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Proview didn't rip Apple off. Apple didn't rip off Proview. What are you talking about? This is a case of a trademark dispute. Apple claims it was sold to them, Proview claims otherwise. The e-mails between the two companies support Apple's case rather well, as does the fact that a Hong Kong judge ruled that Proview was engaging in exploitation in suing Apple in the way it was.

You're probably talking about these e-mails, and yeah, they're pretty damning for Proview. They made it clear that they were selling the rights for the mainland Chinese subsidiary.

http://allthingsd.com/20120216/take-a-look-at-some-of-apples-evidence-in-proview-ipad-dispute/

From everything I've read, Proview actually signed the agreement then backed out when they found out it was Apple because they figured they could milk them for a lot more money. I guess, it being Chinese law, they were right.

The iPad does however look a lot like the Galaxy Tab 10.1 [anandtech.com], which was the product in question.

That photo does show some similarities, but also differences - the shape is different, the Tab has a circular feature at the top (camera?), the logos are different, one has "Samsung" text whilst the other has "iPad", and the iPad has a distinctive black strip along the top edge. But that is just my personal opinion.

An honest, good faith poster would acknowledge that point and concede that they had inadvertently compared the iPad to a product that wasn't in the lawsuit and is not subject to an injunction

It is true that this particular lawsuit was about the Galaxy Tab 10.1, however, Apple has previously sued and made the same claims regarding the original Galaxy Tab. If the debate were limited only to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and this lawsuit, then I would concede that the comparison to the original Galaxy Tab was not relevant - however, Apple did include the original Galaxy Tab in the debate, and as far as I know they still consider the original Galaxy Tab to be infringing, which makes the comparison still relevant.

Scott Thompson does not really have a CS degree? Elizabeth Warren is not really a Native American?

If this trend in falsifying credentials continues, how long before the revelations that Rich Kyanka did not really attend Turtle Mountain Community College?

The net is the net. What you think of as the "Eldernet" should really be a simplified client/OS aimed at Seniors. Think about what Microsoft tried for, and utterly failed at, with MS Bob.. Someone TRIED doing this on an all-in-one-platform with the "Telkin PC for Seniors", but failed on both a UI and a cost perspective. It was way too expensive for what it delivered, and both lacked essential functionality AND defacto "talked down" to its' users. . . . .

Apple: App Access to Contact Data Will Require Explicit User Permission

I guess you forgot that part.

And the part about how these apps weren't "malware", irrespective of whether they were doing something previously allowable without explicit user permission.

So it's not at all accurate to say that it's "happening on the App Store too".

That was Microsoft that was attempting the end run

http://allthingsd.com/20120411/microsoft-says-ruling-in-motorola-case-will-prevent-an-injunction-at-least-for-now/

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I know, right?! Six hundred thousand? Out of fifty million Macs in the world? This is the end-of-the world, Macs-are-doomed infection we've all been waiting for?

0.012%?

That's like a rounding error, it's hilarious. Microsoft would kill for infection rates like that.

From their design study. And an article about it: project glass.

Plus it has to serve up all those mobile ads

You write as if the iPhone is immune to advertising. It isn't. When It Comes to Mobile Advertising, iPhone Still the Biggest Target Average iAd size has been estimated at 5MB: "Assuming 5MB per iAd, this means that, under AT&T’s new data plan, the user has to pay to watch an ad. Either 40 cents or 6 cents depending on the package."

so it might still use more data though not to the user's benefit

That study didn't include iPhone, but obviously iPhone apps with adverts are also going to consume more energy.

In the one corner Apple, in the other such winners as HTC, Motorolla, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. CEO's always get fired if they back the wrong horse, but he picked the one with the right odds.

Actually, I think they are very much interested in innovation, just perhaps not in areas that might seem quite so obvious. Why else would they hire Regina Dugan, the outgoing director of DARPA? Somehow, I don't think it's going to be for the use of UAVs as an advertisement delivery mechanism...

Here is another interesting interview with Ned Borenstein I read last week.

It's rarely about preferring Android phones. And even where it is, it's mostly an uneducated preference. When Android owners are asked whether they will buy another Android in future, most say no. Amongst iPhone owners, most say they will buy another iPhone.

This is just not true.

"83 percent of current iPhone users intend to buy an iPhone again this holiday season; 81 percent of Android OS users said the same."

