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Apple Wins One-Week Extension of Galaxy Tab Sales Ban in Australia
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Sure, like iMac was the one and only all in one desktop computer back in 1998
Or something like click/touch wheel on early generation of iPod.
Or like Macbook Air when Sony hardly made it into the market.
Or even iPhone/iPod Touch started using capacitive touch screen while any other only use resistive along with fugly looking stylus.
I'm sure Samsung's geniuses got into those ideas first
Apple surely sucks at innovation, right?
Yes, something like iMac was the one and only all in one desktop computer back in 1998
Something like click/touch wheel on earlier generation of iPod.
Or something like Macbook Air when Sony hardly made it.
I'm sure Samsung's geniuses got into those ideas first
Apple surely sucks at innovation, right?
Commodore PET, All-in-one computer, released in 1977.
Apple didn't design the click wheel, Synaptics did.
Sony Vaio x505, came out in 2004.
I wonder how many of those crap cakes will stay or be used like iPads are. By my estimates - not much.
Time for Apple to be knocked off their high horse and brought back to earth with the rest of us. Enough with the elitist attitude. They have obviously forgotten where they came from. The do everything that they once bashed everyone else for.
Yes, you are right, the judge is Apple fanboi.
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Right.
And you thought Samsung innovate LCD, Plasma, washing machine, air conditioner just because Samsung sell them?
I never said they innovated everything they make.
They did innovate a AMOLED Flexible display recently.
The PET came out in January, the Apple II came out in June.
I'm just saying that Apple didn't design it, another company did.
Innovating something doesn't mean it will always sell well.
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Apple's shoe string R & D Budget
Apple gave the world the iPhone, iPad, and iPod on a shoe-string R&D budget, spending only $500 million in 2006 and $800 million in 2007. This year Apple spent $2.4 billion on R&D. In fact Apple's previous 10 year's R & D investment is only about 10 billion dollar combined.
Compared this to Samsung's R & D investment, in first 9 months of the year itself it has invested 6.5 billion dollars in R & D. Its track record has been the same all previous years. Apart from this Samsung has already invested 14 billion dollars in facilities upgrade and going to invest another 14 billion dollar in next 3 months. The amount easily exceeds 34 billion dollars ( much more than Apple inc's entire profit of 25 billion dollar last year). So what if Samsung decides to forego all these investments and just add these in their profit, their profit will be two times of that Apple's.
Above mentioned are facts, but this does not mean Apple is not an innovator. It might also mean that Apple invest its money very wisely.
Apple gave the world the iPhone, iPad, and iPod on a shoe-string R&D budget, spending only $500 million in 2006 and $800 million in 2007. This year Apple spent $2.4 billion on R&D. In fact Apple's previous 10 year's R & D investment is only about 10 billion dollar combined.
Compared this to Samsung's R & D investment, in first 9 months of the year itself it has invested 6.5 billion dollars in R & D. Its track record has been the same all previous years. Apart from this Samsung has already invested 14 billion dollars in facilities upgrade and going to invest another 14 billion dollar in next 3 months. The amount easily exceeds 34 billion dollars ( much more than Apple inc's entire profit of 25 billion dollar last year). So what if Samsung decides to forego all these investments and just add these in their profit, their profit will be two times of that Apple's.
Above mentioned are facts, but this does not mean Apple is not an innovator. It might also mean that Apple invest its money very wisely.
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Yap, you don't know the ins and out of the law and also don't know the ins and outs of the case.
In Australia the case is about touch screen manufacturing teach and an heuristic behaviour of a gesture
That's great. Keep up the ban of knockoffs!
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Size of the logos should correspond to company value. That seems about right.
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Size of the logos should correspond to company value. That seems about right.
There is no hope for you.
I'm so sad to realize this sad news.
I can't imagine how you family might be dealing with this fact
I'think that some people are not really Apple fans but people fanatics of other companies trying to make Apple owners look silly
Judging by what I read here most days, many Apple owners don't need any help to look silly. They do a great job on their own.
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So your bold quoted statement is totally reversed. Apple designed them, another company make it happens. Apple make change in something already established (touch sensor, WiFi, hard glass, IPS panel)
It's Apple who came up with the idea of Click Wheel on their first iPod and they come up with Synaptic which made it possible.
Apple also had the idea of strong and scratch resistant glass on iPhone, and they come up with Corning's prototype which works fine and finally imitated by your beloved Samsung and of course many other brands. Corning is the inventor, but Apple is the innovator.
In that case, Apple innovates just fine.
Innovate a product doesn't mean you have to invent anything on it. If I designed a bathtub with WiFi connectivity, touch screen control display, and self-regulating water temperature, and somehow I did it and people love it, then I INNOVATE and redefine new standard about bathtub.
That doesn't mean I have to invent WiFi, touch screen and temperature sensor, I can have someone else make it happens for me, but it's me who come up with that crazy super smart bathtub idea and it's also me who arrange how it supposed to be assembled or manufactured.
That's me being innovative
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Yeah Apple should really invest more money innovating, and not defending itself so other companies wouldn't have to innovate and just copy.
Dumb Apple that spent resources researching new and innovative way to interact with devices, when people still believed the company was irrelevant and going under, and expects the full return of its investment.
Apple should really just license its patents to whomever and retire from making devices, not like iPhone and iPad represented 80% of their income.
Samsung is doing a BRILLIANT job mocking them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h5JSojJN3Y
Its true though. No other company in the world has these kind of obsessed lemmings over a BRAND. Mindless devotion to a BRAND! Speaking of lemmings, anyone remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYP1Tjgt1Ao
Ironic, isn't it?
The judge seems a little clueless.
"A stay for one week will cost Samsung, in effect, one weeks trade,
It would take an expert to properly evaluate but the weeks running up to Christmas are clearly much more valuable than normal. The fud costs of the ban alone must be massive.
"A stay for one week will cost Samsung, in effect, one weeks trade,
It would take an expert to properly evaluate but the weeks running up to Christmas are clearly much more valuable than normal. The fud costs of the ban alone must be massive.
Excellent!! There are a lot of Apple lemmings. Funny how the tide has turned, isn't it? Apple is now the establishment, the very thing they were once against. As Machiavelli said, "All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Remember when Creative sued Apple? The Macrumors members went apewild.
Then they went apewild once again when Apple countersued:
By your logic apple will be imitating samsung and motorola since they used 4G LTE first lol. (both companies hold patents in LTE technology that were developed in house, not bought like apple)
/facepalm