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Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products

Posted by timothy on from the mickey-finn-or-mickey-mouse? dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an extract from this Associated Press story, as carried by The Globe and Mail: "Nokia is broadening its legal fight with Apple, saying almost all of the company's products violate its patents, not just the iPhone. Nokia Corp. said Tuesday that it has filed a complaint against Apple Inc. with the US International Trade Commission. The Finnish phone maker says Apple's iPhone, iPods and computers all violate its intellectual property rights."

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  1. GO NOKIA! by rec9140 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    While I despise IP, trademark, copyright, et al... in this case.......

    YOU GO NOKIA!

    Finally some one is going to put an end to the crapple cult!

    YOU GO NOKIA! ! ! ! ! !

    Hey Xerox, can you PLEASE SUE ms and crapple over their GUI's! We know the PARC is the TRUE ORIGINATOR of the mouse and windowed GUI!.

    GO NOKIA GO! !

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  2. Re:Sell your Nokia shares. by dangitman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They want a Nokia.

    Correction - they wanted a Nokia, when Nokia had a strong brand name allure, and strong product offerings. That's not the case anymore.

    You can't argue with that.

    I just did.

    Especially while not seeing strengths typical in Nokia product which are more important to most of the planet than "nice software".

    Again, wrong. A user-friendly interface is generally the most important thing in a phone for users (other than low price).

    Insanely great battery time and reception, sturdiness, low price, features ;)

    You can get that almost anywhere these days, no need to buy a Nokia.

    )...even good UI

    You're having a laugh. Don't Nokia phones still run Symbian? My last Nokia phone did, and that is one miserable OS and interface.

    iPhone or Android don't even want to target majority of the market.

    And why does this matter? There are plenty of other companies to target the rest of the market. Nokia is left catering to an increasingly commodified market with razor-thin margins. It's not a great place to be in as a business - hence their fear of iPhone/Android. They tried doing smartphones in an attempt to compete, and failed.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.