if 100% of their lawyers were at 100% capacity, they would hire more lawyers. It's not like they are hurting for money.
I'm sure one of the recent hires can find the time to print off a boilerplate motion to dismiss and have a paralegal file it, because that's all this case is going to take.
Hello, I'm an Apple customer. I am typing this on a 2014 MacBook Pro. I carry an iPhone.
My next laptop will not be an Apple, because they are going out of their way to make products that are incompatible with my previous purchases (LED Cinema Display, countless USB products). Why can't I get a 12" or 13" notebook with discrete graphics? I don't even want the discrete graphics necessarily inside the notebook - isn't that kind of the point of Thunderbolt? Yet, Apple goes out of their way to disable external graphics adapters in their OS.
Why can't they put even one regular USB port on their notebooks? They helped to standardize USB 15 years ago, and now they have just decided that the literally hundreds of millions of devices already out there don't count any more. Why does buying a new notebook require me to buy another couple pounds of bullshit I have to carry everywhere just to use shit I already have; or spend hundreds more to replace perfectly working devices just to not have dongles on *everything*?
Razer figured this one out, and there's no way they have more R&D and product design budget than Apple. For $400 less, you can get a better processor, a 4K screen, the same Thunderbolt 3.0 connectivity without the arbitrary restrictions - in fact they will happily sell you a thunderbolt GPU enclosure. And, it's thinner and lighter if that's the goal. Sure, you don't get the touch strip thingy, but instead the whole god damn screen is touch.
Apple used to make products that people wanted - now Apple seems to be making products that Apple wants, regardless of customer sentiment. This transition started with the Mac Mini that was worse than what came before, and the useless trash can Mac Pro, and it's only gotten worse.
Because I'm sure when Samsung started their battery group, they picked a bunch of random people and sent them to "Battery School". Once they graduated, they immediately started creating the batteries for the Note 7.
Or maybe they hired engineers from other companies and institutions that actually had experience in battery design.
Also, when the second rev of the phone began failing, I'm sure they pulled the whole product and created a massive PR fiasco because they just felt like giving up, and not because perhaps the problem was external to the battery cell. Example: putting too big of a battery in too small of a space (which has been postulated) and that could only be fixed by completely redesigning the entire device or using a smaller (read: unacceptable) battery which would also have the fun outcome of opening them to false advertising legal action depending on how the marketing campaign was being executed.
The product was likely defective by design, and they chose to cut losses rather than follow the sunk cost fallacy. We'll know more in a few weeks. Stop peddling this fiction that Samsung just gave up because "only a few of them caught fire and they didn't want the bad PR" - you don't kill your flagship product that also has the highest profit margin and attempt to get back every single shipped unit unless you know there is something incredibly wrong, and that thing is incredibly hard to remedy in the field.
Oddly, there's people even around this site that refuse to exchange them for a phone that won't burst into flames, to the point of circumventing the measures being put in place by Samsung and their partner carriers.
Yeah, this is awesome. Set a precedent of "I invented something that is so obvious it would take a 15 year old about 20 seconds to think of it, and whether you use it or not I'm going to try to milk you like some kind of money cow."
Please think before you type. Now we're trying to use the legal system to force people to include "features" that are encumbered by IP licensing? And this is somehow awesome?
Do you really think that this frivolous action that won't survive a simple motion to dismiss is somehow going to be a watershed moment that has the tech giants turn the corner on patents and declare that the whole system needs to be chucked out?
It doesn't matter - Apple is not using external counsel. They have a whole stable of lawyers that they can pick from in order to make this go away.
Do you really think that a company of Apple's size doesn't get sued constantly by anyone who can dream up any cause of action that might have a slight chance at getting them money? Between shareholders getting pissed because they bought stock at the wrong time to bullshit like TFA, they probably have their own private entrance at the courthouse for dealing with this garbage.
