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| Apple, Samsung respond to jury verdict |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-25 06:07:38 |
| Reactions to Apple's yesterday win are in. Tim Cook: "The lawsuits between Apple and Samsung were about much more than patents or money. They were about values. At Apple, we value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth. [...] We applaud the court for finding Samsung's behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right." Samsung: "Today's verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer. It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices. It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies." |
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| Values, sure. |
| By Soulbender on 2012-08-25 07:02:47 |
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> We applaud the court for finding Samsung's behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right. But...Jobs said stealing was good. Heck, the man even took pride in it. Funny how going from underdog to big dog can change your values. |
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| Rounded corners |
| By Nth_Man on 2012-08-25 07:24:23 |
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> It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners Using the information that Unclefester gave us, we can see that: To anyone born before 1960 (eg Steve Jobs) "rectangles with rounded corners" is a blatantly unoriginal design. For example, it is used in the slate they learned to write on. Slate circa 1880: - 10" "screen" - stylus input (chalk) - 0.5" thickness - narrow frame with rounded edges You can buy one of these amazing low tech tablets for $6 on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Slate-Chal... |
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| RE: Values, sure. |
| By Nth_Man on 2012-08-25 07:39:23 |
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> But...Jobs said stealing was good. Heck, the man even took pride in it. Funny how going from underdog to big dog can change your values. If anyone needs citations: Video of Steve Jobs saying: "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C... The interview comes from a documentary called "Triumph of the Nerds" which chronicles the rise of the PC beginning in the 1970s and continues through the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh. ___________________________ ___________________________ __ And in http://www.osnews.com/comments/2... we can read that "Microsoft's response to Apple's win is probably the most cringeworthy of all: 'Windows Phone is looking gooooood right now.'" “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox, and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.” -- Bill Gates, Mac Week, March 14, 1989 http://www.wired.com/thisdayinte... http://www.mac-history.net/the-h... http://www.macworld.co.uk/blogs/... http://www.wservernews.com/archi... |
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| Ho my god !!! |
| By _QJ_ on 2012-08-25 07:41:08 |
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I come back from vacation, and what I learn !?! My factory of black-rectangles-with-round ed-corners dishes is in big troubles.... I AM DOOOOMED !!! ;-) |
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| RE: Ho my god !!! |
| By _QJ_ on 2012-08-25 07:44:03 |
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Seriously: Which company will be on target next week ? And: In this case court: If it was not Samsung (Sud Corean) but an American company, does the result be the same ? |
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| another reason |
| By Janvl on 2012-08-25 08:24:03 |
| I certainly hope that some more people realise that one should not buy apple products, not now, not ever, never. |
| - Score: 6 |
| Comment by Lazarus |
| By Lazarus on 2012-08-25 08:27:44 |
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"At Apple, we value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth" And your one billion dollar "innovation" involves rectangles with rounded corners, and common sense UI features. This is what you get when you remove anyone who actually knows anything about technology (or i guess common sense) from jury duty. Here's hoping the mess gets fixed on appeal. Fucking rounded rectangles... |
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| RE: More choice. |
| By woegjiub on 2012-08-25 09:45:14 |
| Vanilla Android is different enough. I hate touchwiz precisely because it is like the stupid iPhone interface. |
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| RE: Comment by Lazarus |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-25 10:17:44 |
| The jury members were pretty good educated and included a few with a technical background. |
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| RE: Comment by Lazarus |
| By UltraZelda64 on 2012-08-25 10:55:37 |
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Yeah. There were probably a lot of Apple fans in the jury. I see no other logical explanation for this astonishingly repulsive ruling. Apple's response was the typical "haha, we won, see, we're the best and can do no wrong" while Samsung was down to earth on their response to the ruling. The fact that Apple won and got these insanely retarded patents upheld is downright nauseating, and although obviously Samsung is just trying to make themselves look better, they're exactly right, and I applaud them for calling out on the U.S. patent system for what it really is: bullshit. Apple, go eat d***. |
| - Score: 5 |
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