Apple to Samsung: “Try doing your own design work.”
Apple to the consumer electronics industry: “We’re not your unbudgeted R&D department, and we never were. Try figuring this shit out on your own.”
Samsung to Apple: “Consumers have the right to cheap knockoffs.”
Samsung to the consumer electronics industry: “Pebbles in a stream! Stereotypical Asian poetry metaphors!”
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Yeah, patents are fucked up. But original design work deserves protection. Even from companies like Zynga.
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