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History repeats
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 06:20 PM EDT
Apple once owned the minicomputer stage. It was first with technology that was
much better than anything else then on offer. They were subsequently completely
blitzed by the PC - originally the IBM PC and its army of clones - a free
hardware spec that anyone could use. And of course by Microsoft windows that
became the standard (albeit proprietary) software to run on these. They tried to
fight back with their famous "look and feel" court case, and lost.

Apple once again are first in the smartphone market with something better than
what others were then offering. Only a small lead this time because the pace of
technology is much faster these days. But they did achieve a definite jump on
the rest of the market for sure. And once again they are subsequently being
blitzed by an army, this time by an army of android based phones built on free
software. And so yet again they resort to the courts and another "look and
feel" case. In this case they are trying to claim the look and feel of
rectangles with rounded corners and screens with colorful icons.

I wish them the same outcome they achieved the last time they resorted to this
strategy.

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