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30 Jul 2012, 9:12 am

From NPR

www.npr.org/2012/07/30/157571532/samsun ... ice=iphone

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An epic battle between the two biggest smartphone makers begins Monday in a federal district court in San Jose, Calif., where computing giant Apple is asking for more than $2.5 billion from rival phone maker Samsung for patent violations.

The suit would be the most expensive patent violation in history, and it's just one front in Apple's war against phones running Google's Android operating system.

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Mark Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School, says the patent office isn't always right when it grants patents. Take that rectangle with the round corners.

"That really is a patent of stunning breadth if you take seriously the idea, when you look at the diagram in the patent, that Apple gets to own a computer that's shaped like a rectangle," Lemley says. "Well, then designing around [that is] going to be awfully hard for Samsung or anybody else."

Other critics say that even if Apple did it all best, it wasn't even the first to get a patent on these designs. David Martin, the chairman of M-Cam, a company that evaluates the value of patents, says the difference between the emotional response that says these technologies look alike and the actual construction of the patent law are two different things.

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Lemley, the Stanford professor, thinks it's a sign that something is wrong with the patent system, which is meant to promote innovation.

"They've probably spent $700 million in legal fees, and at the end of the day everybody's got enough patents that they could all interfere with each other making products," he says. "That's not the way we want innovation to work."

For consumers, this might bring higher prices and fewer choices. In fact, in Europe, a judge banned Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet from stores. For Apple, which recently saw sales of its iPhone slow, this could be a battle worth fighting.


This is completely ridiculous. Apparently, Apple thinks it owns patent rights to the rectangle...



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The first time I used/worked on a touch screen interface was in the early 1990s on a Foxboro Automation system.

The first time I saw a tablet computer was in the late 1980s on Star Trek: TNG.

If Apple wins this case, I hope the Star Trek prop designers sue the hell out of them.


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30 Jul 2012, 4:12 pm

Although I am a Mac owner (typing this from a Dell notebook) and an iPod user, I'm starting to drift away from the Apple ecosystem more and more. Everyone has an iPhone, so there's nothing special about it. Almost anything I can do on an iPhone I can do with my Android phone. And Apple lately has gone from being bullied to being the bully. I can't in my conscious mind support something like that.

Apple lost it's luster for me a short while ago. Especially with Mountain Lion. They just released Lion a year ago, and now they think we need another upgrade? Nope, I'm not doing it. Not everyone has money to shell out every year for a new computer. In fact, the Dell I'm typing this from I got on eBay for $70 with a year left on a three year warranty. Found it needed a new system board, so I replaced that in two hours. I spent more time with Dell on the phone than the actual labor.



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31 Jul 2012, 12:31 am

Apple has ALWAYS been a bully. Many years ago my Uncle developed an Apple IIE emulator for the C64. They put the company out of buisness and the owner had to flee to South America. I've hated Apple ever since. They are proprietary jack booted patent thugs. I will never buy an Apple product.



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01 Aug 2012, 1:48 pm

I'll admit, I loathe Apple, but I just want to see everyone continue to have a choice here.

People who want I-pads, should be able to buy I-pads. People who want something else, should have that option too.


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09 Aug 2012, 10:20 am

www.venturebeat.com/2012/07/27/early-ap ... llery_post

www.theverge.com/2012/7/26/3189309/appl ... looked-old

Apple is such a hypocritical company. How was it with Xerox and Apple, by the way? And countless other things.

Apple really is a disgusting company. I must say I was very pleased when Steve Jobs died - I was merely sad that he didn't die much earlier.


Edited to add this: www.muktware.com/3871/why-boycott-apple ... s-not-dumb



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29 Aug 2012, 1:09 am

http://mg.co.za/article/2012-08-28-sams ... innovation



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30 Aug 2012, 2:48 am

While I have used Apple computers in the past, I still think people should be able to have a choice between phones or tablet computers.



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30 Aug 2012, 8:55 am

I am 100% pro-choice in the realm of consumerism. People should have the capacity to choose between crApple and any other brand of product and the competitors should be able to produce *comparable* products. Apple products are bland and over-priced (for far less memory, etc.) emblems of conspicuous consumption IMHO. On the other hand, I understand the desire of Apple to dominate the market at any cost (after all, a patent is a patent - though I don't see Galil paying royalties to Kalashnikov for (in essence) ripping off apects of his design)...



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30 Aug 2012, 1:26 pm

Well, Apple got a $1 billion + judgement against Samsung..... But, apparently much of Samsung's latest hardware is not subject to the ruling. So, people should still be able to buy the galaxy s3 and onward in the US. :P


If Apple does manage to squash Android I think it will benefit Microsoft as much or more than Apple.

I know that I will never buy in to a proprietary hardware/software system.... I'll go with cans on a string before the I-phone.


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