Apple Pursuit of Samsung Starts Bordering On Farce
forbes.com
forbes.com
Point one is probably true. Point two is probably false which by default makes point three false.
People have such short memories. Apple has never innovated in public, so we don't know what they are trying internally and rejecting. Other companies do so we not only see their innovation — we see their public failures.
There is certainly an interesting article, yet to be written, that could try to make the argument that the market now wants to see constant, open innovation (successful or not) rather than sporadic, closed only-ship-when-we-get-it-right innovation — but this article is not it.
Is the market wanting to see open innovation or are the share prices of Apple and Google unrelated to this entirely?
I think this statement is the biggest problem with the article. I can't reasonably see how the innovators within Apple would be too bothered by what the legal team are up to.
I have a rather firm rule that when a company moves its competition from the marketplace to the courthouse, it's a bad sign, one way or another.
That doesn't mean they weren't justified in doing so, but it's still a bad sign, e.g. consumes management and eventually engineer/designer/the creators of this stuff mind share, tells us they're really worried about competition, etc. And as noted in the article, tends to result in reputational damage.
Seriously, even small companies can do more than one thing at a time - why can't a big company.