Don't worry, this doesn't even come close to being the most contentious transition of power in US history. When Thomas Jefferson was elected, the Federalists spent the next couple months of a lame-duck session of Congress creating extra layers of judiciary and packing the bench with Federalists in an attempt to minimize the amount of change the Democratic Republicans could do. Needless to say, that extra layer of Federal judges has since been removed, and the Federalists no longer exist.
Abstaining from a UN resolution saying that Israel isn't being nice, combined with a mealy-mouthed speech from the Secretary of State pales in comparison.
close, but a good 40km deeper into the atmosphere at perigee, which will induce more drag, reducing apogee height. If this thing is already not able to thrust to their intended orbit, the drag will eventually pull it down deeper into the atmosphere where it will burn up.
The KH-11s probably have working thrusters that keep them in their orbits for their designed lifetimes, and there are probably replacements sitting in a hangar at Vandenberg AFB.
Because when someone loses an $800+ device, they just throw up their hands and say "oh well, I'll look for it in three months, I can't be bothered right now." Are Aunt Jane and Uncle Bill going on an expedition into the Congo? Searching for the true source of the Nile?
Recall announced: early October. Today: late December.
Your scenario is such an edge case that it's falling over the edge.
Shockingly, they don't have the next 7 years of products sitting in a warehouse somewhere just waiting for a green light to ship.
Do you even know what you just asked for? Product development takes time, and short cuts are what leads to phones spontaneously combusting. Take a revenue hit now, build the god damn thing right, and release it when it's ready. People will still buy it, if it has the feature set they want, and doesn't feature design defects that cause your house to catch fire.
You would basically need to make the phone unusable to prevent someone else from making the phone unusable. Fill the storage so there's nowhere to download the update. Turn it off and leave it off. Etc.
I have no idea if the carrier would invoke the next logical step, which would be to blacklist the IMEI of any known Note 7, causing the device to become a uselessly small wifi tablet. In that case, there's nothing you can do.
However, should this thing catch fire and burn your house down, good luck collecting on the home owner's insurance policy once the fire investigator finds that the ignition source was an incredibly loudly recalled phone that also should have received firmware forced through the networks to disable it.
You'd have better luck collecting if your kid was playing with matches next to the curtains that somehow got soaked in gasoline.
So you are saying that maybe Apple does a bit more than just slap together ideas from other companies and charge more for the logo? That doesn't play with the narrative that people try to sell around here...
Two iPhone 6 clones, two phones with serious problems. At least the Pixel doesn't burst into flames, I guess.
Well, a little thrust over a whole lot of time is still a lot of velocity. No, this won't be good for quick maneuvers, but if you pair it with a near constant energy supply (solar + battery / nuclear) you can fire this thing for a month and it will be going very far, very fast.
Just because we have an imperfect model of the physical universe doesn't mean that our understanding of things already mastered gets reset. This is how science is supposed to work. Come up with a theory, attempt to disprove; or confirm.
The problem is that people buy Mac Pro for the GPUs in order to use OpenCL, or god forbid, CUDA. Not CUDA on the trash can, but you know what I mean.
And they haven't done shit with the GPUs in that thing, and they were bad when it launched 3 years ago, which in GPU lifetimes is like 5 product cycles.
I suppose if they sold more of those things, it would be an opportunity for a company to reverse-engineer the BGA connector they are using to attach those GPUs, which we know contains power, PCI-e, and DisplayPort and create upgrade cards - this is what would have happened 15 years ago. But nobody is interested in spending millions to do that in order to move several thousand units even at the inflated price you could expect.
That thing is the true example of form over function. Why spend $6k for one of those with two old shit GPUs when you could spend $1000 less for a workstation from Lenovo with 3 Quadro cards, Xeon E5 v4 processors rather than v3, faster RAM, far more configuration options, and still get the precious Thunderbolt that Apple drones on about.
That Mac Pro sucked two years ago, and hasn't gotten any better with age. Apple neglected their Pro customers, and now they aren't Apple customers any more. And I say this as someone who used Mac Pro as a desktop since 2006, until last year when I built a PC using the Intel X99 chipset with DDR4 RAM and capabilities for 4 GPUs - something that is apparently well beyond Apple's capabilities.
