I don't think anyone will diagree that the Dynabook was the first Tablet, but it was produced by Kay while at Xerox not Apple. Kay worked for Apple for a little more than 10 years...during that time Jobs was not at the company and Kay was let go when Jobs returned and closed the R&D dept. Kay was part of. I wouldn't give credit to Apple for pioneering just innovating into something consumers wanted to buy thanks in part to the iPhone.
You can't change the basic nature of Apple fanboys either. I by no means hate Apple I have a iPod and MacBook Pro. I do hate how Apple thinks they own the exclusive rights to make Tablet PCs and Smart Phones with a touch screens. I mean they have touch screens that looked like the iPad in Startrek and many other SciFi films 20+ years ago.
Florian is an idiot not an expert. 99% of the crap this guy says about patents makes no sense. People need to stop referencing and and slashdot needs to stop posting his crap.
Yes, but Motorola has no interest going after the little guy or any of the other companies that are minding their business. They are going after the guy who starting poking them with the stick. This isn't a lawsuit they placed out of no where. It is a counter-suit, meaning it is a reaction. Motorola has no interest in screwing over the phone interest. Apple essentially kicked a sleeping dog and has to pay the price.
I find this extremely amusing. Apple tried to do the same thing with the iPad suing any company who also made a thin tablet. They made the mistake of going after people with bigger guns. Why Apple ever went after Motorola when they were making cell phones before Apple even came out with the Macintosh is mind boggling since Motorola probably has more patents relating to telecommunications than everyone else combined. Adding that Google purchased Motorola just adds more firepower. After that purchase it would have probably been smart of Apple to just back off from attacking the Android makers. Apple dug its own grave on this one, now they have to lay in it.
Apple bought products from these companies, they don't run the companies. That would be like me blaming you for buying a shirt made by slave children. It is Apple's job to monitor its suppliers business practices. I'm not an Apple fan at all and I have written posts where I think Apple is off base suing Samsung and HTC because they both make tablets, but I can be realistic. Apple deserves no blame in here and probably doesn't need to be in the article, but obviously it will sell more and grab more attention if it is in the article. Now that being said if they are Apple's suppliers it would probably be best for Apple to drop them and distance themselves from the story. If they continue to use these suppliers, now that they know of their shady bushiness actions, then maybe you can blame them.
I am aware, but that means every time I want to attach a flash drive, I need the flash drive and two cables... pain in the ass! Steve Jobs also stated that Flash is dead, yet a ton of websites still use it and Android and Window both support it better than Mac. I want to be able to watch video content on my smart phone or computer or tablet without issues. I can list more reasons and did in my previous post on how the other tablet makers are being more innovative than Apple and more open I hate how closed the App store is more than most things. Are the Apple iPad and iPhone good products yes they are, but they miss out on usability in some areas that I feel are important. I don't hate Apple, but I do see them hitting a decline soon as others are catching up, just like other personal computer makers did in the 80s and Apple saw a decline. Can they rebound sure, but it is not set in stone.
Let's face it Apple's bread and butter is their iPhone and its seeing a decline because other phone makers have caught up and Android is just as stable as Mac OS. In last few quarters, Android devices have began to out sell the iPhone and are increasingly passing it. On the tablet market, the Android device makers are making products with more appealing features such as video cameras 1080p, while iPad is 720p and 3D recording or a big thing for most people 4G. The biggest reason I have no desire to get an iPad is no USB port, while many of Apple's competitors did include the USB and 4G. Apple fell behind in a market they pioneered, I think the biggest showing of this is their attempt to litigate rather than innovate. The initial bans are being lifted in other countries and Apple's current case against Samsung is not going as well as they would have hoped because of the broadness of their patent and prior art, which Samsung's lawyers highlighted today when they showed clips from 2001: A Space Odyssey showing a tablet similar to the iPad. Apple is also trying to fight for icons that Samsung used. All of which are too broad and were used too much before the iPhone was ever around a small calendar, notepad, white quote balloon, flower for the pictures, and apparently the phone icon to call. The phone icon to call was originally used by Bell on payphones, the text balloon is too widely used prior, notepad picture was first used my Microsoft for a dumb down text editor, a calendar emblem is also too widely used so it is doubtful they will win any of these either. Apple has began to level off and maybe decline I think Jobs is getting out before that happened.
