Right, sure. Apple was the first cellular phone with a multi-touch screen on which Apple holds the patents and licenses that technology to other phone makers and that eschewed the physical keyboard AND stylus approach to data input moving to mere finger input, which to accomplish they spent years solving the problem of resolving a finger accuracy input down to pixel accuracy. Apple designed the touches, strokes, and pinch movements used on all cellular multi-touch screens in use today, and yes, copyrighted the look and feel of the multiple screens on an iPhone, and you have the unmitigated gall to claim it was they who appropriated the work of others that DID NOT EXIST UNTIL the iPhone appeared?
It is the same legal system and judges that ignore the constitution when liberals are getting away with crap, and make up their own rules when it comes to the “travel ban”.
That is a total non sequitur when discussing patent lawsuits. It is the liberal judges who are ignoring the actual Constitutional patent and case law involving patents that have resulted in this mess. . . not to mention the feather headed patent office workers who have allowed the patenting of mere ideas, rather than actual inventions.
Before the iPhone, browsers on cellular phones were dependent on mobile compliant websites, and could not see fully desk-top compliant content. The iPhone, except for FLASH content, was fully desk-top compliant and did not require a mobile browser website to use the Internet. It was more HTML compliant than Microsoft Internet Explorer.
June ^ 2007
Even Google's Internal documents show they saw the
necessity to REDESIGN their Android Reference Phone
from a Blackberry Clone to a multi-touch iPhone Clone.
There was a complete sea-change in the design of phones after the introduction of the iPhone. . . and anyone who thinks that somehow there was not, is delusional. It was the iPhone design and invention of a completely new interface and re-thinking of the smartphone that made that change. . . or why did all cellular smartphones after the iPhone took off suddenly take on the look, feel, and operate like the iPhone which had been DESIGNED by Apple and that people wanted more than the candy bar or flip phones?
Those cellular phone makers who did not follow Apple's design lead are no longer in the phone business. . . paging Nokia?