I love driving. I really do. To the point where some friends and I are making a cheap endurance racer so we can run some 16-hour in a weekend races. That being said, there's some drives that I would love to let the car take care of while I do something more engaging. Ever driven between Cincinnati and Columbus? Portland and Eugene? Bay Area and Southern California? Anywhere in Nebraska? These are painful, stupefyingly boring drives with nothing to look at, no turns or hills to speak of, and just a hundred+ miles of 'are we there yet'. There's probably other examples you can think of, where you would rather be watching a movie or reading a book than mindlessly holding the car in a straight direction at a constant speed for the next 3 hours.
I have no problem with autopilot, as long as I can turn it off when I want to. It's the next evolution of cruise control, which nobody complains about.
restarting the engine doesn't come without cost. And, light timing doesn't require the fleet of vehicles being driven on the road to be completely changed out.
Why in fuck would you say that light timing doesn't need to be done because 5% of the cars on the road will shut off the engine while you are standing on the brakes...sometimes? That might take today's dumbest post award.
I'm really surprised that more traffic engineers don't time lights on major arterials just to keep traffic moving. One of the places I've seen timed lights in action is in downtown Salem, Oregon - if you go 28 to 30 mph you can go from one end of Commercial Street to the other without stopping unless someone in front of you does something dumb.
This seems like a fairly obvious thing to do to mitigate congestion and pollution, and yet doesn't see wide implementation for reasons beyond my understanding.
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So, a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, then?
if 100% of their lawyers were at 100% capacity, they would hire more lawyers. It's not like they are hurting for money.
I'm sure one of the recent hires can find the time to print off a boilerplate motion to dismiss and have a paralegal file it, because that's all this case is going to take.
Then you aren't looking for it.
Hello, I'm an Apple customer. I am typing this on a 2014 MacBook Pro. I carry an iPhone.
My next laptop will not be an Apple, because they are going out of their way to make products that are incompatible with my previous purchases (LED Cinema Display, countless USB products). Why can't I get a 12" or 13" notebook with discrete graphics? I don't even want the discrete graphics necessarily inside the notebook - isn't that kind of the point of Thunderbolt? Yet, Apple goes out of their way to disable external graphics adapters in their OS.
Why can't they put even one regular USB port on their notebooks? They helped to standardize USB 15 years ago, and now they have just decided that the literally hundreds of millions of devices already out there don't count any more. Why does buying a new notebook require me to buy another couple pounds of bullshit I have to carry everywhere just to use shit I already have; or spend hundreds more to replace perfectly working devices just to not have dongles on *everything*?
Razer figured this one out, and there's no way they have more R&D and product design budget than Apple. For $400 less, you can get a better processor, a 4K screen, the same Thunderbolt 3.0 connectivity without the arbitrary restrictions - in fact they will happily sell you a thunderbolt GPU enclosure. And, it's thinner and lighter if that's the goal. Sure, you don't get the touch strip thingy, but instead the whole god damn screen is touch.
Apple used to make products that people wanted - now Apple seems to be making products that Apple wants, regardless of customer sentiment. This transition started with the Mac Mini that was worse than what came before, and the useless trash can Mac Pro, and it's only gotten worse.
Because I'm sure when Samsung started their battery group, they picked a bunch of random people and sent them to "Battery School". Once they graduated, they immediately started creating the batteries for the Note 7.
Or maybe they hired engineers from other companies and institutions that actually had experience in battery design.
Also, when the second rev of the phone began failing, I'm sure they pulled the whole product and created a massive PR fiasco because they just felt like giving up, and not because perhaps the problem was external to the battery cell. Example: putting too big of a battery in too small of a space (which has been postulated) and that could only be fixed by completely redesigning the entire device or using a smaller (read: unacceptable) battery which would also have the fun outcome of opening them to false advertising legal action depending on how the marketing campaign was being executed.
