Samsung has BUNCH of HARDWARE patents on CORE technology including that on 3G and 4G. (as opposed to "patents" on rectangular shapes and pitch to zoom)
Do you seriously think Samsung got those patents by... copying someone?
Apple was shameless enough to claim they've "innovated" the GUI, which both Gates and Jobbs "stole" from Xerox. This time we have similar story with the major difference: Samsung is not US company and Apple's relationships with mass media has improved a lot. Even BBC is showing Samsung's Galaxy SIII on apps screen instead of home.
If they've "ripped off" Apple, why does their home menu use widgets instead of displaying ancient grid of icons?
If you were referring to internal, at Samsung, comparison of particular UI solutions, guess what, when you rip something off, you don't have to compare, you just copy. Samsung didn't copy. They've compared their product to that of competitors and improved where appropriate. And guess what, that's what ALL major CAR (and not only) manufacturers do, having special departments to examine competitors products.
Apple matched Galaxy Tab 10.1's color gamut only with iPad 3.
Galaxy Tabs are also much more comfortable to hold in hand than iPad 2 or 3.
If you don't care about draconian restricitons on accessing your own device, one could argue that iPad's "smoothness" is still unmatched by Android and hence they are inferior to iPads despite being lighter etc. However Galaxy SIII phone is superior to iPhone in every way.
And last time I've checked, Samsung sold twice as many smartphones as Apple, so not sure if they're still riding wave of Apple's success or their own.
You're talking about country with nuclear weapons, capable of building transcontinental missiles.
Go get some cheap rare earth elements from China, you military superpower you...
So while I see Sony is "evil" I don't see why it is even remotely as evel as claimed on/.
Binding game to an account making it impossible to re-sell? Plenty of cases.
Using Starforce "rootkit" as DRM? Many companies.
Forcing player to stay online when playing in single mode? Yep, several companies tried that.
Dumping LAN play altogether? Yep, Blizzard did that.
PIPA, SOPA, ACTA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP all bankrolled and lobbied for by Sony and friends.
I'd say "and friends" is a key here. Somehow you want to make one company responsible for it.
Sony PS3 allows you to rip your CD and put it on MP3 drive, mind you.
Not to mention their relentless attempts to proprietize media formats.
Why not mention it? Last time I've checked people had to pay royalties for:
Every CD, DVD, Blue Ray disk
Every player of the mentioned devices
HDMI port
It is a profitable business that's why nearly ALL companies try to do have their share. What makes Sony outstanding in this regard?
I own a Sony Walkmen MP3 player. It doesn't force me to install anything. It doesn't try to do any DRM crap. It can be used as USB drive. Oh, it even can play all files in a folder. That's quite contrary to what some popular music player from another company does.
I own Sony Reader (actually a bunch of them). It supports EPUBs, an open standard. None of them locks me in into particular store. I can get e-books from public libraries with it. Unlike with very popular product by some other company. All of them are easily modded with custom firmware to add more features. It was easy for Sony stop CFW from running on it (as Amazon did with Kindle), but they aren't doing it.
Couple of billions (if at all) for a country with 1.3 billion people... is not a fuckload of money, sorry.
The stated end goal of Communism is a complete abolition of all government control and the abandonment of a monetary system...
I was bourn in USSR. I'm not sure where your idea about abolition of government control comes from (well, ok, it assumed people would be good enough to require no police etc, but you still need someone to coordinate buildling infrastructure etc).
Main point of communism that was advertised was abolition of a monetary system. And they honestly tried to stimulate people work harder for fame, not money.
It had its downsides, but if you ask people who lived there and have "democracy" now, I don't think most would give a flying fuck about political system.
After Dusseldorfer judge in all her wisdom banned the first version of Samsung's 10.1 tab, since it was infringing on "rectangular shape with rounded corner" community design, Samsung released Galaxy 10.1N model and later tab 2 model that seem not to infringe on mentioned mega design patents.
Aren't you ignoring a very important detail: NASA budget is negligible compared to spending on "preventing entire region from falling under the control" of taliban?
"Doing only one thing at a time" in this context is like saying "oh, I can't help my kid construct a Lego house, since I'm already building a real house", duh...
. iOS offers a watered-down featureset because Steve jobs wanted iOS devices to be secondary not primary devices.
Or because one needs to sacrifice something (flash, cough and background processes in general), to get smoother animations.
So "capacitive touchscreen" is now "core aspect of the interface" now? Seriously?
It's hard to see how OSes are "similar". Was OS running on Compac h5550 PDA much different?
Android is very flexible, iOS is super restrictive and outdated (grid of square icons that we had ages ago on PDAs, and no widget support; give me a break)
Little fit-and-finish things like that let you know Google didn't pump nearly as much time and effort into QA as Apple did.
Try to switch Wi-Fi on or off on iOS. Or bluetooth. Or GPS. Or change brighness. Oh yeah.
The iOS experience is unflaggingly smooth and responsive
UI animation is smoother and more responsive than on most androids. Overall OS experience is more than animations. Try to get a nice calendar or weather plugin on in iOS device. Try to make it switch off at night.
For instance, compare GoodReader with ezPDF or anything else in the Android ecosystem...
