Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones 434
eldavojohn writes "Taiwanese HTC is being sued by Apple for 20 patents regarding the many phones HTC manufactures. Steve Jobs was quoted as saying, 'We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.' Apple has similar patent litigation with Nokia and may be trying to scare the rest of the industry into licensing patents similar to the Microsoft-Novell and Microsoft-Amazon deals regarding patents covering Linux functionality."
Re:Apple is the new Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Apple owns a patent for screen rotation? (Score:1, Funny)
You mean now we have to RTFP too? There goes my lunch...
Re:Maybe Apple should pay their royalties first? (Score:3, Funny)
You might want to keep the charming quarks.
Re:Maybe Apple should pay their royalties first? (Score:3, Funny)
More than one finger? At once?! I, err, I need to go to the bathroom now.
hipster sense tingling (Score:4, Funny)
You're typing that from a coffee shop, from your macbook, aren't you?
Re:hipster sense tingling (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Maybe Apple should pay their royalties first? (Score:3, Funny)
And I heard that if Superman ever fought the Hulk, the Hulk would win on account of his boundless rage.