Source:
http://allthingsd.com/20111212/youth-is-wasted-on-the-young-and-so-are-consumer-electronics/

General purpose home computers will likely revert to a hobbyist thing before too many more years, and of course Linux will dominate at that point.

Hahahaha! First you say that "This is the year of the Linux desktop" is a running joke, and then you come back with THAT knee-slapper?!?

Sorry, it appears to be the year of the OS X desktop. It will never be the year of the Linux anything (except, perhaps, the webserver).

Non-hobby home PCs are fading fast.,

At least for Apple, not so much.

Oh, and you might want to crawl out of your Mom's basement sometime and shave that neckbeard... ;-)

Linux will dominate... Boy, what a card! Thanks, I needed a good laugh!

Apple spokesperson: "We’re working to make this [protecting user privacy] even better for our customers, and as we have done with location services, any app wishing to access contact data will require explicit user approval in a future software release."

http://allthingsd.com/20120215/apple-app-access-to-contact-data-will-require-explicit-user-permission/

This was in answer to a Congressional inquiry (hopefully that inquiry will knock on Google's door as well).

I imagine Apple has your UI concerns in mind are probably redesigning the interface to support multiple choice permission popups.

I'll get modded flamebait for this but it's true. Everyone I know does not give a single f-ck about upgrading for the sake of having the newest, latest, greatest whatever gadget is coming out. Apples 'record sales' are largely symptomatic of a several much bigger problems. Greed, envy, waste, and more. 37 million iphones? with sales up 128% from last year. 15.4 million ipads - also doubled from last year. Apple isnt the only offender but they are tge biggest.

* http://allthingsd.com/20120124/apples-record-iphone-and-ipad-sales-beat-expectations/

There are a bunch of emails from court documents on allthingsd. One email says that the Taiwan division actually owns the iPad trademark, not the Shenzhen office. This email is from people in the Shenzhen office (second one down)

http://allthingsd.com/20120216/take-a-look-at-some-of-apples-evidence-in-proview-ipad-dispute

Further down the page is the list of countries included in the contract. China is clearly listed.

Thats the second time you have said that, got any links to that "evidence", as its the first time I have heard it....

Oh, come, on. It's been reported all over the place--maybe you're just tuning out anything that contradicts your "evil Apple" preconceptions. 30 seconds with google turns up plenty of references. Here's one.

WOA is something different, a competitor to iOS that has a Windows-esque look and feel.

There is nothing windows-esque about Metros look and feel. iOS looks more like desktop Windows than Metro does.

Where WOA claims to have an advantage over iOS is, first, that it will allow users interact with the device with a traditional desktop paradigm, if they choose.

No, All third party applications build for WOA are Metro apps. It has a couple of stopgap applications on a vestigial desktop because this functionality wasn't recoded for Metro. There is no traditional desktop paradigm for third party applicaitons and once MS re-writes Office for WinRT, there will likely be no desktop mode at all.

http://allthingsd.com/20120209/windows-on-arm-complete-with-next-version-of-office-to-arrive-with-rest-of-windows-8/

Sinofsky also said that the Windows-on-ARM machines will come with several Office apps — Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote — that have been tuned to run in a very battery-efficient manner. But Sinofsky said that, although those applications will run in the traditional Windows desktop, they will be the only programs allowed to do so, other than components of Windows itself.

“There are no other compiled dekstop apps that are available,” Sinofsky told AllThingsD. All of the other apps for Windows on ARM will be the new-style “Metro” apps.

As we all know, most CEOs are honest people who never twist truth or distort reality to achieve their goals.

Meanwhile, Google is officially becoming an enforcer of Motorola's patents and will demand a billion dollars a year in royalty fees, contrary to everything about patents that they complained about six months ago and everything their defenders have claimed about their values. But, yeah, it's good that this old Gawker story about mean Steve Jobs was posted instead.

Oh thank god, Bonch is back! Here to remind us that if you are using an apple approved reality distortion field, you too will be able to deny the existence of a story that is critical of the character of the glorious Mr Jobs. And WTF does motorola patents have to do with this story? Oh that's right, everything Google does is wrong (including using patents to seek royalties.) If they were an upstanding company, they would say royalties be damned, and use every penny of their cash available to "right this wrong" and to "go thermonuclear war on this." Because that's what sane companies with IP to protect do. Right.

