He never claimed that was their business plan. But you're living in cloud cuckoo land if you think Apple (and plenty of other companies) doesn't do this.
Fair enough, but can you cite any instances of Apple suing a company for infringing a patent on technology they've never instigated?
It seems like even rumored or potential Apple legal action gets plenty of press, so I would have imagined that there would have been a firestorm of negative coverage if Apple had tried one of these preemptive patent moves, but I can't recall that happening.
In fact, it seems like it's pretty rare for Apple to sue anyone for any kind of patent infringement, even when there seems to be instances of other parties using technology that Apple would clearly like to keep to themselves. The Psystar case is the exception rather than the rule.
Sometimes people talk as if Apple were a particularly predatory, litigious outfit, but they seem to hold most of their fire for keeping product release info out of the press.
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He never claimed that was their business plan. But you're living in cloud cuckoo land if you think Apple (and plenty of other companies) doesn't do this.
Fair enough, but can you cite any instances of Apple suing a company for infringing a patent on technology they've never instigated?
It seems like even rumored or potential Apple legal action gets plenty of press, so I would have imagined that there would have been a firestorm of negative coverage if Apple had tried one of these preemptive patent moves, but I can't recall that happening.
In fact, it seems like it's pretty rare for Apple to sue anyone for any kind of patent infringement, even when there seems to be instances of other parties using technology that Apple would clearly like to keep to themselves. The Psystar case is the exception rather than the rule.
Sometimes people talk as if Apple were a particularly predatory, litigious outfit, but they seem to hold most of their fire for keeping product release info out of the press.