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Victory For Apple In "Patent Trial of the Century," To the Tune of $1 Billion
pdabbadabba writes "The jury is in in the epic patent dispute between Apple and Samsung and Apple appears to be coming out on top. The court is still going through the 700+ items on the verdict form, but things seem to be going Apple's way so far. In the case of Apple's various UI patents, the jury is consistently ruling that Samsung not only violated Apple's patent, but did so willfully." Reader bob zee also points to the AP's story, as carried by Breitbart.com, and Charliemopps adds Reuters' take. Reader Samalie contributes a link to a live blog of the (at this writing) ongoing recitation of the verdict. Whether you like it or not, even this verdict won't be the last word.
Breitbart.com? What has the world come to? Or slashdot for that matter? I'd need to deslime my eyeballs if I followed that link. I'd need to clear my browser history so I could forget. Yuck.
Samsung fucking sucks. Before Apple, they were were ripping off Blackberry and Motorola and have jacked their designs almost wholesale.
Even Google warned them they're "too closely copying Apple". Just like the rest of Asian companies, they're only good at copying and ripping off American companies.
Fuck Samsung and they got what they deserved.
DISCLOSURE: I've worked for Moto for 5 years and have left them in 2007 before all this started. However, I'm still bitter about Samsung constantly ripping off our work.
This case was targeted at Samsung because Samsung repeatedly copied Apple.
It's not about Android. Or Linux. Or Open Source.
You are kidding me.
They picked jurors from Silicon Valley?
WTF?
Doesn't matter I suppose because Android is crushing Apple into oblivion world wide. If I have to I will download the OS and add anything left out of the verdict to my phone. Why?
Because....unlike what Apple likes to make you believe, it is _MY_ phone.
I will put whatever I please on it or I won't buy it.
Besides, who wants to buy goods from a company that negotiates how much the factory workers get in protein for lunch in the deal?
I honestly do not understand people. If you see a sweat factory in Malaysia making Nikes products its a big deal.
If you see people hurling themselves to death because they have to make Apple parts with a low protein diet, starvation diet I guess it is O.K.
Numerous issues over the years with nothing being done including factory fires, dormitories that are rat infested and people just taking their own lives to stop working in numerous Apple contracted factories.
Buy Android gear. Samsung manufacturers most of the components in South Korea or Japan, and pay them high enough wages so that they do not off themselves.
Even if you don't believe any of that, don't buy Apple simply because you can't use it for anything else but for what Apple declares or approves. That is not a secure device by the way. If you can't look at the code or the phones software, it isn't safe to use. This may not be a big issue if you do not use your phone online to pay bills or buy software for it. But if you do, it is important because even though you may not care about the source code, engineers like myself and developers do. We will _KNOW_ if Google plants anything on it, or if any of the components have back doors. Already many of the stock ROMS for the Samsung Galaxy SIII remove phone tracking.
You do not have such an option with Apple phone products.
In the end I could go on and on, why not buying Apple is a good thing. Now, it seems to me, as a community we should organize against Apple. Cancel your iPhone plans and get a Android phone because if Apple is rewarded with this sort of crap, all of us are going to have to buy a Apple phone.
Which means I do not get the code, can't look at the code and will be dictated to on what features are "approved" by the fascist corporate welfare state we have in this country.
One of the first things to do, it to defeat the patent by including pinch and zoom in the open source parts of Android, in secret. That is already done.
Secondly, we can attack Apple where they hurt the most and bring to light these negotiations and cruel greedy contracts they make people manufacture their phone parts. Contrary to popular belief, Apple doesn't make a profit because they own the phone or tablet markets. They make a profit, because they have access to slave labor.
Take that away, and Apple as a company will have far less money to spend in its blood coffers to attack the open source software community through these patents.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.