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HTC One X Phone Held by Customs Due to ITC Ruling
zacharye writes, quoting BGR: "The launch of Sprint's flagship EVO 4G LTE has been delayed indefinitely and supply of AT&T's flagship HTC One X will be constrained as a result of ongoing patent disputes between HTC and Apple. HTC confirmed in a statement emailed to BGR on Tuesday evening that shipments of its new EVO 4G LTE and One X smartphones have been held up by United States Customs as part of an International Trade Commission investigation. Before the phones can clear Customs, the ITC will need to determine that HTC's new handsets are in compliance with an earlier ruling..."
What's Motorola got to do with this? This whole issue is because Apple is trying to screw HTC into the ground over patents.
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
I could even mistake the HTC logo at the top, and the bottom row of hardware buttons for an early ipad. Totally.
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I explained it in the post.. This is actually Google using Apple as a proxy company to sue and destroy other Android manufacturers.
That's quite the imagination you have there. It's almost as creative as all your sock puppet user names.
So Google's using their biggest rival in the market to kill a company that distributes phones with a Google-sourced OS.
That's like removing the wings from a plane to make it fly better.
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
I want the same drugs you are taking, dude. Just not that much :-)
>>>Why anyone still uses Android, I don't know - maybe it would be good time to switch to proper Linux-based mobile OS like MeeGo.
Do they sell them on my VirginMobile provider?
>>>Or they could go with Windows Phone 7 :-o
I'd rather use open-source Android.
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
sell these to Sprint knowing they would be held up at customs and possibly not be able to sell them in the US?
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Fuck off, bonch.
I'm disappointed... I came here expecting to read more of this "parody"... You really were trying to suggest Google's behind it though weren't you. Ugh.
Was able to order the Evo yesterday, but doubt I'll get it now. I'll never get it EVER NEVER EVER NEVER NEVER EVER H8888 APPLE!!!! Alright, I'm mostly kidding, but I did want my fucking phone.
Please do not think that a massive intake of cash by the lawyers in this case doesnt lead to quite a bit of cocaine purchasing power. Thats right kids, a dollar spent on apple products buys at least 10 cents of cocaine.
*wishes for edit button*
Just want to clarify, I'm not on whatever AngryOldGuy is on. The only drug I need is life. That, and videogames.
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
Windows Phone 7's not bad actually, though I understand why most /.ers are staying away from it ;)
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
I explained it in the post.. This is actually Google using Apple as a proxy company to sue and destroy other Android manufacturers.
That's quite the imagination you have there. It's almost as creative as all your sock puppet user names.
Especially considering the apple vs HTC lawsuit predates the Google acquisition of Motorola mobility by months/years...
So Google wins because Apple crushes Android.
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*brain explodes*
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
WHAT IN HELL YOU BEEN SMOKING?
Common, Google haters, you can do best!
I would boycott Apple, but they are preventing us from buying Android phones.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Having been picked on at the start, Apple has become one of the biggest bullies on the block. It's as if the Ugly Duckling rather than go swanning (heh) around saying "Look how pretty I am" decided "Right, now I'm 4x the size of those bastards who picked on me. Time for some payback" and went on a revenge spree.
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Step 1: Create mediocre, over-priced smart phone to leverage absurdly loyal fan-base, using components from popular MP3 player.
Step 2: Claim to have invented every aspect of smart phone technology, and sue into oblivion anyone who dares to threaten your market share by creating superior products.
Step 3: Profit.
What the hell are you babbling about? You old coot...
Having been picked on at the start, Apple has become one of the biggest bullies on the block. It's as if the Ugly Duckling rather than go swanning (heh) around saying "Look how pretty I am" decided "Right, now I'm 4x the size of those bastards who picked on me. Time for some payback" and went on a revenge spree.
This is one of those very rare times were I want to see some hacker group take Apple down. Certainly some "Anonymous" guy was looking forward to his new OneX.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
It's been fun, but I'm afraid I'm all out of troll food :)
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
Can't find any info yet on the patent in question, but Apple had won a patent ruling back in December. HTC was suppose to resolve it to avoid an import ban. Here are the details.
If this is still the issue, thank god that the courts are there to protect inventors of such important magnitude. It's horrible to think that someone who could come up with the idea of parsing a phone number would not be adequately compensated. I can't imagine how much R&D Apple has spent in the process. An import ban is the only appropriate resolution.
BTW, in this legal case, Apple had sued for 10 separate patents. Out of the 10, this is the only one that the courts upheld. I can't imagine what the other 9 were like.
Well that's pretty much total bullshit. Google wins when it gets its services running on as many handsets as possible regardless of who manufactures them. They make money from monetizing users in terms of the data they gather and increasingly from selling apps and other content.
