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Q: Why is Java on your computer?

A: It’s always been there. And you need it for a lots of websites, dont’t you?

NOPE!

Pois é, quando a Apple recentemente passou a chamar o iPad de terceira geração de “iPad” simplesmente, ele por ter dado a dica de que uma ou mais variações do produto já estavam a caminho.

iPad mini. E por que não?

Today was an important day for Apple and for innovators everywhere.

Many of you have been closely following the trial against Samsung in San Jose for the past few weeks. We chose legal action very reluctantly and only after repeatedly asking Samsung to stop copying our work. For us this lawsuit has always been about something much more important than patents or money. It’s about values. We value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth. And we do this to delight our customers, not for competitors to flagrantly copy.

We owe a debt of gratitude to the jury who invested their time in listening to our story. We were thrilled to finally have the opportunity to tell it. The mountain of evidence presented during the trial showed that Samsung’s copying went far deeper than we knew.

The jury has now spoken. We applaud them for finding Samsung’s behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn’t right.

I am very proud of the work that each of you do.

Today, values have won and I hope the whole world listens.

Tim

Yes, the jury’s verdict had a lot of facets to it, and the infringement was very specific. The Droid Charge and Galaxy Tab, among other devices, emulate iOS’s “bounce back” (the bounce that happens when you scroll to the end of a list) too closely. The Galaxy S 4G and Fascinate ripped off double-tap to zoom. And the Vibrant? It just looks way too much like an iPhone.

The verdict is certainly going to be appealed, but any company who put a lot of stock in Android has got to be more nervous now than they were yesterday.

Diferente do discurso de perdedor adotado pelos advogados da Samsung, eu acredito que hoje saíram ganhando a Apple e os consumidores.

Decisões judiciais como essa estimularão a concorrência e a inovação de verdadeira.

We can put all of our products on the table you’re sitting at. Those products together sell $40 billion per year. No other company can make that claim except perhaps an oil company.

We are the most focused company that I know of, or have read of, or have any knowledge of.

We say no to good ideas every day; we say no to great ideas; to keep the number of things we focus on small in number.

Tim Cook - Apple CEO

Apple isn’t trying to stifle competition.

“We’re just saying, compete on your own innovations,”… “We have to protect our investment in these innovations. Because if we don’t, we won’t have people like Apple spending five years in a room coming up with a device that revolutionizes the mobile phone. … Apple took five years to bring this revolution to us, Samsung took three months to copy it. That’s truth, and that’s simple, clear, and undisputed. … Samsung copied our products, and they made $8 billion dollars doing it. What they’re saying to you is this: we don’t want to pay.”

“The difference between the Apple patents that Samsung has taken two hours to belittle today and Samsung’s patents is this,”… “The Apple products that make use of those Apple patents are commercially successful and have been universally praised and copied. The Samsung products that make use of the Samsung patents at issue in this case haven’t been praised or copied by anyone.”

“Competition and innovation in this field has been accomplished by real innovators and scientists, not lawyers,”… “Apple wants to compete fairly and squarely. Taking someone else’s intellectual property as Samsung did is not fair and square.”