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They had to pay the Beatles twice for using Apple as a name. Apple Corp with an apple core logo was older.
They had to pay Cisco for taking the iPhone name – afterwards. Pre-existing Cisco IP phone.
They had to pay Fujitsu for taking the iPad name – afterwards.
An Apple TV has no screen and no tuner.
They had to compensate Swiss Rail and stop using their clock face.
They got fake patents (actual patents and design patents, called Registered Design in the UK), because the USPTO doesn't do due diligence or consider prior art or patents that are not USPTO. Edison terrorised film makers for years till the US Gov revoked his cinema patents that shouldn't have been awarded. He didn't invent the lightbulb either, though his team did invent a better way to make carbon filaments. So Samsung lost in court despite loads of stuff had rounded corners, Fingerworks GUI bought in, nothing new about tiled array of icons and 1st phone used Samsung CPU. Absolutely nothing novel about the first few iphones. Capacitive touch was from 1980s and not used on phones because the aim was high resolution input, like for writing. Capacitive is low resolution. The iPhone was over eight years after the first Smart Phone. Succeeded due to carrier all you can eat data deals and subsidy. Not innovation, though easier to use than S60, but no 3G or copy/Paste at the time, on all the competing smart phones.
It's hardly innovation to cripple the ability to change a SIM, a battery, delete the audio socket or deface the display with notch to shorten the case slightly. Or have no SD card slot.
It's a marketing company with a giant team of patent lawyers that offshores the largest profit margin in the industry, a low percentage spent on R&D and values form over function. Jonny Ives pinched most of the simplistic styling from Braun products styled by Dieter Rams. He was a designer in Apple in the sense of a Graphic designer that designs a logo for stationary. He's left.
Likely Apple is planning to claim that any use of the term books is a violation of their intellectual property. And the Mac OS before X was ideas copied from the 1976 Xerox Star. Steve Jobs was kicked out by the Pepsi guy that ran Apple for a while and had then NeXt computer. It's OS was based on BSD, a fork of UNIX. When he came back to Apple, MS rescued the dying company that staggered with the iMac till the iTunes saved them. Then Mac OS9 replaced by the OS X from NeXt in 2002 and they stopped incrementing the major version number because X for 10 is cool.
Arrogance doesn't even begin to describe Apple. Badly designed aerials due to Jonny Ive's insistence on a bad package design led to "You're holding it wrong".
Then there are mysterious deals to have Mac or Ipads as exclusive or even mandatory products in schools. Even here in some Irish Schools.
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