Which hand are they holding it in. It really does matter.
Hey HTC, maybe you can upgrade the last glut of ICS-capable phones to ICS before you worry about selling your latest and greatest to us? I thought it was a no-brainer that my fully-capable myTouch 4G slide would be upgraded to ICS when I bought the phone 8 months ago. My next phone will not be an HTC one, let alone a One X.
So you're posting FROM THE FUTURE?
Interesting. You're saying Google will buy Motorola Mobility (not a bad prediction, given the wheels are in motion and they've declared their intent to), then SEND SERGEY BRIN back to THE YEAR 2011, whereupon he'll meet a dying Steve Jobs and say "Help us out here Jobsie ol' pall, I know you don't like us much, but if you could initiate a lawsuit against HTC, that'd help us bunches. Thank you!"
Now, some obvious questions:
1. What are you smoking?
2. The time travel thing: how does that work then?
3. Why would Jobs agree to help? He hates Google, IIRC.
4. Is James Cameron right? Will Sergey Brin need to steal clothes from someone after travelling back through time? Also: is there any danger of killer robots from the future coming through the same time portal with him?
5. If Google wants to hurt non-Motorola Mobility companies, wouldn't there be easier options, like, say, pulling their licenses to distribute Google Play?
6. I'm sorry, I just have to ask: Is it a wormhole thing? If so, how was it made? Did Google predict they may need this thing and send one end of a wormhole around the galaxy at a speed close to the speed of light, and use time dilation to create a time delta between the two ends, or is there something else they did?
7. Couldn't Google have gone back further in time and simply not licensed Android to HTC?
8. Is there any danger of a paradox being introduced? Is the multiverse theory right, or did Google already know that Steve Jobs would agree to this?
9. What was offered to Jobs? Presumably not a cure for his cancer, but there must have been something.
Thanks muchly,
Squiggie.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
They can't do this so easy though as I'm sure that Samsung, Motorola, HTC, and Google combined have more patents than Apple. Wait until they all respond in kind. Then no one wins but the lawyers. It's MADD. Is Apple nuts?
on the strength of their products. Well played Apple, well played.
I'll give you credit for coming up with one of the more amusing conspiracy theories I've heard recently.
Check out my world simulator thingy.
Apple already destroyed the competition by having a superior product. Symbian, Microsoft and Blackberry phones began a steep decline after the iPhone was introduced, and before any lawsuits. In all markets where there is no legal restriction to selling competing tablets, the iPad still rules.
Did I get the title right?
If Apple won purely on quality, and consumer demand, then Apple would need all the patent scams.
"It's clear that Apple is an evil company, bent on destroying its competition through incessant lawsuits."
Do you know of any publicly held companies that aren't even and bent on destroying their competition using all means available including but limited to incessant lawsuits?
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
Apple zealots everywhere are cheering. Amazing how much other companies allow Apple to get away with.
I like my Macbook but I like my HTC Desire S and my Gentoo box more. Don't make me choose Apple.
If you were unlucky enough to put in a pre order for the Evo with Sprint, there's no way to get a refund. You're just stuck, with your money tied up, waiting for patent disputes that could take forever.
I think Zork had this one handled best:
Kill troll with sword.
And giving Google money just supports massive privacy invasions across the 'net. You have your evil, and I have mine.
BTW, Apple didn't start this charade of lawsuits, it started with Nokia, and Apple is a defendant in more Lawsuits than it is a plaintiff. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
10 cents?!? Is that all?
Worst. Lawyer. Ever.
Do you know of any publicly held companies that aren't even and bent on destroying their competition using all means available including but limited to incessant lawsuits?
You can't be serious.
The vast majority of publicly held companies go about their business without trying to kill off the competition.
Doing so is a costly distraction, which seldom ever succeeds. Its far more often found that big companies form
trade associations and collude than go after each other with daggers. Having competition is very useful.
Not having competition simply invites regulation. That's why MacDonalds gets along with Burger King,
AT&T and Verizon share tower space, Union Pacific and Burlington Pacific and Santa Fe share tracks, Bayer
cross licenses with Pfizer.
Your assumption that all publicly traded companies are in a death struggle suggests a hopelessly paranoid
view of corporations that seems to be in vogue today.
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I am perfectly serious.
Companies make deals with companies all the time, so what. Take Apple (sic) and Samsung for instance. Samsung is a primary vendor of product to Apple and yet they have lawsuits going back and forth constantly.
Companies of all sizes uses lawsuits to delay or stop their competitors all the time. Larger companies with deeper pockets will often sue individuals or smaller companies with smaller pockets with annoying and perhaps not winnable lawsuits to scare them into line.
