In the latest edition of his podcast, +Andy Ihnatko provides an excellent analysis of the Samsung-Apple suit and potentially chilling effects on the mobile phone industry of giving so much control to Apple. While many have written about the document that Apple presented with the licensing deal they offered Samsung in 2010, few if any (including myself) have read enough it to realize that Apple was also demanding retroactive royalties on phones that were introduced well before the iPhone.
Ihnatko is certainly no +Android fan boy and in fact is one of the hosts of MacBreak Weekly on +TWiT. His discussion of the so-called smoking gun competitive analysis document is particularly good. Having spent many years as an engineer, benchmarking competitors and looking at what you can do better, is standard procedure and only the truly arrogant or stupid would deny that they never look at what has gone before. It's well worth spending an hour to listen.
5by5 | The Ihnatko Almanac #39: iPone Knockoffs
5by5 – The Ihnatko Almanac #39: iPone Knockoffs
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Making better is not necessarily making the same or just about. I work for a firm that uses technology. We look at what the competitors are doing, our R&D is always seeking how to do it better, not doing the same. That is why Apple won.
Making better is not necessarily making the same or just about. I work for a firm that uses technology. We look at what the competitors are doing, our R&D is always seeking how to do it better, not doing the same. That is why Apple won.