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You remember wrongly.
No one did. The judge amusingly thought they looked similar but later was thrown out. http://gizmodo.com/5849803/even-sams...ablet-and-ipad |
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I mean the blatant Apple logo and the fact the Samsung has Samsung on the front and back gives it away. Anyway, could you tell the difference between a Samsung telly and a Panasonic telly from a distance equal to seeing the small pads at? I bet you couldn't which makes this absolutely non newsworthy. Like i said, thick as shit. |
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For all the huffing a puffing Apple do with patent lawsuits they don't really seem to get anywhere - they have had a few temporary injunctions here and there but no outright wins.
There haven't really been many final verdicts though so they might end up with a few wins, however I have a hunch that they'll end this process with a lot fewer valid patents than when they started. |
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For all the huffing a puffing Apple do with patent lawsuits they don't really seem to get anywhere - they have had a few temporary injunctions here and there but no outright wins.
There haven't really been many final verdicts though so they might end up with a few wins, however I have a hunch that they'll end this process with a lot fewer valid patents than when they started. |
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Or the patent process will be forced to change .....
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Apple look to be bringing out a smaller pad this year @8" to combat loss of sales to other makers, market share for tablet sales dropped from around 69% to 61% (thats still a lot of iPads). The whole 'war' is getting silly in my opinion.
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Apple look to be bringing out a smaller pad this year @8" to combat loss of sales to other makers, market share for tablet sales dropped from around 69% to 61% (thats still a lot of iPads). The whole 'war' is getting silly in my opinion.
Tim Cook isn't Steve Jobs, and I think he'll make a few subtle changes to how they do stuff over time. |
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And if any of those functions were patented then Apple would have had to pay a licence fee. Just like other companies should pay a licence fee for any technology they use where Apple holds the patent.
Interestingly Apple holds around 1000 mobile related patents to Samsungs 12,000. So it is probably true that they are a better marketer than inventor. But, they still have the right to protect the patents that they down own, just like every other manufacturer. |
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Apple is now trying to go after Kodak as well. Nobody is safe from them - they seem to think they invented everything!
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/15/a...#disqus_thread |
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Apple is now trying to go after Kodak as well. Nobody is safe from them - they seem to think they invented everything!
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/15/a...#disqus_thread They really are turning into a bunch of absolute arseholes... |
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Apple is now trying to go after Kodak as well. Nobody is safe from them - they seem to think they invented everything!
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Good god! Will they ever stop!
They really are turning into a bunch of absolute arseholes... |
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You are both ignoring the fact that Kodak are currently suing apple. Why when apple sues Kodak is apple the villain. But when Kodak sues apple Kodak is not? You either allow companies to protect their IP or you don't, but it should be the same for everyone. And just so you are aware, apple are being sued over a patent covering sharing photos with out loading them to PC first. Surely that's not a new idea as people have been sharing photos without PC since the dawn of photograpty. Not so different to the complains made about apples legal cases.
All these lawsuits are rubbish. Apple for instance are suing Samsung AGAIN over another 4 hyserical IP's:- Quote:
Apple is fighting the Ice Cream Sandwich-loaded Nexus over four patents: predictive text; a data-tapper feature, which recognises data such as phone numbers and provides a link directly to the dialler, for example; a voice search feature that Apple believes is imitative of Siri; and the popular using-an-image-to-unlock feature.
Now come on! Predictive text!! We all know apple didn't do any one of them first, yet they have the bloody cheek to sue Samsung again? Funny thing is, they wont sue Google who actually make the OS. Normally apple sues when they 'think' people have infringed their IP. I mean look at the whole Apple/Samsung debacle. Its absolute bollocks. Apple claim the S2 and the Galaxy Tablet look like the iphone and the ipad? What the hell were they smoking when they decided that rubbish? Only a complete fool would think they look alike. They now have more money than the US government. They see a threat and try to extinguish it by suing. Dont you think its odd that not one of apple lawsuits so far have been won? Its simple really. They are all absolute nonsense. I mean old jobsie dropped the clanger when he claimed he would spend every last cent to destroy Android. But he really didn't have the balls to do it did he? Instead of trying to sue google they keep going after Samsung as they are the biggest threat to apple. Like i said before. its about time the judges grew some bloody balls and throw every single lawsuit out by all companies and tell them to bloody grow the hell up. Anyway, its clear to see whats going to happen soon. Consumers are going to see Apple for what they are. A greedy, manipulative, hideous company and they will come down with a bump soon. |
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Haha! I was just reading the lawsuit Apple have thrown on Samsung earlier in regards to the predictive text etc and this quote made me laugh! Quote:
"While Samsung sells products copying features that make the iPhone distinct, Samsung has simultaneously embarked on an advertising campaign designed to tarnish Apple and mock its consumers for considering Apple's products distinctive and, for that reason, valuable,"
Now, isnt this what apple did with the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' adverts? They rubbished PC's for years.......![]() Funny how its ok for Apple to do it when it suits them..... |
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Actually no, we are not ignoring that whatsoever.
