Apple’s thoughts on the Palm Pre, from Tim Cook himself

Apple had their official conference call with Wall Street this week that detailed their earnings for this most recent quarter, as well as some other interesting news and questions. One of the more interesting questions was about the Palm Pre and its relation to Apple’s iPhone and its patents. RBC Capital’s Mike Abramsky mentioned that the “… Palm Pre almost directly emulates what you have already patented.” With that, Tim Cook fired back, “We like competition, as long as they don’t rip off our IP.”