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Apple had their official conference call with Wall Street this week that detailed their earnings for this most recent quarter, as well as some other interesting news and questions. One of the more interesting questions was about the Palm Pre and its relation to Apple’s iPhone and its patents. RBC Capital’s Mike Abramsky mentioned that the “... Palm Pre almost directly emulates what you have already patented.” With that, Tim Cook fired back, “We like competition, as long as they don’t rip off our IP.”
However, the more interesting response came a little later in the conversation. Tim Cook later mentioned, “I don’t want to talk about any particular company. However, we will not stand for having our IP ripped off. And we will use whatever weapons we have at our disposal.” If you ask me, Apple will definitely be going after the Palm Pre as it provides direct competition to their iPhone—competition that really didn’t exist until now. With their large library of patents, it will be interesting to see what Apple’s lawyers come up with.
Via [CNBC]
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Come on, really? The Palm Pre has not even been released yet and the argument is advanced that it has—or, may have—borrowed liberally from the iPhone and infringed Apple’s intellectual property?
It hardly does so visually, or mechanically, based upon pre-release showing. It is essentially a rather well designed touch-screen version of a Linux OS-driven quasi-traditional Palm device, far more akin to the Treo product line than the iPhone.
Please tell me that Apple doesn’t really consider a currently CDMA-only Palm OS device with limited US distribution to be a substantial competitor to the iPhone…
on January 22, 2009 at 06:36 PM - LINKI believe he’s saying they’re just going to look into it. If Apple already felt that it had, they would’ve done something about it.
on January 22, 2009 at 07:41 PM - LINK