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Apple's Beef With Nokia Gets Intense, All Withings Products Pulled From Online Store (recode.net)
In less than a week after Nokia sued Apple for patent infringement in courts around the world, saying that Apple has refused to license its patents, Apple has pulled all Withings products from its stores. Earlier this year, Nokia bought Withings, which makes Wi-Fi scales and other digital health and fitness gear.
Wanna bet on who wins this particular game of Mutually Assured Destruction?
Can't you see how courageous Apple is to do this? *cough*
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
But at least Nokia is not chicken.
slashdot: A failed experiment.
And if this isn't abuse of Apples position, demonstrating exactly why Apples walled garden should be illegal, what is?
And no, I don't care that Apple doesnt have "a monopoly", this is anti-competitive and Apple shouldn't be allowed to do it
All the Withings products have been replaced by Withoutings.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I have a Withings scale and use the Withings Health Mate iOS app to control it. I just checked and Health Mate is still available in the iOS App Store. They may have pulled the scale or other "physical" products out of the Apple Store (online and/or brick and mortar) but do not appear to have done anything with the iOS App Store.
Michael J.
Root, God, what is difference?
As intense as one carnivore taking a bite out of another carnivore. It is just what they do, so no big deal really unless you enjoy watching one animal fighting with another. It is a bit monotonous IMHO, lots of noise, teeth and claws basically. Still it sells news outlets pontificating on the likely outcome, will the bear eat the lion or vice versa?
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
I have a Withings scale and it's not that great. It's nice that it uploads the data but it isn't that accurate. I had an old, basic digital scale that only measured weight and it was far more consistent than the Withings.
Are you trying to be smug by association?
lucm, indeed.
Nobody can save Apple. They have 16,000 software engineers and they keep releasing the same 3-4 buggy products with little or no innovation. What are all those people doing all day? Moving buttons around in iTunes? It's like a DMV of epic proportions. Entitlement, bureaucracy and total lack of accountability.
lucm, indeed.
Some carriers and some phone manufacturers have their own app stores. I don't think any consumers really want to use them though. Steam has branched out to beyond games as well.
they rely entirely on their size to avoid paying patents that they definitely owe to companies that do REAL innovation.
IBM has converted way more American jobs into offshore ones than Apple has.
First, that comparison makes no sense because Apple doesn't have a professional service division, which is the one that for the most part got outsourced at IBM. Also Apple could hardly convert American jobs into offshore ones since the bulk of their operations is *already* handled by Chinese cheap labor.
But that's besides the point. IBM basically invented professional services and IT outsourcing; they did that at a time when it was economically viable, and now that offshore firms are eating away at this market they're moving on. From a strategic perspective it makes sense; skilled labor is dirt cheap and it's now the norm, not the exception, for a large company to use offshore IT workers via one of the big European slave runners (E&Y, Deloitte, PwC, Cap Gemini, etc). Profit margin is gone, it's now a volume game and that's usually the moment IBM walks away from a business segment.
IBM is not cool and not sexy but they're a sound business that consistently adapts to new market conditions. I'd rather drink a tall glass of bleach than work for them, but they're definitely a blue chip stock. Just in 2016 for ytd return they're over 20%, while Apple (10%) is below S&P 500 (13%).
lucm, indeed.
Tim Cook seems to believe he is the smartest guy around - his performance indicates otherwise.
While his performance is sub-par his bank account is quite healthy. This disconnect is quite common for CEOs sadly.
They should have spun off a patent troll division and assigned their rights.
You cannot sue large companies for patent infringement while you are a practicing entity that has a Technology product or service
THE OTHER COMPANIES WILL RETALLIATE AGAINST YOU.
Either by filing their own Patent lawsuits Or by interfering with your marketing or your business.........
OH yeah, And if you or a company you own partners with them to sell your products, then it's really dumb to sue them.
Nobody can save Apple. They have 16,000 software engineers and they keep releasing the same 3-4 buggy products with little or no innovation. What are all those people doing all day? Moving buttons around in iTunes? It's like a DMV of epic proportions. Entitlement, bureaucracy and total lack of accountability.
You are free not to purchase their products. I'm sure they will survive.
This is typical behaviour of a crybaby which Apple is.. If you use the patents, pay for it, Apple sue's other companies for using it and expects them to pay, so why not do it yourself..
Name me one that works on the iPhone.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Your username is the equivalent of a teenage girl putting posters of a boys band on her wall, except you're stuck with it
lucm, indeed.
Your username is the equivalent of a teenage girl putting posters of a boys band on her wall, except you're stuck with it
My, what a fact-filled and erudite post. I am so enlightened. Do you have a newsletter I might subscribe to?
actually his username is a pretty funny steve jobs joke that you're too stupid to understand. to make the random comparison you made... you have a lack of original content so you came up with or heard the bland joke about the posters and then tried looking for a post where it would remotely fit. guess what - it didn't. the rest of us see something and make a funny joke on the spot and on topic.
your username on the other hand I'm guessing is a joke that no one bothers to understand, since you're just an annoying little pest here who does not have anything interesting or funny to say. yet you keep trying and trying for some reason, just lke a real boy. sorry bud, you're much too ugly to be a real boy. that's why you're not funny - you don't have a chance to practice social things.
Do you feel better now that you took that load off your chest? I tried to read it all but I lost you when you started talking about posters, I have no idea who you are talking about, but don't let that stop you. If you're posting confused rants here it means you're reading Slashdot and this is a lot better than doing something harmful like drugs or kiddie porn. Keep it up, pal!
lucm, indeed.