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Motorola Seeks Ban On Macs, iPads, and iPhones
bonch writes "Google-owned Motorola is asking the International Trade Commission to ban every Apple device that uses iMessage, based on a patent issued in 2006 for 'a system for providing continuity between messaging clients.' Motorola also claims that banning Macs and iPhones won't have an impact on U.S. consumers. They say, 'With so many participants in the highly competitive Wireless communication, portable music, and computer market, it is unlikely that consumers would experience much of an impact if the requested exclusion orders were obtained.' The ITC has yet to make a decision."
Even if you believed the patent was valid, then banning Macs? Instead of telling them to delete Messages?
I think the Don't Be Evil is long gone, lost in parts from the Google Plus push, the cozying up to carriers where Apple dared to push back.
How is this different? If the courts rule that iMessage does actually violate this patent... then wouldn't all of those devices you listed, in fact, violate it?
Apple's "Patent" was actually a design patent, all about the whole look and feel. Apple only sued one company over it. And yet the Apple suit spawned countless discussions about the evils of software patents in general and Apple's use of them to destroy the whole market.
Well here you go. The Motorola patent is the classic "evil" software patent that is totally obvious, would seem to have a ton of prior art, and just generally be a bad patent. And yet the Apple Haters cannot help but herald the use of this stinker as the coming of salvation!
Come on, bad software patents are a huge industry problem, and that problem is not helped when technical users champion the destructive use of a bad one like this by ANY company.
Just for the record I didn't support Apple's lawsuit either, but at least it had a lot more merit than this...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Looking at the history of the companies, can you present a alternative that would allow Google to compete against Apple when Apple keeps stifling innovation through abusing the patent system?
Copying what Apple does is not innovation.
Absolutely my point. Hitler's supporters, like Google supporters saw their acts of aggression as acts of defense.
(It's been ages since we're exercised the Godwin meme. :)