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Man sues Apple $10bn for stealing his iPhone, ipad idea

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8 years ago

June 29, 2016

Man sues Apple $10bn for stealing his iPhone, ipad idea

A Florida man named Thomas Ross claims he and not Steve Jobs created the iPhone and the iPad, and wants Apple to pay him $10 billion for stealing his idea.

Thomas, who has sued Apple Inc., cited his sketches from 1992 as evidence that he was the revolutionary genius behind the iPhone.

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The drawings/ sketches show a rectangle with a screen on it, and was sketched 15 years before the iPhone’s debut in 2007.

The sketches bear some resemblance to Apple’s device, but if we were to judge the case by these standards, Ross can also claim to have invented the Kindle, the personal digital assistant and the Nintendo DS as they all have a rectangle shape with a screen on it.

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