Samsung don't have a case, and never had one... They're just gaining time to establish a dominant position on the Android side. They will eventually bend over, and they know it.
For those FRAND patents, it's said they asked 2.4% on each iPhone sold, and for each one of their 13 patents... That was a stupid move, it will backfire big time...
Apple just nailed it by offering a license on their low-level patents, showing who's the sensible party here...
Fog extends its arms over a vast tropical forest. Animated navigation graphics appear on the landscape. We are in a low flight. Slow traveling in long curves over the canopy.
successive inserts of a closing clearing, at shorter successive intervals.
reverse shot in the clearing, a giant, almost perfectly round rock stands in the mist.
camera closes on the rock while ascending.
On the top, in a meditating posture, stands Deckard. Eyes closed. Seemingly absent. A white dove sleeps on his thighs.
we hear machinery sounds around, then voices, people are giving orders in short bursts. A futuristic scale is put on the giant rock, army shoes climb.
Slow traveling on Deckard's back, a hand enters the frame and press an electronic device on nape of his neck.
Reverse shot. Close. Deckard's eyes slowly open. Awakening from a long stasis. While the camera slowly backs off with Deckard looking straight into it, the dove takes a slow motion flight on a majestic, misty forest background.
Top of the now empty rock. While in the back vessels launch in steam bursts and take a curve to a mysterious destination, the camera starts to climb down and pan on the right. We enter the misty forest. Out of nowhere, a unicorn run amongst the trees.
[Titles.]
The worst thing to happen to a fantasy work sequel : the godlike urge for the author to close all open lines, to answer all questions. Closure is antinomic to good fantasy.
Yet, an all too common sin. This was predicted for Star Wars, and it happened in all sort of ridiculous manners. Hollywood being more and more Hollywood, and Ridley himself gravitating to Tony's heaviness, I fully expect the worse.
A year or two ago ? When Apple was a quarter of what it is now ?
Have you any proof of a threat Google ever was for Apple, or are you just bragging ?
What you want is not the biggest market shares, it is the good ones... Google's good shares are the ones bringing advertisement, Apple's ones are the ones bringing upfront cash.
Surprise, so long, cash proved much more monetizable than advertisement.
The only threat here is Freetardism opposing Fanboism.
Yes he was. The genius of Steve Jobs is to give a direction to geniuses like Woz. Without a Jobs telling them how to focus their minds, these people tend to fool around mounted on a Segway, designing toasters for Phillips, or writing half-baked code for advertising companies disguised as tech ones.
Actually, it is even worse than your puny nightmare. In fact, every french, male, female, child, work at Vivendi. Socialist pacifist cowards as we are, there were too many companies to brutaly nationalize. So we decided to incorporate France. We called it Vivendi, thought that was nice sounding, and we went public.
And now we are after you. Capitalist warmonger pig.
Well, on the conspiracy front, I am not the one to fall back. Actually, it's been nearly one year I think Apple is onto something like this. Actually since Steve Jobs publicly stated that to actually make a dent into the portable player maket, Microsoft would have to scrap the entire PlayForSure mess and go with its own, verticaly integrated solution à la Itunes/iPod. I thought it was a suggestion. And sure enough did MS follow this free, sympathetic to its cause advice with the Zune. Upsetting a lot of ex-partners on its turn-around. Well, why on earth would Jobs throw such a bone as a bait to its archrival ? The reason is there was no meat on it, and all along Jobs knew it. The whole thing is not about DRM, it's about the file format. And since the beginning, Apple uses the only real open format in the game, AAC. Which in all practicality is based on QuickTime. And that is an entire other ballgame. If suddenly AAC can be sold without DRM, the iTunes store being what it is, it becomes the instant, natural standard. And every portable player builder on the field will run to it. With the iPhone and what it indicates on the future of the iPod, Apple don't have to fear competition. That leaves Microsoft alone, on its ultra-proprietary format, in its own tiny niche, surrounded with burried little bones.
Then, open the worldwide one and exclusive patent bureau on Mururoa atoll. Sue any organisation/government trying to abuse your rights to this patent business. And wait for the global warming last tide to sink the whole thing.