I bet you I could find a picture of a calender with those colors dating back over 50 years. Also you mean a picture of a quote balloon with a background. The quote bubble has been used for years in cartoons and comics. And a brown notebook... I have brown notebook sitting on my desk. And envelope with a sky is used by more than just Apple. Only one I will give you is the photos app.
You mean they all look like different size touchscreens? Kinda how all TVs or flat screen monitors look the same? Quit being a fan boy and be realistic. They look similar just like many other tech products, but they run different OS, have different internal workings including the processors, different cameras, (every Samsung and HTC both are better), provide different screen resolutions (Samsung and HTC can both do 1080p, Apple can only do 720p). Shall I go on with the differences?
Obviously, getting into the hardware market was one of the driving forces to buy Motorola Mobility, but there is a reason they looked to buy the oldest mobile phone maker. They knew that if they were going to jump into the hardware market that they would be jumping off the sidelines and into the fire of Apple. The patents they acquired allow them to jump into the market while giving them the firepower to force Apple to stand down.
It said in the article that it used the 4 of the 18 patents to recieve an undisclosed upfront payment from BlackBerry and is now receiving royalities from them when it forced a cross licensing agreement.
"Apple also filed a civil suit in March accusing Motorola Mobility of 'a pattern of unfair, deceptive and anticompetitive conduct' ".
Does anyone else see this as a hypocritical statement considering what Apple has been doing suing the pants off anyone who makes a smart phone or tablet?
I'm not going to argue with a fanboi, its like arguing with a wall. You already proved my point that Apple have a 10% market share to the what 89% Windows? I am not saying that Apple's security sucks, I am saying they still have the obscurity factor. However, fanboi's like you believe that Apple is the end all be all of computers and its security it almighty. It is not it wouldn't lose the faster in Pwn2Own every year if it were. Is Lion a big step forward in their security, absolutely, so is Windows 7 from XP (not counting Vista, since it never gained market share). Put your fanboi beliefs aside and look at the facts. Roughly 9 out of every 10 computers runs Windows, including the juicy targets in the corporate world that you could possibly hit as well. Apple lost Pwn2Own fastest every year. Say whatever you want you can not deny that fact. Yes, security has improved in Lion and Windows 7 and the various Linux OSs, but the attacks are evolving to counter these improvements. Like my professor said always said the only secure computer is the one that is turned off and unplugged.
For malware, yes it is better to target a home user. For exploiting a machine to gain access to their network and steal information, corporate. Not all exploits are malware related.
Apple is still on safe due to obscurity, the corporate world almost strictly uses MS, while Apple has grown its user base in recent years, they have not touched the corporate market. Anyone will attempt to go after corporate before personal users because the reward is greater. MacOS is still the most vulnerable OS on the market. Yes, you can lock it down changing a lot of settings, but you can do additional configuring on Linux and Windows machines. MacOS doesn't lose Pwn2Own the quickest every year for no reason.
I think it is needed because even though I have locked down my security settings as much as possible I know that HR people snoop around too much. I use my nickname from when I played football and rugby. I am only friends with my friends and family who know this nickname, so I don't think I am hiding behind. Am I hiding from HR and background companies that snoop out on social networks, absolutely. I don't have to the social network so my employer or potential employer can look for photos of me drinking or what not. Maybe if HR did not look for things not related to work or background companies didn't exist or security settings were actually real fake names wouldn't be needed. However, they do and fake names are needed
Looking at the evidence, that appears to be what happened. I realize the man was associated with a gang, but the police say they were in a shoot out with him because of a bullet lodged in a police radio, but the ballistics tell more truth than the police since that bullet was police issued ammunition. This of course mean they shot the radio. I do realize the man was a known gang member, but it doesn't appear from the evidence released that he discharged any firearm.
You would be opening a can of worms by doing this. Rioting has happened many of times before social networks. Did they aid in the organization of the event, yes, were the people rioting the ones who started the event, no. Their event was a peaceful protest and people took advantage of them being organized. The police caused this by killing an unarmed man and planting a gun. Maybe Cameron should think about investigating the police force and people won't rise up against them.
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I don't think anyone will diagree that the Dynabook was the first Tablet, but it was produced by Kay while at Xerox not Apple. Kay worked for Apple for a little more than 10 years...during that time Jobs was not at the company and Kay was let go when Jobs returned and closed the R&D dept. Kay was part of. I wouldn't give credit to Apple for pioneering just innovating into something consumers wanted to buy thanks in part to the iPhone.
