[r12e]

Apple can't innovate any more because Apple are too busy fighting a legal battle with Samsung.

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.

[hga]

I certainly have a problem with it.

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.

[sssbc]

I agree - if some tiny % of Apple's 80k employees are poking Samsung in the eye via lawyers, no way the other ~80k employees are somehow useless or starved for attention or money. Especially since the $160B cash hoard implies each employee could have ~$2M at their disposal - without using any credit.

Seriously, even small companies can do more than one thing at a time - why can't a big company.