Corporations have one goal and only one. To make money. They just don't care about anything else because at the end of the day all their investors look at is how much profit they make.
Show me a single instance of a publicly held corporation giving all its profits away and I'll agree that I have a hopelessly paranoid view of corporations.
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
Wait, wait wait...moving goalpost sighted.
Giving all money away? Where did that come from? How is that possibly germane?
Corporations have far more than one goal in mind, and making money is at bes number two or three on the list.
If ALL that mattered was making money, Pfizer would stop wasting money making Viagra and start building smartphones or
opening Casinos in Vegas.
BNSF does not try to run UP or CN out of business.
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I'd stay away from it because it has "Microsoft" and "Windows" in the name. I simply don't like the Windows Way. I don't want an OS or program to be friendly, I want it to be obediant. I want it to do what I want it to do and I want it to do it like I want, not how some developer wants. I don't want shiny if it means less workable.
Too bad they don't put the people who did Excel on their Windows team, Excel is actually the best spreadsheet out there.
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Ugg, I know you mean well and all but I never would have had to have seen that drivel if you hadn't responded :(
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Only reason this is happening is because apple is a petty and jealous company that will do everything they can to cheat, lie, extort and bullie any and all competition into bankruptcy.
Apple knows that android based devices are cheaper, do the exact same thing their products do and are more open ended to let customers do more things on their devices. And they are scared of competition. So instead of improving their prices, improving their quality and letting the paying customer have more freedom with their device they instead try to bully android every chance they can.
There isnt a apple device that doesnt have a cheaper, better and more user friendly version. Most of them are based on android.
I do not and will not support apple. The only reason they are even in business is because they hit a home run with marketing and have managed to turn an entire generation into apple zealots who buy the products just because it has a apple logo on it.
Same reason I don't use iOS devices... the lockdown is a bit much for my tastes... Though WinPhone is really nice (have done some dev work with/for it).
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so many words...
Apple has always been a bully. From "Look and Feel" lawsuits, to creating then killing clone machines, and now patent trolling...
Looks like I got my HTC One X just in time... these patent lawsuits (in some cases) are getting ridiculous...
What's Motorola got to do with this? This whole issue is because Apple is trying to screw HTC into the ground over patents.
This is exactly what you expect from the tossers@apple they have had their asses welliee good and hard caught out lying so now they will try and stop someone that is not lying just cus they think they can like i say tossers@apple.com
I just realised my VoIP system is infringing on this patent too, you know parsing the data it is getting and then redirecting calls appropriately based on the structure of the number it receives.
Actually Apple should call AT&T. I believe they've been doing something similar since the second world war. That's a lot of royalties to collect. Bonus points for getting AT&T banned in America.
Oh what a surprise, we both got Troll mods. I love how rabid Apple fanbois get when they believe their darling is under attack. It's such a beautiful mirror of Apple's extremely agressive defensiveness - no dissent can be permitted under any circumstances.
And trust me, if I was trolling you would know about it.
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Giving away all profits would show some selflessness, would indicate something other than a concern for the bottom line. It's something that even rich humans do on occasion but it is not something that is even imaginable for a corporation.
Consider what happens to company executives who don't make maximum profit for their company. They're fired.
Making money is always the primary concern if not the only real concern. Pfizer's core business is drugs of course they're not going to branch out into cell phones or casinos. I don't see what this has to do with Pfizer caring about anything other than money anyway.
I'm sitting across from a guy who works for a major American company. He has to get VP authorization for travel expenses. Waste of time for the VP (or admin as likely) aside, he tried to get travel auth to fly from Torino, Italy where he lives to Amsterdam where we are working this week and was told to drive 2 hours each way to Milano because the flight was 30 euros cheaper.
Every company tries to take away market share from their competitors and at the end of the day they exist only for one reason (from their own perspective) - to 'increase shareholder value' - just another way of saying 'make money'.
You have said absolutely nothing to indicate otherwise.
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
I'm sure that Samsung, Motorola, HTC, and Google combined have more patents than Apple.
Actually...
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
I like you data, and I know this off subject but since FaceBook is valued so highly, you would think they would have a few more patents. They would have to earn $2 or $3 trillion in the next few years to even match the ROI of Google let alone Microsoft or Apple. "Big Bad" Microsoft comes to mind. If you would have invested in just a few shares in 1986 your increase would have been somewhere around 36,000% give or take 2,000% depending upon where you get you figures from. Apple may be overvalued because they are big but even so they have managed a 50% ROI for some time. So I wouldn't bet for Apple but I sure wouldn't bet against them either.