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did android copy apple?

Now it's the ITC.
This is starting to look like the nonsense with Windows and IE built in.
Samsung loses another big patent case to Apple, this time at ITC | Ars Technica

The US seems to be finding for Apple, and the EU is going the other way.
Sympathy since Apple is American and will lose sales if EU squashes suits, or just plain jingoism?

Watched a commercial for the new Droid. That has rounded corners. So does the BB curve.

Palm had a 3D presentation of the apps list, drawer, whatever you wanted to call it. If you remember Graffiti, you moved the stylus in all directions to form letters. I'd say swiping descended from that.

Just as stupid as Chik-fil-a and Eat mor. Eat more with that spelling, they can patent. But Eat More? Are they going to sue dieticians for saying Eat More fruits and Veggies?
 
EarlyMon said:
Actually got tired of typing that on my phone.
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I can imagine! ;)

I did Mach development for two years. As first released (escaped is a better word) from academia, it had a number of significant bugs (in the endlessly nested manifest constants) and was incapable of real time instrument support, areas that I fixed and modified.

Yes. Mach is a microkernel.
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You have my condolences. I heard a lot about Mach (and RISC) from my CS classmates when I was studying EE. At the time I didn't care, but when I got into serious OS support, I began to form my own opinions. I read AST's text on operating systems, and went on to play with Minix at the same time that I was using Linux.

The next time I heard about microkernels and Mach was when Apple was struggling to replace its ancient Mac OS. There were lots of rumors, including that Apple was moving to U of Utah's Mach4 There was so much empty hype back then.

I feel perfectly fine with the spelling cheats of unix, Unix and *nix. ;)
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I'm one of those people who has a pretty good idea how much of an impact that the UNIX
 
The Beatles sued Apple Computers around 1978, wayyyy before iTunes was born. But itunes did play a part of being sued further since it involved music.

Did Android copy Apple, let's see.

iPhone just now coming with a large screen.
iPad just now coming with a smaller screen.
iphones & ipads just now getting 4G/LTE

So who's copying who???
 
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All this nonsense is more about brand loyalty. It makes it easier to market, monitor whatever, (kids, health, energy use) if you so desire, and make big bucks for the company with your business. Judging from the acquisitions of most of the larger companies, they all look like they are trying to become megapolies. That will limit choice eventually - if you choose MS for example, they could dictate their phones only if you want certain conveniences. And penalize you in other ways if you don't.

Segment on this on the PBS Newshour last night.

I don't and won't subscribe to any of it. I feel it limits my choices as to how I want any device to perform, so I'll put up with the inconvenience of 3 different OS.
 
saptech said:
I'm not sure, Windows have more followers then Apple does. The OS may be a flop but people are going to buy it, mostly through a new computer.

As I always say, buy the latest Windows and get a computer for free! ;)
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I am curious to see how Win8 evolves in the professional community, I really don't see IT depts going with the win8 tiles for a home screen.
 
zuben el genub said:
Apparently the UK didn't buy the apology:
UK court orders Apple to rewrite website statement saying Samsung didn't copy the iPad
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This is mind boggling!

Apple's UK site says Samsung devices 'not as cool' in compliance with court ruling

Why Apple isn't up for contempt charges is beyond me! This is a blatant insult to the judge and court, Apple obviously feels they are above the law and will act however they please.

I wouldn't normally suggest this but I think the time has come for the government to slap Apple down, going so far as to invalidate all patents and make them reapply on a case by case basis.
 
The Dutch have also said that Samsung did not copy. The Germans seem to be impartial depending on argument. I've seen some posts about policy in other countries. Since this is trade - I'm wondering if enough consensus between all the EU could ban Apple outright until it satisfied whatever trade policies the EU set. The EU did sue MS over IE, and are at it again with MS.

France is trying to collect tax from Google.
French gov 'plans to hand Google
 
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