One can write (or port) any iOS app to android.
But try to get app like timerific on iOS.
...chaos of the current Android ecosystem...
Is just a myth. There are usually many ways to get the same thing done on Android. It doesn't mean it's inferior in any way. Quite the opposite.
My Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 does all I want, without restricting the way iPad would.
Oh, and I'm about to buy Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 for my dad, makes me wonder how it fits with TFA pathos
People around me have Android smartphones, 0 iphone users.
It also depends where you are. Worldwide iPhone's smartphone share is about 15% in US nearly twice as much.
As far as traffic goes, iPhone is normally sold with expensive contract that covers internet traffic as well.
Regarding "dumb phones" argument, more than 10 million Samsung Galaxy S3's were sold during first two month.
. What's next, patenting the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners?
You don't realize Apple actually had patented rectangular tablet with rounded corners and (mkay, "community design" is not strictly a patent) and it and even managed to ban Samsung Galaxy Tab in Germany using it.
This comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano
Doesn't mean moving all manufacturing to China is better though. With robots you at least need people that keep them working and you don't depend on foreign communist country to produce most of what you consume...
Could someone cite the part where Google said that "some Apple's inventions are so great" please? (I couldn't find it in TFA)
Note that "invention" doesn't need to be grea, to be come a de facto standard (QWERTY keyboard for instance)
I work in automotive and somebody thinking that roughly repeating vehicle design is the same as stealing "all the engineering" makes me laugh.
Compare VW Caddy to Renault Kangoo, who "stole" from whom, eh?
Did any company sue the other? Why not? (I guess you think South Korea is wild east where nobody protects wester IP, well, we are talking about two EU manufacturers) Why didn't they sue each other for "stealing"?
Besides, it's a COMPLETELY different shape than the iPad.
And they don't stop at copying rectangular tablets (rare shape indeed) they even dare to make rectangular TVs!
And those TVs don't have rathor sharp edges either!
How shameless of them...
Judge said "Samsung is not as cool". He didn't say it "it's worse" though, not to mention we don't know how ironic was his voice when saying this.
So "certified cooler" yep, judge said so, "certified better" nope, he didn't.
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Samsung was found violating "pitch to zoom", a feature that Mitsubishi DiamondTouch had in 2001.
Samsung has BUNCH of HARDWARE patents on CORE technology including that on 3G and 4G. (as opposed to "patents" on rectangular shapes and pitch to zoom)
Do you seriously think Samsung got those patents by... copying someone?
Apple was shameless enough to claim they've "innovated" the GUI, which both Gates and Jobbs "stole" from Xerox. This time we have similar story with the major difference: Samsung is not US company and Apple's relationships with mass media has improved a lot. Even BBC is showing Samsung's Galaxy SIII on apps screen instead of home.
If they've "ripped off" Apple, why does their home menu use widgets instead of displaying ancient grid of icons?
If you were referring to internal, at Samsung, comparison of particular UI solutions, guess what, when you rip something off, you don't have to compare, you just copy. Samsung didn't copy. They've compared their product to that of competitors and improved where appropriate. And guess what, that's what ALL major CAR (and not only) manufacturers do, having special departments to examine competitors products.
This assumes that people that are used to getting stuff for free would actually pay if DRM worked. Is there any evidence to support this assumption?
Apple matched Galaxy Tab 10.1's color gamut only with iPad 3.
Galaxy Tabs are also much more comfortable to hold in hand than iPad 2 or 3.
If you don't care about draconian restricitons on accessing your own device, one could argue that iPad's "smoothness" is still unmatched by Android and hence they are inferior to iPads despite being lighter etc. However Galaxy SIII phone is superior to iPhone in every way.
And last time I've checked, Samsung sold twice as many smartphones as Apple, so not sure if they're still riding wave of Apple's success or their own.
You're talking about country with nuclear weapons, capable of building transcontinental missiles.
Go get some cheap rare earth elements from China, you military superpower you...
Binding game to an account making it impossible to re-sell? Plenty of cases.
Using Starforce "rootkit" as DRM? Many companies.
Forcing player to stay online when playing in single mode? Yep, several companies tried that.
Dumping LAN play altogether? Yep, Blizzard did that.
PIPA, SOPA, ACTA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP all bankrolled and lobbied for by Sony and friends.
I'd say "and friends" is a key here. Somehow you want to make one company responsible for it.
Sony PS3 allows you to rip your CD and put it on MP3 drive, mind you.
Not to mention their relentless attempts to proprietize media formats.
Why not mention it? Last time I've checked people had to pay royalties for:
It is a profitable business that's why nearly ALL companies try to do have their share. What makes Sony outstanding in this regard?
I own a Sony Walkmen MP3 player. It doesn't force me to install anything. It doesn't try to do any DRM crap. It can be used as USB drive. Oh, it even can play all files in a folder. That's quite contrary to what some popular music player from another company does.
I own Sony Reader (actually a bunch of them). It supports EPUBs, an open standard. None of them locks me in into particular store. I can get e-books from public libraries with it. Unlike with very popular product by some other company. All of them are easily modded with custom firmware to add more features. It was easy for Sony stop CFW from running on it (as Amazon did with Kindle), but they aren't doing it.
