Motorola used to be good back in the Startec days. Now they are crap and barely hanging, I'm really surprised they haven't gone bankrupt and shutdown.
-Mike
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Apple and Samsung Respond to the $1 Billion Patent Verdict
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Motorola used to be good back in the Startec days. Now they are crap and barely hanging, I'm really surprised they haven't gone bankrupt and shutdown.
-Mike
She said it was a sign of weakness to ask for or accept assistance of that nature. Which she turned around and did, furtively, under a different name. Hypocrisy, pure and simple.
Uhm two things:
As far as I'm aware, Microsoft only outsourced its customer support to India. The software engineers are still American.
Second, India produces quality engineers and in pretty large numbers too. I bet many of the software engineers in the big tech companies are of Indian descent.
Windows 8 is going to fail because it's too large of a paradigm shift. But the actual foundations of the OS are sound
Give Apple time to get around to slapping Google down & they may well be cast adrift.
Have you ever USED an android phone, or even a Samsung phone? I think not, judging from your position on this topic.
I'm shocked that there are people out there who actually think that stealing something wholesale, as Samsung had clearly done, is somehow good at any level.
At the end of the day, it really is about values. Even if you believe Apple's patents should never have been granted, the fact remains, all but the most zealous fanboys can see that Samsung ripped off Apple and they profited handsomely from Apple's hard work.
And most good people around the world would agree that stealing is wrong. In my opinion, justice was served today and humanity is better for it.
At the end of the day, it really is about values. Even if you believe Apple's patents should never have been granted, the fact remains, all but the most zealous fanboys can see that Samsung ripped off Apple and they profited handsomely from Apple's hard work.
And most good people around the world would agree that stealing is wrong. In my opinion, justice was served today and humanity is better for it.
Protecting Innovation
Samsung and Google copied Apple. And now one of them has been called out. Here is to the even worse treachery of Google whose CEO "moled" his way onto Apple's board while all the time taking notes on how to rip off Apple.
i hope both Samsung and Google end up in the dustbin of ex-tech.
Samsung and Google copied Apple. And now one of them has been called out. Here is to the even worse treachery of Google whose CEO "moled" his way onto Apple's board while all the time taking notes on how to rip off Apple.
i hope both Samsung and Google end up in the dustbin of ex-tech.
2 years, 5 years your splitting hairs. You understood my point and ever so slightly revised it.
paid for or stolen? ...think carefully before you answer.
I did.. And I never said either, or implied that they were stolen. You just didn't understand the context of my post obviously.
Exactly. Has Apple complained about Windows Phone 7? No. No copying, either. The Windows Phone environment is one that should only grow. For all the people who keep on saying, "choice," sure, we should all have a choice, but not between iOS and iOS javascript edition from Google.
This is not some kind of "who cares" arrangement. Apple worked like hell for four years to bring the iPhone to market. Time for the Android boys to work out something original too. If people competed fairly with Apple, we'd actually have different environments that people could choose, and not only Apple would be changing the world.
Sorry, I call bs.
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It's good to see that you're not biased toward Apple. It would be refreshing to see some of that here.
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Outside of AppleLand, most would disagree with that.
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And Apple has such great values.
Steve asked Woz to make "roundrecs." It has been a central meme of Apple since. When Apple did trade dress and patent apps they always made claims on roundrecs. It is a theme for Apple. Always has been.Samsung said:
It's not a "monopoly". It is a protected trade dress. First mover advantage!
Rocketman
Just reading the accounts of the jury trial, the Apple legal team was as clear and as simple as a good Apple keynote in the Jobs days. They told a clear story, and it translated to the jury. The Samsung crew were all over the map, and they didn't do as good a job. They didn't have as good a story to tell, either: "Well, everybody copies!" is a stupid defense.
Copying ideas and licensing technology is very different from stealing patents.
Really, you need a reality check.
Smacks of it, yes. But alas, my jury is still out on whether or not she truly abandoned her principles.
However they did not steal patented designs for any of this, which is the issue here.
Read the actual patent and then attack it, and you will have much more credibility with your rant...
Samsung copied Apple in order to get into the market rapidly and establish themselves. The court found them guilty of this and ordered them to pay Apple $1B as a result.
What they have done in the way of innovation since those days is not the issue.
Lol. What a joke. You have absolutely no argument. The proofs in the pudding (billion dollars). You can't argue against that, that's the fact. You've been exposed, beaten and battered and now everyone knows your a troll. You have lost all credibility and can no longer be taken seriously in anything you post. Keep covering your ears and yelling "lalala I can't hear you" whenever someone counters your your now debunked opinions. Maybe you can come back if Samsung wins in appeals court.
I look forward to your resignation.