Why is Apple scared to compete with Samsung?

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4 points·tanglesome··3 comments

I don't think the lawsuits are because Apple is afraid of competing with Samsung, I think they're because Apple feels they shouldn't have to bother.

From the Apple perspective they've done all this innovation over the past decade and Samsung is an annoying leech.

Regardless of whether or not you believe that I think the motivation for the lawsuits is not fear of competition.

It seems clear to me that Apple avoids competition whenever possible.

- They don't license their OS and they have taken many legal and technical steps to discourage end-users from running it on non-Apple hardware.

- They lock you into their app store where you're not even allowed to mention a competing platform.

- They attempt to trademark things like "App Store".

- Instead of letting consumers decide about Flash on iOS, they make the decision themselves under a technical guise. (Flash runs very, very well on my Android devices, thank you very much.)

In short...whenever and however possible, they lock out competition and then feed you a line about how "it's better for you".

More examples - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc.#Accusat...

Apple licensed their OS in the past. It nearly bankrupted the company.

And Flash is one of the buggiest, most insecure pieces of software in computing history. It is also proprietary hence runs counter to your whole argument. It needs to die.

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