In the case of the iPhone, I think it's pretty clear there was a lot of true innovation going on there. The evidence is overwhelming.. The mobile phone industry had been going for years before iPhone. The day iPhone was announced, it changed that industry in huge ways. Today, it's obvious that people have been simply copying Apple's innovation (and not very well, at that). No reason why Apple doesn't deserve protection for their genuine innovations if they've patented them.
IMO, this is very different from the kind of "obvious" stuff that get patents awarded. So, the competition needs to invent around Apple's patents. That's an opportunity to leap-frog ahead of Apple, as opposed to just copying and playing catch-up. If the competition has no compelling ideas about how to get ahead of Apple, and no ability to execute those ideas, they deserve to go out of business. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
