Tuesday 28 August 2012

battles are lost, technologies never lose

The Apple iphone monopoly and blame game will prevail as long as legacy and patent remains. However think tanks should not forget - to achieve a greater technology revolution, monopoly syndrome should be eradicated.  
Of late, I heard the news Samsung Electronics shares tumbling day-by-day, wiping $12bn off the South Korean giant's market value, as Apple Inc's sweeping legal victory in their US patent battle. A US jury found Samsung had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded Apple $1.05bn in damages in the most closely watched patent trial in years. 
When you share the knowledge more inventions creep up rapidly. Apple had themselves got some of their ideas for their GUI from Xerox. So neither Apple nor Macintosh were the first to create Graphic User Interfaces with a desktop style. All companies use ideas from other companies and try to develop them and bring out their own variations. That is not necessarily stealing. This is how technology advances and inventions bloom.
By and large, i-phone customers and global community has already accepted to adapt new technology no matter it be Apple i-phone or Samsung phablet. As a layman, what's wrong if I get a Samsung product with better, stable and more reliable feature with a cheaper and branded price? 

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