Three on the Apple/Samsung decision
September 05, 2012
"These Are The 6 Apple Patents Samsung Violated".
Imitation, however, is difficult even when knowledge is freely available. In Launching I give the example of The French Laundry Cookbook which promises that with “exact recipes” and “simple methods” that “you can now re-create at home the very experience the Wine Spectator described as ‘as close to dining perfection as it gets.’” Yet despite exact recipes and simple methods we don’t see imitations of the restaurant twice named the best in the world popping up in Muncie, Indiana (trust me on that one).
Finally, the inimitable John Dvorak, "Why Apple Actually Lost to Samsung: In Apple's Pyrrhic victory, Samsung really comes out ahead".