“Could it be in Apple’s self-interest to lose its bitter court battle with Samsung?” Steve Lohr wonders for The New York Times.
“Yes, it could. That is the contrarian point made in a research note from Steve Milunovich, a veteran computer analyst who joined UBS as a managing director in May,” Lohr reports. “‘It could hurt Apple,’ he writes, ‘because the real threat is not a competitor beating Apple at its own game but instead changing the game. The likelihood of Apple being leapfrogged or a rival creating a new category is greater if they have to think outside the box. If they just copy Apple, like Coke, Apple can claim to be ‘the real thing.’”
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Oh yeah, exactly, just like Microsoft’s Metro is doing to iOS…
That’s just ignorant, as applied to Samsung. (another competitor maybe not)
uh, I’ll take the Apple win right now thanks vs. hoping for a guilt trip if it loses… what a crazy point of view.
If other companies could “think outside the box” (a clichéd phrase that should be banned, especially from a so-called journalist) wouldn’t they have done so by now?
!!!! Well said! The whole bunch of them seem to be constantly demonstrating they don’t have a single original idea between them.
Moron alert!
I don’t get it. It hasn’t worked up until now. Samsung has made a serious dent in the cell phone market by copying Apple even though Apple is the real thing.
I agree, also Apple needs to show that it will defend its patents or else other company’s will do the same. Samsung specifically needs to understand that what they are doing is wrong and will not be tolerated.
It’s unlikely, but it could maybe happen someday. It’s a stretch, though.
What’s not a stretch or maybe-could-happen-someday is this: Samsung is stealing from Apple, profiting from their rivals research & development, without taking any of the risks Apple did, not paying for it, breaking the law doing it, and disrupting Apple’s entire business model (which is selling unique electronics based on innovations from private research & development).
Apple is right for going after the parasite currently siphoning its livelihood. The possibility of legitimate competition in the future is a dumb reason to let the bloodsuckers keep going.
This article’s logic is seriously corrupted
That is silly. If you lose the case, it set a standard to copy another’s hard work and profit by it. Where is the incentive to produce ground breaking designs if you know it will be on the market in a few months. Why invest the money, hire engineers, or even promote people with unique abilities. All because Apple can stay on top? Plain stupid for a journalist to promote such an idea. The patent office was setup to provide a reward for the work and money it takes to risk a market changing device, method, or design.
Steve Lohr must wake up in the morning and ask what dumb idea can he written for the mindless and lacking of critical thought lemmings
Well the New York Times is pretty much wrong about everything and they are supporting Ohbummer.
How insightful.
The also reported on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So their misinformation is not always slanted in the same direction (except maybe pro-whoever-is-currently-president.)
There were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
I could argue, because evidence of WMDs in Iraq were never found after the invasion, but I doubt anything will change your mind given you made it this far ignoring the facts on the issue.
I’ll leave this factcheck.org link on the odd chance you actually want to know but just haven’t been informed:
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/no-wmds-in-iraq/
Agreed.
NYT practices alternative reporting and certainly not reality reporting.
“Just the facts, Jack!”
By Lohr’s logic, if someone were to rob his house, Lohr would have to write better articles so he could afford to buy replacement stuff.
+1
It may be true, but it’s not right.
Exactly like with the PC market in the 90s — oh wait, that didn’t work out.
When people rip you off it doesn’t always work well for the “real thing”. Sure you’re the original, but your competitors don’t have to pay for the tens of thousands of highly skilled people it takes to get there in the first place.
The whole point of the patent system is to incentivize investment in innovation by granting a limited monopoly to the innovation. Apple invested years and billions into the creation of something we all can agree was tremendously useful and novel. They deserve some protection from copycats.
It says “Designed in California” for a reason. Right now a product like the iPhone could only be conceived, developed, polished and perfected in Silicon Valley. It can be copied anywhere.
That starts with the assumption that it’s easy to make something thats not only new but better. Apple can compete in that arena.
Such silliness. The only danger to Apple of some company leapfrogging it is if Apple pulls a Microsoft and sits around making incremental upgrades and not innovating. So long as Apple keeps looking for the “Next Big Thing”, it will continue to create wonderful products and will be very successful.
More false logic trying to say Samdung and the tech industry is equal to Apple, but they are not.
Samdung LOLOLOL !!! Thats a nice burn. Got to remember that one.
I’d rather Apple win for the sole reason of not wanting to see all the internet anti-Apple trolls gloating.
Steve would want Apple to win and the competition to try to leapfrog Apple – he was not afraid of competition.
…the real threat is not a competitor beating Apple at its own game but instead changing the game.
They’re called competition, innovation and progress. Long may they live! We The Customers benefit.
Dear Apple, Please kick Samsung’s cheating ass. 😀
“Could it be in Apple’s self-interest to lose its bitter court battle with Samsung?” Steve Lohr wonders for The New York Times.”
Earth to Steve, would it serve your self-interest if you plagiarized stories and lost your job?
Best wishes, Apple.
This is bigger than Apple. It’s right vs. wrong.