As we all know, most CEOs are honest people who never twist truth or distort reality to achieve their goals.

Meanwhile, Google is officially becoming an enforcer of Motorola's patents and will demand a billion dollars a year in royalty fees, contrary to everything about patents that they complained about six months ago and everything their defenders have claimed about their values. But, yeah, it's good that this old Gawker story about mean Steve Jobs was posted instead.

ipads are not pc's so that is nonsense. 90% of the world's computers are windows computers you retard.

Steve Balmer disagrees, says iPads are PCs

``What's a PC ?'' - Steve Balmer (rhetorically)

Later

``Is the iPad a PC ?'' - Interviewer

``Sure .. Of course it is .. A different form factor '' - Steve Balmer

Also, according to Steve Balmer, what fits in your pocket (a phone) is *not* a PC.

So, you are pwned by Steve Balmer, you Windows enthusiast!

And yet look at how far SOPA got. And look at the age of that article, and the fact that Obama hasn't been back since 2007, and you realize that now Google is perceived as a political liability, and is vastly outnumbered in Washington compared to the entertainment industry. Actually he came to the computer history museum last September just down the street from Google and he didn't go to Google. But he did visit Facebook last year. These days it's just cool to hate Google and being close to Google is political suicide. Because Google makes a lot of money.

This is what the FTC probe ended with:

"“The company also publicly stated its intention to delete the inadvertently collected payload data as soon as possible. Further, Google has made assurances to the FTC that the company has not used and will not use any of the payload data collected in any Google product or service, now or in the future. This assurance is critical to mitigate the potential harm to consumers from the collection of payload data. Because of these commitments, we are ending our inquiry into this matter at this time."
Big deal.

What fishermen? Thou shalt pay to Microsoft for every fish and bread, or be sued into oblivion.

Could this be any more biased? Why is Slashdot posting this crap?

The article claims that "Apple fan sites celebrate Apple patents," but all he does is link to one site, Patently Apple. That site exists to track Apple patent applications "in search of future features and secrets," as the site puts it. It's not celebrating patents; it's just reporting on them in hopes of predicting upcoming product plans.

It also repeats the old troll meme about PARC, claiming that "Apple disregards the notion of fair competition, which takes a lot of nerve for a company that built itself on knockoffs (e.g. Xerox PARC)." Overlapping windows and pulldown menus did come from PARC, but Apple is the one who invented the File-Edit-View-Window-Help standard menu layout, the phrase "cut-and-paste," and several other common GUI paradigms that are taken for granted today. Not to mention that many of those Xerox PARC employees went on to work on the Macintosh project at Apple!

If we're throwing around knock-off accusations, Android used to look like this until the iPhone came out, and then Android suddenly started looking and behaving a lot more like iOS, right down to the pinch-zoom gestures that originated with the iPhone. For crying out loud, Samsung outright stole Apple's icon artwork and used it in their stores. TechRights, of course, ignores all this. It's no surprise at all that Apple is going to try to hinder competitors' efforts to ride the coattails of its design work. It went through this before with Windows in the 1980s and only lost its court case against Microsoft because of a previous licensing agreement.

Obnoxious Android fanboyism has reached a fever pitch. Android fanboys are now officially more annoying than Apple fanboys. They've adopted this idea that they are freedom fighters and that their tribe is under threat from evil. It's embarrassing and is a resurrection of the worst elements of the desktop Linux movement from 10 years ago.

Exploring the rest of the site, it calls itself "a progressive site which supports software freedom and advocates digital diversity through standardisation." Most of its stories are anti-Microsoft, pro-Linux, and present a one-sided view of tech news that's intended to rile up its readers (not unlike Slashdot, to be honest). It also claims to be against monopolies but says nothing about Google's monopoly in web advertising nor the fact it's using its monopoly revenues to pump a new market with a free product (Android), just like Microsoft did with Windows and Internet Explorer in the 1990s. For some reason, Android advocates

For crying out loud, Techrights' Twitter account is called @boycottnovell. Boycott Novell is associated with Roy Schestowitz, an infamous Usenet troll who spams the advocacy newsgroups with pro-Linux news links and used to astroturf Slashdot with multiple accounts.

If nerds on Tech Rights and Slashdot want to boycott Apple, go ahead. None of them were using Apple products anyway--they are Linux advocacy sites. Apple wouldn't even notice.

