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Tim Cook Addresses Apple Employees After Lawsuit Victory
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Please send poor Samcraig a box as well. All of these fandroids need something to hold on to.
Dude get back to reality, less than 0.01% will change their spending habits because of this case. Which I believe was rightly won, but im not a share holder so it doesnt affect me too much. But if I were Apple id be pissed off by BLATENT copying.
It's funny how some, not all Apple fans actually have such a distorted view on reality and feel Apple invented all the things they think they did.
Like the idiots who keep posting pictures of the dock connector....
http://youtu.be/wFeC25BM9E0
Perhaps learn something here.
Like the idiots who keep posting pictures of the dock connector....
http://youtu.be/wFeC25BM9E0
Perhaps learn something here.
Listen, Im an Apple guy and because I am a huge fan of apple does not mean i have to love and accepting everything thing they make.
Now, you name something Apple has made within the last 3 years that has wowed you.
Anyone following the trial and paying attention to important things like FACTS and TESTIMONY and the INTERNAL EMAILS WITHIN SAMSUNG should have clearly been expecting the outcome Apple was awarded. No reasonably intelligent person, looking at the situation objectively, taking, you know, THE LAW into consideration, and leaving EMOTION out of it, could have possibly come to any other conclusion than Samsung WILLFULLY and with specific intent copied Apple's patented features and trade-dress.
Samsung has proven it has nary an iota of corporate honor. Hell, even in their own post-verdict remarks, Samsung doesn't deny that they copied. Samsung basically argues that they should have been allowed to continue to copy.
And, contrary to Samsung's post-verdict claims, this verdict is the best possible outcome for consumers. Now Samsung and others will be FORCED to actually innovate. Copying another company's patented features is NOT innovation. It's the exact opposite of innovation.
It's when companies come up with completely new and better ways of designing a UI that we, the consumers, get true innovation. And that is exactly why the iPhone became such a sensation! It was something the world had never seen before and Apple knew full well that dishonorable companies like Samsung would want to copy it, so Apple patented the hell out of it. Just as every single one of YOU would do if you ever created/innovated something new and wonderful. Particularly if it cost you MILLIONS of dollars to get there!
And speaking of honor, every single person that celebrates and condones Samsung's dishonorable practices is a person without personal honor themselves. The whines and complaints are not any surprise to me, however. Personal honor has been going in the toilet since the '70s in this country. These days, far too many individuals simply want to mimic the sickening typical corporate greed credo of "screw the other guy before he screws me".
I applaud Tim Cook and the entire team at Apple for fighting for what is right and just. I applaud them for NOT settling for anything less than a clear and decisive victory over the illicit activities of a dishonorable company!
Mark
Samsung has proven it has nary an iota of corporate honor. Hell, even in their own post-verdict remarks, Samsung doesn't deny that they copied. Samsung basically argues that they should have been allowed to continue to copy.
And, contrary to Samsung's post-verdict claims, this verdict is the best possible outcome for consumers. Now Samsung and others will be FORCED to actually innovate. Copying another company's patented features is NOT innovation. It's the exact opposite of innovation.
It's when companies come up with completely new and better ways of designing a UI that we, the consumers, get true innovation. And that is exactly why the iPhone became such a sensation! It was something the world had never seen before and Apple knew full well that dishonorable companies like Samsung would want to copy it, so Apple patented the hell out of it. Just as every single one of YOU would do if you ever created/innovated something new and wonderful. Particularly if it cost you MILLIONS of dollars to get there!
And speaking of honor, every single person that celebrates and condones Samsung's dishonorable practices is a person without personal honor themselves. The whines and complaints are not any surprise to me, however. Personal honor has been going in the toilet since the '70s in this country. These days, far too many individuals simply want to mimic the sickening typical corporate greed credo of "screw the other guy before he screws me".
I applaud Tim Cook and the entire team at Apple for fighting for what is right and just. I applaud them for NOT settling for anything less than a clear and decisive victory over the illicit activities of a dishonorable company!
Mark
The pattern slide lock is pretty darn cool, much better then simple slide or weak fingerprint scan
I doubt it, apple is over a 7 billion dollar client to samsung in 2012 up 60% from 2011. They will probably just raise the price and make back the billion in a few years.
After reading a number of your posts, I decided to check on your post history. It appears that you have not had a single kind thing to say about Apple or their products. Furthermore, your remarks have little or no merit and are *obviously* intended to annoy and/or offend. You might want to Google the term "troll."
I'm pretty sure I actually scharted just a bit from laughing so hard when you commented that you "actually have a life." Are you implying that people who jump into a thread on occasion at MR's don't have a life? Huh! Interesting observation. I can't speak for everyone but I have a beautiful girlfriend, beautiful daughter, wonderful grand kids and more friends than I can list all of whom I spend a *lot* of time with. I also run a successful company, live less than 100' from the edge of the water in San Diego and surf almost every afternoon. Oops. Forgot one thing. I also really like Apple products and stop by MR on occasion to get my rumor mill groove on. I'll tell you one place you will never see me post and that's a site geared towards Android fans. To do so would be kinda creepy considering I don't paticularly care for Android OS and honestly I "actually have a life" and won't waste my time at a site that talks about something I have no interest in. Capesh?
One last thing. You mentioned that you would never stand in line at an Apple Store for a product release. I highly recommend you do just that. Maybe by doing so, you'll lighten up just a bit. I stood in line at the Fashion Valley store with my daughter for the initial iPhone release and we had a blast! Met some really great people and the funny thing is that the *vast* majority of talk had nothing to do with phones or Apple.
