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Google 'Supercharging Android' With Acquisition of Motorola Mobility
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go to droidforums and make a post that says "Apple is the best" and then report back. What a joke...you're now suggesting that fanboys only exist on apple sites? Really?
Really? Take a look at the URL at the top of your browser window.
Do people gripe incessantly about "evangelism" on Android and Microsoft-related forums? I don't know because I don't visit those sites, but I'm guessing no.
Most of us already use Apple stuff. Which probably means
we like it. So what would be the point of evangelism here?
I'm curious how things play out too. Here's another quote:
John C Dvorak (March 2007):
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on Apple:
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I seriously doubt Macrumors would post this as a news item, but wow, that is looking very bad for Apple :
Wow!
Just WOW. That could very well end up being quite expensive for Apple. The EU is way to lax in general, but when they strike they usually strike hard.
More nonsense.
There are two ways to look at this acquisition:
1) Google just paid $12 billion for a portfolio of mobile phone patents that may - or may not - be of some value in the ongoing legal wrangling. But its also worth noting that Motorola didn't, on their own, feel that these patents were particularly valuable, and certainly not worth staking the company on.
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2) That Google bought Motorola Mobility so it would have a hardware channel to showcase its Android mobile operating system. Which is fraught with problems, beyond the inevitable unease it is going to cause for Android's other partners.
Keep one thing in mind: Executing a hardware strategy in mobile phones is hard. Nokia and RIM did it pretty well for a decade or so, but then lost their way. Microsoft never did it. Samsung and HTC are currently building marketshare - but are making virtually no profit at it. Google tried it a couple of years ago - and failed spectacularly.
How is Google supposed to "win" though this acquisition? By giving Motorola phones and tablets the "latest and greatest" Android version? Thats going to go down pretty badly with Samsung and HTC. Or by designing, building, and selling hardware better than the other guys? Which they've never shown any capability of doing?
If there is ANY one clear winner from this acquisition it is, of all companies, Microsoft. Because Google has just handed all the Android-partners out there the best reason in the world to take another look at Windows Phone 8 when it appears next year.
What features were "copied" that weren't requested from pretty much the get go by it's users? I can't think of any, but I may be mistaken. I don't think that being first to implement some pretty obvious improvements in something is the same as creating a new-style interface for communications - then having someone copy it wholesale.
It's like if I invented the wheel, and the people I sold the wheel to complained it made for a kind of bumpy ride. While I was developing the vibration reducing material for the outside, someone else copied my idea, knew that there was a vibration issue, and started selling wheels and came out with tire before me - then accused me of copying them after I finished producing tires on my wheels.
I think we are dealing with apples(ha!) and oranges here.
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Nobody is on the level of apple evangelicals. You will not see people camping out in front of stores for days just to buy an Android handset.
androidforums.com
androidandme.com
phandroid.com
Now, of course, you'll qualify the hell out of anything on those sites, but it's as extreme and evangelical as it is here. And I think that's fine, actually. People like what they like, and they're entitled to like it.
I'll tell what is unique to Apple though: obsessives who hate it so much they can't imagine why anyone would ever want to buy an Apple product or praise it. They're even weird enough to refer to people who own Apple products as "evangelicals". Now THAT's some extreme psychotic and delusional brand obsession.
Andy Rubin sentence construction 101: a noun, a verb, and "open source."
Does this guy know any other words?
Maybe you're right or maybe it's just because there's nothing on the Android platform worth camping overnight for.
Does this guy know any other words?
Maybe you're right or maybe it's just because there's nothing on the Android platform worth camping overnight for.
You're right, they're all on the internet on Apple-centric sites saying things like "evangelicals" instead
It's comical that you're shocked that fanboys exist...but ok.
Please, This is a Made up Story to get Clicks from no other then PC World.
Did you Read this part that says it all.
"Müller argues the picture in the German complaint could be of a prerelease prototype, which showed up during discovery procedures in Apple's case against Samsung in the U.S. last April."
Note that this preliminary injunction is all about a design-related intellectual property right, not about hardware or software patents.
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/preliminary-injunction-granted-by.html
And with some very Simple checking with the Models that had been submitted, This is indeed the case.
