i have an iPhone, 2 MacBooks, a cinema display, an iPad, an iPod Nano, and an iMac G4. I'm not in favor of this. This is bad for all consumers. Unless you are a huge shareholder or an executive at Apple, you shouldn't be in favor of this ban.
Apple cares less about the actual infringement - it's a means to an end. They know that Samsung has turned a corner and is very much a real and viable threat with their newer devices in a way that Android phones haven't been to date.
and to think yesterday I ditched my iPhone 4 and bought a brand new Galaxy Nexus!
I'm getting sick of the silly business, Apple you *are* becoming the new Microsoft and suck
i have an iPhone, 2 MacBooks, a cinema display, an iPad, an iPod Nano, and an iMac G4. I'm not in favor of this. This is bad for all consumers. Unless you are a huge shareholder or an executive at Apple, you shouldn't be in favor of this ban.
The problem is it leaves an image that Apple is actually gaining some major ground in their lawsuits. The reality is they've lost a lot more motions/patents/claims than they've won.
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Yeah, we don't. They were "5 years ahead of everyone" in 2007, and now for the last 2 years they've been catching up to Google as far as features go. What happened ? Google seems to have jumped 7 years ahead ?
Notification center, wifi sync, multi-tasking, OTA updates, iCloud, heck frickin' background images, all late to the party compared to other platforms.
What gives ? With their money in the bank, you'd think they could keep ahead, but the "Copycats" seem to be innovating new features faster than Apple at this point. As Apple is finally entering the online world with iOS 5/6 (iCloud, Siri, OTA), Google is now bringing all the online stuff to offline mode (true cached maps, voice control that doesn't send everything you say over the Internet...).
I'm really glad this is happening.
Voice is involved, but the biggest supposed infringement is the multiple search and how it's done:
Samsung argued that "each using a different heuristic" meant that each plug-in module had to use a different algorithm to infringe.
Apple successfully argued that "each" actually meant "each plurality".
That interpretation of the claim construction is a major reason why they got the injunction. Personally, I think it reads the way Samsung says, but apparently there's legal precedent for Apple's way. Upon such details hangs the world!
To bad our legal system does not have a way to punish things like that saying if it is invalidated we are going to greatly increase the punishment fees. It would also be nice if they could say it is pretty clear that Apple does not care if the patent is valid but instead they are just doing delaying with the crapent and as such strip Apple's right to request injunction until after a full trail.
Patents are ugly for the consumer, but they are the life blood of companies small and large. How else can you justify spending $$ and time for developing products/processes/etc, if your potential competition only needs to sit around and drink coffee and reverse engineer your product?
That is why governments grant patents, even with the flaws.
If Google found a workaround to the patent, then it was forced to innovate. Isn't that the intention?
That is silly. Patents are granted by the patent office. It is rather difficult to get by them an non innovative claim that leads to a patent.
But the US patent system makes mistakes (not saying this one is), but the process is such that the courts finally make the decision, but only get involved when a lawsuit is done.
What you are saying is that the US patent office should be fined...not Apple. Good luck with that one!
So all of this is very normal...no one is being evil...that is a naive argument.
i have an iPhone, 2 MacBooks, a cinema display, an iPad, an iPod Nano, and an iMac G4. I'm not in favor of this. This is bad for all consumers. Unless you are a huge shareholder or an executive at Apple, you shouldn't be in favor of this ban.
it will be another year before apple considers something like offline mode for maps.
I'm sure you do. Now go back to your out dated iOS while I enjoy true innovations that is Jelly Bean.
Maybe if Apple changed the name for every minor patch, iOS users could feel special too.
Android has had unified search in android long before it was in iOS.
You can't get mad every time there is a lawsuit. If there are patents being explicitly violated, which I am not saying is true here, the device should be blocked. I don't know enough details about the patents, and you haven't shown that you do, so I am not going to say whether or not the device should be blocked.
I do not get all these ****ing lawsuits.
So they issue a possible workaround then they need not pay for previous infringement? In the similar case with HTC, HTC got around with kind of a fix and continue sell their devices. So what Apple got from all these lawsuits? Not a penny! Why Apple still continues these stupid lawsuits?
I may fall under the fanboy category, but quite honestly I don't really care anymore. I want to support a company based on how the product works. However, an equally important fact is I also want to support the company's products based on the philosophical premise that their foundation is based on. Maybe I'm a hippy with tech devices, who knows... it's just how I feel in regard to the products I'm using. If a company makes a great product, but it's a cut-throat patent trolling greedy fn bastard, I will choose to walk away and support a different company instead.
Judge how you want, I really don't care - but the bold text above is the reason I no longer support Apple.
I may fall under the fanboy category, but quite honestly I don't really care anymore. I want to support a company based on how the product works. However, an equally important fact is I also want to support the company's products based on the philosophical premise that their foundation is based on. Maybe I'm a hippy with tech devices, who knows... it's just how I feel in regard to the products I'm using. If a company makes a great product, but it's a cut-throat patent trolling greedy fn ****, I will choose to walk away and support a different company instead.
Judge how you want, I really don't care - but the bold text above is the reason I no longer support Apple.
So you don't like it if Apple sues at all for any kind of patent dispute?
Android didn't even exist when this patent was filed in 2004. Does anyone here actually read anything anymore?
Like they do with OS X ?![]()
"Can't wait until Google sues Apple for ripping off the pull down notification menu in iOS. It will be hard to work around that one. But you know what they say, what goes around comes around."
Apple got their notification center from the jailbreak community and Andoids Os and the iOS versions works in two separate ways. The only Similarities is that you pull it down. *You can google it if you want I found it on a android website.