Collected links from the whole Apple/HTC lawsuit thing

So, Apple sues HTC with over 20 patents, most of them idiotically trivial, including for example, Time-based, non-constant translation of user interface objects between states, which to the lay-developer should read “transitions”. Ah so Apple patented transitions in 2001, somebody better tell all the developers who are using things like jQuery effects, Tweenlite etc.

Steve Jobs says “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.” , which is hilariously ironic when you see an earlier video with him saying how Apple has been shameless about stealing great ideas

This time even the die hard mac-heads call the craziness: Wil Shipley, Mac developer and author of the very successful Delicious Library application, writes an Open Letter to Steve Jobs on the whole thing.

Wait, what, you dont know who Wil Shipley is? Well he has a Wikipedia entry AND has starred in his own Penny Arcade strip. Yeah, so he’s kind of popular like that:

But I digress. Die hard mac fanboy John Gruber posts a good writeup on this whole mess, and more folk have started associating Apple with Evil, as evidenced by Paul Grahm’s comment on Hacker News and Tim Bray’s recent Tweet.

Meanwhile, Android Central posts a pretty awesome infographic on patent litigation in the mobile space

while someone tries to patent the whole practice of patent trolling. How meta…!

Author: Arpit Mathur

Arpit Mathur is a Principal Engineer at Comcast Labs where he is currently working on a variety of topics including Machine Learning, Affective Computing, and Blockchain applications. Arpit has also worked extensively on Android and iOS applications, Virtual Reality apps as well as with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML and Ruby on Rails. He also spent a couple of years in the User Experience team as a Creative Technologist. View all posts by Arpit Mathur