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Apple is doing it again!
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steveo52
Newbie
Apple is really pissing me off
:ditto: and I own Mac Book Pro, 27 inch iMac and iPad2. Come on Apple poor excuse to keep down a competitor that's got ya really worried about losing market share. That doesn't change the fact I'm scraping my iPhone 4s for the Note II due here this week.
edlex
Android Expert
It is totally within apples rights to persue legal remedy if they feel that their patents have been infringed upon. Trust me, if it were any one if us, we'd be doing the same thing if someone was making a billion dollars off of our patented ideas. And since they basically have an expiration date you have to act while you can. With that said, apples days of innovation and forward thinking seems to have ended with the passing of Steven Jobs and that is unfortunate. Thankfully other companies are stepping up and filling the void that apple is creating with their complacency. Remember when Motorola dominated the market with the razr? Or Sony with the Walkman? Dinosaurs dominated once too but they couldn't evolve either.
You don't think making cell phones lighter is "amazing"? I mean, how did we manage to lift cell phones before Apple?
Real talk though, Apple is responsible for the smartphone as the world knows it today, but they seemed to have completely skidded to a stop. In the mobile space, they've been surpassed in almost every area.
There's a problem when you start trying to patent rounded corners.
I am an apple fan, and also an android fan. When it comes to a computer, I am all apple. ANd for the last year and a half, I have had an iPhone (and all android before that). I like the iphone for what it is, but I am sick of waiting for the the "next iphone". They used to introduce ground breaking phones. But since the iphone 4, it has been small upgrades. I am not going to buy a phone with one more row of icons. The screen is still too small. And every time a new iphone released, they also release a new software feature that cannot work on a previous version. I am stick of being hit like that. Look at navigation for example: My iphone 4 cant run it?! It runs motion x GPS (which is much better by the way than apple maps) completely fine! Hell, my 2009 Droid Eris ran navigation just fine.
I've been a Mac user since the days of the SE30 in the mid eighties during college and today own the 11" Air, 15" Pro and iMac and since day one have owned every iteration of the iPhone except the iPhone 5 which was opened in the store I believe 5 or 6 times and every one of them were defective in various ways so I migrated to the GS3 for a short time but didn't care for the dim blue screen, then the Note 2 arrived and I loved it.
Now with Apple continuing these absurd lawsuits that have all backfired on them just tells me that Apple is no longer the creative artsy company they once were, they have just become another obnoxious monster that moving forward I will think long and hard before giving them a premium for their Macs.
Now with Apple continuing these absurd lawsuits that have all backfired on them just tells me that Apple is no longer the creative artsy company they once were, they have just become another obnoxious monster that moving forward I will think long and hard before giving them a premium for their Macs.
I agree. Samsung recently added the ip5 and no doubt asus or google have added the i mini thing.
I think its shallow minded for people to think its all apples fault. In business you try to maintain you IP whether or not you win is another matter. These are BIG players not wanting to give up any space. An example is the deal with apple and htc.
Its good for competition and our devices will only continue to improve as a result of the competition.
R4nd0mJ0k3r
Well-Known Member
Innovative new products are good for competition. Lawsuits that attempt to stifle innovation, attempt to stifle the competition, not compete with it.
Competing is, when a competitor brings out a product, you then bring out a better one. This in turn, leads to your competitor bringing out a better product, leading you to do the same. This continues on and on. This is progress.
Attempting to sue a rival Company, in some cases for features that their device uses that yours doesn't even have yet!? This is not going to improve products. This simply makes adding new features a potential legal nightmare. This slows down progress.
These ongoing legal battles will do nothing with regards to us, the consumer, other than to limit the technologies we are able to get our hands on now, without having to wait for companies to first duke it out in court to decides who gets the monopoly on new innovations.
Hell if it had been like this back when the motor industry was just taking off, you would have had car companies suing each other left, right and centre over having doors, windows, four wheels, and a steering wheel.
In the same way that being able to patent these standard and essential parts of a car would be ridiculous, so is the ability to patent rounded edges on a smartphone.
I personally blame Apple for starting all this... or at least for 'glamorising' suing rival companies. But now I've stopped caring about placing blame and just wish they would all stop paying their legal teams ridiculous sums of money to, in effect, just slow each other down, and go back to pouring this cash into research and development, so I get better technology, at better prices, sooner.
Caloy
Android Expert
I really think that patent laws should be revised in a way that pseudo innovations such as the use of a stylus, the shape of the screen as well as how apps are placed in a grid couldn't be patentable. I mean I'm all for intellectual rights, but it should be real innovation, not something ridiculous as what I mentioned above. Patent laws should also be revised in a way that a patent unused immediately should be rendered open. Companies can patent the hell out of ideas not to move them forward but to keep innovation at bay. Apple suing the note 2 with the use of the stylus is just crazy, especially when Apple's iPhone doesn't use it at all.
ThaiM
Member
I don't think they can at this point. The lawsuits they'd face would level them once and for all.
On a related matter, I hope Google has a patent on "functional navigation".
Rxpert83
Dr. Feelgood
True statement. The only thing that's worked for them so far is a short trade embargo like with the EVO 4g LTE. A quick ota by HTC fixed it and developers were able to take it back out