Given that the iPhone and iPad use several existing patents from Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola etc. in order to use Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS and 3G, among other things, it seems a little off, that they blatantly use those patents, on the one side, then try and sue everybody out of business, when they use a case design, which has vague simularities (remember, that in Germany, the whole case hangs on the point that a 16:9 widescreen tablet with rounded corners looks like Apple's 4:3 "normal" screen format tablet, there are no patents involved at all), or have software functionality which has vague simularities to Apple patents.


No, I just think Apple are hypocritical, and the actions against manufacturers that use Android were a "personal vendetta", according to Jobs. My question is, will the shareholders let such a vendetta continue, if it impacts revenues - and with manufacturers like Samsung now retaliating and having gotten the iPhone and iPad banned in Germany, I think this could force Apple to rethink Jobs' Vendetta.


But, see my first point above, it is not possible for anybody, including Apple, to build a mobile wireless device, currently, without infringing on the patents of others. That is why they all have cross licensing deals, otherwise we wouldn't have ANY mobile devices, well, apart from maybe a couple of very basic Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson phones.