“Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook… appears to be taking square aim at Palm and the company’s new touch screen Pre,’ Jim Goldman reprots for CNBC.
Goldman reports, “On the conference call with Wall Street analysts this evening, Cook was responding to a question from RBC Capital’s Mike Abramsky who asked about iPhone competitors and how many of them navigated ‘carefully around your multi-touch (intellectual property. But the Palm Pre almost directly emulates what you have already patented,’ he said.”
“‘We like competition, as long as they don’t rip off our IP,’ said Cook,” Goldman reports. “When Abramsky followed with a direct reference to Palm and its Pre, Cook said, ‘I don’t want to talk about any particular company. However, we will not stand for having our IP ripped off. And we will use whatever weapons we have at our disposal.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Palm’s Pre dog and pony show is nothing more than takeover bait. They simply do not have the resources necessary to create another mobile platform, especially one that is superfluous. If Palm’s Pre is not a ruse, then those responsible are kidding themselves.
We’ve been pushing the state-of-the-art in every facet of design… We’ve been innovating like crazy for the last few years on this and we’ve filed for over 200 patents for all of the inventions in iPhone. And we intend to protect them. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiling iPhone, January 9, 2007
