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2009-12-11
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2009-12-11
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"Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh"
I'll add that it could do so only because at that time nobody cared about software patents.
Today apple wouldn't have a chance to exist.
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2009-12-11
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Apple foresaw the importance of converged user-friendly mobile devices...designed a business strategy based on the convergence of personal computers, mobile communications, and digital consumer electronics, and produced...devices such as the iPod, iPod Touch and the iPhone.
Apple singles out the 5310, E71, N900 by name, but includes the Series 40, S60 and Symbian platforms, Carbide C++ (because it's developed in an environment that enables the compiler to generate a GUI), and any Nokia product that identifies itself through USB.
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2009-12-11
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2009-12-11
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Err...the n800 came out in Jan. 2007. The first iPhone came out in June 29, 2007. Then you have the 770 which came out 2005-11-03. (dates from Wikipedia).
The reason why Nokia is suing Apple and not the other way around is because Nokia has been losing money and market share while Apple's star is shining brighter than ever before.
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2009-12-11
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2009-12-11
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They'll end up cross licensing each others' technologies. Apple is no worse than Nokia wrto using others' ideas. (google qualcomm sues nokia)
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2009-12-11
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Yup, Apple basically did the same thing Nokia did. They basically went through a 3rd party company that paid the licensing fee. I forget who Nokia went through, but Apple is going through Foxcomm.
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I'll add that it could do so only because at that time nobody cared about software patents.
Today apple wouldn't have a chance to exist.