You can't change the basic nature of Apple fanboys either. I by no means hate Apple I have a iPod and MacBook Pro. I do hate how Apple thinks they own the exclusive rights to make Tablet PCs and Smart Phones with a touch screens. I mean they have touch screens that looked like the iPad in Startrek and many other SciFi films 20+ years ago.
Florian is an idiot not an expert. 99% of the crap this guy says about patents makes no sense. People need to stop referencing and and slashdot needs to stop posting his crap.
Yes, but Motorola has no interest going after the little guy or any of the other companies that are minding their business. They are going after the guy who starting poking them with the stick. This isn't a lawsuit they placed out of no where. It is a counter-suit, meaning it is a reaction. Motorola has no interest in screwing over the phone interest. Apple essentially kicked a sleeping dog and has to pay the price.
I find this extremely amusing. Apple tried to do the same thing with the iPad suing any company who also made a thin tablet. They made the mistake of going after people with bigger guns. Why Apple ever went after Motorola when they were making cell phones before Apple even came out with the Macintosh is mind boggling since Motorola probably has more patents relating to telecommunications than everyone else combined. Adding that Google purchased Motorola just adds more firepower. After that purchase it would have probably been smart of Apple to just back off from attacking the Android makers. Apple dug its own grave on this one, now they have to lay in it.
Apple bought products from these companies, they don't run the companies. That would be like me blaming you for buying a shirt made by slave children. It is Apple's job to monitor its suppliers business practices. I'm not an Apple fan at all and I have written posts where I think Apple is off base suing Samsung and HTC because they both make tablets, but I can be realistic. Apple deserves no blame in here and probably doesn't need to be in the article, but obviously it will sell more and grab more attention if it is in the article. Now that being said if they are Apple's suppliers it would probably be best for Apple to drop them and distance themselves from the story. If they continue to use these suppliers, now that they know of their shady bushiness actions, then maybe you can blame them.
Did you read the article? It was 9 out of the 60 that live in the small village, which is 15% of the population.
I am aware, but that means every time I want to attach a flash drive, I need the flash drive and two cables... pain in the ass! Steve Jobs also stated that Flash is dead, yet a ton of websites still use it and Android and Window both support it better than Mac. I want to be able to watch video content on my smart phone or computer or tablet without issues. I can list more reasons and did in my previous post on how the other tablet makers are being more innovative than Apple and more open I hate how closed the App store is more than most things. Are the Apple iPad and iPhone good products yes they are, but they miss out on usability in some areas that I feel are important. I don't hate Apple, but I do see them hitting a decline soon as others are catching up, just like other personal computer makers did in the 80s and Apple saw a decline. Can they rebound sure, but it is not set in stone.
Let's face it Apple's bread and butter is their iPhone and its seeing a decline because other phone makers have caught up and Android is just as stable as Mac OS. In last few quarters, Android devices have began to out sell the iPhone and are increasingly passing it. On the tablet market, the Android device makers are making products with more appealing features such as video cameras 1080p, while iPad is 720p and 3D recording or a big thing for most people 4G. The biggest reason I have no desire to get an iPad is no USB port, while many of Apple's competitors did include the USB and 4G. Apple fell behind in a market they pioneered, I think the biggest showing of this is their attempt to litigate rather than innovate. The initial bans are being lifted in other countries and Apple's current case against Samsung is not going as well as they would have hoped because of the broadness of their patent and prior art, which Samsung's lawyers highlighted today when they showed clips from 2001: A Space Odyssey showing a tablet similar to the iPad. Apple is also trying to fight for icons that Samsung used. All of which are too broad and were used too much before the iPhone was ever around a small calendar, notepad, white quote balloon, flower for the pictures, and apparently the phone icon to call. The phone icon to call was originally used by Bell on payphones, the text balloon is too widely used prior, notepad picture was first used my Microsoft for a dumb down text editor, a calendar emblem is also too widely used so it is doubtful they will win any of these either. Apple has began to level off and maybe decline I think Jobs is getting out before that happened.
Thats what you think. Moses said this is it then God made them a paint by colors.
