I'm still astonished that the new Apple A6 processor is not considered an "innovation". That thing is FAST. Try loading a web page on iPhone 5 over LTE... very impressive.
I am not saying the S3 is slow... it is definitely the fastest Android phone on the market, and you can find some benchmarks where it will beat the iPhone 5 (if you have the quad-core version of the S3), but for most day-to-day usage, including web browsing, iPhone 5 beats Samsung S3 on performance / speed.
Google only wins if there are a bunch of Android manufacturers, none with overwhelming market share, OR Motorola Mobility becomes a dominant player, far exceeding their current market share.
Otherwise, if Samsung becomes *the* overwhelming Android manufacturer, it is just a matter of time they start making "requests" of Google, to change this feature or add that, which later turn to demands. Some of those demands may also be of the type "don't let Motorola make a handset that competes directly against ours".
Ultimately, if Google does ANYTHING displeasing to Samsung, there is nothing preventing Samsung from acting like Amazon and forking. With this much market share and user enthusiasm, they could afford the R&D and the complaints from Android purists.
Or maybe the judge should just stick to the usual penalties, i.e. injunctions and fines. The fact that you don't even question the wisdom of this kind of unusual, subjective judge's order is telling.
Let's see, that's at least twenty litigation posts related to Apple in the last 6 weeks.
How many posts talking about the A6 processor? Zilch. How many talking about the Nano refresh? Zilch. iPad update? Zilch. iPad Mini intro? One involving a cost comparison to Amazon, but none actually talking about a feature comparison. How about a feature comparison or technology review on any aspect of the iPhone 5? Zilch. (At least there was one post talking about the iTunes refresh. Wow, congrats guys.)
Heck, I'd be thrilled to see something as mundane as a feature-by-feature comparison of Samsung Galaxy S3 versus iPhone 5, irregardless if the conclusion shows one or the other winning, as long as it was technology focused and more or less objective.
But no, we've lost sight of technology and all we care about is this patent / litigation news, as well as wild talk of walled gardens. (I have yet to see even a single insightful post talking about what a walled garden is really about.)
What happened to apple.slashdot.org technology stories? There are plenty of news stories out there. They've only freaking revamped two thirds of their product lineup in the last 6 weeks, for goodness sake. Yet all Slashdot (read: Fandroid Central) can post is the stories involving lawsuits, it's disgusting.
Tragically, the Fanboi site macrumors is nowadays providing more unbiased coverage of Apple than is the declining Slashdot. Maybe if Taco was still around...
The simple fact is until a court had adjudicated if 2.25% is "fair or reasonable", you and I both have no clue over the matter, and it matters not a whit if Motorola has made the same demands on other companies.
I don't understand why Slashdot posters continue to cherry pick which legal cases to cite as their basis for painting one Fortune 500 company saintly and another devilish. These large tech companies are involved in dozens of cases / litigations, some of which they are on solid ground, others of which they are on shaky ground. It's true for Apple, it's true for Google, it's true for everybody.
Actually, I take it back, you probably DO know this, just trolling regardless, huh.
There is only room for one or two vendors to fully PROFIT (that's the word you don't seem to get) from Android. The rest? A race for very thin margins. Witness HTC.
Yes, there are many big corporations in existence. My point is that it's ludicrous to assign such metaphors to them, and that one corporation rarely has any kind of moral high ground or superiority over another.
... Never mind all of the dozens of other trollish patent lawsuits filed against Apple in years past. Let's just cherry pick the news in such a way that your preferred vendor always looks saintly.
It's hard not to wince whenever reading crap like this, from people who sound intelligent yet utterly fail to have any kind of perspective.
Motorola Mobility has generally been a failure of a company. Outside of RAZR, it's a dim history. In comparison, the other former pieces of Motorola seem to have actually created a product or two that appeal to customers (Motorola Solutions, Freescale).
It takes lawyers 2 weeks to BS their way out of a judgement they don't like. It takes Apple 15 minutes to update one webpage. But hey, don't let facts confuse your trolling.
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I'm still astonished that the new Apple A6 processor is not considered an "innovation". That thing is FAST. Try loading a web page on iPhone 5 over LTE... very impressive.
I am not saying the S3 is slow... it is definitely the fastest Android phone on the market, and you can find some benchmarks where it will beat the iPhone 5 (if you have the quad-core version of the S3), but for most day-to-day usage, including web browsing, iPhone 5 beats Samsung S3 on performance / speed.
Google only wins if there are a bunch of Android manufacturers, none with overwhelming market share, OR Motorola Mobility becomes a dominant player, far exceeding their current market share.
