I was just reading an editorial on Engadget and I have to say, Darren Murph raises a very good point:

"In the end, consumers will lose. Companies high and low are scrapping potentially amazing product ideas right now for fear of legal retaliation. Not just from Apple -- this ruling is way, way bigger than that -- but from any company with a patent on [insert obscure shape here]. I hope we're happy."

This whole thing is going to stifle true creativity and innovation in the industry.

To everyone defending Apple, yes Samsung may have infringed on Apple's patents but those patents should never have been granted in the first place (same goes for some of Samsung's patents). Patents are meant to be granted for true inventions that are useful, new and non-obvious. Apple's patents in this case were neither new or non-obvious. This whole thing is a piss take.

Everyone read what Scoobes posted above. He gets it.

yes, obviously. 

This is good. people want inovation? then be happy Samsung just got fucked for copying! WP, Nokia, Rim are inovationg and there phones/OS looks compleatly different to iOS. 

Samsung phones are not inotive at all, Copying Apple got them in the shit and rightly so.

oh.. dont like this? look at all the F*cks i give

Do you not see how this is the exact opposite of encouraging innovation? If you're going to flaunt your lack of interest in other people's arguments by taunting your empty bag of fucks for giveaway, there's really no reason for you to comment in the first place.

i have every right to comment, i just cant be bothered to get into a petty argument with someong because they hate Apple. im right in what i said as the courts have decided too. Someone who hates Apple (they dont actually but its cool at the moment for geeks to hate Apple, Hipsters basically) so il through my bag of shits all over the place tbh. 

This rulling is encouraging innvoation? lol Samsung copied so they got f*cked for it. other companys who have looked at the iphone and gone with there own direction are not being sued lol IF this court did decided Samsung was allowed to copy THAT wouldnt be innovation. 

This comment shows that you have not read any of my or anyone else's previous posts in this thread. Do that and come back with your updated rebuttal.

Speaking of things you should do, how about a quick proofread before hitting submit? That post was borderline incoherent.

Im dyslexic.. cheers

Romney? 

Well, have a nice day.

Are you saying a smartphone should look like a banana and not a smartphone?

The actual stuff in the UI is just Android OS, that's got nothing to do with Apple, they don't own the patent to the "icon". Basically the only similarity we have is that it has a silver curved bezel.

You can only patent shit like that in America. Land of the corporate bitch.