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What exactly are you saying?

xuniL_z 4th Feb 2010

Can't tell if you are being sarcastic and if so, on which point.

Obviously countries have their own patent processes and laws. Apple and others often release a new product only in the U.S. at first, then Europe and maybe China later on.

He is saying since the iPad's patents were first, in the U.S., they cannot sue here but will when the product is sold in China.
I know that is obvious and I'm not saying he is right, I don't believe apple coud steal a design and get a product to market in 6 months, no how, no way.

The iPad is essentially a large itouch. It looks and acts essentially the same with some new functionality the larger screen can accomodate.
Apple even sort of disses the itouch on their own site under the ipad's features, Safari section saying full page view "as it's meant to be" (the story from Apple and apologists was a bit different when people claimed the touch's screen was too small to be of use) and it continues to say you will get a page "that is actually readable". If that's not talking about their own itouch, and any other small wireless device, I don't know what it is talking about.
Funny they would compete directly with their itouch...maybe it's sales have peaked? Stats showed the ipod in general had peaked last summer I think?...but I'm not sure if the video added in the last iteration has changed that or not.