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Sigh... this is getting old, apple strategy is to block other companies from trying to compete because they know that they are strong competitors ..... it's pathetic.

They are scared of competition, If they released more phones more often they wont have to waste their time with these lows. Android market has a larger market share, if it wasn't samsung it would be the next big company and then the next one after that. What exactly is the injunction for ? what did samsung exactly copy ? Can someone link me with the details of this saga ?

Here ya go. Just follow the links and read.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1396398/
 
One day, what comes around goes around. A modern smartphone involves over 200,000 patents, and you would be naive that Apple doesn't infringe any one of them.

I know Apple owns the media in this country and now it appears they own the courts as well.

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Um, Apple stole more than a few ideas along the way...which served as the building blocks for their present-day success.

My pull-down notification shade on my 4S looks awfully similar to the one on my GNEX. Awfully.

This.

Don't forget that Samsung holds like 12 patents on LTE. If I were them, I'd go after Apple and keep them from making an LTE iPhone.
 
And what "core software technologies" would you be talking about?

these are the features that were listed


One of the main patent requirements is called the 'nonobviousness requirement'
That means that these features shouldn't be concepts and techniques that are taught at every introductory computer-science course.

Apple won this injunction because they held these patents, but the problem is that they shouldn't have been able to get these patents in the first place.

You must be taking some pretty advanced computer science courses. I wish my introductory courses taught me how to invent capacitive multi-touch paradigms.
 
It's interesting even on an apple forum the majority of people see the idiocracy of what Apple is doing. If apple really wanted to beat Samsung and google they need to spend those millions on R&D instead of their lawyers. All of these lawsuits on stupid everyday common software uses like these should have been tossed in the patent offices trash can the day they came in. Apple takes two steps backwards and their competition keeps marching forward. Apple lost their way.
 
On Apple's side

I am on Apple's side. IP infringement simply has to stop. Apple has flexed a lot of R&D muscle, intellectual and financial, not to mention energy and time, to then have someone else copycat Apple's accomplishments and profit from them. Perhaps even more glaringly obvious than the Galaxy Nexus is the new Nexus 7 tablet which more closely resembles the iPad and iPhone than the Galaxy. Don't know about the Nexus 7 software but the design is piggybacking on Apple. We shall see.
 
Samsung should "block" sales of the iPhone... Really, if Samsung quit making iPhone components today, what would Apple do? Sales would plummet on the very hard to supply iPhone, and the new iPhone would be delayed for months while a new supplier is found and production is restarted... Considering the Galaxy S3 is already extremely popular, and is a viable iPhone killer, I have to wonder why Samsung keeps supplying the enemy..

Because Apple likely has a contract with Samsung to provide these parts. They probably extend the contracts well before the current contracts expire, so if Samsung decided to supply them, they would go and make Samsung's competitors like TSMC, LG, Sharp, etc a whole lot of money. Hell, if TSMC were to land a massive contract with Apple, they could potentially surpass Samsung in the semiconductor industry with the massive boost in revenue. That is not something Samsung is likely to gamble on considering the fact that they are making a hell of a lot of money off of selling to Apple. Notice how Samsung built a factory in Texas for the sole purpose of creating Apple processors. That should tell you all you need to know about how much money Samsung is making off the deal if they are spending hundreds of millions in overhead to increase their capability of producing Apple parts.
 
Samsung should "block" sales of the iPhone... Really, if Samsung quit making iPhone components today, what would Apple do? Sales would plummet on the very hard to supply iPhone, and the new iPhone would be delayed for months while a new supplier is found and production is restarted... Considering the Galaxy S3 is already extremely popular, and is a viable iPhone killer, I have to wonder why Samsung keeps supplying the enemy..

Apple would have very carefully constructed their supply contracts with manufacturers like Samsung. Ie. if Samsung fails to deliver the components they need, they would be liable for a huge amount of compensation. You can't just decide to exit a contract like that without consequences.
 
$92m holy ****! That is an insane amount of money to gamble, for such petty patents that really aren't terribly innovative and shouldn't even be private. "slide to unlock" for instance... There's a line, Apple. You don't always play by the rules, either.
 
You must be taking some pretty advanced computer science courses. I wish my introductory courses taught me how to invent capacitive multi-touch paradigms.

Using something to slide an icon to do something else is an intro to CS thing. I did that in Visual Basic in high school. Granted it was with a mouse, same thing though, an input device is an input device, mouse or finger. That's why these patents need to be thrown out.
 
This.

