If you don't like the terms on the iTunes store buy your online music from somebody that doesn't have those terms. Oh wait such a place does not exist. Amazon has the same terms.
It should be noted that you actually have more rights under iTunes then if you buy a physical cd. With iTunes you can play your music on as many devices as you own at any time. With a physical cd you are only allowed to play your music on one device at a time. That's the law.
Actually I'd say it's an accurate summation. I've seen a hundred times police define anything that annoys them as "interfering" with their duties. Many times I have heard the excuse "i can't watch you and the suspect at the same time so your existence interferes with my duties". This is just an "I cant stop you from recording but I can make you go somewhere you can't see me" clause. In most jurisdictions interfering with a police officer is defined as anything the police officer says is interfering.
While it's true that the employer is not required to give a reason there always is one. Because i wanted to, is a reason. Now if the employee files suit and their lawyer asks why they were fired, no judge in the world will accept "no reason" as an answer. There is always a reason.
Also note just because a firing isn't illegal doesn't mean it's not actionable.
Um hell yes. And Duh nobody cares whats going on if Apple's not involved. The lawsuit craze started well before Apple came to the party. Just ask Jeff "one click" Bezeos. Apple has had to fend off a lot of stupid suits. such as alphabetizing songs...on the web... Using multicolumn layouts for music just like the ones NeXt created. But lets face it when it comes Smartphones as they exist today Apple is the Simpsons. No matter what your ideal is Apple already did it.
Yes everybody in the world is stupid cause a 10 year old Palm is just like an iPhone but better. The fact that you could turn a 10 year old palm into a 30 year old terminal is hardly "smart". Yep everybody else did such a great job of perfecting the touchscreen interface that they all found it too easy and abandoned them for keyboard until the iPhone suckered people into thinking they were cool. I bet you had a great old Osborne portable thats just as good as any laptop today too. Plus it had the built in theft deterrent that most people couldn't lift it.
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile but damn if he didn't invent the car.
Actually the innovation would be adding an indicator to the running app that a call is in progress and allowing that indicator to return the user to the call.
Your logic is like saying Photoshop is not innovative because windows paint can edit photos too.
umm the process you use to do it and the fact that you can do it are two different things.
Let me put this in a form you'll understand. If you get high smoking pot. smoking pot is the process. getting high is the result. There are lots of other processes you can use to get high.
Palm, Web OS, Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia they all use different processes than this the are all fairly simular but believe it or not patents actually are specific.
let's see having the control to switch apps as part of the phone interface, Adding an indicator to the running app that a call is active and having that indicator return the user to the call screen. The must not be obvious because most phones don't use them.
There are no FEATURES claimed in the patent. its an interface/process patents. Unless the Simon did everything just like the iPhone it sort of pointless.
The iPhone always multitasked. It just wasn't available for third party apps. This patent predates the release of the iPhone and is not about multitasking at all but the specific interface Apple used to make the switch.
For example, this can be useful if someone sends you a phone number in an electronic mail message. Just mark it and dial." Which is also clearly prior art in relation to the Apple lawsuit against HTC.
no Apple's patent covers the phone number being detected in the text and the number being turned into and active menu with the possibility to dial the number. That is not the same as selecting it and hitting dial. And this comes from a patent filed in 1997.
usually by pressing the home or back button. And a patent is the sum of its methods and claims not each individual one. the are much more specific than an Article title may make them out to be. That's why they're pages long not two lines.
Fact is this isn't the way android does it so stop panicing.
OMG you said subroutine ! Your an old fart aren't you. Nobodys called a subroutine in the last 20 years. Actually this would be accessing an API or possibly a framework or external library. But of course that's all mute as there was no patent awarded for that. If your looking for ignorance look to article submitters that create titles that are absolute BS based on some other ignorant persons misinterpretation of a patent there not smart enough to read or understand.
Were do some geeks get that retarded idea. In general the average consumer is a techo-noob. They don't know how a computer works or the internet either. All they want is to click onto something and see their facebook posts and see that video of the cat talking. Just because the all use it doen't mean they understand it. Half of them still refer to the tower as the CPU and say that they downloaded something from a disk. Hell a good number still the explorer is the internet.
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No on does. or can own music. All you can own are rights to use music. Rights have conditions and are always limited.
Chuck Norris doesn't care about this because Chuck Norris is immortal. Chuck Norris does not sync his music Chuck Norris syncs the universe to him.
