Does Apple care about a flash for your camera? or a Phone that can walk and chew gum at the same time? Others have done that and more WAY before Apple. Now the iPad, who's selling points are that it's "magical" and that it "just works". OK, hope they have the Kool-Aid in other flavors than fruit punch for you.
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Apple Files Lawsuit Against HTC Over Alleged iPhone Patent Infringement
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Does Apple care about a flash for your camera? or a Phone that can walk and chew gum at the same time? Others have done that and more WAY before Apple. Now the iPad, who's selling points are that it's "magical" and that it "just works". OK, hope they have the Kool-Aid in other flavors than fruit punch for you.
LG came out with the first mobile capacitive touch screen phone.
That is a fact..it was on sale to the consume first.
How can you argue that?
yes they were
its great that you like your phone. now, why are you so affected by the iPhone's success again? is it jealousy?
How am i affected?
Seriously..show me where i am "mad" or "affected" by the iPhone success?
I couldn't give a damn if it keeps selling well....i'm just not blind and can appreciate that other phones in my opinion have eclipsed the iPhone in features long ago.
2010 with the iPad about to hit the shelves, with developers and publishers lined up right behind it.
2010 is bigger. Much bigger.
wow. you obviously have no understanding of what this case is about.
apparently, you believe that STEALING someone else's invention, calling it your own, and selling it for profit constitutes "choice" in the marketplace. what a load of bull.
enforcing the patent doesn't make the iPhone the "only option" or eliminate "choice." And if it "destroys" HTC, well, that would be because they don't have a viable product of their own to market.
Here's an idea: HTC, Google and Palm can develop and market their own ideas that don't steal Apple's inventions, and then we'll see how they do in the marketplace.
jeez.
No, he tries too hard.
Apple would go for someone who was cool and more understated.
You don't seem to get that the iPhone succeeds not for want or inclusion of any one feature, but because of the way it brings together hardware + software. with what we're getting with the iPhone, a flash for the camera is insignificant.
It's all about gestalt.
My iPhone has 150,000+ (and growing) more "features" than your phone. So no. no phone have "eclipes the iPhone in features long ago".
That would be an embarrassment for Apple!
Besides, if I was Jobs, I would pay somebody who has credibility and leave the 'clowns' as he said do what they do for free.
Did anyone else look at the legal papers for this? Most of the patents they are suing for are almost expired and they all seem to do with how the software was written like "allowing background processes communicate with foreground processes and update dynamically" (i thought this was common programming practice). I saw nothing to do with multi-touch, they all were related to how the programming works and the patents were very vague. Nothing that seemed to directly point out something HTC created that infringed on apples iphone patents.
I post this because I know it won't be read.
I'm glad Apple is doing this. Because Apple is going to end up finding it self on the defensive trying to explain why they patented the proverbial QWERTY. A lot of what Apple patented has been around for years.
Should be entertaining.
At least we know why WP7 looked so different than iPhone/Android.
I'm glad Apple is doing this. Because Apple is going to end up finding it self on the defensive trying to explain why they patented the proverbial QWERTY. A lot of what Apple patented has been around for years.
Should be entertaining.
At least we know why WP7 looked so different than iPhone/Android.
I live outside of locked down content distribution models though. I'm not lacking entertainment either.
Can you tell me why I should replace my Late 2007 MacBook or how much better Snow Leopard is? Apple is backed against a wall with nVidia as well. I remember when the more knowledgeable Windows users jumped ship back when Vista came out. Now it seems like there's another migration back to Windows and Linux because Apple just doesn't provide what they want anymore.
I'm already expecting the worst in replies. Now in order to show off my Apple pride badge I did live and suffer under a year of PowerPC only hardware and extolled unto many the virtues of OS X. Apple has just stagnated to the point where they bore me. I want to do more with my computer hardware than what a toddler can do.
Do you use all 150k? Do all 150k have benefits to you? Is it truly a feature if the apps themselves are limited by what the phone can do?
wow. you obviously have no understanding of what this case is about.
apparently, you believe that STEALING someone else's invention, calling it your own, and selling it for profit constitutes "choice" in the marketplace. what a load of bull.
enforcing the patent doesn't make the iPhone the "only option" or eliminate "choice." And if it "destroys" HTC, well, that would be because they don't have a viable product of their own to market.
Here's an idea: HTC, Google and Palm can develop and market their own ideas that don't steal Apple's inventions, and then we'll see how they do in the marketplace.
jeez.
So tell me, hows that Airplane mode doing on the iPhone?
cause its a Palm Patent.
Or how about how the iPhone syncs to your computer? Cause it soudnse heavily like Palm's patent regarding hotsync:
Seriously..patents are a messy business so its not as cut and dry as you are trying to imply.
When i buy my personal phone? Its about features i want and need to use on a regular basis yes.
Is it not for you?
Apps are features?
No apps are applications....you know, the thing every phone has. You could say the app store is a feature...which i'd agree....one I never longed for.
If i needed a specific app that only the iPhone had then you have a point...but I don't.
Nope apple does not care.
Apple is treating the iPhone like they treat everything they come out with. It is all flashy the day it comes out and from there it gets minor updates to keep up with the times or things that should of been there day 1.
Just look at the iPod classic from when it was first release to now what has apple done with it.
Lets see update size (minor keeping with the times)
Minor change from the 4 buttons to the click wheel. Over all just with the times.
Added a color screen -- That was the BIGGEST change but even then kind of keeping up with the times.
iPhone-- Lets see
-- Hard ware improvement - keeping up with the times.
3G -- Day one lacking
MMS -- Day one lacking
List goes on but it is typical apple format for them to really only do minor things after a product is release and that is it. iPhone is just going to get minor updates. I expect very little out of OS 4.0. People on the boards scream it is going to be game changing.... They said the same thing about 2.0 and 3.0 and none of those were anything more than minor updates.
Not exclusively, no. I pay more attention to how the solutions are implemented than just some laundry-list of features.
wow. you obviously have no understanding of what this case is about.
jeez.
Did you read the filling???? Most of the patents are from the 90's and have nothing to do with the iphones features.
Take a look here
I can't understand the hue-and-cry about "multitasking". Apparently most people can't, since it hasn't kept the iPhone and iPod Touch from selling tens of millions of units. If you truly need multiple application windows open side-by-side on a phone, it's unfathomable to me but more power to you. But most people (including this middle-aged software engineer who hacks camera firmware in his spare time) would rather sacrifice "multitasking" that they'll never use for an interface that makes it easier to get to the things we do want to do.
If it doesn't meet your needs then it isn't for you, but the idea that a certain set of trade-offs is an affront to customers is beneath silly. I know, I know, nobody actually likes the iPhone/iPod Touch, they just buy it because commercials told them too.