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January 26, 2007

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Apple to be sued for iPhone…again?

Posted Jan. 26, ’07, 1:01 PM PT by Aaron Freedman
Category | Business

Lg-To-Sue-Apple-Over-The-Iphone-As-Well-2 As if the Cisco suit wasn’t enough, it seems that LG could sue Apple over the iPhone. Remember the LG Prada phone I told you about? Well, LG says that they filed several patents for thire iPhone-like phone, and if they find that the iPhone is too similar, they may sue. While I still think that Apple could have a decent case against LG (Apple’s multitouch technology is something that I don’t believe any other device has), I feel a little less-excited about the iPhone knowing that it isn’t 100%-revolutionary. I mean, Apple should have seen what LG was doing and tried to do something different than that, which in many ways it has, but also hasn’t.

In the end, while I still think the iPhone is very revolutionary and awesome, I feel a little bit turned-off about the fact that there’s a phone already that’s so much like it.


3 Comments

Jeremy McCullough said:

Wasn't the LG Prada announced a week or so after the iPhone was?

In my opinion, the iPhone was probably in the works for far longer than the Prada. The iPhone is innovative, I think, regardless of all the lawsuits. There are 200+ patents related to it, if the keynote is to be believed.

Wow...Apple's legal department sure is busy nowadays...

January 26, 2007 1:36 PM
Dan Moren said:

Officially announced after the iPhone, yes, but news of it leaked at least as early as December of last year.

Despite all the hubbub, I do think that the phone's similarities are pretty much all external. There's no doubt that they look similar, but so do 90% of flip phones or candybar phones. It's kind of like Motorola suing Nokia because both of their phones have keypads.

January 26, 2007 1:53 PM
Sam Roberts said:

I wouldn't worry about iPhone being similar to other phones myself.

There's only so much you can do with a device so small and I reckon Apple have gone well beyond what has been done before.

Others like the "Smartphones" PDA's and Blackberries have made attempts at go anywhere phone/email/internet devices, but no one has put such a complete and comprehensive version of an operating system on a portable device.

The biggest difference between the iPhone and the competition is the same difference that makes you use Apple macs, it runs on Mac OS. So you know it'll be easy to use, stable, secure and a hell of a lot more stylish than anything out there.

That's why we pay good money for Macs when we could get a Dell for a third of the money is it not?

January 27, 2007 4:35 AM

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