If you don't like the terms on the iTunes store buy your online music from somebody that doesn't have those terms.
Oh wait such a place does not exist. Amazon has the same terms.
It should be noted that you actually have more rights under iTunes then if you buy a physical cd. With iTunes you can play your music on as many devices as you own at any time. With a physical cd you are only allowed to play your music on one device at a time. That's the law.
Actually if you could read it says you can't do that legally.
Old second gen iPod touch + clearance dock for $10 equals 32 GB music system. though I have been contemplating a permanent hook up for my van.
Actually I'd say it's an accurate summation. I've seen a hundred times police define anything that annoys them as "interfering" with their duties. Many times I have heard the excuse "i can't watch you and the suspect at the same time so your existence interferes with my duties". This is just an "I cant stop you from recording but I can make you go somewhere you can't see me" clause. In most jurisdictions interfering with a police officer is defined as anything the police officer says is interfering.
While it's true that the employer is not required to give a reason there always is one. Because i wanted to, is a reason. Now if the employee files suit and their lawyer asks why they were fired, no judge in the world will accept "no reason" as an answer. There is always a reason.
Also note just because a firing isn't illegal doesn't mean it's not actionable.
well for one that patent doesn't exist (patent is on the specific interface Apple uses to do it)
two the patent were talking about was granted today and has not been used by Apple for anything.
three as far as I know no phone violates this patent so its not much of an issue is it.
once again...you had to mark it
Um hell yes. And Duh nobody cares whats going on if Apple's not involved. The lawsuit craze started well before Apple came to the party. Just ask Jeff "one click" Bezeos. Apple has had to fend off a lot of stupid suits. such as alphabetizing songs...on the web... Using multicolumn layouts for music just like the ones NeXt created.
But lets face it when it comes Smartphones as they exist today Apple is the Simpsons. No matter what your ideal is Apple already did it.
Yes everybody in the world is stupid cause a 10 year old Palm is just like an iPhone but better. The fact that you could turn a 10 year old palm into a 30 year old terminal is hardly "smart". Yep everybody else did such a great job of perfecting the touchscreen interface that they all found it too easy and abandoned them for keyboard until the iPhone suckered people into thinking they were cool. I bet you had a great old Osborne portable thats just as good as any laptop today too. Plus it had the built in theft deterrent that most people couldn't lift it.
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile but damn if he didn't invent the car.
Actually the innovation would be adding an indicator to the running app that a call is in progress and allowing that indicator to return the user to the call.
Your logic is like saying Photoshop is not innovative because windows paint can edit photos too.
umm the process you use to do it and the fact that you can do it are two different things.
Let me put this in a form you'll understand.
If you get high smoking pot. smoking pot is the process. getting high is the result. There are lots of other processes you can use to get high.
Palm, Web OS, Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia they all use different processes than this the are all fairly simular but believe it or not patents actually are specific.
let's see having the control to switch apps as part of the phone interface, Adding an indicator to the running app that a call is active and having that indicator return the user to the call screen. The must not be obvious because most phones don't use them.
Really? I have a picture of a Ferrari I'll sell you for $40,000.
So your bitching because this patent is to specific?
There are no FEATURES claimed in the patent. its an interface/process patents. Unless the Simon did everything just like the iPhone it sort of pointless.
well silly if you hit the back button then your not using the process patented here so it's not prior art is it.
It doesn't predate the release of the original iPhone, but I think its release and certainly its development predates the filing of this patent.
Um the filing predates the release of the iPhone silly.
The patent is for the process/interface used to switch not for switching itself.
It could have but it didn't. So shut up. Read what was actually patented before commenting.
The iPhone always multitasked. It just wasn't available for third party apps. This patent predates the release of the iPhone and is not about multitasking at all but the specific interface Apple used to make the switch.
For example, this can be useful if someone sends you a phone number in an electronic mail message. Just mark it and dial." Which is also clearly prior art in relation to the Apple lawsuit against HTC.
no Apple's patent covers the phone number being detected in the text and the number being turned into and active menu with the possibility to dial the number. That is not the same as selecting it and hitting dial. And this comes from a patent filed in 1997.
usually by pressing the home or back button. And a patent is the sum of its methods and claims not each individual one. the are much more specific than an Article title may make them out to be. That's why they're pages long not two lines.
Fact is this isn't the way android does it so stop panicing.
OMG you said subroutine ! