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Apple: The Gaddafi of the Tech Industry

Yes, you read that right. Apple is the Gaddafi of Silicon Valley. They waste ludicrous amounts of money on frivoulous lawsuits in an attempt to kill off their competition so they can force their overpriced gadgets down the throats of the masses. The number of Apple Lawsuits against other mobile phone companies has been on the rise, and Apple needs to cut it out. In Apple's lawsuit against HTC, they wasted almost $100 million while they were trying to use their patents to stop HTC phone sales in Europe. Their frivolous lawsuits are only hurting the company itself. Darwin said that an organism has to grow and adapt to the new environment to survive, and Apple is doing the exact opposite of that. So far in 2012, Asus released the Transformer Prime, a quad core beast of a tablet, LG released a line of smartphones with true HD screens, Google took their mobile platform to the next level with ICS and its multitude of new features. Apple could have taken that $100 million and turned it into some crazy R&D for the next iPhone. I'm not against intellectual property rights, I'm against Apple trying to kill their competition for improving their ideas. I'm against wasting money that could be used to innovate. I'm against a multi-million dollar company resorting to tactics that are used by PETA to compare SeaWorld to a whale slave trading front.

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Anonymous said…
SO NOT TRUE. DISAGREE COMPLETELY
February 9, 2012 at 9:54 PM
Moez Janmohammad said…
If you're going to make an assertion like that, at least have some way to back it up instead of "SO NOT TRUE."
Apple has lost billions of dollars in lawsuits against Samsung, LG, HTC, Motorola, and Google in the last 2 years, and the defendant in the lawsuit has wasted money in the lawsuits too. That money could be better used to innovate our current technology.
February 9, 2012 at 9:58 PM
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