All these lawsuits are rubbish. Apple for instance are suing Samsung AGAIN over another 4 hyserical IP's:- Now come on! Predictive text!! We all know apple didn't do any one of them first, yet they have the bloody cheek to sue Samsung again? Funny thing is, they wont sue Google who actually make the OS. Normally apple sues when they 'think' people have infringed their IP. I mean look at the whole Apple/Samsung debacle. Its absolute bollocks. Apple claim the S2 and the Galaxy Tablet look like the iphone and the ipad? What the hell were they smoking when they decided that rubbish? Only a complete fool would think they look alike. They now have more money than the US government. They see a threat and try to extinguish it by suing. Dont you think its odd that not one of apple lawsuits so far have been won? Its simple really. They are all absolute nonsense. I mean old jobsie dropped the clanger when he claimed he would spend every last cent to destroy Android. But he really didn't have the balls to do it did he? Instead of trying to sue google they keep going after Samsung as they are the biggest threat to apple. Like i said before. its about time the judges grew some bloody balls and throw every single lawsuit out by all companies and tell them to bloody grow the hell up. Anyway, its clear to see whats going to happen soon. Consumers are going to see Apple for what they are. A greedy, manipulative, hideous company and they will come down with a bump soon. |
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Seriously, someone needs to slap the US Patent office....
http://mashable.com/2012/02/15/apple...s-macbook-air/ I don't know when Apple filed this patent (and I don't actually care), but small thin laptops have been around for several years. A friend had a skinny little Sony one at least 5 or 6 years ago! |
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Obviously its not a Mac because it offers industry standard HDMI and memory expansion.
Apple made it a fashion industry but unlike fashion, it wants to ban the evolutionary trends enabled by the low heat chips. With the media still slavishly reporting every word from reclusive Apple, they will no doubt sue for the smearing side affect gains. What is bizarre is that it is Asus who single handedly created the very small laptop marketplace for where 11.6" netbooks fit. |
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The thin light Sony I'm referring to pre-dates Asus' eeePC range by about 4 years.
Edit: this is the thing I'm thinking of: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...io_vgn-x505vp/ Released in 2004!!! |
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The thin light Sony I'm referring to pre-dates Asus' eeePC range by about 4 years.
Edit: this is the thing I'm thinking of: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...io_vgn-x505vp/ Released in 2004!!! |
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Sony clearly traveled into the future and stole Apples' ideas. Totally plausible.
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Its the rush to run out and patent things that have been out for ages that is stupid. And the fact that such vague wording is allowed.
All companies look to be guilty of it but (currently) Apple seem to be the major cuplrites .... |
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Its the rush to run out and patent things that have been out for ages that is stupid. And the fact that such vague wording is allowed.
All companies look to be guilty of it but (currently) Apple seem to be the major cuplrites ....
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Well , it seems to be all happening. (though not at Guardian who make their living from Apple stories)
According to the Register "Apple has switched off push notifications in Germany". And the Proview Ipad name rights battles has moved to the US with Proview say Apple had " intent to defraud and induce the plaintiffs to enter into iPad agreement". http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...1M0NY20120224? Apple had accused Proview of telling fibs so it had really given me doubts about the existence of that IP Application Development company. |
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Think they can just keep going with the money they have.....
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The BBC have now taken up the mantle on this story.
Apple are now accused for fraud. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17152957 I'm not quite sure whether catching a sucker is fraud. Is it not just good business? In the past the record industry suckered plenty of artists. |
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