Gartner analyst and VP of Mobile Research Van Baker agrees the redesign of products in the long term is an issue but that it won’t affect any products anytime soon. Since many of these controls are now built into the expectations of customers in how they work their phones, those are substantive challenges. These competitors are now forced to go back to the drawing board and come up with substantively different designs - or seek settlement terms with Apple.
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The jury particularly vindicates Apple’s software patents and their decision has implications not just for Samsung, but also for Google, other Android device makers like LG, HTC, and Motorola, but also potentially for Microsoft who employs features such as pinch to zoom, bounce on scroll, etc. Companies will now be forced to create legitimately different products, or at least engineer some without extravagantly similar features: In an email immediately following the verdict, Forrester Research Principal Analyst Charles Golvin told us the main takeaway from the verdict is the focus on innovation. Apple has won a massive damages sum of nearly $1.05 billion in the patent trial against Samsung and the reaction from the technology community has been vast and swift.
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