The product was likely defective by design, and they chose to cut losses rather than follow the sunk cost fallacy. We'll know more in a few weeks. Stop peddling this fiction that Samsung just gave up because "only a few of them caught fire and they didn't want the bad PR" - you don't kill your flagship product that also has the highest profit margin and attempt to get back every single shipped unit unless you know there is something incredibly wrong, and that thing is incredibly hard to remedy in the field.
That fixes this one incident of a piss-poor headline.
The real fix is to get an editor that isn't an idiot.
Oddly, there's people even around this site that refuse to exchange them for a phone that won't burst into flames, to the point of circumventing the measures being put in place by Samsung and their partner carriers.
And yet there are implementations of it in non-Apple products on the market today, and have been for some time.
See: Waze, owned by Google. Do you really think that Apple would let Google slide on something infringing a patent? Really?
Yeah, this is awesome. Set a precedent of "I invented something that is so obvious it would take a 15 year old about 20 seconds to think of it, and whether you use it or not I'm going to try to milk you like some kind of money cow."
Please think before you type. Now we're trying to use the legal system to force people to include "features" that are encumbered by IP licensing? And this is somehow awesome?
Do you really think that this frivolous action that won't survive a simple motion to dismiss is somehow going to be a watershed moment that has the tech giants turn the corner on patents and declare that the whole system needs to be chucked out?
It doesn't matter - Apple is not using external counsel. They have a whole stable of lawyers that they can pick from in order to make this go away.
Do you really think that a company of Apple's size doesn't get sued constantly by anyone who can dream up any cause of action that might have a slight chance at getting them money? Between shareholders getting pissed because they bought stock at the wrong time to bullshit like TFA, they probably have their own private entrance at the courthouse for dealing with this garbage.
Don't worry, this doesn't even come close to being the most contentious transition of power in US history. When Thomas Jefferson was elected, the Federalists spent the next couple months of a lame-duck session of Congress creating extra layers of judiciary and packing the bench with Federalists in an attempt to minimize the amount of change the Democratic Republicans could do. Needless to say, that extra layer of Federal judges has since been removed, and the Federalists no longer exist.
Abstaining from a UN resolution saying that Israel isn't being nice, combined with a mealy-mouthed speech from the Secretary of State pales in comparison.
close, but a good 40km deeper into the atmosphere at perigee, which will induce more drag, reducing apogee height. If this thing is already not able to thrust to their intended orbit, the drag will eventually pull it down deeper into the atmosphere where it will burn up.
The KH-11s probably have working thrusters that keep them in their orbits for their designed lifetimes, and there are probably replacements sitting in a hangar at Vandenberg AFB.
I'm sure they tried that, but the engine didn't actually thrust because they put on the stack separator upside down and it's blocking the exhaust.
Because when someone loses an $800+ device, they just throw up their hands and say "oh well, I'll look for it in three months, I can't be bothered right now." Are Aunt Jane and Uncle Bill going on an expedition into the Congo? Searching for the true source of the Nile?
Recall announced: early October.
Today: late December.
Your scenario is such an edge case that it's falling over the edge.
Shockingly, they don't have the next 7 years of products sitting in a warehouse somewhere just waiting for a green light to ship.
Do you even know what you just asked for? Product development takes time, and short cuts are what leads to phones spontaneously combusting. Take a revenue hit now, build the god damn thing right, and release it when it's ready. People will still buy it, if it has the feature set they want, and doesn't feature design defects that cause your house to catch fire.
You would basically need to make the phone unusable to prevent someone else from making the phone unusable. Fill the storage so there's nowhere to download the update. Turn it off and leave it off. Etc.
I have no idea if the carrier would invoke the next logical step, which would be to blacklist the IMEI of any known Note 7, causing the device to become a uselessly small wifi tablet. In that case, there's nothing you can do.
Where did T-Mobile get the firmware from? Spoiler alert: they didn't write it. They got it from Samsung.
