{"id":5742,"date":"2010-03-07T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2010-03-07T13:07:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T20:07:59","slug":"newsletter-issue-536-the-silly-season-starts-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2010\/03\/newsletter-issue-536-the-silly-season-starts-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #536: The Silly Season Starts Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple can\u2019t stay out of the news, not that they\u2019d want to. So in the past couple of weeks, you learned that all the known problems with the 27-inch iMac have been fixed, the iPad ships on April 3rd in the USA, and later that month in other countries and, by the way, Apple is suing a rival smartphone maker, HTC.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it\u2019s the latter story that\u2019s kept the bloggers spouting, if you forgive the pun, patent nonsense, trying to prejudge a lawsuit that involves a number of  arcane patent-related issues, the fine details of intellectual property, and complicated legal determinations at which we can only guess.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, most of the reports I\u2019ve read rarely delve into the actual issues that will be litigated. They are far too concerned with the reasons why Steve Jobs would order Apple\u2019s lawyers to seek redress. Where\u2019s the sense in that, they say? At the same time, you don\u2019t read near as much about Nokia\u2019s motives for its complaint against Apple involving royalties for various technologies.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem as if it\u2019s all right for Nokia to go after the big bad Apple, but not for Apple to step up and defend its intellectual property in the proper fashion.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2010\/03\/newsletter-issue-536\/#fashion\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple can\u2019t stay out of the news, not that they\u2019d want to. 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