Apple’s Message to the World: Innovate, Don’t Imitate

Sept. 6, 2012

By Daniel Burrus

Apple’s victory in the Samsung patent case sends a hidden, but clear message to the business world: Innovating is far better than imitating.

Many of the patents that were under question in the Apple case are familiar to consumers. For example, the pinch-to-zoon gesture, where you pinch the screen to make something smaller and move your fingers apart to make the image larger, is just one of many Apple features deemed an imitation by Samsung.

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