Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial

Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by CamperBob2 on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:05PM (#17157977)

To counter your point, my friends were blackberry fanatics, they just laughed when they saw the iphone without a physical keyboard and said this will never work.

None of this has anything whatsoever to do with the patent in question. It seems very important to the people in this thread to deflect from any discussion of the actual case. I wonder why that might be?

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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by sumedh on Saturday May 26, 2018 @07:08AM (#17161399)

So if its not relevant why bring it up in the first place?

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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by CamperBob2 on Saturday May 26, 2018 @07:21PM (#17164710)

So if its not relevant why bring it up in the first place?

To bolster the argument of inevitability, as opposed to divine inspiration worthy of eternal reward (or at least 20 years).

The iPhone depended on a single gating technology: touchscreens that didn't suck. Those appeared on the market a couple of years before the iPhone, but none of the major players took advantage of them. Apple did, and the rest is deterministic history.

Yes, some people laughed at touchscreen UIs. Yes, they were wrong to do so. Both of these facts are irrelevant to the underlying argument.

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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by sumedh on Saturday May 26, 2018 @10:05PM (#17165128)

> Both of these facts are irrelevant to the underlying argument.

Exactly.

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