Inside the Apple-Samsung War

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Ivan Avery Frey <ivan.avery.frey-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| Excellent in depth article on the Apple Samsung war:
| http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/06/apple-samsung-smartphone-patent-war

I'm part way in and I don't like it.  The article is using highly
emotive language to make its case.  Maybe it gets better.

Many of the patents being fought over are lunacy.  Rounded corners?
Really?

"Samsung did indeed plot to steal the iPhone’s appearance
and technology"
	The concept of theft of IP is crazy.  Except perhaps for
	trade secrets.  Unauthorized infringement is more accurate.
	"Plotting" is just what companies do, except for the
	connotation of evil.

"It was really just another page from the Samsung playbook, used many
times before: When another company introduces a breakthrough
technology, muscle in with less expensive versions of the same
product."
	That's standard operating procedure in the marketplace.
	And "muscle in" just colours the picture.

I don't actually think either Samsung or Apple are "nice" players.
Both try to be bad monopolists when they can.