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Apple Sues Creative
boarder8925 writes "Apple is counter-suing Creative, claiming it has infringed 'four patents in its handheld digital players.' The suit was filed the same day that Creative filed suit against Apple. 'Creative proactively held discussions with Apple in our efforts to explore amicable solutions,' a spokesman for Creative said. 'At no time during these discussions or at any other time did Apple mention to us the patents it raised in its lawsuit.'"
Got get them, Tiger!
iPod sales are plummeting. Other portable digital music player makers are fading away.
The future of portable digital music is with cellphones - no matter how much I hate them.
By the time this patent mess gets settled no one will be using the devices the two companies are quibling over anymore.
The world is ready to dump their iPods in the garbage for this device:
Cellphone
iPod quality interface
Wireless streaming of music library anywhere in the world to the device from your home server
Email, text messaging
GPS
Games
Streamlined web access
iTunes clone for software
Contact/calendar sync
Apple better make it or someone else will - especially with how badly the Intel Macs are doing.
Nothing of any value whatsoever. All day. Every day.
What a sad, empty, pathetic life, parked in front of your computer screen waiting to make a vacuous comment and get your little karma-reward.
It seems you have so little going on in your life that you have the time to camp out here all day.
It reminds me of those drunks waiting in front of the liquor store before it opens in the morning, or the heroin addicts fiending for their methadone in front of the clinic.
The difference I suppose is that there's hope for those people...
Apparently "better for me" does not translate to "better for everyone."
You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
-- Colonel Adolphus Busch
crerwin (971247)
Hmmmmm... High userID, only 28 comments in history, starting less than a month ago.
Lots of detailed description of Creative products in post.
Paid shill for Creative?
That's sad. Hope you're making a decent buck.
TIT for TWAT is all fair in love and war. Go Apple! Go Creative Labs! I love you both! May you each kill the other!
How is this the Patent Offices fault?? Shouldn't one of the brainchildren of Apple thought to patent their stuff before putting it out on the market?? Maybe Apple needs to pull a few of it's lawyers of Creative for a bit...
"But this one goes to 11!"