[citation][nom]Compuservant[/nom]Sorry for all you Androids but maybe you should Google or better yet look up "patent" on Wikipedia (read the first 3 paragraphs.) Google, a search engine that diversified by stealing other intellectual property, is kind of like that guy in China who sells you the fake Rolex. You both know it is a fake but as long as it works, you don't care and the street vendor makes a buck.The judges are not stupid. Patent law gives the owner 20 years the exclusive right to market a novel product. Android based phones and tablets are just rip-offs of Apples concepts using Linux as its underpinning. Of course iOS, OS X and Linux itself are based on AT&T's Unix but since it was created in 1969 its patent is long since expired.I bet you Androids wouldn't like it much if China stating selling $10 dollar version of the Galaxy S III? Or how about the masters of piracy, the Russians selling an exact copy of Windows 8 for $15 months before it went on sale in the U.S. Have you heard of Baidu, the top Chinese search engine that Robin Li invented and whose concept for a search engine was stolen by the founders of Google, Page and Brin. BTW, Baidu is now making there own version of Android and Chrome in a country will 1.3 billion people which is neighbored by India with another billion people. Gee, isn't a world without patent enforcement fun?[/citation]
Google have created a great alternative product with useful things like widgets that Apples IOS product doesn't have. Apple copy Android features in updates too. If it was not for stiff competition from Android, IOS would not be as good as it is today. The only people that should be annoyed at Google are Apple investors and stupid people who would rather see a profit driven company succeed more than benefiting themselves.
"Good artists copy; great artists steal"