Can we get some actual tech news? Or is Slashdot forever lost to its current role of flamboyant baiting for ad views? Ugh.

Google is paying Mozilla around $100 million of commissions per year.

It's now around $300 million a year.

I was wondering the same thing. I guess if there was a "killer app" for white space spectrum, we'd have heard about it. This page summarises it so; "Unlicensed spectrum opens the door to all kinds of uses, but the use most commonly talked about is to provide fixed and wireless broadband Internet services. It could also prove a good technology for moving video and other bulky data types around the home."

What Google and Mozilla declined to disclose, reports AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, is that Google will pay just under $300 million per year to be the default choice in Mozillla's Firefox browser, a huge jump from its previous arrangement, due to competing interest from both Yahoo and Microsoft. Sources said this total amount - just under $1 billion - was the minimum revenue guarantee for delivering search queries garnered from consumers using Firefox. Google's main rival in the bid, sources said, was Microsoft's Bing search service."

So the leadership of Netflix makes some absolutely poor decisions that cause their stock to drop, the next thing that happens is Verizon wants to buy them (greater media consolidation?) and the stocks go up...

It would be fascinating to see who purchased the stock after ti dropped from their truly amateurish business decision.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/1432211/does-mega-media-control-90-of-content

http://allthingsd.com/20101021/who-us-netflix-says-its-customers-arent-cord-cutters/

All of it right before your eyes.

"Itâ(TM)s expected to sell well among parents who always buy the wrong thing." according to Seth Meyers from SNL

Fixed it for you.

Really? I'm pretty sure this is Sarah Michelle Gellar ... but, I'm willing to entertain the fact that I can't tell the difference between two skinny blondes. :-P

I only knew the TV series ... and even that only a little. To me, that looks like Sarah Michelle Gellar. That, of course, doesn't make me correct. :-P

AllThingsD has a series of articles on this where they talk about the multiple attempts of a Facebook phone. They investigated creating a phone from scratch (hardware/software/distribution/carriers/etc.) and eventually gave up. The newest attempt is the one that's leaking out now with HTML5 Facebook layer on top of Android with HTC building the hardware.

Very easy information to get:

Board of Zynga http://company.zynga.com/node/876:
Mark Pincus
Zynga CEO and Founder

Bing Gordon
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Partner

Brad Feld
Foundry Group Managing Director

Jeffrey Katzenberg
CEO of DreamWorks Animation

John Schappert
Director and Chief Operating Officer

Owen Van Natta
Director and Chief Business Officer

Reid Hoffman
LinkedIn founder and Executive Chairman

Stanley J. Meresman
Director

Investors: http://allthingsd.com/20110718/zynga-updates-ipo-filing-to-list-investors-and-googles-one-of-them/

"Here's the list of investors. I did not include all of the mutual fund holdings because there are dozens:

Google Inc.
SOFTBANK CORP.
DAG Ventures Limited
SB Asia Pacific Investments Limited
Digital Sky Technologies Limited
DST Global Limited
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Fenwick & West LLP
Institutional Venture Partners XII, L.P.
Union Square Ventures 2004, LP
Union Square Principals 2004, LLC
PG Ventures, Inc.
Foundry Venture Capital 2007, L.P.
F&W Investments LLC-Series 2007
Laird H. Simons, III
Theodore H. Pincus Declaration of
Trust Dated June 10, 1992
Archimedes Capital
Reid Hoffman
Paul Martino
The Dâ(TM)Anconia Trust
Peter Thiel
Avalon Ventures VIII, LP
Gary Leff
European Founders Fund GmbH & Co.
Kardinal--Faulhaber"

Itâ(TM)s expected to sell well among parents who always buy the wrong thing

They like to call it "being competitive" until they become a monopoly. People here at /. seem reject the idea that Apple could ever succeed at capturing a market, and are always ready to suggest dozens of alternatives that are seen as viable competitors to Apple's products. Unfortunately, those suggestions undercut the idea that regulators should be looking at Apple, since if those competitors really are viable, then that's evidence of a healthy ecosystem that isn't being monopolized by Apple.

