Remains of the Day: Lego my Apple Store

05.07.2012
Someone finally figured out how to recreate the Apple Store, brick by brick; at least one judge thinks patent lawyers are animals; and Steve Jobs apparently was influenced by more of France than just its citizens' penchants for black turtlenecks. The remainders for Thursday, July 5, 2012 are having a cow.

(Cult of Mac)

Microsoft can't do it. RIM . No, to recreate the true feeling of the Apple Store, it's clear that one need only turn to thousands and thousands of Lego bricks. Oh, and not have any other hobbies.

(Ars Technica)

A federal judge calling Apple and Motorola patent lawyers "animals" seems a bit hare-brained. Why patent attorneys monkeying around would make a judge go ape is beyond me; one wonders how angry he really is, and whether his bark is worse than his bite. Clearly, though, patent litigators are eager beavers, as busy as bees as they file suit against one another--apparently bugging this judge and putting quite a bee in his bonnet. A little bird told me that the lawyers involved wish a cat had gotten the tongue of the bull-headed judge, pointing out that it's a dog-eat-dog world out there for companies with patents to defend, and that they'd be crazy like a fox not to watch their competitors like a hawk. But there's no sense beating a dead horse; we all know that patent lawyers aren't likely to quit the rat race any time soon--and they certainly won't stop cold turkey.

(Computerworld)