But then, if Apple can make a Macintosh compatible with Windows, why couldn't they quietly create a new platform based on that, with machine specs defined by them, and let other assemblers slowly propose a new breed of clones ? Couldn't integration be as good as in a genuine Apple Macintosh ? And then let start a market for compatible/checked/approved only peripherals and parts ?
Besides the economic model of Apple being a hardware manufacturer with no competition on OS X... I personnaly think Apple hardware division maintains a quality which would assure them to be competitive in the upper margins sections of a more open market.
The first Mac clones were not compatible with Windows, so the market was for MacOS only, to be divided, and Apple lost shares of what was entirely his before. But with Windows and Linux compatibility, the sharing would be on a potentially much larger market...
Perhaps the launch of their Windows compatible Macintoshes is only the first step... Sell them to new users, assuring recognition and new fidelities, creating a larger market for Macintels (with more potential customers, so more demand for compatible peripherals,accessories and parts), and when this growth field is saturated anew, quietly open the platform with such a plan...
You are probably right, at least under a US right winged government.
Cross the ocean, watch Europe. The antitrust department here was waiting for the US justice final decision before issuing its own... In Europe, Microsoft has near *zero* political (financial) influence. You can't buy politics here (well, not as blatantly as in US..).
Europe is also commissionning a U.K. enterprise (I can't remember its name) to evaluate technical and financial solutions to get rid of MS "solutions" in favor of free or open source ones...
This is happening in lot of countries, as Microsoft is effectively abusing its monopoly, wether US justice admits it or not...
Two major points are motivating this migration patern : the cost progression of MS software, and the control over sensible data formats...
The way I see it : MS is at a peek in OS+Office software monopoly control. From here, there is no other way left than down.
"My playstation crashes. My Super Nintendo crashes. My NES crashed. My Linux box crashes. My windows box crashes. My ACD system running on os/2 warp crashes. Christ, I've had my DD reciever crash on days with lots of static electricity kicking around."
You should try to climb down of this electrical pylon with all your machines, it's bad for them, and it could be bad for your health.:)
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Samsung don't have a case, and never had one... They're just gaining time to establish a dominant position on the Android side. They will eventually bend over, and they know it.
For those FRAND patents, it's said they asked 2.4% on each iPhone sold, and for each one of their 13 patents... That was a stupid move, it will backfire big time...
Apple just nailed it by offering a license on their low-level patents, showing who's the sensible party here...
[Day ext.]
Fog extends its arms over a vast tropical forest. Animated navigation graphics appear on the landscape. We are in a low flight. Slow traveling in long curves over the canopy.
successive inserts of a closing clearing, at shorter successive intervals.
reverse shot in the clearing, a giant, almost perfectly round rock stands in the mist.
camera closes on the rock while ascending.
On the top, in a meditating posture, stands Deckard. Eyes closed. Seemingly absent. A white dove sleeps on his thighs.
we hear machinery sounds around, then voices, people are giving orders in short bursts. A futuristic scale is put on the giant rock, army shoes climb.
Slow traveling on Deckard's back, a hand enters the frame and press an electronic device on nape of his neck.
Reverse shot. Close. Deckard's eyes slowly open. Awakening from a long stasis. While the camera slowly backs off with Deckard looking straight into it, the dove takes a slow motion flight on a majestic, misty forest background.
Top of the now empty rock. While in the back vessels launch in steam bursts and take a curve to a mysterious destination, the camera starts to climb down and pan on the right. We enter the misty forest. Out of nowhere, a unicorn run amongst the trees.
[Titles.]
The worst thing to happen to a fantasy work sequel : the godlike urge for the author to close all open lines, to answer all questions. Closure is antinomic to good fantasy.
Yet, an all too common sin. This was predicted for Star Wars, and it happened in all sort of ridiculous manners. Hollywood being more and more Hollywood, and Ridley himself gravitating to Tony's heaviness, I fully expect the worse.
A year or two ago ? When Apple was a quarter of what it is now ?
Have you any proof of a threat Google ever was for Apple, or are you just bragging ?
What you want is not the biggest market shares, it is the good ones... Google's good shares are the ones bringing advertisement, Apple's ones are the ones bringing upfront cash.
