Apple's de facto leader, Tim Cook seemed to threaten legal action against Palm (in so many words) during the earnings conference call this week for their use of multi-touch interface in the Palm Pre.
We like competition, as long as they don’t rip off our IP, and if they do, we’re going to go after anybody that does … We will not stand for having our IP ripped off and we’ll use whatever weapons we have at our disposal [to make sure that doesn't happen]. I don’t know that I can be more clear than that.
Palms stock dropped 6%. Those are mighty big words to the bottom line.
What to do? Palm fired back, in slightly less harsh t
