BiggieTall

I would hypothesize that because of the generations of digital hardware and software developed over the past 30-40 yrs more people are being creative than ever before and to pack the breadth of capabilities into the phones, tablets and computers of today is just amazing. 

Any analog artists are still being artists using the tools they want to use. 

Nerd and billionaire tech-bro rage over “our way is better” issues should only be decided by the market. Those with a better way can use their billions to invest in an alternative platform (new or existing) that does it “our way” instead of riding the government provided money train to continue spinning out more advertising to and collecting more data from the iphone users. 

It seems a  good chunk of those tech-bro millions and billions, ironically enough, were made in product areas created directly or tangentially by the iPhone while operating under the same Apple rules and on the same Apple platform they now want to use the government to tear open. 

Prior to the Trade Commission ruling, Apple was one vote away in the jury trial from being found not guilty of patent infringement (5-1).  This resulted in a mistrial.  Apparently during the trial, Apple paraded its development team to the stand and each declared under oath how the Apple watch component was developed NOT using Masimo technology.  

Btw Masimo was originally claiming $3B in damages at the trial but the judge threw out a bunch and it was reduced to $1.xB.