Nothing has wowed me. But that's not the point. I don't expect to be wowed everytime a company releases a new phone. That's not a logical thing to expect.
The point of my question is that your implication that Google is innovating all day everyday while Apple remains stagnant is wrong. Neither side has done anything revolutionary or innovative in years. They're both improving their product but not turning the market upside down with innovation.
Ios is a great software, as is Android. I'm not going to declare a phone a failure because it doesn't cook breakfast for me.
Pattern lockscreen
Notification bar --Kinda a big deal and Apple 'borrowed' completely.
Customizable widgets in a mobile platform (you can say widgets existed before Android, but so did multitouch, pinch to zoom, etc, existed before the iPhone)
There's a difference between inventing and innovating - Samsung's latest handsets have a few clever tricks. They're a big company, so they must have invented something sometime. But as far as smartphones go, the answer to your first question is no. The answer to your second and third question is obvious: no. The answer to your last question is yes. Android would have existed today, but it would be copying RIM.
So the last time Android innovated was years ago too, right? That was my point, thank you for proving it.
I'll ask again...can you name some "recent" Android innovations?
I believe the patterened lockscreen came on ics, which is not a few years old.
Just saying.
You're reading about how Apple "has an issue with other companies" because everyone overanalyzes Apple's strategies and policies. In some ways the microscope they live under is a result of their own success. They've become the mega-celebrity of the technology world, and people who make such a big deal of their decisions, strategy and positions on such things as Flash and Blu-ray are blowing up and raising a stink about decisions that Apple tries to make privately within their own organization. Their philosophy is to produce products that are stylish, polished and appeal to normal people, as opposed to geeks. Technology that works halfway is not their thing. Just because Apple doesn't see the benefit in a particular technology, or sees the drawbacks outweighing the benefit, or sees the technology never really being the game changer that others claim it will be does not mean that they have "an issue with other companies." It just means their strategy for bringing their products to market is different. The problem that Apple faces today is that they have such celebrity status that even their beta software and unreleased, supposedly secret products are talked about openly in non-tech circles as if they're already available. I can't tell you how annoying it is to me, personally to read posts on this and other sites criticizing the stability and functionality of developer builds of iOS and OS X.
By contrast, Google exposes their half-finished projects to the world openly, and never really finishes most of them. They roll out a new gee-whiz technology with nearly unbridled abandon, and let it mature (or sometimes not mature) in front of the users' eyes.
I'm not making judgments about either company's strategy. They're both obviously doing well. I, personally prefer using Apple's products, because I find them more polished and stylish, and I have grown weary over the years of getting "grease under my fingernails" using technology. But to each his own.
However, criticizing Apple for their research, development and sales strategy just because they don't pursue, or abandon a particular technology that they don't feel fits well with what they're trying to do is unfair. If you don't like what they offer, vote with your wallet. Pretty simple concept, if you ask me.
Come on guys, both Android and iOS developers innovate in their own ways. It's unfair to both sides to say none of them innovate.
The problem here is Samsung intentionally/actively copied Apple products while being a key Apple partner. The OEM arm was only separated from Samsung Electronics after this thing blew up.
Even if one or two patents fell out, the key thing is still Samsung doggedly trying to copy Apple. They admitted in court that the high level folks gave instructions to copy Apple. They also did not preserve the evidences as instructed by the court.
Apple did not sue Microsoft for Surface, or Sony for Xperia and Vita. As long as the manufacturers innovate in their own ways, they should be ok. I myself look forward to the next Sony Xperia pad too. I already have a mix of Android and iOS devices at home.
They can if they think Apple imitate Kindle look & feel, or violate Kindle patents !
The problem here is Samsung intentionally/actively copied Apple products while being a key Apple partner. The OEM arm was only separated from Samsung Electronics after this thing blew up.
Even if one or two patents fell out, the key thing is still Samsung doggedly trying to copy Apple. They admitted in court that the high level folks gave instructions to copy Apple. They also did not preserve the evidences as instructed by the court.
Apple did not sue Microsoft for Surface, or Sony for Xperia and Vita. As long as the manufacturers innovate in their own ways, they should be ok. I myself look forward to the next Sony Xperia pad too. I already have a mix of Android and iOS devices at home.
They can if they think Apple imitate Kindle look & feel, or violate Kindle patents !
Please read about how CAFE actually works. CAFE actually killed off station wagons and compact trucks both of which are more fuel efficient than the SUVs, large trucks, and crossover that replaced them. The way CAFE works does not promote fuel efficiency. Its actually what fueled the popularity of large suv's. The manufactures couldn't make a full size car but they could make an even less fuel efficient SUV. It forced the manufacturers to replace their larger cars with with vehicles classified as SUV's as the fuel requirements are lower on them. The ford ranger which was the last truely compact truck sold in the US is not no longer in production.
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hold on though - that almost word for word what the apply spokesperson released under her name earlier in the day! would have been nice to have pretended it was a uniquely written letter for the employees.
It's comments/questions like this that prove that you didn't bother to pay ANY attention to the facts, testimony, and patent law during the trial. The only similarities between an iPad mini and a Kindle will be that they are both tablets and about the same size. That was NOT what the Apple v Samsung trial was about.
Please, go educate yourself before asking anymore questions.
Mark