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Old 08-25-2011, 06:15 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by din155 View Post
However, I have observed that Apple has become more aggressive (in a wrong way in my opinion) after Jobs left the post due to his illness in January. Since then Apple has been suing other companies for all sorts of reasons. I used to admire Apple (due to Jobs) for changing the mobile computing arena completely. They dazzled the world with their product and one of the best marketing strategies but now they are in news for trying to stop other companies from launching competing products with false allegations. I hope it’s a passing phase and they start focusing again on developing better products and stop this madness.
I think this has more to do with the state of the law concerning patents than it does with a change in Apple. There's a kind of patent arms race going on because of the odd nature of patent law. Basically, just because you acquire a patent doesn't mean that you have established the right to exploit the item you have patented. The only way to find out if a patent is any good is to have a lawsuit about it. Nobody knows if the allegations are false until a court has ruled on whether the patent is actually viable. So we have a legal environment involving bluff, and counter-bluff, that centers around protecting your ability to make new products. In my view, this is another aspect of what I see as the meltdown of the concept of Intellectual Property in the face of technological change.

It's not just Apple.
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