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Biometric Sensor Company Valencell Accuses Apple of Stealing Technology for Apple Watch
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Now now.. Do you have any physical proof of this? Were you physically present in these meetings? I'm sure you were not unless you work for this company. Once you have documented evidence, come back here to troll more.
Thus negating all of your statements?
Because Fitbit doesn't have the store of cash that Apple has. Follow. The. Money.
Then why did they not do the same with all of the other companies they purchased? My guess is that Apple saw what Valencell was offering and felt that it wasn't unique enough to be differentiated from what everyone else was doing anyway.
Read the Steve Jobs bio by Walter Isaacson. Also, it's widely available on the internet, if you cared to search. Here are some links: The New Yorker, Fortune, Cnet, LA Times
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The Mac is successful now. But according to the chart I have it took until 1990 to outsell the Commodore 64.
You forgot to add tags for <sarcasm>. There will be some people without any knowledge of computing history who take your post at face value. And there will be others who will read your "Now let Apple apologists defend Apple" as a nasty a hominem attack against anyone wanting to correct your post, instead of being taken as the light humour it is intended to be.
Edit: After reading some other posts of yours, my apologies. You were not sarcastic at all, but clueless. Obviously that makes the "nasty ad hominem attack" now a correct judgement of your post.
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Now it's YOU who forgot the <sarcasm> tags!
A lot of their complaint is nonsense. "Apple led us to believe that they would buy our technology". Nonsense. They were in negotiations. They needed to prove that they had the best technology, and apparently they didn't. Companies are supposed to be run by adults, who can distinguish between "we are interested in your technology" and "we will buy your technology". When Apple signs the dotted line, then you may say that you are led to believe they will buy your tech, not before.
And sadly, sadly another post that misunderstands the genius of Picasso (whom Jobs was quoting). That reminds me, they are quoting an ex-CEO who died years before any of the events...
Of course they have proof of meetings. And of course Apple examined their technology. And then Apple decided that it wasn't worth the money. That's normal business.
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I could ask you for either evidence or an apology, but I won't bother.
You have your facts wrong. Apple licensed the technology from Xerox. Microsoft stole it from them as well as Apple. Not defending Apple - this is fact.
Apple bought and paid for the rights to use Xerox PARC technology. Per your use of the term, anytime you shop at the local supermarket you are "stealing" their food.
Excellent! More for the rest of us. Thank you for your sacrifice.
Honestly - what are you talking about? Apple isn't allowed to have their products manufactured at the same factories that other companies use? Apple is somehow responsible for how Chinese manufacturers run their business? What? Apple is the bad guy for following the tax laws as they are written? They are just supposed to pay extra taxes to make people feel better?
I'm always amazed that Apple goes through all the effort that they do for civil rights, using renewable energy, and numerous other programs that add a lot more cost to their bottom line that they don't have to, yet people make comments like this...
I have no idea what that has to do with my comment?
Yet as I stated, Valencell feels it has enough proof to take Apple to court for stealing it's inventions. Or do you feel they just felt like randomly taking them to court? Like a patent troll only they aren't as according to this article it is THEIR technology they showed to Apple. Apple hasn't purchased Valencell, and we will see if they did indeed feel it was cheaper to just steal technology. As I said it wouldn't surprise me as they need pretty good evidence, and it's not the first time Apple has stolen.
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You mean despite the fact the story states they have also gone after Fitbit...
Read the story from a none Apple centric website:
http://www.kait8.com/story/30882469...ngement-suit-against-apple-inc-and-fitbit-inc
Interesting that you feel that YOU are entitled to make an assertion without providing ANY proof; but you demand that anyone who disagrees with you must provide absolute proof in order to support their counter-argument. This is typical behavior of a troll.
Although I doubt you will accept, or even bother to read, the following links, or even acknowledge them as valid proof (requiring a far greater burden from others than you require of yourself), I'm going to humor you with the following links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.
http://www.fool.com/news/foth/2000/foth000918.htm
http://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2012-03-22/apple-and-xerox-parc
The lawsuit is very straightforward. The main claims are that the Apple Watch infringes on Valencell's patents - the infringement is described in detail in each count of the lawsuit. Unless someone here has technical knowledge of the technology involved, it is not useful to comment on the validity of the claims.
The crazy part is that by accepting Valencell's devices to examine, Apple clearly learned from Valencell's technology - this could support the argument that Apple acted willfully. If the court rules that Apple did willfully infringe, the damages could be severe.
The crazy part is that by accepting Valencell's devices to examine, Apple clearly learned from Valencell's technology - this could support the argument that Apple acted willfully. If the court rules that Apple did willfully infringe, the damages could be severe.
So these guys waited to see which wearable companies are most successful and then sue them?
They will not get a cent!
They will not get a cent!
Ironic that you cite the Burden of Proof fallacy, as you continue to commit this one yourself. And so many others...
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com
Burden of proof
The Texas sharpshooter
Tu quoque
Anecdotal
Care to enlighten us with the name of a company whose products you would buy instead? A tech company that doesn’t use “slave” labor and doesn’t have billions in offshore accounts? Those two qualifiers pretty much eliminates every other tech company on the planet. Google and Samsung are out. They both “steal technology and violate copyrights", have been sued for such, and have lost. All the Android OEMs use the same “slave" labor Apple does. So who, pray tell, do you buy your tech from? Hmmmm?
I almost believed this company was saying the truth, but than he said..the same Steve stole Xerox ideas, stupid man actually used that line in court? here's the judge response: Mr Jobs stole Xerox ideas? do you have any proves of this? we're you there when it happened? stupid man response: no, but i read it from Wikipedia
Another 25 year old fool that doesn't know the first thing about tech or the history of tech. Hang it up. It well documented Apple paid Xerox for information they (a bunch of talking business heads) felt had no value.