whois crna.cc: WhoisGuard protected. WhoisGuard is in L.A; a subpoena and "Christina" could find the ICS logo on her site and a DMCA takedown notice for distributing "tools used to violate copyright."
crna.cc says "Will it run iPhone OS apps? * No". But Apple is already suing Samsung for the Galaxy Tab, Nexus S, and Epic 4G [1] [2], so unless nobody is interested in taking this idea to completion, Apple could be an enormous target for cloners.
To me, it's obvious: unlike hardware, where there are still effective barriers to competition, software like iOS is inherently vulnerable to cloning, copying, and being replaced.
Then why haven't they taken down GNUStep and Chameleon?
Oh right, because APIs are not copyrightable or patentable and it's absolutely meaningless to attempt to assert ownership over such things.
The reason why you're the only one "theorizing" about what Apple will do is because most other people here recognize how patents and copyrights work and why there is a dispute between Apple and Samsung.
I suspect you know far less than you think you do about how patents and copyrights actually work. Otherwise you should realize how amazingly silly and oblivious it is to claim that the attempt to assert ownership over such things as APIs is meaningless. It is wrong (on that we agree), but we have ample evidence that even the attempt is far from meaningless:
whois crna.cc: WhoisGuard protected. WhoisGuard is in L.A; a subpoena and "Christina" could find the ICS logo on her site and a DMCA takedown notice for distributing "tools used to violate copyright."
crna.cc says "Will it run iPhone OS apps? * No". But Apple is already suing Samsung for the Galaxy Tab, Nexus S, and Epic 4G [1] [2], so unless nobody is interested in taking this idea to completion, Apple could be an enormous target for cloners.
To me, it's obvious: unlike hardware, where there are still effective barriers to competition, software like iOS is inherently vulnerable to cloning, copying, and being replaced.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/04/bad-touchwiz-apple-sues...
[2] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/apple-samsung-walk-away...