Kubrick made first iPad

[Blood_splat]

I'm sorry Apple, I'm afraid I can't do that.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Blood_splat

I'm sorry Apple, I'm afraid I can't do that.

[vienna]

This just in re: Apple/Samsung fight:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...therlands.html

[joea]

So maybe other companies are indeed no paragons of virtue.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...06&postcount=4

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by joea

So maybe other companies are indeed no paragons of virtue.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...06&postcount=4

No one said they were.

Apple just is the loudest one of them.

[TarJak]

It will make no difference to the legal stoushes but with Jobs gone will Apple remain as dominant as it has been? http://www.smh.com.au/technology/tec...825-1jat8.html

[vienna]

So maybe other companies are indeed no paragons of virtue.

Probaly not, but as Dowly said:

Apple just is the loudest one of them.

Apple is to claims of "innovation" as Michael Jackson was to "original compositions" (in case you didn't know, Jackson was sued with great regularity for plagarism and usually paid up in out of court settlements or other arrangements)...

Apple once tried to sue Microsoft (MS) after MS launched the first Windows Graphic User Interface (GUI) operating system; Apple claimed MS "stole" the "look and feel" of the Apple GUI and claimed MS was infringing on Apple's "innovation". MS went before the court and showed the judge the true source of the GUI: Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Xerox had developed the original GUI (and mouse, icidentally) and never bothered to copyright or patent the GUI. In fact, PARC invited representatives from other firms, including MS and Apple, to see demonstrations of the GUI. When Bill Gates saw the PARC GUI, he ordered his senior development staff to go to PARC and see if it would be possible to adapt the GUI to MS operating systems. Steve Jobs took another track and tried to pass off the GUI as an Apple innovation.

The upshot of the trial was Apple was allowed only to claim ownership of it's logo desktop icon and it 'trash bin' icon; all other claims were thrown out...

Interestingly, there was a recent lawsuit filed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen against Apple regarding the "page turn" effect feature Apple uses on its iPad, and touts in its advertising; it appears the patent for that feature is owned by Paul Allen...