{"id":2373,"date":"2012-08-27T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2013-04-29T09:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T14:52:21","slug":"opinion-samsung-vs-apple-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Samsung Vs. Apple: Justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though hiding under a rock can be fun, lots of interesting insects and different colored worms, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splasm.com\/contact\/\">pixie<\/a> has to get some sun now and then.<\/p>\n<p>I took a quick poll of my co-workers opinions regarding the Samsung\/Apple verdict and the answer that best sums things up is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ah. Complicated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Various journalists have covered this story. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/27\/daily-report-after-apple-samsung-verdict-concern-about-innovation\/\">recent article<\/a>, the New York Times interviewed a creative director at a design firm in Seattle called Tectonic. The designer&#8217;s feelings about the Apple\/Samsung verdict were mixed. A potentially good outcome could be that companies may become more innovative by focusing on coming up with original design ideas.<\/p>\n<p>However, concern was expressed over Apple&#8217;s patent on the pinch-to-zoom function. The designer worried that products without this common function, &#8220;would be like cars with square or triangular steering wheels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts? Sound off in the comments \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though hiding under a rock can be fun, lots of interesting insects and different colored worms, this pixie has to get some sun now and then. I took a quick poll of my co-workers opinions regarding the Samsung\/Apple verdict and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=2373\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}