that previous lawsuit. What did they think would happen?
Anyway, the explosion of the handheld and tablet market suggest to me that there isn't a suppression of innovation here that's holding down the American GDP; there's more than enough innovation to satisfy the audience for the devices right now. If there's a point that a public has stopped buying products because of lack of innovative features (as has happened in the PC market), then maybe you can make that argument. But that's not the case in the tablet market right now.