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If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica)

If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica)

Posted Feb 24, 2012 3:06 UTC (Fri) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486)
In reply to: If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica) by karim
Parent article: If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica)

That may be, but that doesn't mean other phones stole from the iPhone.
And in particular, prior art should invalidate patents. Case in point is the "slide-to-unlock" thing.
Apple may be able to claim first-to-market, but they really should stop claiming Android was stolen from them.


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If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica)

Posted Feb 24, 2012 22:16 UTC (Fri) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]

They had the gall to claim speech based search was theres as well when Android had it years before Apple did. It seems that any feature Apple adds is immediately theres regardless of history. They are an arrogant company and point to a sincere problem with the patent system.

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