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ultima on 25 August 2012
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disolitude said:
kain_kusanagi said:
disolitude said:

WTF are you people talking about?

Do some research and look at the phones which were sued and patents that Apple sued them with. Looking at the phones in question, Samsung "willingly" copied the Iphone and its features.

People that know me know that I don't like Apple but I hate seeing lack of common sense.

 

The pictured devices are different in many ways. Similar yes, copy no. You can't patent look and feel. At least that used to be the case. Now there's a precedent that gives companies the ability to crush their competition by showing a picture like what you posted.

You want to make smartphones? Make your own design, UI, and feel. I don't have a problem with that.

Also Samsung infringed on Apples '381 bounceback patent and '915 pinch to zoom patent...but that's every android phone. Maybe its time for Google to license some Microsoft and Apple patents before they offer android to OEMs? Let's see if they can do that and still keep it "free".

That's just BS. Apple copied everything from its predecessors. And they try suing for ludicrous patents. Like a patent they have for making phone numbers clickable. I'm sorry, but wasn't the idea of links present since the beginning of www if not earlier? How can apple patent something they didn't even help create? The obvious answer is that they shouldn't be able to. But alas we have the US patent office.

What apple does very well is take ideas from others, polish them, claim them as their own, and market the hell out of them. It's really ironic that Jobs was so pissed about Android. Android basically took iOS and made into something much better. Gingerbread (if not FroYo) was a more powerful operating system than iOS5.

What I really dislike about Apple is all the anal pain they're apparently suffering from Google "copying" them. What about all the stuff apple copied form Android? Like the pull-down notification bar and the ability to access the camera from the lock screen, among countless other features. I really don't see Google acting all butt-hurt for apple copying them.

What I also find really funny about these lawsuits is how Apple is always going after manufacturers instead of Google. Just shows how much of pussies they are. Or perhaps that they realize that they're wrong. Apple needs to realize that Android is here to stay, with over double the market share of iOS and much higher daily activation rates. Well over half the smartphones in the world run Android and that number is only growing. Apple has been pulling the same antics for a couple of years, and if it's not clear, nobody is getting discouraged.