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Different perspective Did apple just rip off Nokia with its "phone"?

Well, they DID get sued by Nokia for IP infringement, and lost. And has paid Nokia hundreds of millions of euros. So in the strictest legal sense, yes.

(Obviously when not being overly legalistic it is clear that Apple created an entirely new device with the iPhone, but it was built on a foundation that wasn't theirs to build on)

That lawsuit was because apple didn't pay the standard licensing fees for something Nokia owned, because Nokia was trying to charge more than they are allowed to (they wanted access to the iPhone patents as part of the deal). So apple decided to just go ahead, knowing they'd loose but the loss would be at the proper rate (plus lawyers fees).

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