I bet you I could find a picture of a calender with those colors dating back over 50 years. Also you mean a picture of a quote balloon with a background. The quote bubble has been used for years in cartoons and comics. And a brown notebook... I have brown notebook sitting on my desk. And envelope with a sky is used by more than just Apple. Only one I will give you is the photos app.
You mean they all look like different size touchscreens? Kinda how all TVs or flat screen monitors look the same? Quit being a fan boy and be realistic. They look similar just like many other tech products, but they run different OS, have different internal workings including the processors, different cameras, (every Samsung and HTC both are better), provide different screen resolutions (Samsung and HTC can both do 1080p, Apple can only do 720p). Shall I go on with the differences?
Obviously, getting into the hardware market was one of the driving forces to buy Motorola Mobility, but there is a reason they looked to buy the oldest mobile phone maker. They knew that if they were going to jump into the hardware market that they would be jumping off the sidelines and into the fire of Apple. The patents they acquired allow them to jump into the market while giving them the firepower to force Apple to stand down.
It said in the article that it used the 4 of the 18 patents to recieve an undisclosed upfront payment from BlackBerry and is now receiving royalities from them when it forced a cross licensing agreement.
"Apple also filed a civil suit in March accusing Motorola Mobility of 'a pattern of unfair, deceptive and anticompetitive conduct' ". Does anyone else see this as a hypocritical statement considering what Apple has been doing suing the pants off anyone who makes a smart phone or tablet?
I'm not going to argue with a fanboi, its like arguing with a wall. You already proved my point that Apple have a 10% market share to the what 89% Windows? I am not saying that Apple's security sucks, I am saying they still have the obscurity factor. However, fanboi's like you believe that Apple is the end all be all of computers and its security it almighty. It is not it wouldn't lose the faster in Pwn2Own every year if it were. Is Lion a big step forward in their security, absolutely, so is Windows 7 from XP (not counting Vista, since it never gained market share). Put your fanboi beliefs aside and look at the facts. Roughly 9 out of every 10 computers runs Windows, including the juicy targets in the corporate world that you could possibly hit as well. Apple lost Pwn2Own fastest every year. Say whatever you want you can not deny that fact. Yes, security has improved in Lion and Windows 7 and the various Linux OSs, but the attacks are evolving to counter these improvements. Like my professor said always said the only secure computer is the one that is turned off and unplugged.
For malware, yes it is better to target a home user. For exploiting a machine to gain access to their network and steal information, corporate. Not all exploits are malware related.
True, I forgot they don't do Ubuntu anymore. However, in the phone part of the contest, Android is a Linux based OS.
I think it is pretty bad ass honestly. Apple better counter and hire some guy named Lion.
Apple is still on safe due to obscurity, the corporate world almost strictly uses MS, while Apple has grown its user base in recent years, they have not touched the corporate market. Anyone will attempt to go after corporate before personal users because the reward is greater. MacOS is still the most vulnerable OS on the market. Yes, you can lock it down changing a lot of settings, but you can do additional configuring on Linux and Windows machines. MacOS doesn't lose Pwn2Own the quickest every year for no reason.
I think it is needed because even though I have locked down my security settings as much as possible I know that HR people snoop around too much. I use my nickname from when I played football and rugby. I am only friends with my friends and family who know this nickname, so I don't think I am hiding behind. Am I hiding from HR and background companies that snoop out on social networks, absolutely. I don't have to the social network so my employer or potential employer can look for photos of me drinking or what not. Maybe if HR did not look for things not related to work or background companies didn't exist or security settings were actually real fake names wouldn't be needed. However, they do and fake names are needed
Do your due diligence before you comment and maybe your comment won't be seen as void.
Looking at the evidence, that appears to be what happened. I realize the man was associated with a gang, but the police say they were in a shoot out with him because of a bullet lodged in a police radio, but the ballistics tell more truth than the police since that bullet was police issued ammunition. This of course mean they shot the radio. I do realize the man was a known gang member, but it doesn't appear from the evidence released that he discharged any firearm.
You would be opening a can of worms by doing this. Rioting has happened many of times before social networks. Did they aid in the organization of the event, yes, were the people rioting the ones who started the event, no. Their event was a peaceful protest and people took advantage of them being organized. The police caused this by killing an unarmed man and planting a gun. Maybe Cameron should think about investigating the police force and people won't rise up against them.
Why wouldn't you try it on the Virus that kills the most people and that you can make the most money off of?