🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-30
Your weekly look back at tech news from 5, 10, and 15 years ago today.
What was buzzing 5, 10, and 15 years ago today?
5 Years Ago: October 30, 2020
An East Texas jury awarded VirnetX ~$0.5B against Apple for patent infringement (but Apple appealed and won a ~3 years later).
10 Years Ago: October 30, 2015
Amazon Fire(d) all competing devices from Apple and Google from the retail platform (but allowed both back ~2 years later).
15 Years Ago: October 30, 2010
Apple took legal actions against Motorola after Motorola took legal actions against Apple (and others).
