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Will Apple Vs Samsung Verdict Be Overturned?
An anonymous reader writes "While there's much talk of Apple asking for more money from Samsung, there's less talk of the likelihood that the verdict will be overturned completely. Based on voir dire, and the foreman's subsequent statements to the press, it seems he failed to follow the law."
Recent benchmarks? Oh wait, did you forget that you're comparing against a bazaar of active innovation (funny how actual innovation moves fast, isn't it?) that comes out with a new phone once a week? So just wait a few days and Apple will again be lower on the bar in terms of performance again. Of course, it'll take Apple another 2 years to again get themselves back on top, but it will have been worth it to have the best specs for such a short time frame.
I swear they give me mod points to shut me up.
The USPTO is a patent minefield, granting obvious stuff simply because certain Americans think its hard to do.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
Even understanding simple issues like what was actually at issue seem too hard for most.
It wasn't Android that was in dispute but Samsungs own extensions that made it more Apple like which is why Google didn't pile in.
Note: Google/Motorola has now piled in and is asking for a United States wide ban on all Apples products.
http://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2012/er0917kk3.htm
One might see this as a retaliatory strike, who can tell, you reap what you sow.
But you have a to call to question the sanity of a process for instance that in the SCO v IBM case is still rumbling on after 9 years in the USA where as in the rest of the world, Germany for instance ... a simple and commensense approach was merely to say go away SCO and pay £30,000 euros every day you keep spouting bollocks.
How long will the Apple v Samsung go for I wonder?
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120923233451725
It's not. Read the article again, they rigged the tests.
I think Apple has a case here for the specific devices that the look/feel were copied.
There is no such thing as look and feel in law. There is only a creative attempt by Apple to make some new law by suing Microsoft over trashcans etc some years ago, and there is "trade dress" in copyright law... a long shot.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The S3 came out months before the iPhone 5. The S3 has:
Higher resolution screen
Twice as much ram
SD card slot
NFC
Faster CPU
Most powerful battery
Nicer front camera
USB 3.0 support
So Apple can't keep up with Samsung's hardware months later, and Samsung's hardware is cheaper. As for size, the iPhone 5 is slightly thinner and weights just a little less, but the S3 has a much bigger screen and more internal components. And how has Apple innovated with hardware engineering the past few years with the phone?
And I can go on all day about software innovations that blow the iPhone away. I still carry an iPhone 4S for work, and have been an iPhone owner for my personal phone since the 3GS. As someone who literally carries both an S3 and a 4S every day, the S3 is a far superior phone on pretty much every level.
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Yes it has got quad in most markets, the US is the exception. The benchmarks I've seen didn't put the iPhone ahead either.
The S3 is a quad core as standard, not overclocked or any other dumb comment. The only market that it is not a quad care is the US because the people there cannot cope with real phones yet. Stop reading the US propaganda and look at the real world. The iPhone is slow. The S3 does so much more and has applications that are not even on the iPhone. Just because you live in a backwater does not mean that rest of us are still using the old tech that you have to put up with.
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
That the processor can barely drive
Have you used the phone? Even with tons of apps installed and running, it is snappy and fast. The EU and NA versions of the S3 have different processors. The EU is actually a quad core processor, and the NA version is a dual core that is compatible with LTE. The clock speed is higher (1.5 GHz vs 1.0) than the Apple CPU, and it is built on the newer ARM core. The Samsung CPU is based on the A15 ARM core as opposed to the A9 core used by Apple.
Everyone I've demoed the phone to has been blown away by how fast it is, even with about 50 apps running in the background. Once Jelly Bean drops, it will be even faster.
Needed on the memory-hungry Android platform
I've never seen any evidence that Android is more memory-hungry than iOS. I do appreciate that I can directly kill processes in Android and I have zero control over that in iOS.
Compromising design and SD cards are a relic from a time when you wouldn't just stream your media.
What if you don't want to eat up your bandwidth if you have a data cap? What if you don't have a signal? Loading from SD is just faster than streaming. Being able to expand local storage and stream as well is a clear win.
An unproven technology that has security (see recent Galaxy S3 hack through NFC at Pwn2Own) and privacy implications that appears to be focused on mobile payments where we believe Passbook to be a superior solution.
Microsoft is requiring every single Windows 8 phone and tablet to have it. Apple has a number of NFC patents and clearly intends to use it at some point, but has yet to deliver on it. NFC has been around since 2002 and is heavily used in Japan. It isn't new, unproven technology.
Made possible only by making the S3 1.2mm thicker than the iPhone 5.
The S3 is 1 mm thicker, not 1.2. It is 13% thicker, but has 33% more battery. Samsung engineering win there.
With a scratch-prone lens, as opposed to our high scratch-resistant sapphire lens.
Both are listed as scratch-resistant lenses. But the iPhone 5 sapphire lens should be more scratch resistant. That is a minor win for Apple there. It should be noted that the front-facing camera is still nicer on the S3, and Apple just now caught up to features many Android phones have had for over a year (photos during video, panorama mode, etc). And Apple still can't do burst photos like Android.
We believe our connector...
It is inexcusable to change to yet another proprietary connector in 2012 and not support USB 3.0. It will have slower transfer speeds and require proprietary adapters.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
But a fast dual core processor is going to give you better performance hands down in a phone while also giving you better power performance.
Someone tell that to Intel. They seem to be under the impression that if 2 cores are idle, you can shut them off, decrease the TDP, and ramp up the remaining cores.
But who are they to talk, they only design the things.
Fonts are protected, even though the alphabet is clearly in public domain.
Interestingly enough, fonts in America are not covered by copyright, although the computer instructions that describe a font are. It is legal to clone fonts in America of you do it optically, and don't copy any code. This is how, for example, Microsoft could create Book Antiqua, which looks virtually identical to Hermann Zapf's Palatino.
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Fonts are NOT protected by copyright US copyright law (much to the chagrin of font designers ... yet somehow we survive and people still come up with new ones) what is protected is the "software" to display the font can be covered by an end user license agreement (the infamous EULA) and restrict you from using the font package as provided for you in the software on another computer without a license. You can and it is entirely legal to do so in the USA is copy the exact characters (Manually not with a software program) and document with a video that is how you are doing it, then release it into public domain. The font file is protected by copyright because it involves "code" and the judge and jury on the precedent setting cases didn't know what computers were .... and felt that the code that displays the font as true type (or a font manager program) can be copyrighted without any knowledge of the code itself being unique in anyway or worthy of a copyright.
What you are referring to is a Trademark (style) this is not a copyright and a company can protect its logo or colors and can sue if another company tries to use their trademark look they have to prove though that it will cause market confusion or give them impression that it is being endorsed by that company. For example a HS football team can not take the look and colors of an NFL team without permission, however a car dealer can wave flags and display the colors of the local football team without any special permission (or any team for that matter)