CEOh-Snap!(ish): Palm's Colligan Prickly on Apple Patents
Confession: it was a pretty boring call from Palm CEO Ed Colligan today. No Pre release date. No Pre feature update. No assault on Apple. Nothing and pretty much more nothing. We kinda wish Steve Jobs had crashed the event and gone all Christian Bale on Palm. At least that would have been interesting! Still, PreCentral caught this tidbit, for what it's worth:
On the issue of PATENTS, Colligan made sure to note that there are no pending legal actions with Apple right now. More pointedly, he noted that Palm has 15 years worth of patents (over 1500 of them in total) and that in patent fights often go like this:
The reason you do that is to have a defensive position. It's like two little porcupines going around, and you don't want to touch each other because you might get stung. You peacefully coexist and everything's OK and you keep working together. We're very respectful about people's intellectual property, we believe we're huge innovators and have been for a lot of years and that this product has an enormous number of innovations in it. If something does happen there, we do have the portfolio, we think to defend ourselves and to be successful doing that. But nothing's happened to date, so we're really just focused on getting the product out the door.
Note to Palm: while you fancy yourself a prickly little rodent, Apple's totems are the big cats, so either you'll bloody their mouth and run them off, or they'll use those quills to pick their teeth clean after they're done eating you.
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I love your last paragraph!
I would have preferred a reptilian reference. Otherwise it was funny.
Rene, how about writing iphone related stuff only? Do you feel high when make fun of other products? Well its your site you can write whaterver article you want. TiPb -10
Rene, your note to Palm suggests that yoy support the idea of big boys doing their thing and getting away with it!
Yeah Apple is the Big PUSSY meow....
Rene thinks that apple is the big Cat,and the other company are just rodents. Sigh.. When will you stop multiplying? i own an iphone but never have the kind of attitude you had.
Rene thinks that apple is the big dog
I own apple products and I happen to agree with Rene. Apple is second to none. I just wish they would listen to the public and finally add copy & paste. Also fwrd text is needed as well as recieving picture mail through a text
Guys, this is very much related to the iphone and I'm glad the article made it to tipb. The patents in question are the patents that pertain to the device we're using so yes, it belongs here. I don't know what's worse, an over-zealous fan boy or someone who over categorizes people into being one.
Yes, Apple has patents but not all of them, so what we are trying to say is let it not bully a competitor while it itself is infringing on some IP just because it has got some serious dough, work together and let everyone get the due share!
Amon you hit it spot on! Were not flaming just expressing our side. We all own an iphone thats why were here right? Its just that apple is giving us a deaf ear regarding issues in our phone. Competitors are catching up on iphone and i dont know if the pretty gui will be enough. The palm pre has a good gui, powerful hardware, and not a dictator type company. They listen and communicate unlike apple who thinks and make people believe that they are special if they own an apple product. Its like a cult already.