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Apple Parts Ways With Engineering Consulting Firm Over Tablet Prototype
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If I had a dime for every time somebody was misinformed about this, I would be too rich to post here..
I'll let you figure that out, since your line seemed to come directly from the first paragraph of a blog.
you're right.... bleh
Are you actually trying to turn this into something anti-Apple??
Um . . . no laws were broken. Apple ended their relationship with a (now former) partner.
The appropriate answer to this news is: "Ok. So what?"
This happens all the time. Business is business. Apple doesn't need to "play well" with anyone at all, as long as their bottom-lime is where it should be.
I disagree. Microsoft was too big at that point and the Mac platform too fragile.
Apple could have won. They just didn't have the money to fight the legal battle.
Apple had Microsoft dead to rights on multiple patents. It's just that simple. The company would have gone under in the process though. It is possible to sue yourself out of business even if you're in the right if it's against a huge company with unlimited resources who can drag it out for years if not a decade. By then, Apple would be just a memory.
That's why the U.S. needs substantial legal patent & tort reform.
But it'll never happen, because the lawyers control the show in America.
Bill Gates would have NEVER EVER invested money in a company he wanted to go under unless he was in the wrong and knew it. Trust me on that one at least! LOL
Reality check: the company has previously done design work for Palm on the Treo and from what it seems for Microsoft on the Xbox. And from what we learned about the Foxconn slave worker scandal, that company works for not only Apple but just about everyone in the electronics business.
So that makes it obvious that Apple is not in any way opposed to having close ties to contractors who also work for their competitors.
Yes, there was some sort of fallout here, but it cant have been any fault on the part of this company because it it was, then Apple would have sued them.
So clearly Apple wanted to exert control over the activities of this company, above and beyond any contractual obligation, but was not willing to pay for the privilege.
Good move on the part of this small company. If they have marketable skills then they need to get paid market rate for it. In any case, Apple didnt exactly invent the tablet computer or anything, so if they are not willing to pay their partners enough, then this sort of this will of course happen.
So that makes it obvious that Apple is not in any way opposed to having close ties to contractors who also work for their competitors.
Yes, there was some sort of fallout here, but it cant have been any fault on the part of this company because it it was, then Apple would have sued them.
So clearly Apple wanted to exert control over the activities of this company, above and beyond any contractual obligation, but was not willing to pay for the privilege.
Good move on the part of this small company. If they have marketable skills then they need to get paid market rate for it. In any case, Apple didnt exactly invent the tablet computer or anything, so if they are not willing to pay their partners enough, then this sort of this will of course happen.
