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Push Email Suspended On iPhones In Germany
New submitter elashish14 tips this news, snipped from Ars Technica: "Apple has been forced to disable push e-mail delivery for iCloud and MobileMe users in Germany this week. The move is thanks to a recent injunction awarded to Motorola as part of the ongoing patent dispute between the two smartphone makers.... The patent at issue relates to older pager designs, but Motorola was able to convince a German court that it applied to Apple's implementation of push e-mail that syncs across devices via iCloud. The injunction went into effect on Thursday of this week, requiring Apple to disable push e-mail syncing in Germany."
Once the German (parliament?) sees how software patents can have a direct impact on their lives they'll scrap the lot of them. That, or blame der juden...is Germany still doing that bit?
Apple are just new-boy idiots. Apple is claiming against Samsung for round corners, similar size, and a slide lock - that's the degree of apple innovation!
I can at least respect Samsung's patent somewhat as it actually does something and they might have actually been the first ones to do whatever they patented.
When apple lose more than they gained through this, we'll maybe start to see sense.
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It's karma whoring. Post anti-Apple crap and you're bound to be modded +5 regardless of facts. To make sure your karma is really maxed out after Excellent, disable the Karma Bonus Modifier before posting, so that people will mod you +4 instead of +3.