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Australian Court Blocks Sales of Samsung Galaxy Tablet
jimboh2k writes "Apple has succeeded in blocking the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia until a final hearing can be heard in the case down under. The judgment on Thursday could effectively kill chances of the tablet ever launching properly in Australia after Samsung claimed further delays to the product would threaten hopes of gaining traction."
This could potentially work against Apple if Samsung go after the iPhone 4S on Oz. Precedent has been set, and it would be quite difficult for Apple to argue that an injunction shouldn't block the iPhone4S if Samsung decide to assert their hardware patents.
All of these patent laws and copyright laws - all they do is promote innovation and competition, don't they?
You can't handle the truth.
The judgement is based on broad patents that would be violated by any Android touchscreen based phone or tablet in Australia This goes way beyond the German ruling as it is not based on a design patent. Apple can now ask for a ban on any android device in Australia and it will most likely be granted. You can't blame Samsung for asserting FRAND patents, this ruling has equal anti trust/monopoly implications as it grants Apple a monopoly on tablet devices in Australia and could be used to do the same with smartphones. Apple have refused to license these patents. Software patents are now hurting consumers directly, beyond the tax we have been paying on devices that goes to play patent trolls and patent lawyers e.g. the $5-10 on every android device that goes to Microsoft. Now they are being used to kill consumer choice.
Yes. Don't you see them competing fiercely in court?
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
I already did. I specifically chose the Galaxy because of Apple's antics.
Actually no. The situation was stable and acceptable to all involved until Apple bought their way into the mobile industry. Standard practice was to, more or less, do what one wanted as long as the others could too. Certain licensing was required and the big boys held to that, but Apple doesn't want to play with/like the rest. Which more or less means that either they all get together and put a stop to Apple or they wait it out and let Apple deal with all of them one after the other.
Either way it's a lose lose situation for us.
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I'd like to see the Patent Office held liable for granting such ridiculous patents in the first place. The lawyers are just playing the game that they've been trained to play, and corporations being corporations are doing the same.
At least this is two big companies that can afford the legal costs to fight. Smaller players don't stand a chance. The real enemy here is the game that's being played.
Small detail... this has nothing to do with Android. Apple has a beef with the design of the physical phone, the packaging, the cabling AND Samsungs skin for Android. In this suit at least, they got no complaint against Android itself.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
This company needs to be knocked off their perch. ESPECIALLY as Australian people have a penchant for strongly following the rules of tall poppy syndrome.
Anecdotal comment: Out of the 50 staff I work with in my team in the office, we have had the following phone purchases in the past 12 months
1x iphone 4
5x galaxy S2
1x galaxy 1 series
3x HTC Android phones
2x Acer Android phones (surprisingly good, Liquid Metal phone - 120$ AUD outright!)
1xAsus Transformer
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Also of note, 2 of those Android purchases were directly moving FROM iphones to Android. If I increase that threshold to 18 months*, I can add another iphone 4.
The sentiment in the office and amongst all the nerds I know except 2 die hards is that "Apple is evil" and generally to be avoided. It's basically 'not cool' to own an iphone at the moment, at least with the people I speak with. (If you can't tell, I'm one of the converts)
I have in the past 12 months though, recommended an iphone for someone surprisingly. A girl who had an iphone 3gs she dropped it and shattered it, she's not tech savvy and already has an iphone with itunes backup, it would be silly to push my 'Android agenda' on the girl when clearly an iphone would suit here.
Flame comment begin: and to be genuinely honest, I see the iphone as the 'dumbest' of the smartphones, it's perfect for people like her because it's like the old Nokia 6110 of smartphones, simple and basic. You can't do much but you can't break much either. (Yes I genuinely believe that and I owned 3 of the things)
* and the guy who got his iphone 18 months ago is envious of everyones Galaxy S2, he's switching to Android at the end of his 24 month contract.
Until there's a way to put a corporation in jail, they should not have the same rights as people.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Free market capitalist is not given any opportunities to run government or to buy government but also he is by definition not ruled by government.
Free market is by definition free of government intervention.
Once there is government intervention, then BY DEFINITION there is NO free market capitalism anymore. So at any moment that government starts regulating businesses, they stop being free market oriented businesses, their obvious response is to compete not by creating a better product at a lower price, but instead by compete by buying power.
You can't handle the truth.
It was all conceived at Xerox PARC decades ago. Read up on Alan Kay's work there. All Apple did is BUILD something like the tablet devices envisioned all those years ago. There are also clear examples to the tablet designs throughout science fiction, particularly the Star Trek PADD devices, so Apple didn't even invent the idea of shiny surfaces or rectangular form factors.
They didn't invent the multi-touch screen; they just used it.
They didn't invent the icon; they used them.
The didn't invent the rectangular form factor.
They didn't invent the touch screen.
Stop trying to claim that using technology the way it was designed is in some way "innovative" or "creative."
Apple is a patent troll.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
I refuse to accept that corporations are people until Texas executes one.
A business within free market competes with other businesses for the customers based on product quality/price.
A business within a non-free market can obviously compete with other businesses based on buying politicians, this is absolutely normal and to be expected (and I would do exactly that, presented an opportunity).
As I always contend - there is only one thing that is reliable, it's human greed. This is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Human greed can be a positive, constructive thing, when it's bound by the free market limitations of what competition is.
Human greed can be totally devastating, if it is allowed to get various powers that have nothing to do with free market, but instead are types of powers that governments have over individuals. That's why we want free market - market free of government intervention, so that the greed would be used for constructive, productive, wealth creating things and not for destructive, anti-competitive, power-buying activities that lead to market distortion and economy destruction.
I love the fact that people greedy - they build things for me and they want me to buy those things and they compete with each other based on quality and price.
I hate politicians and I hate all governments. Governments in my eyes are ALWAYS wrong. There is NO good that comes from government. Nothing good comes from government. Anything and everything that governments do is always bad.
That's because they also are full of people who are greedy, but individuals are captive audience, not customers but are prisoners of that system and they don't have to provide me with anything I would want to buy at prices I would be willing to pay.
Capice?
You can't handle the truth.