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| Wozniak hates the Apple vs. Samsung verdict |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-09-13 17:48:27 |
| About the Apple vs. Samsung jury verdict: "I hate it," Wozniak told Bloomberg, "I don't think the decision of California will hold. And I don't agree with it - very small things I don't really call that innovative. I wish everybody would just agree to exchange all the patents and everybody can build the best forms they want to use everybody's technologies." From the mouth of a real inventor and engineer. |
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| RE: Playing catch up in so many fronts... |
| By leech on 2012-09-13 21:52:47 |
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Funny thing is, the Turn by turn navigation and Panorama has been available on my Nokia N900 since late 2009, though the voice navigation wasn't originally there (the community got that working). But this was a hardly supported phone. The Symbian phones at the time had panorama software and turn by turn navigation. I find it hilarious that Apple's 'innovations' are all copied from everyone else. |
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| Woz.. |
| By thavith_osn on 2012-09-14 00:03:18 |
| ...should be world leader |
| - Score: 2 |
| Comment by Luminair |
| By Luminair on 2012-09-14 04:14:50 |
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fact is everything good came from copying. it follows that copyrights stifle innovation, which is bad. but copyrights also promote some sort of justice, which is theoretically good. if everyone can agree on that, then we can argue about copyrights/patents/whatever rationally: what level of innovation stifling is worth what level of justice? from there I bet everyone would agree that there is little to no justice (de?)served by someone claiming ownership of stupid obvious things like rounded corners and pinching to zoom. |
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| RE: Comment by Luminair |
| By ricegf on 2012-09-14 11:48:43 |
| Silly Putty should sue over pinch to zoom. And I couldn't be the first to mention this, I just don't read enough, I guess. |
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| RE[3]: Linky Brokey.... |
| By ricegf on 2012-09-14 11:57:06 |
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It's funny, but some sites such as ExtremeTech have horrendous mobile versions - in fact, ET often insists on centering the gutter, leaving half a column of text on each side, on my iPad. I have to partially slide the column over and hold it with my finger to read. Insane. They have a "Use Desktop Version" link that switches to the desktop URL - which detects my iPad, and switches back to the mobile version. Happily, my N900 is NOT detected, and so displays the site perfectly. So I end up switching to my tiny, ancient phablet to manually enter and read links found on my 10", latest OS rev iPad. Truth is stranger than fiction, and one heck of a lot more annoying! |
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| RE: Woz.. |
| By gan17 on 2012-09-14 20:49:57 |
| I wouldn't go that far. There's something about Segway Polo that just .... weird. |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE[2]: Woz.. |
| By thavith_osn on 2012-09-17 12:51:42 |
| Good point... |
| - Score: 2 |
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