🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-30

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).


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