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The reality is Apple filed lawsuit on company that actually invented Mobile Phone (Motorola) about a silly design patent. Facebook didn't invent anything. In

• ashishgandhi 15y ago
  Are you trying to say the iPhone changed nothing? It wasn't an innovation and innovation stopped the day Motorola invented the "Mobile Phone"? Sure, the iPhone is a mobile phone but it's no way any more similar to what Motorola invented than how similar Motorola's mobile phone is to the original landline phone.
  • fpgeek 15y ago
    But, for various legal and practical reasons, Apple isn't suing over the things that made the iPhone and the iPad innovative. Instead, they're suing over ticky-tack nonsense that other people did before like: - "slide-to-unlock" (Neonode N1m) - clicking to call phone numbers they detect in text messages and email (Palm Treo among many, many examples - especially if you look at analogous desktop functionality like recognizing URLs in email that makes the concept obvious) - tablets that are black rectangles with rounded corners (Knight-Ridder concept tablet from 1994, the movie version of 2001, ...) Perhaps if more people were aware of exactly what Apple was actually suing over they'd be less supportive.
    • weeny 15y ago
      All that prior art will certainly bubble to the surface during the trial process. There is a cottage industry around finding it - kind of like bounty hunting. See articleonepartners.com, a service that lets researchers be rewarded for invalidating litigious patents.
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• PakG1 15y ago
  Facebook didn't invent anything. They did invent some interesting infrastructure and dev-level stuff, which they've open-sourced.