[IncPen]

Thanks for clarifying.

...as does the need for BOTH ends of the pipeline to buy into the technology which is what sank SmartFLash as a physical product in the first place, its business model.

It appears in retrospect that what sank SmartFlash is that it was quickly superseded by better implementations, and the fact that it was a tough sale at the time.

Regardless of the suit, Apple exceeded SF by leaps and bounds even as SF was struggling to get off the ground.

And now they've got ApplePay, which will change the game again.

[IncPen]

And even in the unlikely case that SF wins on appeal, $532 million is a rounding error in Cupertino...

[Swordmaker]

It appears in retrospect that what sank SmartFlash is that it was quickly superseded by better implementations, and the fact that it was a tough sale at the time.

It was superseded by technology that did not require user to buy proprietary technology to take advantage of using the Internet to make purchases or for the sellers to buy into the proprietary system to sell their products on line.