by In the highly litigious world of mobile technology, it’s becoming hard to keep track of who’s suing who, but more and more often it seems that Apple’s name is appearing as one of the parties in the slew of legal actions that’s sweeping the industry.
Given the sheer number of lawsuits in play between the folks from Cupertino and other major industry players, you probably won’t be surprised to hear that I am beginning to find much of this legal ballyhoo a little boring. You might, however, be surprised to hear that I’m also starting to root for the other guys.
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For better or worse, the products that have come out of Cupertino’s labs in the last ten years have informed the design of just about any other device in their respective categories. Objectively, it would be difficult to argue against the fact that, after the iPhone was introduced, practically every other smartphone started looking like it, or that the iPad didn’t essentially invent a whole new product category, putting a sizeable dent in the thirty-year-old PC industry. Even the MacBook—perhaps the least exciting of the company’s product lines—has changed the way we perceive laptops to such a degree that competitors seemingly can’t resist being “inspired” by its looks.
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