Yeah, because throwing money at a problem creates better software instantly..
I am sure the groups responsible for those 2 things are quite heavily funded
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Apple Reportedly Paid $21 Million for Rights to Swiss Railways Clock Design
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Yeah, because throwing money at a problem creates better software instantly..
I am sure the groups responsible for those 2 things are quite heavily funded
Oh please, what a stupid statement. I hope you have donated every cent you earn that doesn't go directly to something that you absolutely cannot live without.
I suppose Apple should also buy a house for every homeless person in the country. They can technically afford it, so why don't they?
It works both ways. You could argue the same about all tablets having a black border.
So Apple is not fine with licensing a perfectly functional Google Maps, but is ok with licensing a Swiss clock for 21 M?
Apple's really got their priorities straightened out. I love iOS 6, I really do, this statement just explains iOS 6 in a nutshell.
/sarcasm if anybody didn't catch it.
Apple's really got their priorities straightened out. I love iOS 6, I really do, this statement just explains iOS 6 in a nutshell.
/sarcasm if anybody didn't catch it.
and so is everyone else, when they get caught...the same applies to every large company - Apple is no exception.
This can't be accurate. If it were, Apple would have the right to use it everywhere and they're only using it for iPads. Apple has very talented designers on staff, why pay $21m for something that could be easily replaced with a new, still perfectly adequate design?
Oh please, what dumb logic and rebuttle; just look at the damn facts, why the hell would Apple waste that much money on a damn clock vs. helping victims? It shows they could have donated alot more, and care more about a damn clock than helping victims.
So please, quit trying to defend something that just makes you look, well, not so great.
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It will be consumers (those travelling with the Swiss railway) who get the benefit at the end.
If he was responsible for that, then it surely didn't help.
No, they are not. Using that image without licensing in place was utter stupidity by some clueless employee.
Apple isn't paying $21 million for the design. They are paying $21 million for using a design without permission and having to avoid a lawsuit. If some designer at Apple had said to his boss "the Swiss railway has this beautiful design for a clock, I bet we can license it for a million or two", his boss would have asked him what drugs he is on and told him to create his own design, without copying anybody. Unfortunately for Apple, that designer didn't ask his boss.
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Not to mention all of those silly lawsuits, those cost even more than this tiny little settlement.
But I don't think Apple needs more money in order to fix their products, they just need to want to do it, and then "just do it", that's all
Sorry but that is ****** ridiculas!!
21 million on a clock!! 2.5 million on Sandy! And there are people starving in the world
21 million on a clock!! 2.5 million on Sandy! And there are people starving in the world
Let me get this straight: APPLE has paid 21 million to the Swiss Federal Railways for their iconic clock design, and none of that money may be going to MONDAINE, who is the "sole consumer-focused licensee of the design" and who, despite being reportedly 'happy' about the increased visibility, are NOW, in "discussions" with the SFR. I smell legal complications. Hope this isn't going to be like PROVIEW and the Chinese all over again.
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That amount is ridiculous and I don't believe it for a moment. I would have changed the design to show a Swiss guy getting shot at high noon before paying out that much cash in an extortion basis.