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Re:Good job Apple. You fucked the world... by thedrbrian on Sunday August 26, 2012 @07:15AM (#4434876)
So it's ethical to copy and deceive but not to defend your own ideas?
Re:Good job Apple. You fucked the world... by thirsteh on Sunday August 26, 2012 @09:54AM (#4435080)
"Patents are okay when it's Apple getting them."
Re:Good job Apple. You fucked the world... by batista on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @11:29AM (#4444165)
All companies, including Samsung, have sued others for patents, including trivial patents, including in this very issue. So it would hypocritical for Samsung to cry because it lost the trial.

Now Samsung has to either make a different enough phone, or pay Apple a cut. In any case, it's not like we're loosing much as consumers. Even if we are to absorb the extra costs of patenting some phone tech. A $20 more expensive phone? Big deal, that's less than the monthly phone bill. If anything, we might get some original UI concepts by Samsung in their effort not to fork for Apple patented concepts.

That said, there is a field, were patents are literally killing people, either by illness or by starvation, by technically inflating the cost of medicine and agriculture. Talking about Big Pharma and Monsanto patents. How about some outrage for those?

Re:Good job Apple. You fucked the world... by scoith on Sunday August 26, 2012 @09:58AM (#4435089)
Yeah, tell me about those genius ideas invented by Apple that only 10 Einsteins could have come up with. Rounded corners? It's too fortunate for that that nobody patented their "innovative" stuff 50 years ago because it is totally ridiculous. Want some respect as a company? Do something like research.google.com instead of trying to screw people over with overpriced candies and screwing other companies when they put their hands in your honey jar.