So as for your Checkmate,
Just escaped Checkmate By Counter-Attack (look it up- it Exists)
Move On.
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That's the problem, I'm a veteran of close to 15 years on the Internet, and before that, 5 years messing around the various BBSs.
The subjectivity and bias is only getting worse. It used to be you could discuss things rationally for days online (either on BBSs through Fidonet or on the Internet) without ever getting into the land of pure bias tainted subjectivity.
I don't get this whole "I must be a cheerleader for XX at all costs!" mentality. Never will. I know it's there, I know people see this forum as a "apple fan site", but frankly, it isn't and many don't see it that way. Some posters would do well to "tone it down" a notch and realise that it doesn't make them part of a crowd to constantly post the same tired pro-apple nonsense all the time.
BTW, I'm not your "bro".
Try not to think of it in terms of evangelicals and fanboyism. I try to look at it like 'high brow Jerry Springer'.
That's the problem, I'm a veteran of close to 15 years on the Internet, and before that, 5 years messing around the various BBSs.
The subjectivity and bias is only getting worse. It used to be you could discuss things rationally for days online (either on BBSs through Fidonet or on the Internet) without ever getting into the land of pure bias tainted subjectivity.
So I'll ask again (since pointless questions seem to be ok): Are you shocked that there are fanboys on this forum? If not, are you just trolling too?
KnightWRX said:
You can't have possibly thought I thought you were...right?
We welcome the news of todays acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem Peter Chou, CEO, HTC
I welcome Googles commitment to defending Android and its partners Bert Nordberg, President & CEO, Sony Ericsson
We welcome Googles commitment to defending Android and its partners Jong-Seok Park, Ph.D, President & CEO, LG
We welcome todays news, which demonstrates Googles deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem J.K. Shin, President, Samsung, Mobile Communications Division
Aha ha ha .... Four CEO (puppets) say nearly the same thing 'word for word', lol, what a joke.
Competition is always good for end customers.
Can't wait to see what Google and Motorola come up with!
Why wait? It's just going to be a direct copy of everything Apple is doing now. Walled garden eco system and all.
Maybe, but even if companies look at MS/Nokia, they'll realize neither company has anything competitive to offer--and with the track record MS has in mobile, there is simply no reason to believe it will magically come up with anything new.
This is true, but on the surface I cannot fault the "team" mentality of people who post on this forum. I mean if I was in a room full of Lakers Fans, I would cheer alot of things the Lakers do. BUT me personally, I would hope I could talk to other Lakers fans about how bad certain things are, and what needs to improve.
Apple fans, in general, lack that ablity to talk amungst other fans in an objective matter.
As i said Before:
"Müller argues the picture in the German complaint could be of a prerelease prototype, which showed up during discovery procedures in Apple's case against Samsung in the U.S. last April."
And with some very Simple checking with the Models that had been submitted, This is indeed the case.
And look at the Merits of he case before posting this obvious dribble.
They got it on Merits of the Design, Not Software - Look it up.
OHIM – OFFICE FOR HARMONIZATION IN THE INTERNAL MARKET
TRADE MARKS AND DESIGNS
OHMI – OFFICE DE L’HARMONISATION DANS LE MARCHÉ INTÉRIEUR
MARQUES, DESSINS ET MODÈLES
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OHIM – OFFICE FOR HARMONIZATION IN THE INTERNAL MARKET
TRADE MARKS AND DESIGNS
OHMI – OFFICE DE L’HARMONISATION DANS LE MARCHÉ INTÉRIEUR
MARQUES, DESSINS ET MODÈLES
Note that this preliminary injunction is all about a design-related intellectual property right, not about hardware or software patents.
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/08/09/apple-gets-samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-distribution-blocked-in-european-union/
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/preliminary-injunction-granted-by.html
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From day one it has always been ONE iphone per year while Moto has put out many different phones a year.On top of that you have the other Android OEMS pumping out their own darn phones all on the Android platform. That Android biz is pretty saturated.
Really??? They're all over...One example would be a gaming website (game trailers) go into the forums and your mind will blown away. Im actually inclined into believing that your just acting dumb for the sake of defending your statements. I mean no disrespect but I'm just saying that its really hard to believe that you don't see this sort of behavior (fanboy-ism) everywhere else.