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Another Garbage Patent
*no comment* writes "Literally "garbage patent" that is, Apple was rewarded a patent for the "Garbage" icon in Mac OS X. The patent documents can be found at the USPTO by clicking here. More on this and other Apple patents are in this article over at the macobserver."
so id say, WHO GIVES A SHIT! certainly not MS.
Linux, being garbage, is prior art. Sorry Apple!
Apple is on very shaky ground financially. Frankly, many prominent industry analysts have crunched the numbers, concluding that Apple's outlook is bleak indeed.
In Apple's latest numbers released in January for its fiscal first quarter of 2003, revenue fell from a year earlier and all of the company's major computer lines saw diminished numbers. PowerMac sales were down 20%, while iBook sales fell 8%.
At the same time Apple's sales were falling, PC sales rose, though just slightly, according to figures from IDC released last month.
The last time Apple was in this state, it brought back co-founder Steve Jobs to fix its issues. He fostered the development of the iMac and secured a US$150-million investment from Microsoft. But there aren't any new iMacs in Apple's future and Microsoft, bolstered by its victory over the U.S. Department of Justice, is clearly not going to help the beleaguered computer maker this time.
So what have you got left? Apple is a company that controls around 3% of the computer market, has recently undergone a restructuring and is slowly fading into nothingness. Software makers don't even have Mac users on their radar and it's not like Apple can bring Mr. Jobs back to right the ship this time -- he's already there.
Stick a fork in 'em -- this Apple is cooked.
Hey kid, are you calling us names? Your reasoning sounds like a that of a Berlusconi's Forza Italia drone... cut it out thanks!
BTW we're much smarter than what your witty commentt implies... go get a clue, troll
Mi domando chi à il mandante di tutte le cazzate che faccio - Altan
You are funny, you are sooo funy!
I am shitting my pants with TEH FUNY!!!
Go on! Make another Microsoft joke!
You're snug and secure in your fucking group-think.
I assume that since this patent is for trash, it would cover a lot of Apple's hardware and software, and their entire "switch" ad campaign too.
a 'shit' icon, since everything they do is absolute shit. Not to mention many of their users' proclivity to push people's stool in.
That's right, you keep getting spittle all over yourself like that. Bitch.
when will you nerds learn to grow up in the "real" world.... innovations need to be protected, because after all, we aren't communist.
but alas, none of the slashdot posters who persistently bash patents could invent or innovate, as they are merely USERS of technology, rather than actually driving the innovative technologies
The Patent Attorney
Can anyone name a company so lame? No other company has as many stupid patents that are pathetic, they show how apple cannot inovate anything intersting or useful.
Get a life,
Get a real PC.
your mom?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Ok, um, can anyone tell me why exactly people are wasting their time debating about a *TRASH* icon for useless macs? Just wondering.
Jolan Tru. (If you know what this means, you're a tru geek)
then Microsoft should be allowed to trademark the name Windows. If a garbage company has a picture of a trashcan on it's website, then can Apple sue? This is ridiculous.
So, let me guess - it's probably a blindingly obvious idea and your making money suing all the people who happen to have unknowingly used it already (maybe even before you patented it). No wonder you like the system!
Shouldn't it be either a rotten partially eaten apple (note no comma), or a partially eaten, rotten apple?
I'm not seeing something here...something that belongs in an intellectually honest community. I haven't seen ANY Apple bashing going on here AT ALL!!! All I see is patent bashing, which is quite par for the course considering how this crowd is all for pure communism except when lord linus steps in for his 2 cents worth. To be intellectually honest about the (non) subject on the table, you would have to bash Apple's skull in like you do with Microsoft. Alas, it isn't there.
Why not pray tell?? Because it's not Microsoft. Right there is living breathing proof that irrational, dishonest people run and contribute to this site. I wonder if this site would even exist without Microsoft......doubtful...