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Originally Posted by HarryT
Apple, like Microsoft, are in the public eye, but I really do wonder if they are any more guilty of "spurious" patent violation claims than any other large electronics company is. Do you have any reason to suppose that they are? Are Samsung any more likely to be an innocent party than Siemens and AU Optronics in the news stories I linked to above? I don't know the answer to that question - do you?
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No, I don't.
I don't mean that flippantly -- you make the very good point that it is possible that a company I support is doing something that I don't approve of and yet don't know about. A major problem with the "free market" is that we really can't spend the rest of our lives verifying that, say, Dell doesn't kill a puppy with each laptop model they produce. IF we find out about it, we can take our money elsewhere, but if we don't know about a company's abuses, then we can't effectively chose how to spend our money.
However. I am extremely interested in tech news and my husband has a particular interest in the patent wars. I have reason to believe that Apple really is behaving more badly than, say, Samsung and not that the media just has a major interest in Apple stories. I may, of course, be wrong -- but suppose it boils down to the fact that I'd rather spend my money on a company that
might be bad than a company that I
know is bad*.
(* By which I mean "engaging in a systematic behavioral pattern that I disapprove of". Shortened to "bad" to be easier to read.)