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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
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.
Why not? If Apple's claims are quashed, Sprint sells the phones as normal. If not, HTC gets them back and refunds Sprint.
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
So Google wins because Apple crushes Android.
[DOES NOT COMPUTE]
*brain explodes*
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
The problem with the ICS upgrades for these phones is that there are no ICS-compatible binary drivers available for the radios on them, and no hardware vendors (to my knowledge) release the source code for their radio drivers. So until an official ICS build is released by the manufacturer that the drivers can be extracted from, it'll be impossible to get ICS running on them. So it's not just a matter of "Do your ICS upgrade yourself".
I haven't personally done any kernel development, so I may be oversimplifying this, but I've never understood why nobody is able to write a translation layer that sits between newer kernels and older drivers. It seems to me that it would be easy enough to just use the 2.3.x drivers as long as they provide the required functionality for the 4.0.x kernels -- or, if there's unsupported stuff in the older drivers, at least provide degraded functionality that matched what older Android versions were capable of.
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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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sell these to Sprint knowing they would be held up at customs and possibly not be able to sell them in the US?
Actually MILLIONS already entered the country and were sold by AT&T and independent retailers. Only when this phone started taking
serious sales away from Apple did they start complaining.
HTC has long ago removed the offending patent item. (And Apple ultimately lost on all other claims in this particular suit.) A single item in the '694 patent was upheld, namely having a url sent in a text message be treated as a real url and launching the browser when tapped. (My ancient Razr feature phone did that - sans the tapping part).
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So you demand continous free software upgrades from every hardware vendor you buy stuff from?
HTC provides rooting methods for all their phones since the last 2 years. Do your ICS upgrade yourself and stop making off-topic posts
Well, there's the rub. Android is meant to be a decent competitor to iOS (and it is) but the sort of crap foisted on the user base by handset makers who simply abandon the old models without providing an upgrade path to the newer versions of Android only takes away from that.
It's likely the main reason that such a tiny percentage of Android handsets are running ICS (compared to a large proportion of iOS devices being at the most current main release [iOS 5] of that operating system, even if they're not all on the same point release). ICS is touted as being the serious competitor to everything iOS has to offer, and I don't doubt it, but it's hardly making Apple shake when it's just not really seen in the wild in large numbers.
It's not "off topic" to discuss a potential criticism of the Android ecosystem, unless you're simply unable to bear that anyone give it anything other than glowing praise. The abandoning of older handsets to outdated versions of Android (some of them more than 2 major revisions back) is one of the things that Android needs to address. It's not inflammatory (or demanding) to point that out.
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It sucks that HTC and/or T-Mobile aren't providing us with an official ICS ROM, but when you buy a phone you are buying that phone, assuming you will be getting major updates is a sure path to disappointment. This isn't specific to Android, Apple drops iOS hardware from being supported in new versions approximately two years after release. Manufactures have a double incentive not to provide updates for devices in the cost and complexity of supporting old devices and the encouragement to buy new hardware that not providing updates brings. At least with Android you get snazzy community projects because the parts are open.
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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Um......no.
http://www.osnews.com/story/25264/Did_Android_Really_Look_Like_BlackBerry_Before_the_iPhone_
Apple has always been a bully. From "Look and Feel" lawsuits, to creating then killing clone machines, and now patent trolling...
Do I have the timeline wrong here?
Apple begins working on iPhone in 2005
Google buys Android in 2005
Apple announces iPhone in January 2007
May 2007, Blackberry-like Android prototypes are available for internal use (Horowitz says he's been using his for six months). This phone looks like the phone in the first SDK phone emulators.
Apple releases iPhone June 2007
Sometime before November 2007, an obviously unfinished full-screen Android device with very limited touch capabilities is ready for a demonstration. Notice the menus are still key-based like the Blackberry and no on-screen typing is done.
October 2008, the first Android phone, the HTC Dream, is released with Android 1.0. It functions a lot more like an iPhone than anything we've previously seen. Blackberry-like Android phones are nowhere to be seen.