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Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products
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."
So is Slashdot posters going to be consistent in their anti-patent stances or are they going to make excuses about how this is okay because it's going after Apple (like they do when Microsoft gets sued for patent infringement).
This is different, you apple fanboi.
I am all for Nokia here. They spent millions in R&D and Apple thinks they can just come and abuse without respecting the industry-wide gentlemen pact? Fuck you apple, fuck you fanbois.
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Don't try and waste an Apple fans' time with things like facts.
Like the first poster that erroneously claims there are no software patent violation claims.
I hate to break it to you but most of those phones that Nokia sells are "NOT" smartphones. They are talk and text phones with WAP browsers.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
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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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.
... and then they built the supercollider.