Personally, despite being an Apple fanboy, I actually do think that some of their actions are anti-competitive, but that they've been able to get away with them because of their smaller market share (note: I'm not saying I think that's a good thing). It's hard to make an argument that they're doing anything illegal when they only have 4.2% of the cell phone market and something like 10% of the PC market by units sold, even if they might be dominating in profit share (e.g. 52% of mobile handset profits go to Apple) or doing very well within specific product niches (e.g. over 90% market share for PCs over $1000). That companies keep competing with them and managing to stay in business also makes it difficult to suggest that they're driving out the competition.

Even so, I still agree with you. Especially in the tablet space, where reports seem to indicate that they have around 90-95% market share by units sold (as opposed to shipped), I think that regulators should be taking a look at them in the near future. It's one thing to dominate in a niche part of a market using those tactics, but it's entirely different to dominate an entire market using tactics like these. And, again, this is from a dyed-in-wool Apple fanboy. As much as I may love Apple, I love seeing innovation and great products more, and while I think that they do deliver those quite often, driving others out before they have a chance to do the same is contrary to what I like.

the last quarter was expected to dip due to anticipation of many wanting to purchase the new model.

No it wasn't. Nice try, though.

Really? According to analysts, iPhone sales were still strong before the launch.

Try again.

Dance, Fanboi! Dance!

But, wait, weren't all the fanbois talking about how strong iPhone 4 sales were before the iPhone 4S was announced?

Kinda tough to now say, "Well, everybody was waiting for the iPhone 4S..."

Well people can make their own determinations:

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"What we've actually been asked to do by Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] is to investigate what technical alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome. We've been over a bunch of these and think they all suck. We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need."

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"What we've actually been asked to do by Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] is to investigate what technical alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome. We've been over a bunch of these and think they all suck. We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need."

Absolute rubbish. Apple tried to do away with removable SIM's entirely and the carriers said no. I suggest reading this interview:
http://allthingsd.com/20110523/exclusive-france-telecom-ceo-on-apple-android-and-how-you-can-kiss-your-unlimited-plan-goodbye/

The new CEO is just that. She's getting paid $1/year in compensation - and a significant portion (2/3?) of her stock options are based on the HP stock hitting certain $ values at certain points in the future.

If they let her go, her parachute is worth 1.5 times her yearly compensation.

Bonuses are the only way she can get cash outright.

Had found the original info from Google Stocks on HPQ, they do news-by-day and list when articles came out graphed to the price, was at some other site when I saw it a few weeks ago:

http://allthingsd.com/20110929/hps-new-ceo-takes-1-annual-salary-and-lots-of-stock-options/?mod=googlenews_editors_picks

Because the PC market isn't growing, while the smartphone market is. The smartphone market now is the like the PC market back in the late 80s and early 90s.

So it couldn't have anything to do with the 4.9% operating margin of HP's PC division, could it?

Or just maybe -- unlike random Slashdot poster -- real business people know that profit is more important than market share?

I don't see Apple trying to get out of the PC business even though it has maybe 20% of the market share of HP.

BTW, Apple is growing PC sales quite nicely.....

http://allthingsd.com/20110217/mac-growth-outpaces-market-for-19th-straight-quarter/

I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work. Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

I would much rather put my money towards HBO than get ESPN for free. According to the rate chart below in 2009 cable subscribers were paying over $4 just for ESPN. I like watching the occasional sporting event but if people are willing to pay for every other sports channel, let them and stop charging me for it. http://allthingsd.com/20100308/hate-paying-for-cable-heres-the-reason-why/

How do you Samsung / Android apologists argue with this, this and this?

If that's not blatant copying*, I don't know what is.

*disclaimer, I work for a large industrial manufacturing company that has had our products copied and ripped off by Samsung.

I guess that's only if you find them to be disingenuous enough not to chase their adjusted revenues of US$312.9 million with an investment. What the article seems to be ignoring is that Groupon is still turning a profit.

But as an investor, why would you trust these guys to use your investment wisely?

Where Did Grouponâ(TM)s Billion Dollars Go?

"Groupon raised a total of $946 million in two funding rounds last winter. It kept $136 million of it help run the money-losing company. The remaining $810 million was paid out, via stock purchases, to CEO Andrew Mason and some of his backers, including Eric Lefkofsky, and, notably, the Samwer brothers, who sold their CityDeal company to Groupon in 2010."

Do you want to be the sucker left holding the empty bag at the end?

Where Did Groupon's Billion Dollars Go?

The checkered past of Groupon's chairman