very cool. shows where your priorities are. risk taking bankers are let off the hook who are responsible for bigger problems. dun think anyones life was ruined because of some bouncing affect on a phone. thx
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Apple and Samsung Respond to the $1 Billion Patent Verdict
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very cool. shows where your priorities are. risk taking bankers are let off the hook who are responsible for bigger problems. dun think anyones life was ruined because of some bouncing affect on a phone. thx
Not when the patents that apple is using are crapents. WHich means they weak patents and overly broad.
Sorry but you should not be able to patent a flash slab retangle.
I forgot the "not" between "does" and "mean". I was trying to point out that just because the law says one thing it does not mean it is the right thing.
Like Apple made many things that didn't exist. Like a smartphone. Oh, wait, someone else did it before them. Well Apple made the first tablet. Oh, wait, tablets existed long before the iPad. Apple made the first, super-thin computer, the Macbook Air. Oh wait, the Sony Vaio Z was around long before the MBA. Well Apple invented the iPod, the first portable music player. Oh, wait.........
Is this the kind of innovation you are talking about?
Kids may blindly follow Apple for Apple's sake, but I buy their products because they are made to a higher quality than other manufacturers - simple really.
the who the what now?
I don't understand these comments made by people who do not only have Apple in their user name, but more than likely own Apple products themselves. These people must hate themselves.
Innovation in this sense does not simply mean the first to come out it. In this sense it means the first to get it "right".
Innovative
adj
using or showing new methods, ideas, etc.
-thefreedictionary.com
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I never mentioned Apple. But since you brought them up, those were industry changing products. What Samsung product has had those effects on an industry?
While your examples are hyperbole, I nonetheless see that the individuals who proclaim Apple innovates never really say what those exact innovations are. This is not to say that Apple does not innovate, however.
LMAO. Yea Apple is pretty much known for their total lack of innovation. Well said. Well thought out.
Man, I hate reading the PR quotes. They always make me ill...
Apples statement struck me as disingenuous until I read Samsung's and the bar on disingenuous jumped up. "Clearly nobody else in this space has any good ideas, so if we can't keep copying Apple, Apple will have no motivation to innovate any further."
I find it interesting that the payout here is 5 orders of magnitude higher than what Korea thought made sense.
Apples statement struck me as disingenuous until I read Samsung's and the bar on disingenuous jumped up. "Clearly nobody else in this space has any good ideas, so if we can't keep copying Apple, Apple will have no motivation to innovate any further."
I find it interesting that the payout here is 5 orders of magnitude higher than what Korea thought made sense.
My god, people like you are why this country if failing in every way.
I guess by your logic, everything you own is LEGALLY yours, but I should be able to steal it from you with no worry of reprocusions right? You shouldnt be allowed to own anything right ?
You = massive fail
That's what they want you to think. And the majority assume that with no research.
That is by far the most logically disconnected statement I have read all day. You can like their products, hate the company, and disagree with the trial's outcome.
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Apple didn't invent any of the products I posted. They copied the idea from someone else. But that's ok, right?
This is what Samsung phones looked like before the iPhone came out:
And after:
Don't tell me that this case should be dismissed. Imagine if you invented and patented something and everybody ripped you off, cutting into your profits that you rightly deserve?
I have to agree with both sides actually. All this insane patenting has gotten out of control. I wish patents would expire perhaps after a year or two. This would literally force innovation.
A blatant copy doesn't help anyone and let's face it, some of those phones were blatant copies. One could even argue that Android is a copy. See Windows Phone 7 (now Windows Phone 8) for a radically different smart phone OS that isn't a copy at all.
You complain about less innovation, but where is the innovation? Side-stepping patents as you copy your way to a product?
Stopping crappy replicas only prevents users from receiving an inferior product, which is a good thing.
This just forces Samsung to come up with something truly innovative and that's good for consumers.
If Apple products suck so much, why are even the cheap knock-offs selling like hotcakes?
No way dude!! F apple. They copied everything and innovated nothing!! They suck!! Samsung would have made those last 2 phones just like that even if Apple had not beaten them to it!
actually it woud not force innovation. Think about what you just said. If the patent expires after a year or two, then all the copying would begin. Keep patents in place for 5+ years and companies would be forced to innovate beacuse the would not be allowed to copy........hense the current patent laws that are in place.