Also, it's not very surprising that a third party is willing to refund anything - it happens all the time in retail returns.
No, there is no forced recall.
However, should this thing catch fire and burn your house down, good luck collecting on the home owner's insurance policy once the fire investigator finds that the ignition source was an incredibly loudly recalled phone that also should have received firmware forced through the networks to disable it.
You'd have better luck collecting if your kid was playing with matches next to the curtains that somehow got soaked in gasoline.
Read the next sentence after the one you quoted.
In the non-trashcan Mac Pro, you could install (and even buy from Apple) Nvidia Quadro cards.
So you are saying that maybe Apple does a bit more than just slap together ideas from other companies and charge more for the logo? That doesn't play with the narrative that people try to sell around here...
Two iPhone 6 clones, two phones with serious problems. At least the Pixel doesn't burst into flames, I guess.
Well, a little thrust over a whole lot of time is still a lot of velocity. No, this won't be good for quick maneuvers, but if you pair it with a near constant energy supply (solar + battery / nuclear) you can fire this thing for a month and it will be going very far, very fast.
Just because we have an imperfect model of the physical universe doesn't mean that our understanding of things already mastered gets reset. This is how science is supposed to work. Come up with a theory, attempt to disprove; or confirm.
The problem is that people buy Mac Pro for the GPUs in order to use OpenCL, or god forbid, CUDA. Not CUDA on the trash can, but you know what I mean.
And they haven't done shit with the GPUs in that thing, and they were bad when it launched 3 years ago, which in GPU lifetimes is like 5 product cycles.
I suppose if they sold more of those things, it would be an opportunity for a company to reverse-engineer the BGA connector they are using to attach those GPUs, which we know contains power, PCI-e, and DisplayPort and create upgrade cards - this is what would have happened 15 years ago. But nobody is interested in spending millions to do that in order to move several thousand units even at the inflated price you could expect.
That thing is the true example of form over function. Why spend $6k for one of those with two old shit GPUs when you could spend $1000 less for a workstation from Lenovo with 3 Quadro cards, Xeon E5 v4 processors rather than v3, faster RAM, far more configuration options, and still get the precious Thunderbolt that Apple drones on about.
That Mac Pro sucked two years ago, and hasn't gotten any better with age. Apple neglected their Pro customers, and now they aren't Apple customers any more. And I say this as someone who used Mac Pro as a desktop since 2006, until last year when I built a PC using the Intel X99 chipset with DDR4 RAM and capabilities for 4 GPUs - something that is apparently well beyond Apple's capabilities.
Careful about the generalizations you make.
I love driving. I really do. To the point where some friends and I are making a cheap endurance racer so we can run some 16-hour in a weekend races. That being said, there's some drives that I would love to let the car take care of while I do something more engaging. Ever driven between Cincinnati and Columbus? Portland and Eugene? Bay Area and Southern California? Anywhere in Nebraska? These are painful, stupefyingly boring drives with nothing to look at, no turns or hills to speak of, and just a hundred+ miles of 'are we there yet'. There's probably other examples you can think of, where you would rather be watching a movie or reading a book than mindlessly holding the car in a straight direction at a constant speed for the next 3 hours.
I have no problem with autopilot, as long as I can turn it off when I want to. It's the next evolution of cruise control, which nobody complains about.
restarting the engine doesn't come without cost. And, light timing doesn't require the fleet of vehicles being driven on the road to be completely changed out.
Why in fuck would you say that light timing doesn't need to be done because 5% of the cars on the road will shut off the engine while you are standing on the brakes...sometimes? That might take today's dumbest post award.
I'm really surprised that more traffic engineers don't time lights on major arterials just to keep traffic moving. One of the places I've seen timed lights in action is in downtown Salem, Oregon - if you go 28 to 30 mph you can go from one end of Commercial Street to the other without stopping unless someone in front of you does something dumb.
This seems like a fairly obvious thing to do to mitigate congestion and pollution, and yet doesn't see wide implementation for reasons beyond my understanding.