Indeed. It looks pretty bad when you selectively quote and drop the stuff I said about Samsung. Please. This site should be better than that. Frankly I don't even see where you disagree with anything I said. Apple sued Samsung in a high stakes bit of asshattery, and Samsung did the same. You think either of those is a good thing?

"drop the stuff I said about Samsung."

Your stuff is right there, I parsed the quote I originally responded to that made it clear you were very clearly not originally talking about a specific case -- a "broad detente in the industry" that Apple was the first to violate. Saying after the fact that you were only talking about Samsung is moving the goalposts. Maybe we don't disagree there but I'm hardly wrong for pointing out what I did when I did.

"You think either of those is a good thing?"

I think Nokia had many innovations that Apple infringed on and Apple probably deserved to be sued by Nokia and they paid up. I certainly don't remember anyone crying about how Nokia started "high stakes asshattery" in that case. Apparently it's only when Android vendors are the target of lawsuits that people get up in arms.

I think Samsung comes very close to if not crossing the line of infringement and Apple has the right to test that in court. You call this "high stakes asshattery" but you can just as easily make the case that Samsung is the asshat for blatant copying.

I think Samsung (like Nokia) has many technologies that Apple may infringe on. Based on limited evidence we've seen it's not as compelling as Nokia's but they have the right to test this in court or leverage it for a settlement or whatever.