On March 2, 2010 Apple decided to filed a lawsuit against the mobile maker HTC. According to their website HTC is infringing on no less than 20 Apple patents.
It’s not the first time Apple files a lawsuit against another mobile manufacturer. In 2009 Apple was taken to court by the Finnish mobile company Nokia and returned that with a lawsuit against Nokia again for infringing Apple patents.
Nothing wrong with that, except that Apple in the first place used standard mobile technology that is patented by Nokia without paying the Finnish mobile maker.
So what have HTC done wrong? Probably by making Nexus One to similar to the iPhone. And when the words iPhone killer + HTC + Google started popping up on mr. Steve Jobs laptop (most likely an Apple), he just could not let this go by.
But there isn’t really anything new in this. In software and hardware development everyone has copied each other. Apple didn’t make the graphical desktop, but they copied it.
Looking forward to see the outcome of this.
Personally I really dislike all these patents and lawsuits. And the Nexus one is far from the same mobile as the iPhone. It’s most likely better as it can multitask and other stuff that the iPhone can’t. Also: You can update it without using the ….. (fill in your favorite swear word here) iTunes that mr Jobs only has made windows and (naturally) apple versions of. And Apple is continuing to make it hard for us Linux users to sync our apple iPods/iPhones with our OS.
