{"id":5,"date":"2012-09-13T15:07:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T15:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2012-09-19T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:45:01","slug":"does-apple-compete-via-innovation-or-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/does-apple-compete-via-innovation-or-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Apple compete via innovation or litigation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the weeks following the Apple v. Samsung verdict, I&#8217;ve seen many blog posts and comments claiming that Apple is fighting their competitors in the courts <em>instead<\/em> of competing through innovation.<\/p>\n<p>A moments thought demonstrates the silliness of that argument.<\/p>\n<p>Apple earned their arsenal of patents through innovation.\u00a0Without innovative inventions, they wouldn&#8217;t have earned the patents. But innovations only provide a competitive edge if your competitors don&#8217;t have access to them.<\/p>\n<p>So competing through innovation requires <em>both<\/em> patenting inventions <em>and<\/em> preventing competitors from infringing those patents.<\/p>\n<p>If Apple didn&#8217;t innovate, they wouldn&#8217;t have the patents, and there wouldn&#8217;t be any lawsuits. Likewise, if Apple competitors like Samsung relied on innovation instead of copying, there also wouldn&#8217;t be any lawsuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the weeks following the Apple v. Samsung verdict, I&#8217;ve seen many blog posts and comments claiming that Apple is fighting their competitors in the courts instead of competing through innovation. A moments thought demonstrates the silliness of that argument. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/does-apple-compete-via-innovation-or-litigation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-patents","category-samsung"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JgYQ-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}