Apple Claims Google Warned Samsung About Copying iPad

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]beoza[/nom]You might want to rethink your definition of a manufacturer. Sure the hardware that goes inside is made somewhere else. But I do know for a fact that Dell assembles their own computers (with hardware from other countries) in a small town just outside of Reno NV called Clark (it's about halfway between Reno/Sparks and Fernley NV). Having driven truck I picked up a load of computers there to deliver to a UPS DC in So. California. Now Dell may not do all their assembly here in the US, but to say they don't manufacture the final product here is misleading. You can manufacture items in the US with parts made else where. Subaru cars are a good example, the car is assembled at plant in Indiana but the parts are made in another country. You don't have to make the parts that go inside your product to be called a manufacturer, you just have to assemble the collection of parts you buy to build your product. So technically anyone who has ever assembled their own PC is a manufacturer.[/citation]

Assembling and manufacturing aren't really the same in this sense, I didn't say that Dell and HP don't assemble anything in the USA, and I didn't say that none of this companies assemble within the USA anyway. I said that they don't manufacture, as in create, their machines. They can assemble them all that they want and where ever they want (within practical limits and hopefully with relevant laws obeyed), but it's not the same as manufacturing the parts that are being assembled. Manufacturers are the sources of the hardware in this scenario. OEMs, Apple, and such can assemble the parts into computers after those parts have been manufactured, but they still aren't manufacturers. I suppose that this might be an argument in semantics more than in anything else at this point, but I think that the point is made.

 

[Guest]

All right, here is a thought. Suppose Apple did not invent the iPad. Suppose instead that you did. You can't patent a tablet, but you need to protect your new design. What would the exact language be for your design (and your design is the iPad as it shipped, or at least your job is to protect it from copies). Also, note that if you do not adequately protect and defend your product, you will have absolutely NO rights and people will be able to rip you off wholesale. So while Apple may seem ridiculous, their position is difficult

 

[Idonno]

[citation][nom]Tyuiioplkjg[/nom] So while Apple may seem ridiculous, their position is difficult[/citation]
Yes, I feel for them it must be so hard to prevent other people from using ideas that you didn't come up with in the first place.

Just because your the first one that is successful in bringing other peoples ideas to the market doesn't mean you now own those ideas!

 

[v3rlon]

Microsoft didn;t invent the GUI (and neither did Apple). If I made a new computer OS called "Skylight" and said OS had a long gray bar at the bottom that showed applications running ins rectangles that looked sort of like buttons (except the active one, which looked like a pressed button), and had a rounded rectangular button at the far left labeled "Begin," where you could acces all the applications on your system. Do you think Microsoft would object? How much would "Skylight" have to look like Windows before it became a copy? How much of Windows is credited to Microsoft, and how much goes to other GUI creators before them? How much goes to their competitors that came up with features Microsoft had to copy in some way to remain competitive? What rights do said competitors have to copy the features that MS not only copied, but improved on?