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David/Goliath Story Brewing Between Apple and iControlPad Makers

Posted by Soulskill on from the iprior-iart dept.

relliker writes "Apple has just patented a design for an iPhone gaming add-on after admitting that the iPhone is somewhat hard to use as a games machine. The catch is that the design is not theirs. It was designed by a team of gaming aficionados, one member of which, Craig 'craigix' Rothwell of OpenPandora fame, is already twittering like mad about the shot just fired by Apple in their direction. The iControlPad team are in contact with their IP lawyer, since their design is already in production. Will Apple still try to steamroll right through them?"

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  1. Re:SCOTUS we beseech thee by Volante3192 · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is about an iPhone docking station, essentially.

    Not software.

    At least checkout the links before blindly spouting off something that, while still likely to get a +5 insightful, is -infinite Offtopic.

  2. Whoop, whoop! Hypocrisy alarm! by red456 · · Score: 0, Troll

    it's true the issue is to do with hardware, but note this: the iControlPad team are up in arms talking about 'their rights' and how they've been 'ripped off' and 'infringed' yet if you visit their site you will see they are more than happy to promote this - through screen-shots and videos - as method for running pirated games, such as Super Mario Kart and (what looks like) Mario Brothers DS. Could that be... 'hypocrisy'?

    1. Re:Whoop, whoop! Hypocrisy alarm! by red456 · · Score: -1, Troll

      where did I say 'all emulation is piracy' exactly? if you're running an emulator on your PC and reading the PSX/PS2 original disks, then no problem - but oh, where did you get hold of the PS2 bios your emulator uses? did you dump it yourself, or did you download it from the web? that, along with grabbing copies of the ISOs and roms is piracy.

    2. Re:Whoop, whoop! Hypocrisy alarm! by red456 · · Score: 0, Troll

      that's nonsense

    3. Re:Whoop, whoop! Hypocrisy alarm! by red456 · · Score: -1, Troll

      interesting, because no opensource replacement PS2 bios exists that can run commerical games. one must assume you've written it yourself - but not yet released it to the public. well done in that respect, as that's been quite some effort I suspect

    4. Re:Whoop, whoop! Hypocrisy alarm! by red456 · · Score: -1, Troll

      since you clearly couldn't care less about piracy and others' IP, how about this... what if Apple just turn around and say they haven't 'ripped off' the iControlPad design, they're just 'emulating' it. ha!

  3. Clone the CLOWN gets knocked out cold by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31706790

    Utterly hilarious. Watch Clone/Clown in the url above have to resort to name calling and doing anything but answering up to his own blatant technical mistakes, lies, and other stupidity. Clone the trolling clown got his ass knocked the hell out. LMAO!

  4. Clone the CLOWN gets knocked the hell out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31706790

    Utterly hilarious. Watch Clone/Clown in the url above have to resort to name calling and doing anything but answering up to his own blatant technical mistakes, lies, and other stupidity. Clone the trolling clown got his ass knocked the hell down (and out). LMAO!

  5. Clone the CLOWN's oops of epic proportions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31706790

    Utterly hilarious. Watch Clone/Clown in the url above have to resort to name calling and doing anything but answering up to his own blatant technical mistakes, lies, and other stupidity. Clone the trolling clown got his ass knocked the hell down (and out). LMAO - your trolling mouth wrote checks your dim brain can't cash, and that's that CLOWN.

  6. Clone the CLOWN gets knocked out cold by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31706790

    Utterly hilarious. Watch Clone/Clown in the url above have to resort to name calling and doing anything but answering up to his own blatant technical mistakes, lies, and other stupidity. Clone the trolling clown got his ass knocked the hell down (and out). LMAO - your trolling mouth wrote checks your dim brain can't cash, and that's that CLOWN.

  7. CLONE THE CLOWN got knocked down (and out) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31706790

    Utterly hilarious. Watch Clone/Clown in the url above have to resort to name calling and doing anything but answering up to his own blatant technical mistakes, lies, and other stupidity. Clone the trolling clown got his ass knocked the hell down (and out). LMAO - your trolling mouth wrote checks your dim brain can't cash, and that's that CLOWN!

  8. There's another side to this story by Whuffo · · Score: 1, Troll

    If the "Icontrolpad" people would have purchased a license to use the iPod dock connector then things might be different. Instead, the Icontrolpad people chose to use Apple's patented iPod dock technology without a license. And their product only works with jailbroken iPhones - so after infringing on two (or more) of Apple's patents / copyrights they decide to complain when Apple patents technology similar to theirs.

    So what shall we as Slashdotters choose as our position on this issue? One one side we have a large (and getting larger) corporation that turns out some pretty popular devices. On the other side we have a small company whose product violates the big corporation's patents and copyrights. It's tempting to beat on the big corporation but it's not Microsoft and we're not quite sure how. And while it may feel good to support the underdog - in this case, the underdog's hands are dirty and their product can't be legally sold. I'm sure this will get bent all kinds of ways and I'm going to enjoy seeing how the trolls work this one...

  9. Re:second! by cheezegeezer · · Score: -1, Troll

    A message to the American Law makers
                            stop jumping in favour of the side that gave you the biggest bung and screw the living fuck out of apple for once in your long and miserable lives do the right thing make apple bleed like the stuffed pigdogs they really are bunch of shittards

    --
    What the F*** is Kharma i do got teeth i don't got no kharma