Well, hate is perhaps a strong word: pithy and scorn is rife, though.
"2 Corinthians 6:14 – “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? “"
"I do not consider atheists to be patriots or citizens. This is one nation under God." - George Bush Sr.
Is it censorship when it is voluntary? Are everyone who choose not to buy the latest issue of Penthouse practicing self-censorship? Should they stop, and buy the damn porn rag in the name of free speech? Or are you just wrong?
Ah, yes, how could we have a tech story without mentioning Apple. They have become this sort of reverse Streisand Effect.
Hint: If there are two distinct ways of "using inductive charging in computing and portable devices" there can be two patents. You cannot - or at least should not be able to - patent the general concept of something, just one particular way of doing it.
Patents are not about these "foundations" of yours, but about specific ways of doing something. Otherwise, you would only be able to patent any form of tech once, when in reality you should not be able to patent general concepts at all.
Laptops don't have touch screen and typically run some multi-window OS that prevents focusing on a task. And a laptop's keyboard is stuck to the screen, making portrait-mode operation futile. So, two strikes against your lap-slab. (Woe the day you need a quad-core to edit some text, by the way.)
Perhaps handwriting input will be improved enough to actually work well, at which point the keyboard also loses more of its shine (but not its tendency to accumulate more bacteria than a toilet seat).
You are ignoring that there have been cheaper Android phones on the market for ages, and the iPhone still sells, because price is just one factor. (If it was the only factor, couples would get married using cheap plastic rings, not expensive gold-and-diamond jobs)
And shipping large quantities of product with no certainty of sales is what caused the HP WebOS tablet fire sale. Are Samsung and Google as stupid as HP?
Wheels aren't chiseled out of rock any more, so his particular process is no longer valuable as a patent. But I guess he could patent it if he wanted to...
If Apple's (and for that matter Amazon's) implementation of the idea (which is older than Google's Project Glass if fiction now counts as "prior art") is sufficiently different, it is patentable. You can have ten slide-to-unlock patents at the same time if each of them describes a different way. And AFAIK, "prior art" is a requirement in patent applications, i.e. you should look for things that might count as prior art, and show why it doesn't count.
So what is wrong if Apple does it to others is not wrong if others do it to Apple?
Apple are already paying millions for patents of others, e.g. the patents Nokia sued them for in October 2009, so others have "come down hard" on Apple.
No, genetic patents (that let a certain American company sue hospitals that offer screening of genes linked to breast cancer) is the most stupid idea you have ever heard.
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The Belgian networks probably wanted to verify your account with the O2 servers and they failed to reply.
Filtered, not censored. Censoring would have prevented everyone from accessing the information.
I expect the melting glaciers to re-grow any day now, then, once they hear they are not supposed to melt.
No. So why do so many Apple-haters profess to know the strength of Apple's case?
I was wondering why Apple abandoned handwriting and Microsoft embraces it. This explains that nicely, thanks!
Well, hate is perhaps a strong word: pithy and scorn is rife, though.
"2 Corinthians 6:14 – “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? “"
"I do not consider atheists to be patriots or citizens. This is one nation under God." - George Bush Sr.
Is it censorship when it is voluntary? Are everyone who choose not to buy the latest issue of Penthouse practicing self-censorship? Should they stop, and buy the damn porn rag in the name of free speech? Or are you just wrong?
Actually, I find their pricing and licensing models - often chancing on a yearly basis - to be very innovative... :)
You fail to understand what "this stuff" is, and how patents work.
Ah, yes, how could we have a tech story without mentioning Apple. They have become this sort of reverse Streisand Effect.
Hint: If there are two distinct ways of "using inductive charging in computing and portable devices" there can be two patents. You cannot - or at least should not be able to - patent the general concept of something, just one particular way of doing it.
Patents are not about these "foundations" of yours, but about specific ways of doing something. Otherwise, you would only be able to patent any form of tech once, when in reality you should not be able to patent general concepts at all.
I then swipe to the browser, copy what I need and swipe back again. Not any more effort than the alt-tabbing of Windows.
Laptops don't have touch screen and typically run some multi-window OS that prevents focusing on a task. And a laptop's keyboard is stuck to the screen, making portrait-mode operation futile. So, two strikes against your lap-slab. (Woe the day you need a quad-core to edit some text, by the way.)
Perhaps handwriting input will be improved enough to actually work well, at which point the keyboard also loses more of its shine (but not its tendency to accumulate more bacteria than a toilet seat).
Noone prevents you from selling an open platform device, as long as you find a market for it willing to buy.
I am sure you will have more success than either the OpenMoko phones or Gamepark's GP32/GP2X did.
It's not that much effort to pull out a lightweight Bluetooth keyboard when I want to type on the tablet.
And "real work" is what the people who built the office building did, not someone sitting in it, filling out a report nobody will read.
You are ignoring that there have been cheaper Android phones on the market for ages, and the iPhone still sells, because price is just one factor. (If it was the only factor, couples would get married using cheap plastic rings, not expensive gold-and-diamond jobs)
And shipping large quantities of product with no certainty of sales is what caused the HP WebOS tablet fire sale. Are Samsung and Google as stupid as HP?
Wheels aren't chiseled out of rock any more, so his particular process is no longer valuable as a patent. But I guess he could patent it if he wanted to...
If Apple's (and for that matter Amazon's) implementation of the idea (which is older than Google's Project Glass if fiction now counts as "prior art") is sufficiently different, it is patentable. You can have ten slide-to-unlock patents at the same time if each of them describes a different way. And AFAIK, "prior art" is a requirement in patent applications, i.e. you should look for things that might count as prior art, and show why it doesn't count.
So what is wrong if Apple does it to others is not wrong if others do it to Apple?
Apple are already paying millions for patents of others, e.g. the patents Nokia sued them for in October 2009, so others have "come down hard" on Apple.
It seems to be one of the patents they got with the SRI (of Siri fame) acquisition.
So why aren't Samsung using that as argument against the patent?
No, genetic patents (that let a certain American company sue hospitals that offer screening of genes linked to breast cancer) is the most stupid idea you have ever heard.
Stop redefining patent troll to fit Apple. If you no longer can assign it to non-practicing entities it just becomes a swear word, devoid of meaning.
... so when Nokia sued Apple in 2009 the iPhone was superior to everything Nokia had? When Motorola... nah.
The point is: Patents are weapons. Not using them is like not using drones against the Taliban just because the Taliban don't have drones too.
The RDF never existed, but it was a nice decoy so people would not start looking for the real reasons why Apple succeeded.
Now go troll BMW forums that they don't need to pay 3 times (a cheap Fiat) to get a stable car.