Apple is not just suing over the look of the phone(s)... many oems like Samsung actually modify the android operating system and run their own skin on top of it which also includes some software features unique to the oem , Samsung runs a skin called touch wiz and the patents in question are for somethings in the software too.
This is a huge win for Apple, Sammy has to pay up 1.05 billion. Some still say though that the patent system in itself is fucked up!
In my opinion Samsung copied and improved upon what apple put out, and that should not be punished by patent laws or else we will not see as much innovation.
Its not a win for Apple and the judgement isn't going to stick. Apple stole its Windows technology from Xerox...so did Microsoft but you don't see them suing anyone else.
The reason that Apple was so crooked was because the founder of the company Steve Jobs was a crooked piece of shit who was a scam artist from the beginning...he even scammed his first partner in business Steve Wozniak....read below
Jobs then returned to Atari, and was assigned to create a circuit board for the arcade video game Breakout. According to Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari offered $100 for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little specialized knowledge of circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari engineers, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was impossible to reproduce on an assembly line.[further explanation needed] According to Wozniak, Jobs told him that Atari gave them only $700 (instead of the offered $5,000), and that Wozniak's share was thus $350.[55] Wozniak did not learn about the actual bonus until ten years later, but said that if Jobs had told him about it and had said he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to him.[FACT: The first Apple computer was designed and built by Steve Wozniak as well as the most famous computer of all time, the Apple II....not Steve Jobs. Because the Apple I is Wozniak's design, you can go build one and sell it without being sued by Apple because Wozniak wasn't a dick and let people use his designs for free.
FACT: The Mouse was invented by Xerox....not Apple
FACT: Wozniak did all the work while Jobs was doing LSD and being a Hari Krishna
FACT: Jobs could not code, never was an engineer...all he did was think up ideas....which he likely got from listening to other engineers and technicans. He was just a good businessman...not much more
CONCLUSION: Wozniak was the real man behind Apple. This fat, cold cut samich eating dude right here.
The only thing Apple did was be the first person at the patent office and the only company that could get more people to drink their Kool Aid than Jim Jones ever could do.
