Originally Posted by Hampton Wick:
“Although of course all tech companies have been engaging in lawsuits recently, Apple have always been litigious from their early days.
They've sued everyone from people making products that allowed MacOS to run on an Amiga to Mac rumour sites.
When you are sitting on as much cash as they are, you can afford to stifle competition through lawsuits. By the time the issue is sorted out, tech has moved on so even if you lose you've accomplished your goal of preventing the other company from competing with your product at the time, for a few millions of dollars of 'spare change'.”
Apple's OS was not licensed to work on competing products so them suing for that was reasonable, as is suing sites for misinformation, something any responsible company does.
Samsung's copying of Apple's products stands out when you consider that Samsung is pretty good at not doing that in a market they dominate in, TVs. It's an act of desperation which to me doesn't make much sense as they are cable of designing good products, just as long as they hire someone else when it comes to the software. I've owned three Samsung Blu-Ray players that have never worked properly after a ridiculous number of firmware updates. Great picture quality though, that is, when they ran/run.