Surprise, so long, cash proved much more monetizable than advertisement.
The only threat here is Freetardism opposing Fanboism.
Yes he was. The genius of Steve Jobs is to give a direction to geniuses like Woz. Without a Jobs telling them how to focus their minds, these people tend to fool around mounted on a Segway, designing toasters for Phillips, or writing half-baked code for advertising companies disguised as tech ones.
Actually, it is even worse than your puny nightmare. In fact, every french, male, female, child, work at Vivendi. Socialist pacifist cowards as we are, there were too many companies to brutaly nationalize. So we decided to incorporate France. We called it Vivendi, thought that was nice sounding, and we went public.
And now we are after you. Capitalist warmonger pig.
Well, on the conspiracy front, I am not the one to fall back. Actually, it's been nearly one year I think Apple is onto something like this. Actually since Steve Jobs publicly stated that to actually make a dent into the portable player maket, Microsoft would have to scrap the entire PlayForSure mess and go with its own, verticaly integrated solution à la Itunes/iPod. I thought it was a suggestion. And sure enough did MS follow this free, sympathetic to its cause advice with the Zune. Upsetting a lot of ex-partners on its turn-around.
Well, why on earth would Jobs throw such a bone as a bait to its archrival ?
The reason is there was no meat on it, and all along Jobs knew it. The whole thing is not about DRM, it's about the file format. And since the beginning, Apple uses the only real open format in the game, AAC. Which in all practicality is based on QuickTime. And that is an entire other ballgame. If suddenly AAC can be sold without DRM, the iTunes store being what it is, it becomes the instant, natural standard. And every portable player builder on the field will run to it. With the iPhone and what it indicates on the future of the iPod, Apple don't have to fear competition. That leaves Microsoft alone, on its ultra-proprietary format, in its own tiny niche, surrounded with burried little bones.
"The current trend is to call one the all around "winner" and call everyone else a fanboy.."
- do-wronger/etc.., I blindingly root for Intel now, anyway.
As a mac head/zealot/fanatic/cultist/apologizer/jobs-can't
Let's do it...
Then, open the worldwide one and exclusive patent bureau on Mururoa atoll. Sue any organisation/government trying to abuse your rights to this patent business. And wait for the global warming last tide to sink the whole thing.
But then, if Apple can make a Macintosh compatible with Windows, why couldn't they quietly create a new platform based on that, with machine specs defined by them, and let other assemblers slowly propose a new breed of clones ? Couldn't integration be as good as in a genuine Apple Macintosh ? And then let start a market for compatible/checked/approved only peripherals and parts ?
Besides the economic model of Apple being a hardware manufacturer with no competition on OS X... I personnaly think Apple hardware division maintains a quality which would assure them to be competitive in the upper margins sections of a more open market.
The first Mac clones were not compatible with Windows, so the market was for MacOS only, to be divided, and Apple lost shares of what was entirely his before. But with Windows and Linux compatibility, the sharing would be on a potentially much larger market...
Perhaps the launch of their Windows compatible Macintoshes is only the first step... Sell them to new users, assuring recognition and new fidelities, creating a larger market for Macintels (with more potential customers, so more demand for compatible peripherals,accessories and parts), and when this growth field is saturated anew, quietly open the platform with such a plan...
Just questionning.
Note : excuse my english, I'm french...
Transparency applied to ugliness is a real progress.
Writing from France, excuse my english...
You are probably right, at least under a US right winged government.
Cross the ocean, watch Europe. The antitrust department here was waiting for the US justice final decision before issuing its own... In Europe, Microsoft has near *zero* political (financial) influence. You can't buy politics here (well, not as blatantly as in US..).
Europe is also commissionning a U.K. enterprise (I can't remember its name) to evaluate technical and financial solutions to get rid of MS "solutions" in favor of free or open source ones...
This is happening in lot of countries, as Microsoft is effectively abusing its monopoly, wether US justice admits it or not...
Two major points are motivating this migration patern : the cost progression of MS software, and the control over sensible data formats...
The way I see it : MS is at a peek in OS+Office software monopoly control. From here, there is no other way left than down.