I guess if you're not a Touch Wiz fan, you could buy the Nexus S4 version that's coming out. It seems like it'd be a pretty good phone. Awesome S4 hardware without all the Samsung bloat on top of it.
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Apple Details Five Patents Violated by Samsung Galaxy S4 and Google Now
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I guess if you're not a Touch Wiz fan, you could buy the Nexus S4 version that's coming out. It seems like it'd be a pretty good phone. Awesome S4 hardware without all the Samsung bloat on top of it.
That's because any lawsuit targeting Samsung is really targeting Google. Any new service that Google sticks on Android that may infringe on Apple patents, expect Apple to go after Samsung for it.
This is how Apple has been attacking Google in mobile - by going after its OEM's. Same with Microsoft
Really? You talked to very single iPhone owner out there? Wow. It must have taken a while, huh?
You didn't talk to me, because I don't want any Samsung "advancements" on my next iPhone. Perhaps I would be interested in some HTC "advancements", but there is nothing in the latest Samsung models that interests me.
It's not just a web page search or a contacts search. It's bringing all of these TOGETHER. You type in 'Bird' and your contact, Larry Bird, comes up, right next to your application 'Angry Birds', right next to pictures of birds, right next to your appointment at the Bird club.
If Apple was the first to develop this and patent this, and others are doing it, shame on them. This is the way the patent system works. And I agree, the patent system needs to be fixed.
This seems like auto-complete. But this is for synchronization of this auto-complete across devices, not just one computer. Again, this seems so simple, but if Apple was the first one with this idea, then it IS PATENTABLE. I would like to see the defense on this, and who was first with this idea.
The data syncs up 'automatically' without you clicking a SYNC button. Clicking the SYNC button was common in the past.
I agree - seems too generic.
With all of these, if Apple is the first, and can prove it in court, they will win, regardless of the fact that these seem so 'simple'. That's the way the system works, which is sad sometimes.
What code they directly copied? Apart of 9 lines of a function wrote by a Google employee
Can you link to that email?
Well, looking at your knowledge about the case, it is not strange that you can't believe it. Another different thing is reality
I am not a Samsung fan, but the major two reasons I don't use an iPhone is because of a 4.7" 1080P screen and two front facing speakers. (HTC One).
I remember when BB got sued by a patent holding company over transmitting email over a cellular radio.
Who was also a Sun employee at one point, and was responsible for writing those same 9 lines of code there.
Google ended up losing a little bit of money because that one guy plagiarized his own programming shorthand. And yes, before anyone else comes in to educate me, I am well aware that it's Oracle's IP regardless of who wrote it, and they had the right...blah blah blah. Software patents are dumb.
Lastly, anyone who brings up Google copying Java should really consider educating themselves. That case was an absolutely spectacular loss on Oracle's part.
Ummmm, instead of hiring more lawyers, they could hire more engineers
Do you think hiring more engineers is the way to innovate?
Do not confuse or fool yourself lol
Sorry but in this case, no. Is such a vague patent that Apple should have never been issued it.
America: you are broken. Fix your damn patent system or close it down.
Re-read the patent. No where does it mention integration across multiple devices. It's just says that the information can be shared across multiple applications...which Google has been doing for quite a while (autocomplete across their search, mail, etc.).
Do you think hiring more engineers is the way to innovate?
Do not confuse or fool yourself lol
If they hire good engineers, then yeah.
if it's that vague,
Microsoft's been doing it since they introduced OLE into office back in what... windows 3.1 days.. i cant honestly put a date on it. it's been that long ago.
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive in fact quite the opposite. What's the point of innovating if you sit idly by as your competitors steal your ideas?
Agreed, not the least of which is the scroll through text with your eyes gimmick.
Why, because you like foreign companies taking the IP of an American success story to line its Korean coffers? Unbelievable.
There's no such thing as a "nexus s4"
There is however, a Google edition s4 running AOSP
um nice Apple. How about this. Create better more innovative items before anyone else does. THEN if/when someone copies some feature like say "searching the web" you will have something else better and no one will want that anymore because you did that years ago. Then it wont even matter!
You know that is not the full extent of the patent and that is only a high level description, right?
Define what is "good engineer"? Steve Jobs was neither engineer nor he was good in engineering lol
Also tell me why you think Apple does not have plenty of engineers?
Think and then answer because you do not know what you are talking!
You can say - Apple needs to find and buyout those great innovative creative minds out there in the world and throw the work onto engineers who work like a dogs(yes dogs because they work for salary- they are not entrepreneurs) to make that product!
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