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Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports

Posted by Unknown on from the itc-being-sane-you-don't-say dept.

New submitter tukang writes "The US International Trade Commission has rejected an emergency request by Apple to detain some HTC phones (including the One X and EVO 4G) at the border while the agency investigates Apple's claims of patent infringement. In May, HTC's phone shipment was held up at the border and was only allowed to pass after U.S. Customs and Border Protection received assurances that HTC worked around Apple patents, a claim which Apple disputes."

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  1. Re:Only a little evil by Dynetrekk · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't disagree as such; however, I don't see the point in speculating over all sorts of conceivable future scenarios. In my book, the App Store, which requires signing and sandboxing, is a good idea in the same way that signed packages in your average linux package manager is a good idea - as long as there's an option to overriding that by manually downloading a program. If apple kill that option, it's going to hit them hard in the dev community, so I'm not betting on that happening anytime soon. These possible scenarios are certainly not proof of apple's evilness NOW.