PS
Oh, and while we're at it, this seems to be bogus news.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Anon-Hack-PSN-Sony-Deny,16916.html
Hm, what makes parent a "troll"? http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3052779&cid=41010259
This has happened, I assume, via a proper legal mechanism:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/08/14/190209/pirate-website-owner-sentenced-to-4-years-in-prison
so I feel much less confident in laws and courts and, I belive, for a reason.
We're sending them a holy fuckload of money...
Couple of billions (if at all) for a country with 1.3 billion people... is not a fuckload of money, sorry.
The stated end goal of Communism is a complete abolition of all government control and the abandonment of a monetary system...
I was bourn in USSR. I'm not sure where your idea about abolition of government control comes from (well, ok, it assumed people would be good enough to require no police etc, but you still need someone to coordinate buildling infrastructure etc). Main point of communism that was advertised was abolition of a monetary system. And they honestly tried to stimulate people work harder for fame, not money. It had its downsides, but if you ask people who lived there and have "democracy" now, I don't think most would give a flying fuck about political system.
Exactly what evil has Sony done pretty please?
After Dusseldorfer judge in all her wisdom banned the first version of Samsung's 10.1 tab, since it was infringing on "rectangular shape with rounded corner" community design, Samsung released Galaxy 10.1N model and later tab 2 model that seem not to infringe on mentioned mega design patents.
Shouldn't title mention "nVidia GPU" or did I miss that AMD now supports CUDA on top of OpenCL?
Aren't you ignoring a very important detail: NASA budget is negligible compared to spending on "preventing entire region from falling under the control" of taliban?
"Doing only one thing at a time" in this context is like saying "oh, I can't help my kid construct a Lego house, since I'm already building a real house", duh...
. iOS offers a watered-down featureset because Steve jobs wanted iOS devices to be secondary not primary devices.
Or because one needs to sacrifice something (flash, cough and background processes in general), to get smoother animations. So "capacitive touchscreen" is now "core aspect of the interface" now? Seriously?
It's hard to see how OSes are "similar". Was OS running on Compac h5550 PDA much different?
Android is very flexible, iOS is super restrictive and outdated (grid of square icons that we had ages ago on PDAs, and no widget support; give me a break)
Little fit-and-finish things like that let you know Google didn't pump nearly as much time and effort into QA as Apple did.
Try to switch Wi-Fi on or off on iOS. Or bluetooth. Or GPS. Or change brighness. Oh yeah.
The iOS experience is unflaggingly smooth and responsive
UI animation is smoother and more responsive than on most androids. Overall OS experience is more than animations. Try to get a nice calendar or weather plugin on in iOS device. Try to make it switch off at night.
For instance, compare GoodReader with ezPDF or anything else in the Android ecosystem...
One can write (or port) any iOS app to android.
But try to get app like timerific on iOS.
...chaos of the current Android ecosystem...
Is just a myth. There are usually many ways to get the same thing done on Android. It doesn't mean it's inferior in any way. Quite the opposite. My Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 does all I want, without restricting the way iPad would.
Oh, and I'm about to buy Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 for my dad, makes me wonder how it fits with TFA pathos
People around me have Android smartphones, 0 iphone users. It also depends where you are. Worldwide iPhone's smartphone share is about 15% in US nearly twice as much. As far as traffic goes, iPhone is normally sold with expensive contract that covers internet traffic as well. Regarding "dumb phones" argument, more than 10 million Samsung Galaxy S3's were sold during first two month.
. What's next, patenting the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners?
You don't realize Apple actually had patented rectangular tablet with rounded corners and (mkay, "community design" is not strictly a patent) and it and even managed to ban Samsung Galaxy Tab in Germany using it.
This comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano
Doesn't mean moving all manufacturing to China is better though. With robots you at least need people that keep them working and you don't depend on foreign communist country to produce most of what you consume...
Google "graf chokolo" who was arrested in Germany for reverse engineering PS3 kernel.
Software patents weren't around "for a couple hundred years". They are there for around 20 years, and they are in US, but not in EU.
Could someone cite the part where Google said that "some Apple's inventions are so great" please? (I couldn't find it in TFA)
Note that "invention" doesn't need to be grea, to be come a de facto standard (QWERTY keyboard for instance)
I work in automotive and somebody thinking that roughly repeating vehicle design is the same as stealing "all the engineering" makes me laugh.
Compare VW Caddy to Renault Kangoo, who "stole" from whom, eh?
Did any company sue the other? Why not? (I guess you think South Korea is wild east where nobody protects wester IP, well, we are talking about two EU manufacturers) Why didn't they sue each other for "stealing"?
Besides, it's a COMPLETELY different shape than the iPad.
And they don't stop at copying rectangular tablets (rare shape indeed) they even dare to make rectangular TVs!
And those TVs don't have rathor sharp edges either!
How shameless of them...
Judge said "Samsung is not as cool". He didn't say it "it's worse" though, not to mention we don't know how ironic was his voice when saying this.
So "certified cooler" yep, judge said so, "certified better" nope, he didn't.