Stupid jury kills innovation/competition and hands Apple a monopoly

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disolitude said:

WTF are you people talking about?

Do some research and look at the phones which were sued and patents that Apple sued them with. Looking at the phones in question, Samsung "willingly" copied the Iphone and its features.

People that know me know that I don't like Apple but I hate seeing lack of common sense.

Except there's no rational basis for claiming the 1/2 of these similar features are APPles to use exclusively. Icons to represent programmes on a "home" screen have been around for ages, putting them on a phone is nothing special. There are certain logical efficiencies to layout, so Apple should own those. Rectangula phones with rounded corners are hardly new. In fact there's really nothing new about the look and feel of iPhone, the only thing arguably new is all those things put together in iPhone, but even then  most phone will have used elements of at a majority of the things Apple argues is exclusively theirs through some imagined innovation.

Anyway Samsung design has pretty much moved on. I just hope this doesn't have repercussions essentially creating a monopoly situation.