You live in an age of Surveillance Media. deal with it or move to some obscure third world country.
Yep. If you're on the grid the only real privacy you've got is in your bathroom behind a locked door.
You live in an age of Surveillance Media. deal with it or move to some obscure third world country.
Exactly. Poor reading comprehension. And how do you change the assigned iTMS account on your iPhone again?
It's relevant in the respect that, as the public portion of the claim is written, looks as if Apple is also in violation. I wonder why Microsoft is only targeting Motorola...
Microsoft paid close to a billion ($900m) to Sun Microsystems back in the day. Google is trying to save that billion.
oh microsoft and android, has everything to do with MAC rumors....who cares what either of them are doing do eachother
ALL Google's Open Source marketing is all BS. The truth is Android is "Openly Stolen Intellectual Property".
- Stolen Multi-touch interface from Apple.
- Stolen App store from Apple.
- Stolen intellectual properties from WinMo.
- Stolen JAVA from SUN/Oracle.
- Stolen Location Service from Skyhook.
- Stolen Logo/Icon name from Atari.
Balmer and his group of marketing weenies CANNOT and WILL NOT make a dent. They will, by the nature of being Microsoft, screw this up too.
Let's look at their track record. Yup, over the last 20-odd years, Microsoft has garnered a HUGE chunk of the personal computing real estate by the nature of the market and basic consumer stupidity. That was the magic of Bill Gates..he figured out that by dangling a few shiny trinkets in front of the generally moronic public he would sell "Windows" with all of it's warts - basically forever.
THEN something drastic happened. Netscape started it when they tried to take a large chunk out of Microsoft's ass and almost succeeded... but I'll guarantee you that it got their attention. Then others, both on the hardware front but aggressively on the software with a flood of offerings hitting the market, the technology consumer getting a WHOLE lot smarter about what and how technology could be used, and as of today, they have BYPASSED Microsoft both in skill, market savvy and the ability to maneuver at a vastly quicker pace than the lumbering giant.. Balmer and his gang of weenies can't keep up. Neither can AT&T..
So let's see what happens over the next 3-6 months, with the holiday season, end-of-year strangeness of deals being done to clear product out of pipelines to tidy up the 2010 books and then a rash of new stuff coming down the pipe EARLY next year.. I'd be willing to bet ($1 dollar) that Balmer and his weenies are gone from this market as a player in either phones or tablets by the middle of 2011... They just can't do it..it's the nature of being Microsoft.
Agreed, but they didn't steal anything from Microsoft
Let's look at their track record. Yup, over the last 20-odd years, Microsoft has garnered a HUGE chunk of the personal computing real estate by the nature of the market and basic consumer stupidity. That was the magic of Bill Gates..he figured out that by dangling a few shiny trinkets in front of the generally moronic public he would sell "Windows" with all of it's warts - basically forever.
THEN something drastic happened. Netscape started it when they tried to take a large chunk out of Microsoft's ass and almost succeeded... but I'll guarantee you that it got their attention. Then others, both on the hardware front but aggressively on the software with a flood of offerings hitting the market, the technology consumer getting a WHOLE lot smarter about what and how technology could be used, and as of today, they have BYPASSED Microsoft both in skill, market savvy and the ability to maneuver at a vastly quicker pace than the lumbering giant.. Balmer and his gang of weenies can't keep up. Neither can AT&T..
So let's see what happens over the next 3-6 months, with the holiday season, end-of-year strangeness of deals being done to clear product out of pipelines to tidy up the 2010 books and then a rash of new stuff coming down the pipe EARLY next year.. I'd be willing to bet ($1 dollar) that Balmer and his weenies are gone from this market as a player in either phones or tablets by the middle of 2011... They just can't do it..it's the nature of being Microsoft.
Well, they've just announced that Windows Phone 7 will have a licensing cost for handset manufacturers because they will cover liability for patent lawsuits :
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/362876/patent_protection_key_windows_phone_license/
This suit seems to be just to drive the point home that "hey, don't go for Android, use our stuff and you'll be safe from us... err.. those patent things!". Motorola was probably picked because other handset manufacturers that use Android also ship Windows Mobile units (HTC, Sony Ericsson, Samsung) right now, and suing your own partners is never good for business.
And that kind of attitude is exactly why these companies will garner more and more information about us unopposed.
It has to stop somewhere, "Surveillance Media" or not.
If I walked up to your home, walked into your front garden, and proceeded to take photographs of your home so "I could find my way back home because I've never been here before", you'd be entitled to toe my nuts and send me on my way.
Yep. If you're on the grid the only real privacy you've got is in your bathroom behind a locked door.
we've spent over 30 years developing cutting-edge computer software.
+1
Patent bust-ups happen every other day, and this doesn't even directly involve Apple.
I think it does affect Apple because it is not getting sued.
They are #2 at what?
#2 at market capitalization for public businesses in the entire world.
Why would that stop Microsoft from suing Apple over violations? Market Cap is just a value placed on the company via investors, nothing else.
Microsoft is the same company that patented the "Page Up" and "Page Down" buttons in 2005, 20 years after they were invented by someone else!!
http://www.zdnet.com/news/microsoft-patents-page-up-and-page-down/218626
That is definately patent trolling, and this seems like it might be as well.
Because I'd say that Microsoft and Apple already have a patent sharing agreement - why do you assume that such an arrangement would be impossible? Microsoft had a similar arrangement with Sun Microsystems for example so it wouldn't be out of the question for there to be an arrangement with Microsoft.