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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system - Dan Quayle
Company claims Apple stole screen software
MOBILE PLATFORM PROVIDER PICSEL has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple over software used in the Iphone and Ipod Touch.
The Scottish company, which owns the patent on rapid redraw technology which has shipped in over 250 million devices worldwide, claims that Apple has used a key component from Picsel’s mobile rendering functionality, which enables users to scan through on-screen content without experiencing prolonged screen update cycles.
Blimey... that is fast!
The complaint was filed in the US District Court of Delaware by New York law firm Nixon Peabody and will no doubt seek to recover a chunk of revenue from every one of the 13 million Iphones sold in the last two years.
And as for the Ipod Touch... we can't even find a number for total sales for that particular item, but the Cupertino company shipped 22.1 million Ipods in the fourth quarter of last year alone, so it's gonna be a lot!
We didn't even bother to phone Apple's press bunnies for a comment because they never say anything to anyone about bad news and we're sick of hearing their stock reply. µ
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At the iPhone 3.0 preview show, they said there were 30Million devices running the iPhone software, of which 17M were iPhones, and the rest iTouches
This patent claim is an old one though - from last year at least - not sure if it's going anywhere...