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Judge Recommends Import Ban On iPhones After Latest Apple Vs. Qualcomm Verdict (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The latest chapter in the ongoing and messy Apple versus Qualcomm legal battle might mean a U.S. import ban on some iPhone models. A U.S. trade judge has found Apple guilty of infringing on two Qualcomm patents related to power management and data download speeds. As a result, the judge -- International Trade Commission Judge MaryJoan McNamara -- says some iPhone models containing competing Intel modems might be blocked from shipping from China, where they're manufactured, to the U.S. The judgment is still pending review by the ITC. Qualcomm is expecting another ruling in a second case it brought to the ITC later today that is not expected to include an import ban on iPhones. Regardless, this ruling is another blow to Apple, which, earlier this month, was found to have infringed on three separate Qualcomm patents in one of many other legal skirmishes playing out between the two companies. Next month the two companies will square off in court to discuss Qualcomm's alleged anti-competitive licensing strategies and the patent royalties it claims Apple owes for disputing the terms of their long-standing relationship.
It's hard to believe one person could completely shut down a company like this. I'm hoping the judge isn't some 75 year old who doesn't even know how to turn on a computer.
As much as I admit there is a little shadenfreude in huge companies fighting like this ... pretty sure at the end of the day it's the consumers who will get screwed on this one.
Either they'll have to pay extra to cover licensing fees, court fees, or both.
I've been trying to figure out which models are affected, but so far haven't found it in any of the reporting. Recent bans over Qualcomm's patents have only affected older (usually outdated) models, or else have only affected models that hadn't yet received the latest software updates. I'm wondering whether this is more of the same or whether this will actually have an effect on current flagship models running the latest version of iOS.
Woo Hoo!
It's about time Apple got a real taste of being on the wrong end of a patent infringement lawsuit.
Clearly Apple must feel that they didn't infringe. But then so did all those Apple was suing over patents not very many years ago. Pinch to zoom? Bouncy scrolling? And wanting to get 100% of the device retail cost as damages? Seriously?
IMO this couldn't happen to a better target than Apple.
FYI . . . long ago I was a card carrying Apple fanboy and longtime developer back in the Classic Mac days. Even after moving from Mac to Linux when OSX came out, I still had fond memories of Apple -- until it started all the patent lawsuits.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Why it will never happen and apple will continue to take most of the profits. Android is a loss leader. But very mature of the android crowd to use homophobic slurs.
If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander. https://www.reuters.com/articl...
Isn't this a win for consumers, or did I misremember the old Qualcomm antenna woes? Or old news?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/364...
https://www.cnet.com/videos/th...
Part of the cnet conversation:
"Now a recent report from Bloomberg claimed Apple might be throttling Verizon's LTE performance with a Qualcomm modem in order to make it perform similarly to the Intel chip that's in other phones. The Qualcomm hardware is theoretically capable of a maximum 600 megabits per second for download speeds. Compared to the Intel modem that's topped out at 450 megabytes per second."
Apple fanboys always crow about how much profit Apple makes from its gullible customers, that huge profit margin comes from selling cheaply made phones to morons and slapping a massive mark-up on them. Doubly braindead Apple consumers go around telling people how awesome it is!
Just look at how much they cheered when Apple announced that its new iPhone would be much more expensive than its previous models and that it was the best iPhone they have ever made (like they're going to say "here's the new iphone, it's not as good as the last one", shows how dumb they know the people they are targeting are) and that it allows you to put your face on an animated piece of cartoon shit! Surely there was a conversation within Apple with execs laughing and somebody piping up to say "come on guys, we can't put their faces on a piece of shit and call it a feature, surely they aren't that dumb"...that person was obviously fired when the Apple customer base proved how wrong he was.
The bans will be for specific models that have been found to be infringing.
These cases take so long to complete that new models are out and the ones being banned aren't being shipped anymore.
Fuck apple
The joke used to be that Apple's fanbase was so unthinkingly loyal that if Apple put their logo on a piece of shit those people would line up around the block for days to buy it. They kinda one-upped that joke by selling a product that puts those idiots' faces on a piece of shit and pricing it upwards of $1000.
Kinda feels like the next conversation was how to show these people how much money they were spending on Apple crap so they created a credit card knowing that the Apple fanboys will use it exclusively and they can surface, on an iPhone, exactly how much money these people are hurling into Apples coffers. Knowing their fanbase they'll wear it like a badge of honour, probably wanting a "share" button so they can airdrop their Apple expenditure and the next fanboy dick-measuring contest.
But very mature of the android crowd to use homophobic slurs.
Are gay Android users homophobic??
Yes; you're a fucking moron.
If apple fails, then all the other companies that make cell phones and computers come in and purchase their assets at bankruptcy auctions. Apple then goes away and everyone forgets about Apple for the next latest and greatest rip off illusion company. This is what will happen to Sears when it finally dies, the cockroach that company is.
That's how capitalism works for companies.
Not Banks though. Banks are too big to fail. Banks own the governments, armies, science, academia, everything.
Banks own you. You are a security that is traded, your birth certificate that is.
Apple is merely a company that a lot of brainwashed people buy the lowest quality most expensive phones from, that's it. Banks love Apple.
Now I hear Apple is trying to be a bank. Through Goldman Sachs. Get it now? Apple can't be a bank without Goldman. It's an ancient Babylonian, Egyptian money system pal. get with the program.
Eventually the Apple brand will be something that's slapped on all sorts of third rate products. Packard-Bell was an electronics company with a good reputation in the past. The brand was valuable with older people who remembered it from their youth. Polaroid and RCA are other 'brands' that are in the recycle phase and get slapped on lower-end electronic gadgets at this point in their deterioration. Apple has a valuable brand and they're working hard to come up with ways to expand that brand. Eventually it flares out though. Is there a shitty Apple coffee maker in your grandchildren's future? Probably.
Are gay Android users homophobic?
No, they're poor.
Apple is not going into bankerupcy any time soon lol. Even if apple completely shut its operations but kept everyone on the payroll and kept paying its rent it could survive for decades simply on cash in hand. It's a company with astronomical wealth
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
Always a pleasure when Apple gets whacked by patents. Only because of the round corners and all that swaggering.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
AppleFaggots are sad.
Cry AppleFaggot, Cry!
That's exactly the kind of erudite debate that keeps me coming back to Slashdot.
(rolls eyes)