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iPhone Keyboard Maker 'Typo' Ordered to Pay BlackBerry $860,000

Cisco_Kid said:
Blackberry third quarter of fiscal 2014 was approximately $1.2 billion....
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Where are you getting that? They didn't even make that in revenue.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=BBRY

13 weeks ending 2014-11-29: $793 million in revenue, but with $932 million in operating expense, meaning operating income was a $139 million loss.

Google Finance is showing they had -18.66% net profit margin in Q4 2014, and a whopping -86.20% net profit margin in Y2014.

$860K in cash is a rounding error against those kinds of losses.
 
japanime said:
Agreed. Because without TouchID, how are all those SF Giants fans supposed to be able to unlock their iPhones so they can send texts, check Facebook and buy apps while they are at AT&T Park "watching" the game? ;)
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Well those extra few seconds saved are crucial to not miss a single pitch.
 
Are people that addicted to those plastic keys? Let me tell you the only thing I miss from the non-smart phones days is going a week without charging the damn thing.
 
macduke said:
As if the iPhone needed a reason to get any taller.

Am I the only one who can type faster on a virtual keyboard than those tiny plastic phone keyboards of a bygone era? On my iPad a larger physical keyboard is faster, but on an iPhone the virtual one is better than this. Use a real computer if you need to write a novel.
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or pair with a bluetooth keyboard. A friend of mine uses one at work for his personal stuff as he can't even check his personal e-mail on the work laptop.
 
So you can sell a Chromebook that is nearly identical to the current generation MacBook air, but you can't sell a case that looks like a six year old Blackberry.
 
At least blackberry has found a way to finally make some money.

I loved my old blackberry for typing. Unfortunately it sucked for everything else. Well, honestly I can't speak much about how it worked during phone calls, because I could never use the phone function. Terrible reception. But I loved texting on it. I had to exchange it though pretty quickly for a working phone to make calls. Sadly I went with an LG at the time.
 
If Blackberry were Smart...

They should've bought out Typo early on...and they would have a "product" that somehow was selling as an addition to the IPhone. At least they would be making money somewhere.
 
You would of thought by now in this technology age, someone would have managed to just make a snap on keyboard/case that would work with any smart phone over bluetooth..

We're almost there....... We've gotten to the point of "Well u can pair a Bluetooth keyboard".... but that's the limit...

You just know Apples cronies are lurking in their basement as Cupertino devouring a sneaky scheme. Tim's rubbing his hands in glee .... "ha ha,, now i've got u bastards."
 
skippymac said:
The company is idiotic for not listening to the court but I find it far more ridiculous that a company can be deemed to be infringing on copyright with a device as ubiquitous as a keyboard. I mean seriously, words literally fail me.
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Not copyright, but a design patent.

And what do you mean "a device as ubiquitous as a keyboard"? There are a gazillion ways to design a keyboard so it doesn't look like a BlackBerry keyboard. And that ubiquitous device is the company's while product, so their entire business was based on copying BlackBerry's design.
 
I'd be embarrassed using this. I wouldn't even accept it if the company paid me $860,000 to use it for 1 year. Maybe $860 mil, but not thou
 
Typo copied the blackberry keyboard down to the little drawer handle on the space bar. Guess they thought they would get away with it...
 
My god, how could they think covering the touchID butting was a good idea! Am I missing something? Do people who want physical keyboards love typing so much that they want to use it as much as possible, including entering a password?
 
mazz0 said:
My god, how could they think covering the touchID butting was a good idea! Am I missing something? Do people who want physical keyboards love typing so much that they want to use it as much as possible, including entering a password?
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Yes and even more so when the court ruled that cops can compel you to unlock your phone with your fingerprint but cannot with a password or pin.
 
What exactly was infringed upon? The small button keyboard in a QWERTY pattern was not invented by Blackberry. Arranging buttons into rows isn't new, the underlying push-button switch technology predates Blackberry.

The shape of the buttons is somewhat unique, but is that patentable? Is the patent for silver bars separating rows of keys?

Curious to find out exactly what patent ##s they were awarded, and exactly what was covered within them.
 
"despite Typo's argument that it was not harming BlackBerry as BlackBerry was already losing market share"
:D
 
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