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I just saw an ad for a new gold version of the Samsung Galaxy 6. They are even copying colors now. Embarassing!
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Facebook, Google and Other Silicon Valley Companies Side with Samsung in Patent Case
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I just saw an ad for a new gold version of the Samsung Galaxy 6. They are even copying colors now. Embarassing!
What should he/she do!? Should he/she spread hatred, like some irrational kids in this forum?
So if you ever make a gold phone, or a phone made of glass and or aluminum, you're a copycat. If you make a plastic phone, you're a cheap company that can't make crap (figure of speech because if you're a cheap company you probably can and do make crap). I'm confused as to how any company but Apple is supposed to make anything and not get completely slammed for it
Someone at Apple is loving reading the stuff that their drones post on here.
It's embarrassing reading some of the stuff here. How can someone get so emotional about a company who doesn't give a flying F about them?
All they care about is to suck you dry.
It's embarrassing reading some of the stuff here. How can someone get so emotional about a company who doesn't give a flying F about them?
All they care about is to suck you dry.
Besides the current case covering both hardware and software patents, the latter are just plain stupid. Software wouldn't be where it is today if we had these protective laws in the 70s and 80s. Berners-Lee consciously decided not to patent the web and not to claim any license fees for his invention and so did generations of scientists and engineers before him for the sake of progress.
In ProwlingTiger's defence, I believe he/she is saying that the S6 Active's 'ruggedisation' makes it an attractive proposition for users who aren't confined to office environments. There's no slight intended by 'blue collar'.Wow, there are really people like this?
If I remember correctly, there were images of a Samsung being shown on a trade show on the internet, with dates blatantly changed by a year to "prove" this. In reality the phone that you are talking about appeared long after the first iPhone.
And there would be the obvious question: If they indeed had a "iPhone" looking phone out before the iPhone, why didn't they tell the court? With the obvious answer: Because they didn't.
Wow, there are really people like this?
That phone is ruggedised, dust proof, water proof, shock proof. It's designed for people who have a blue collar job or go adventuring, rock climbing and so on. Someone who just sits in an office doesn't need a phone with such protection.
I love Apple products. But they deserve this. Time to get of the high horse and go innovate a bit more.
Cause this is ridiculous. You don't see car companies and others yelling this way.
And btw all the phones look different, of course they are going to have similarities.
I fully understand that the other companies are worried of the long effects this could have.
Good move on their part. Sometimes the weakest link must be realized and let go.
Cause this is ridiculous. You don't see car companies and others yelling this way.
And btw all the phones look different, of course they are going to have similarities.
I fully understand that the other companies are worried of the long effects this could have.
Good move on their part. Sometimes the weakest link must be realized and let go.
Whilst I might disagree with your decision as it might appear fickle to me I do admire it in a sense. For having the courage to stand up for what you believe in.
But you just defended Samsung and HTC... do they not see you as just another number?
I’d love Samsung to win now just to see how many of you actually do.
PLEASE tell me you are joking with that BS.
APPLE A COMPANY THAT KEEPS LOTS OF FOREIGN PROFITS, (some of which they undoubtedly came about by shady means)????
Makes products overseas instead of in the US. Jesus, get over yourself.
Lamest thing I've read all week. Didn't know this was a cringe thread.
That's a very good list of reasons. One more for Google is that Apple is probably the biggest thing standing in Google's way of total data collection. Facebook definitely has some scheme going on, as is evident from http://internet.org
This is a joke right....
In case it's not what's you plan to report them to NSA, FBI, CIA....Google thier numbers? Geez I'd love to hear that conversation....
It affects the company and their success so it can limit the flow of innovative products until they are sure they will be able to recoup their investments. Microsoft's similarly blatant theft of Mac OS caused a 10 year drought of my innovation from Apple. They started just following the market because huge investments in tech that could not be protected by copyrights as revealed in the MS battle. They could not justify the risk when competitor would just appropriate their work and compete with them using tech they spent Billions creating.I don't know why people waste there energy getting heated over stuff like this in the comments. Being a "loyal Apple fan" (fanboy) gets you literally nowhere. It's not like you're going to be seeing any of that 500 million Apple is about to get. Instead they're going to go ahead and make another underwhelming, last year look alike phone with probably 3 new features (iPhone 6s) and charge you even more for it. Apple is not listening to you. Apple does not care. You are literally just another dollar in their pocket, another statistic on some graph, and another fanboy wasting their life getting mad over things that will literally not affect you at all.
People here tend to react very emotionally regarding this case and Apple in general. While they are right for the most part and this "friend of the court" is indeed a ridiculous POS, - let's still not forget, that at such level it is all about business, publicity and marketing moves, not very much about pure emotions towards or against Apple.
Google just realized, that they surprisingly earned some more money in the last quarter. So, why not go and support their lovely friends and take a bunch of other losers along?
Google just realized, that they surprisingly earned some more money in the last quarter. So, why not go and support their lovely friends and take a bunch of other losers along?
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clearly you do not understand what the word criminals means.
You do realise that apple also "borrows" from others? It's an industry where people copy each other, you would have to be extremely naive to ignore the features android and iOS have copied from each other.
Point here is, Samsung were blatant.
You mean the colour Apple copied from Samsung right?
http://www.thewire.com/technology/2013/09/sorry-guys-samsung-already-had-gold-phone-first/69842/
And the samsung rose gold watch anno Feb.2014:
How embarrassing of Apple! Right? Because that is what you said.
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Pretty much the exact same thing I said
I don't know why people waste there energy getting heated over stuff like this in the comments. Being a "loyal Apple fan" (fanboy) gets you literally nowhere. It's not like you're going to be seeing any of that 500 million Apple is about to get. Instead they're going to go ahead and make another underwhelming, last year look alike phone with probably 3 new features (iPhone 6s) and charge you even more for it. Apple is not listening to you. Apple does not care. You are literally just another dollar in their pocket, another statistic on some graph, and another fanboy wasting their life getting mad over things that will literally not affect you at all.
Pretty much
Windows and Mac OS were based on Zerox parc.