[shinratdr]

> All they're doing is to risk yet another do-over which will hit them in the middle of Christmas shopping.

That implies that anyone normal doing Christmas shopping on Apple.com cares about this even slightly, which IMO is quite a stretch.

People can speculate endlessly about how bad this will make Apple look, but I can tell you right now this isn't the patent judgement. This story hasn't really broken into mainstream. The only people who noticed this are tech news readers, and they also won't be swayed by something like this.

I agree that Apple's being fairly petty about this, but I don't agree that it will affect them negatively in any quantifiable way. I can't picture the person who would know and care about this, and have it affect their purchasing decision.

[tisme]

> I can't picture the person who would know and care about this, and have it affect their purchasing decision.

It affects mine. That's only one data point and I'm sure there are millions who it won't affect.

[shinratdr]

I don't buy that for a second. You weren't about to purchase an Apple product and then decided not to because of this. There is no need to be so two-faced.

[tisme]

(1) you don't know me

(2) I actually was, but decided not to, what you believe is not in any way material to that.

This is a first for HN actually, someone telling me they know me better than I know myself. Incredible.

[shinratdr]

> This is a first for HN actually, someone telling me they know me better than I know myself.

I don't know you better than you know yourself. You know you're lying for sure, I'm just assuming so based off of overwhelming evidence.