News - Sony Inspired Apple's iPhone, court filing reveals

[crossy]

The motor industry is an amazing example of how look, feel and style has to be copied in a modern competitive world. Its full of cars that has stolen ideas from other cars and it is accepted as normal.

Good analogy - although I'd quibble with the description of "stolen" (some Chinese manufacturers excepted - see Top Gear China special). Look at Cadillac for one, and Mercedes Benz for another (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz#Innovations)
And therein lies the difference - as you rightly say - generally speaking the motor industry places a premium on being first to do something, others are free to follow, albeit at the risk of being labelled a "follower" rather than an "innovator". I also read of circumstances where patents a company holds are freely licensed to competitors - c.f. Apple's "cease and desist" mentality.

I operate a strict anti-Apple policy. I go for what's best, and the way apple operate means it's never ever them.

I'm not anti-Apple, but I'll agree with your "go for what's best" comment. E.g. in my case iPhone and iPad are too restrictive, but I've got an iPod Nano because that's better than the competition in the market (although there's some new Sony devices that look very promising).

Getting back to the article - shame Sony didn't volunteer to be a "friend of court" and testify in support of Samsung. As I've said before - it's going to be beneficial for consumers for Apple to lose this case, and lose it big.

[Biscuit]

I read this the other day, i thought it was quite a good summary of what to expect and unfortunately, things don't look good for samsung and Android

[watercooled]

I'm not anti-Apple, but I'll agree with your "go for what's best" comment. E.g. in my case iPhone and iPad are too restrictive, but I've got an iPod Nano because that's better than the competition in the market (although there's some new Sony devices that look very promising).

I was like that up until recently, with the constant patent trolling and such, and now it would take a heck of a lot to get me to use anything Apple again...

[atlewis]

Currently living in China, none of this surprises me.