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ITC Rules For Apple in HTC Patent Case

I don't get it, in the threads regarding the legal affairs with Samsung all you fanboys say "Samsung is the copycat, look at the other competitors like Microsoft and HTC, they make something different instead of just copying like Samsung does" but in this thread, all of a sudden HTC is the big copycat. ??
This inconsistancy among fanboys testifies to your inabilaty of objective thought (please, don't get offended if you feel this doesn't apply to you personally, I'm not addressing you)
 
Darwing said:
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Android is top seller not apple
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Well... last sales figured showed that the iPhone 4 was the #1 selling smart phone and the iPhone 3G was number 3.

Handset to handset, the iPhone is #1. But you are right, iOS to Android, Android is number one.
 
PlipPlop said:
Ive used many Android phones and none have had problems scrolling through menus. These have been a mixture of stock and rooted ones. The iphone 4 is terrible at loading web pages. So slooooooooooooooooooow.
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How do you know that Jonathan Ive has used _any_ Android phones? Do you know him?
 
ratzzo said:
Fair to Apple to have a big slice of the smartphone cake since they were the ones who sparked the smartphone market in the first place. But if Apple becomes the sole competitor in a race the rest will fall behind just because of things like patents. What I'm trying to say is that I would like to see what the competitors could come up with if they weren't restricted by patents.
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What an incredibly stupid post. Apple sparked the smart phone market!? There were lots of smart phones before Apple made the iPhone, this doesn't change just because ignorant fanboys claim all non-iPhones were dumb phones. The first gen iPhone wasn't much of a smart phone itself anyway.


gnasher729 said:
How do you know that Jonathan Ive has used _any_ Android phones? Do you know him?
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Why do you assume he meant Jonathan Ive, he could have been talking about Ive Sulentic, don't be so quick to jump at conclusions ;)
 
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hmm, 2 out of 20 - not bad

now everyone knows what patents to look after from Apple in the future - Seeing how HTC bought the 2 graphics patent Apple was found infringing from S3 and Via, this is far from done
 
I enjoy how on here one minute android sucks and is inferior to iOS in every way, then the next it completely ripped off Apple and needs to be sued into the ground.
 
Popeye206 said:
Well... last sales figured showed that the iPhone 4 was the #1 selling smart phone and the iPhone 3G was number 3.

Handset to handset, the iPhone is #1. But you are right, iOS to Android, Android is number one.
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I thought the 3GS was #2?
 
Certainly I'm not a lawyer, but Charles Babbage might be infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647.

"A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data"? What program doesn't do that?
 
lkrupp said:
Take a look at PlipPlop's posting record and ask yourself why do these Fandroid trolls feel compelled to join and post in Apple centric forums. Occam's razor applies here I believe. The simplest explanation is envy, fear, insecurity, which breeds hatred. Sad.
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Maybe they are posting in here because they have Apple products so therefore are qualified for talking about the quality of those products. I have had many iPods and I have the iPhone 3GS but I rarely praise apple anymore because their products are falling behind. I had to replace my iPhone 3 times within the first 6 months of getting it (which was over 2 months after I ordered it). These are reasons people post on here frustrated with Apple. I love Apple's finished products usually but it becomes harder and harder to justify them. In 2007, their phones were leaps and bounds better than any other. That gap is narrowing.

Why can't people who enjoy more than one OS post in here? It's called MacRumors: News and Rumors you care about. If someone enjoys Apple rumors and news then this is the place for them. It's not called MacFanboi's: Only come here if you agree with what Apple is doing.

I've been to plenty of Android and Windows rumors sites that have plenty of Apple trolls themselves. The difference is that trolls here actually try to have an argument to back up their opinion. On Android and Windows sites, Appleboi's just post a one liner like "can't wait for my new iPhone 5.. android suxx". That's more frustrating to a reader than the posts on here.
 
Plus and Minus

Face it, many Asian companies have copying in their DNA. That's what fueled postwar Japanese growth, for instance. Then with Sony, and Honda, and a hundred other companies, they defined a couple of decades of our economic life. Japanese cars took over North America. Betamax. Sony TVs. Toshibas. First they copied, then they innovated.

About software patents, I don't know. There should be some, but too many seem to be given out. But hardware is another thing. Think of all the new stuff that the iPhone introduced. It took Apple years of research to bring out the iPhone. Two years later, here are a bunch of phones that copy your design. If you copy, you should negotiate a license or make up your own stuff. Isn't copying without acknowledgement, without license, the definition of unfair competition?

I'd really welcome more companies competing against Apple by doing their own original thinking. If they did the same amount of design and invention, if someone else would bring together OS and hardware on their own, then we'd increase the market-creating tools for the next century.
 
Swift said:
Face it, many Asian companies have copying in their DNA. That's what fueled postwar Japanese growth, for instance. Then with Sony, and Honda, and a hundred other companies, they defined a couple of decades of our economic life. Japanese cars took over North America. Betamax. Sony TVs. Toshibas. First they copied, then they innovated.

About software patents, I don't know. There should be some, but too many seem to be given out. But hardware is another thing. Think of all the new stuff that the iPhone introduced. It took Apple years of research to bring out the iPhone. Two years later, here are a bunch of phones that copy your design. If you copy, you should negotiate a license or make up your own stuff. Isn't copying without acknowledgement, without license, the definition of unfair competition?

I'd really welcome more companies competing against Apple by doing their own original thinking. If they did the same amount of design and invention, if someone else would bring together OS and hardware on their own, then we'd increase the market-creating tools for the next century.
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So we can ignore all the things Apple have taken from Google and Microsoft over the years? Take Androids notification system in ios5 for a recent example.
 
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I can't think off the top of my head of anything Apple's stolen from MS. I'm sure there are examples, but overall surely the flow has been predominantly in the other direction...
 
cav23j said:
the acquisition isn't until the end of this year
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So, it really wasn't their patent until it caught their interest because the company won a suit? Did HTC do anything about it? If you deride Apple for going to the courts, then this is truly legal shenanigans. HTC is acting like a patent monkey here.
 
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I can't think off the top of my head of anything Apple's stolen from MS. I'm sure there are examples, but overall surely the flow has been predominantly in the other direction...
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There have been a few things. Sometimes it's just a desire to be interoperable with the best-selling OS. You can finally network with a Windows computer out of the box, for instance. That took a while. They used the open-source Samba. And other times Apple has tried one thing after another until giving up and doing the way Windows does it, because, like the multi-button mouse, it's become standard.

Luckily they haven't copied the windows registry.
 
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