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Apple Seeks To Block 8 Samsung Products After Court Win
angry tapir writes "Apple has asked a U.S. court to block sales of eight Samsung Electronics products, following the iPhone maker's victory in a patent lawsuit against Samsung. In a filing to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Apple asked for preliminary injunctions against seven smartphones carrying its Galaxy brand, plus the Droid Charge. It based the requests on a jury's ruling on Friday that Samsung had infringed several Apple patents. Apple said it wants the preliminary injunction pending a final injunction."
Fuck off all of you. If you owned Apple, the company, you'd do the same thing. If you'd spent years developing the hardware and software to run perfectly together, only to see some company come in and rip you off, you'd be pissed to. As a software developer myself I have had this happen to myself. I just don't have Apple's deep pockets. I say kudos to Apple for having the balls to fight for what they believe is right.
If a fucking bounce effect costs billions to use, how fucking much do you think a fucking complete mobile phone would cost?
Well Apple pays Nokia I think 8 Euros per phone for their patents. Motorola is arguing they are owed 2.5% (which on a $700 phone is a lot of money). So the answer is quite a bit.
Its not like Apple waddled into a vacuum and suddenly made a phone nobody had ever done before with never unheard of components.
Actually that's pretty much exactly what happened. The combination of:
a) web based interface
b) animation based UI interactions
c) capacitive touchscreen alone
was a collection of components that had never been used together before. That's how Apple ended up inventing so many of the technologies that went into Android. That's what's causing the trouble.
Your bounce effect is important because of the focus on the web. A bounce is an animation. You need the animation because you are using a touchscreen and not a slider to advance down the webpage so the operator likes feedback.
Right so you wont recommend a good machine that works, simply because they defended their company in court on valid patents in a case that exposed that Samsung willingly violated licenses they were first warned (by both Apple AND GOOGLE) about and then willfully ignored a licensing agreement that would have prevented a lawsuit at the cost of 20-30 a phone depending on how much it violated Apples patents. Im all for going after them on patents that shouldn't be patents, but Samsung DIDNT DO THAT or at least their lawyers didnt think to do that till it was much to late to submit evidence for them, and they got slammed hard on things that were patents that WERE UNIQUE AND VALID.
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"So Samsung "copied" Apple's use of corners and low profile SMCs to create thinner devices? " No they didnt JUST copy that. Go read the fucking trial transcripts and stop posting on Slashdot until you get a clue you dumb ass teenager.
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> Right so you wont recommend a good machine that works,
I won't recommend an overpriced machine that is limited by a fascist approach to design. It doesn't matter if you're talking about PCs, tablets, or phones. Apple's approach is problematic if you are the least bit creative. Meanwhile, it's reputed advantages are grossly overstated.
The patents in question were only valid in a sort of "we can sell your sister because slavery is legal" kind of approach to the law.
One word. FANBOY. You are one.
Show me one laptop on the market that matches the performance, battery life "AND" resolution of the top of the line Retina Macbook Pro for any price. I'm waiting.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Apple is only creating ill-will among Google employees and the proprietors of mobile phone stores. Really, all told, there aren't that many put together.
If you leave the geek hive, go outside, and talk to people on the street, you'll see that most everybody actually supports Apple's attempt to stop Samsung's blatant copying. They will applaud this move as something that will help a US company over some extremely corrupt Korean conglomerate. And, they will continue to buy Apple products simply because anybody can see that they are better than the flimsy shit Samsung pumps out.
Samsung's pretty good at applying lipstick to pigs, but only Apple can make them fly.
"So why those phones did not sell?"
Because they are stupid. They aren't very easy to use, they are thick in the pocket, and they have very little to offer except as a phone.
Here's the problem that other phones have: they stink. Even when they go flat-out and copy every little nuance of the iPhone, they still can't get it right.
Apple spent years and years studying phones that already existed, determining why they suck, figuring out that you can't simply keep slapping more and more features on them without also increasing the suckage (their Sony-Ericsson iTunes phone was perhaps the height of this) and finally going to the drawing board with a clean slate and designing a new UI from the ground up. They spent the better part of a decade on this project, and lord knows how much money and man-power before releasing this product.
Then a torpedo board member from Google (the world experts at copying a product and releasing a half-finished clone) comes in, steals the design, brings it to his little shop in Mountain View, California, and has a bunch of guys who designed the horrific piece of garbage that the pre-iPhone clone Android was reverse engineer the UI to the best of their ability - which was clearly none too spectacular.
Apple releases the iPhone, and suddenly everybody else's hapless products look like aborted fetuses left out in the sun by comparison. And this was in comparison to the original iPhone, which was extremely light on features and had only a fraction of the functionality of the modern successors. Then Apple continues to improve the product markedly with each release, until it reached a level of refinement such that any major additions would actually start to be a bad thing.
Where's Samsung in all of this? Well, they are carrying the Google banner, dressed in full armor that's painted with every iOS icon! They're Google's Major General, leading the charge to get the massive suck-pile of fail called Android into every hand too cheap or dumb to actually purchase the superior product. They're whispering into the ear of the mobile phone carriers and stores, weaving tales of how much more money they can make because they can mark up the Samsung phones 300% and still come in cheaper than the iPhone. Then we get people like you who think that just because Apple spent a shitload of time, effort, and money to come up with what was a TOTALLY UNIQUE product at the time of its introduction - even their most rabid competitors admitted that fact - that everybody should be allowed to copy them because clearly they did it the right way!
Fuck that. I hope Apple blocks every Samsung product that even remotely resembles a smartphone or tablet. Samsung is a blight on the phone market, and they clearly don't have a single person with an imagination in that whole corporation.