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Forums - Gaming - Stupid jury kills innovation/competition and hands Apple a monopoly

 

Describe the Jury's decision.

Smart: Apple did it first... 47 17.67%
 
Stupid: You can't patent... 216 81.20%
 
Total:263
Cub on 25 August 2012
selnor said:
ROFL.

I predict Apple and IOS in 5 years will be nothing. The hate wagons started 10 years ago.

Fixed.



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selnor on 25 August 2012
Cub said:
selnor said:
ROFL.

I predict Apple and IOS in 5 years will be nothing. The hate wagons started 10 years ago.

Fixed.


Not like this. Ive never seen anyone as angry as these people outside my local apple shop on my way home. Honestly it was epic.



Cub on 25 August 2012
selnor said:
Cub said:
selnor said:
ROFL.

I predict Apple and IOS in 5 years will be nothing. The hate wagons started 10 years ago.

Fixed.


Not like this. Ive never seen anyone as angry as these people outside my local apple shop on my way home. Honestly it was epic.

Sure it was epic, I love seeing babies too



selnor on 25 August 2012
Cub said:
selnor said:
Cub said:
selnor said:
ROFL.

I predict Apple and IOS in 5 years will be nothing. The hate wagons started 10 years ago.

Fixed.


Not like this. Ive never seen anyone as angry as these people outside my local apple shop on my way home. Honestly it was epic.

Sure it was epic, I love seeing babies too

Apparantly it only applies to US. Korea and UK courts through it out. Favouring Samsung. Apparantly  the UK Judge said the pinch and zoom thing was like trying to say one manufacturer owns the rights to cars on 4 weels. ROFL.



HappySqurriel on 25 August 2012
Cub said:
HappySqurriel said:
Don't worry, Apple's comeuppance is coming ...

Care to elaborate?


It is my belief that Apple's best days are behind them and that the primary reason they're pushing heavily on patent lawsuits today is because they don't have anything new/exciting, and they're now simply trying to defend their market.

Beyond that, one of Apple's biggest advantages was that they were seen as an under-dog in a market full of large evil corporations; but they can't maintain this image while their phones are manufactured in facilities where people kill themselves because they're paid such low wages that they have to work excessive hours, and Apple is suing everyone.

10 years from now the typical thing people will say about Apple is "They were never the same company after Steve Jobs died" ...



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Galaki on 25 August 2012
spurgeonryan said:
I just read about this in the paper at 7/11 while getting my morning coffee. The pinch and zoom feature? Are they serious? What are others supposed to do?

I promise to never buy an apple product as long as this is held up in court.

They could use tickle. That's not patented yet... right?



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darkknightkryta on 25 August 2012
Galaki said:
spurgeonryan said:
I just read about this in the paper at 7/11 while getting my morning coffee. The pinch and zoom feature? Are they serious? What are others supposed to do?

I promise to never buy an apple product as long as this is held up in court.

They could use tickle. That's not patented yet... right?

Galaki, I think we can patent it right now and make billions!



UltimateUnknown on 25 August 2012

Just when Samsung was really starting to become an actual rival to Apple. I really hope this is overturned, otherwise I'd hate to see competition get killed. Apple and it's overpriced products need to stop, or at least face some challenge.



 

Superman4 on 25 August 2012
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.


Actually if someone that knows about both phones looks at them they would realize the pictures are doctored.  The home page for the Android based device looks nothing like that. They are purposly in the apps menu to make it look similar. Notice the Home button on the Samsung. The phone itself looks nothing like the Iphone either. Yes the speaker is at the top.....like any other phone, it has a touch sensitive middle button, back button and menu button, none of which the Iphone have. Apple is just pissed that their phones are garbage and they are getting whooped on by Android OS since it is far and above the better OS. They are going after Samsung because the Touchwiz interface puts four icons on the bottom and Samsung is the largest seller of smartphones.....they are butt hurt.



ultima on 25 August 2012
Michelasso said:
the2real4mafol said:
Michelasso said:
the2real4mafol said:

Phones have changed so much in so little time!!

Indeed. So why is the Galaxy S identical to the iPhone?! Samsung has been loooking for troubles. Or maybe not, one of the reasons why it got the market could have been that they copied the iPhone design indeed. $1 billion is nothing, Samsung should give to Apple all the revenues (hmm... let's say the profits) it has got from the iClones. That fine is justy a small bill to pay considered the huge $$$ Samsung saved in R&D.

I have no idea, why they copied but it feels like apple tries to bully every phone/ tablet company out there, so they get richer. That's what it seems like. 

But, the S2 and the S3 are nothing like iPhones, so it shouldn't matter to much.

Don't you think Apple makes enough as it is now. I mean it's now richer than the oil producing nation Saudi Arabia (21st richest country) @ $622 billion!! I think Apple has way too much money now.

Indeed, the fine is small because all these companies are MASSIVE!!! but who's to say who's original and who's not, especially if they came out at a similiar time. Plus galaxy S looks more like a iPhone 3GS than an iPhone 4 


No. It seems to me that Apple is the only one that has always been really investing on innovation and got pretty pist off (especially Steve Jobs) that all Android devices used its researches to take adavantage without spending a single penny. If Apple is the richest it is because it has always been the first to make the best products. This was true even before Windows came out. The shame is not that Samsung got to pay Apple back, it is that MS didn't have to. 

Didn't anyone notice that Apple didn't take a single hit at Nokia or Blackberry or even Window Mobile? Why? Because they did NOT copy. Android, retarded Dalvik (Java) Machine apart is a copycat of iOS. As it is Linux for OS X. Well, at least it tries to be failing miserably. The fable that it is Open Source so it is lecit to copy has to end. Especially in the case of Android were the revenues in return from Android commercial for Google are simply HUGE. 

In any case, I'd like to know which innovations Android phones introduced before the Galaxy S3. If the Galaxy S3 introduced anything really new... The notifications? They have been implemented for ages on OS X before Android ever existed. The Widgets? Funny, they have the exact same name they've got on Apple OS X... What a coincidence. What else?

You think apple is innovative? LOL! Apple didn't invent a single thing on the original iPhone that wasn't around before. Everything from the touchscreen down to the slide to unlock. What they did is put it all those features together and claimed it as their own. To this day I can't think of a single new thing that has been created by Apple for the iPhone. You could say that apple takes what is out there and perhaps enhances it. In which case, it's really ironic that they're so pissed with google: google took what was out there and improved it greatly. Do you remember the original iOS? It was a joke. Even now: Android from 2010 is a more powerful operating system than the latest iOS.

And you're now comparing Android to a desktop OS? That's just gold man. If you're going to follow that idea, then iOS was just a blatant copy of desktop operating systems. A very very bad copy I must add. And just for your information, unless your talking about something else, OSX got notifications in Mountain Lion. You could say *gasp* it was copied from Android. Do you remember the old primitive notification system of iOS? It's beyond hilarious!

Lastly, that similar picture of Galaxy S alongside an iPhone is incredibly misleading. That's the ONLY way that iPhone's UI could look. The user on the Galaxy S on the other hand manually customised his UI to look like that. So it's stupid to claim that the Galaxy S stole the UI feel frop Apple. Similarities of the physical characteristics are somewhat present, but that should not be illegal. Besides, have people seen the latest Galaxy, the S3? It looks nothing like any Apple device. Apple needs to stop this crap. If they seriously thought that Android was an infringement, they'd actually sue Google instead of going after Android manufacturers. Face it, Apple is clearly trying to get rid of competitors instead of improving their own products. That's not good. You, as a consumer, should not be supporting Apple for this. It shits on the idea of innovation and fair competition.