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| Google asks ITC to ban every Mac, iPad, and most iPhones |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-09-19 21:40:45 |
| "The International Trade Commission voted yesterday to investigate Apple for patent infringement allegations launched by the Google-owned Motorola Mobility. As expected, Motorola is asking for import bans on just about every iOS device, including iPhones, iPods, and iPads. What might be surprising is that Motorola is also asking for a ban on every type of Mac OS X computer, claiming Apple's iMessage technology infringes a Motorola patent." Let's hope all those products get banned. And that all Motorola phones get banned. Let's hope everything gets banned from the US. And yes, I changed Motorola into Google for the headline. |
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| RE[5]: patent system |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-09-20 08:12:36 |
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I know, I'm just trying to point out that we most likely don't know the whole story :). Also, finally the new avatar! Nice. Edited 2012-09-20 08:12 UTC |
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| RE[6]: patent system |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-20 08:21:22 |
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SHUT UP ABOUT THE AVATAR! It's driving me nuts! Couldn't get The Avatar to appear and today suddenly he's everywhere. I almost think all the Apple updates fixed it. With regards to Xerox, as far as I know the GUI people (and others) knew they had cool stuff, they were at PARC Xerox, but head office didn't see any value in it. Even at PARC not everybody agreed they should let Apple see their creation, let alone have Apple a go at it. My guess is once Apple showed you can make a customer computer with a customer GUI (well, not sure it had a customer price though) and you can make some money from it some higher up people at Xerox woke up. Now Apple makes cool stuff and these old Macs are very nifty too, but they are rather limited, black & white, small screen and they used to be VERY expensive. It really does make you wonder why Apple didn't go bust in the 80's when you had the Amiga and Atari ST, both having a vast superior GUIs and hardware AND were much cheaper. |
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| RE: So now the other shoe drops... |
| By UltraZelda64 on 2012-09-20 08:31:31 |
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Maybe eventually it will get so bad, almost everyone hears about it. And then, maybe people will start realizing all the bullshit that's going on and start to do something to try to end it. But considering this stuff doesn't make the news like rape, murder, drunk driving, illegal drugs, speeding tickets, celebrities, and who just died... I'm not holding my breath on it. Meanwhile, the government's busy trying to strengthen laws that already exist such as various forms of rape, violence, child abuse; attempting to branch them out to where they make no sense (video games, censorship of media/entertainment, enforcement of drug laws, further restrictions on weapons) in the name of "the children" and "anti-violence". Freedom be damned. Edited 2012-09-20 08:49 UTC |
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| RE: Every company should just fire 90% of their lawyers |
| By UltraZelda64 on 2012-09-20 08:36:51 |
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Fire 90% of their lawyers, and they'll just hire the same amount back within a few years. The only way to potentially solve this would be to put a legal limit on the number of lawyers that can represent a company, and actually enforce that limit. And no company, government or lawyer is going to approve that. Edited 2012-09-20 08:38 UTC |
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| RE[7]: patent system |
| By majipoor on 2012-09-20 09:48:42 |
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporti... Long article, but hopefully some will read it and stop their BS about those Apple stole Xerox myth. |
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| RE: Iconic design |
| By JAlexoid on 2012-09-20 10:18:51 |
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That is the most fecking of offtopic thing an Apple fanboy could have ever posted. The issue at hand are Apple's utility patents. Apple has only brought up design issues with Samsung and Moto XOOM. Everything else is utility patents. Things like bounceback, the thing that Apple claims to be unique to iOS(but really is not). PS: Jobs thought that Nexus One was "a stolen product". If you're as deluded enough to think that as well, then there is no nope for you. PPS: If you're such an Apple fanboi, then you might want to read through the whole story at patentlyapple.(All of the legal analysis and history of the case between Motorola and Apple is there for your education) Edited 2012-09-20 10:21 UTC |
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| RE: Let's hope everything gets banned from the US |
| By vault on 2012-09-20 10:20:49 |
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As ridiculous as it sounds, I believe this would be a godsend for the industry in the long run. Imagine if one day most of the high-tech devices were banned in the US. Suddenly people wouldn't be able to buy their precious iPhones and and tablets, while the rest of the world easily could. Maybe then ordinary people would _finally_ start questioning the idiotic patent system and maybe something good would come out of it. Too bad it will never happen. Edited 2012-09-20 10:22 UTC |
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| RE: Bravo! |
| By JAlexoid on 2012-09-20 10:25:39 |
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This is a spiralling escalation. Neither Apple, nor Google, nor ex-Motorola are innocent here. Apple has a stupidest stance there , though. Claiming that bounceback is the "unique" feature of iOS, while Windows Phone happily has that as well... |
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| RE: Iconic design |
| By Janvl on 2012-09-20 10:31:58 |
| When I look at an apple product I always have to think of Braun, how come . . . |
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| RE: Iconic design |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-09-20 10:38:43 |
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That article was idiotic when Gruber posted, it, and it is even more idiotic now, one day later. Apple's lawyers found zero evidence that anyone ever has ever bought a Samsung phone while thinking it was an iPhone. As such, the premise of the entire article is flawed and doesn't transcend ridiculous Apple fan-fiction. |
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