Amen. I love apple but this is getting out of hand. Id prefer all of this money and time that they are taking to monopolize the world, be put into philanthropy
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So you think Samsung should be allowed to infringe on their hard work and profit from it. Had they successfully done this in 2002 they could have derailed the iPod which paved the way for the iPhone and now the iPad. Apple's mistakes in protecting their IP is what almost allowed MS to kill them before. They must fight now. If they don't and allow the infringing to continue to long it will be too late.
Google patent anything they do just as much as Apple. Saying they thought it but didn't patent before Apple and only implemented it now is ridiculous.
Siri came out about 9 months ago and now Google releases basically the same thing? For Google to take 9 months to develop and release something that relates directly to search points to either they are idiots for missing something so obvious or they copied.
Funny. Apple filed the patent on Dec, 2004. So, you know android has had unified search in android long before it was in iOS. Right?
Android had voice search first.
Show me one instance where Google has used a software patent aggressively to sue another party first. Google wasn't playing the patent game from the beginning. Google is building up its patent portfolio now, of course, just to defend against ridiculous attacks like this.
Google should have patented the slide-down notification bar and licensed it to all the Android manufacturers. Not because they particularly care that iOS would copy it, but to protect against Apple's ridiculous litigation.
Galaxy Nexus: Coming soon....
http://phandroid.com/2012/07/03/gal...ed-as-coming-soon-hopefully-with-a-vengeance/
http://phandroid.com/2012/07/03/gal...ed-as-coming-soon-hopefully-with-a-vengeance/
Funny. Apple filed the patent on Dec, 2004. So, you know android has had unified search in android long before it was in iOS. Right?
Android open source project began in 2003. It is completely plausible that the functionality was already in place prior to that.
Talk to your representative and the USPTO.
Per the USPTO, you can patent:
Process
Machine
Article of manufacture
Composition of matter
Improvement of any of the above
Apple patented the process of searching multiple...blah, blah, blah...it is in their filing.
The system is ****ed and needs an overhaul, but that's another thread.
It wouldn't have been necessary if Apple hadn't struck first, but unfortunately, Apple is continuing to force the whole industry down this path.
Software patents, in their current state, need to go. Most consumers (except for Apple fanboys) agree.
I'm done with iOS hardware. I will continue to use and purchase OS X, but will now proceed to sell all 3 iPads my family owns and this evening I am taking away all of the 6-8 iPods from my wife and children. In return, I will be buying them the Nexus 7 tablets and Galaxy Nexus phones imported in to the US for a marginally higher price.
Its also possible that Jesus was an alien from planet Cybertron. Where is your proof? Apple has the proof right there, they have a patent. Maybe iPhone project began in 2002 or even before that who knows.
I can randomly guess too.
Man im with you 100%, I am too a proud owner of a few Apple products but I am NOT supportive of Apple suing Samsung over everything. Its not good at all for consumers. Apple wants a damn monopoly.....f that. I think Jelly Bean is better anyways
Funny. Apple filed the patent on Dec, 2004. So, you know android has had unified search in android long before it was in iOS. Right?
Yeah, for SPOTLIGHT. It's as ridiculous as the whole automatic linking thing they sued HTC for, which I think they patented years ago for some old version of Mac OS prior to X. These are old "innovations" that show just how broken the patent system is. Why didn't they sue Microsoft after making fun of them for implementing it in Vista (probably because Vista was a bad product, and Android is not).
It's Steve Jobs's personal vendetta that Apple is pursuing here - says it right in his biography.
So when google sues them back for something else will you sell all the Google stuff and buy Apple stuff? seems like a huge waste of money. Apple sues google, google sues apple. The cycle goes on forever.
That can be easily invalidated. Apple had 300 UI patents to protects original iPhones but Google copied them easily.
They're patching the software to make it not infringing. It's justice, and the ban is not going to continue.
There's no way Google would have done anything if Apple hadn't been bullying Android manufacturers.
Yeah damn you for protecting your property.
Most consumers are clueless as to what it is and how it works. This thread just proofs that again and again.
Apple thinks it has a case. Apple also risks, because in the proccess patent(s) can be invalidated, so if the patent holds i dont see whats your problem here.