Otherwise, if Samsung becomes *the* overwhelming Android manufacturer, it is just a matter of time they start making "requests" of Google, to change this feature or add that, which later turn to demands. Some of those demands may also be of the type "don't let Motorola make a handset that competes directly against ours".
Ultimately, if Google does ANYTHING displeasing to Samsung, there is nothing preventing Samsung from acting like Amazon and forking. With this much market share and user enthusiasm, they could afford the R&D and the complaints from Android purists.
He is inaccurate, regardless of whether he is stupid or not.
How does this post get +5 insightful, and the GP only +2 Redundant? How is that even possible??
Or maybe the judge should just stick to the usual penalties, i.e. injunctions and fines. The fact that you don't even question the wisdom of this kind of unusual, subjective judge's order is telling.
How about Apple PRODUCTS instead of Apple LITIGATION stories...
Let's see, that's at least twenty litigation posts related to Apple in the last 6 weeks.
How many posts talking about the A6 processor? Zilch. How many talking about the Nano refresh? Zilch. iPad update? Zilch. iPad Mini intro? One involving a cost comparison to Amazon, but none actually talking about a feature comparison. How about a feature comparison or technology review on any aspect of the iPhone 5? Zilch. (At least there was one post talking about the iTunes refresh. Wow, congrats guys.)
Heck, I'd be thrilled to see something as mundane as a feature-by-feature comparison of Samsung Galaxy S3 versus iPhone 5, irregardless if the conclusion shows one or the other winning, as long as it was technology focused and more or less objective.
But no, we've lost sight of technology and all we care about is this patent / litigation news, as well as wild talk of walled gardens. (I have yet to see even a single insightful post talking about what a walled garden is really about.)
The "offered" part, no. The "accepted" part, yes.
And the GP does not have to provide a citation for his own dubious claim?
Not really, they're too busy playing with their iPhones and iPads to notice some random AC joke on Slashdot.
How can you even post this, given the immense irony of it?
Translation: Any judge who rules against Apple is saintly. Any judge who rules for Apple should be disrobed. I miss anything?
Your metaphor is so bad it doesn't even make sense. Try again AC.
It's a good thing you're not a lawyer then...
Last I checked, sales at Apple are still increasing, year-to-year.
I generally associate a company that is increasing its revenues with "success". Perhaps your standards differ.
... nothing else.
What happened to apple.slashdot.org technology stories? There are plenty of news stories out there. They've only freaking revamped two thirds of their product lineup in the last 6 weeks, for goodness sake. Yet all Slashdot (read: Fandroid Central) can post is the stories involving lawsuits, it's disgusting.
Tragically, the Fanboi site macrumors is nowadays providing more unbiased coverage of Apple than is the declining Slashdot. Maybe if Taco was still around...
Sorry, but ACs don't get to claim "end of story".
The simple fact is until a court had adjudicated if 2.25% is "fair or reasonable", you and I both have no clue over the matter, and it matters not a whit if Motorola has made the same demands on other companies.
"End of Story."
That's funny, we say the same thing about most anonymous cowards too!
I don't understand why Slashdot posters continue to cherry pick which legal cases to cite as their basis for painting one Fortune 500 company saintly and another devilish. These large tech companies are involved in dozens of cases / litigations, some of which they are on solid ground, others of which they are on shaky ground. It's true for Apple, it's true for Google, it's true for everybody.
Actually, I take it back, you probably DO know this, just trolling regardless, huh.
There is only room for one or two vendors to fully PROFIT (that's the word you don't seem to get) from Android. The rest? A race for very thin margins. Witness HTC.
iOS 6 Maps work fine. It is the Fandroids who continue to have confused ideas about a product they don't use but continue to hate anyways.
Yes, there are many big corporations in existence. My point is that it's ludicrous to assign such metaphors to them, and that one corporation rarely has any kind of moral high ground or superiority over another.
... Never mind all of the dozens of other trollish patent lawsuits filed against Apple in years past. Let's just cherry pick the news in such a way that your preferred vendor always looks saintly.
It's hard not to wince whenever reading crap like this, from people who sound intelligent yet utterly fail to have any kind of perspective.
Motorola Mobility has generally been a failure of a company. Outside of RAZR, it's a dim history. In comparison, the other former pieces of Motorola seem to have actually created a product or two that appeal to customers (Motorola Solutions, Freescale).
It takes lawyers 2 weeks to BS their way out of a judgement they don't like. It takes Apple 15 minutes to update one webpage. But hey, don't let facts confuse your trolling.