Apple is going DOWN

[exploited]

So, Apple sued and won. What was the basis of their case. What specifically did Samsung copy.

[eric]

Apparently Apple patented rectangles with rounded corners. That's the patent. I don't know what else you want me to say. It's obvious to me what the patent issue is here, but you and others continue to think that Apple was granted a literal patent on basic shapes. Haha, I mean, you actually think that a jury and court sat down and were like, "well, it's clear here that Apple has a patent on the rectangle with rounded corners. Everybody who ever makes a phone like that ever again will just have to pay them royalties, so long as that company is Samsung". Believe whatever you want, it's a waste of my time to argue against people who are biased toward Apple when I'm trying to explain, objectively, what the patent was about. I've attempted to do so to the best of my ability in the last like 5 pages. So anything I have to say is there.

[exploited]

Like I said: "Apple didn't patent rounded rectangular phones, they patented rounded rectangular phones!"

Wow.

[eric]

Oh, and just to be clear. All the parts where I'm saying that they did patent rectangles, rectangular phones, etc... is hyperbole and me making fun of you.

[exploited]

So Apple did not sue Samsung for creating a phone that had a rounded rectangular shape. That didn't happen. Instead, they sued Samsung for... What exactly?

[Aaron]

Apple could easily patent something as seemingly generic as a rectangle with rounded corners, because Apple's entire history and panache in designing operating systems was based upon the idea that it was pleasing to the eye to view boxes with rounded corners. It's why the original Apple computers were rounded both boxes and monitors, and it's why the OS 6,7,8,9 Operating systems all had soft grey windows with rounded corners. Apple did literally invent the marketing and purpose behind boxes with rounded corners.

That is why they continue to win patent lawsuits on arbitrary and vague geometric objects.

[Professor]

I heard today that Apple lost in the UK, and was forced to write a public apology letter to Samsung. Is that true? Can't verify - not at a computer.

[John Galt]

[Professor]

We all know that Apple is cooler. That's why all the grandmas I see have them!

(Seriously, I've seen a dozen here in CO. Its laughable.)

[Spider]

Old people and Macs makes a lot of sense. Back when they were learning may have been the Mac Classic era, when MS's stuff was still very primitive. It was the first truly point and click computer, and that's where a lot of people got on board. My grandmother for example got her first computer (which was passed down to me as a child years later) during this period.

Memories....