Don't forget that Samsung holds like 12 patents on LTE. If I were them, I'd go after Apple and keep them from making an LTE iPhone.

LTE is also part of the 3GPP standard. Meaning most, if not all, of them are probably FRAND.
 
I would like to know what four programs Google stole that is causing this suit. And if its four pieces of software built into Android why isnt every single Android device part of this lawsuit? Regardless I will be thinking long and hard before I purchase another product from Apple.

long and hard ;)
 
This.

Don't forget that Samsung holds like 12 patents on LTE. If I were them, I'd go after Apple and keep them from making an LTE iPhone.

But there's a difference. If a patent is held in what gets adopted as a standard, like LTE or 3G, they get some royalties from each user of the patent, but they have to allow all comers to license it.
 
From what I know (which isn't much) it has to do with unified search and not just having something like Siri.



Essentially, the iPhone really does cost the same but Apple gets a $200 subsidy from the carriers which no in the industry gets.

If what Apple says is true (that they want others to create their own tech) then there's nothing wrong with that. I just don't know if it's true or not. What I get from them is that they feel betrayed by Google and they want blood.



-slide to unlock
-data linking
-autocorrect
-unified search (a al Siri)

All four of those things have prior examples to apple filing them. This is absolutely ridiculous, I serious am about to start smashing the piece of crap broken g5 I have sitting in my room that stopped working.
 
Samsung should "block" sales of the iPhone... Really, if Samsung quit making iPhone components today, what would Apple do? Sales would plummet on the very hard to supply iPhone, and the new iPhone would be delayed for months while a new supplier is found and production is restarted... Considering the Galaxy S3 is already extremely popular, and is a viable iPhone killer, I have to wonder why Samsung keeps supplying the enemy..

Most companies are smart they have contracts that require huge penalties should someone try to break it.

Plus Samsung's many groups operate more or less independent of one another. The semiconductor groups job is to bring as much money as possible. They don't care if it happens to be competitor to the mobile group.
 
Awesome Apple! You scared of the competition? :rolleyes:

The RIDICULOUS fanboys on here always make me laugh.
 
This.

Don't forget that Samsung holds like 12 patents on LTE. If I were them, I'd go after Apple and keep them from making an LTE iPhone.

nice try, LTE patents are standard essential patents, if samsung goes after apple with those, then they are simply digging their own grave. :rolleyes:
 
The new Market

Alternative Title: "The Samsung Galaxy Nexus will now be selling under the table" or "Android Market to be followed by Android Black Market"
 
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Google deserve this.

You do know that Eric Schmidt was elected to Apple's board of directors back in August 28, 2006?

On August 3, 2009, it was announced that Schmidt would resign from the board of directors at Apple due to conflicts of interest amid the growing competition between Google and Apple.

He also worked on Android during the time he was part of Apple's Board of Directors. For him to be sitting in the Board of Directors for Apple and to be making an OS that resembled iOS a fair bit sounds very suspicious.

Whether or not he stole Apple's ideas during that time to make Android... You decide.
 
They stole iOS, how was he wrong? Look at Windows phone, it's not an iOS rip off. Its possible to do something without stealing the ideas of people who worked hard and invested huge amounts of money in it.
Those WM phones don't have a market share that is significant any more, nor is it really a threat to Apple's market shares. So, those phone maybe infringing on something, but their really not on Apple's radar because of their position in the market.
 
It's interesting even on an apple forum the majority of people see the idiocracy of what Apple is doing. If apple really wanted to beat Samsung and google they need to spend those millions on R&D instead of their lawyers. All of these lawsuits on stupid everyday common software uses like these should have been tossed in the patent offices trash can the day they came in. Apple takes two steps backwards and their competition keeps marching forward. Apple lost their way.

Well, here's one denizen of this Apple forum who doesn't mind this. I remember the '80s, and what happened to the Mac. Jobs vowed it wouldn't happen again.

Notice, no suits against Windows Phone 7. It's ***different,*** and it doesn't infringe. Android, however, and all the little baby Androids, do. To judges. Real live judges who have the power and know the law.

You can go back for a long way in American law, and most often the original developers get screwed. Major Armstrong invented FM radio, and in fact, patented a system that was much better than the one that NBC's David Sarnoff got his engineers to develop. Guess which system he deployed. Armstrong filed suit, but he was small and the head of NBC was big. Armstrong eventually was near winning, but NBC's lawyers had delayed him so long that his chance was gone. He committed suicide.

The only difference with Apple is that this time, they have the lawyers and the money to spend.
 
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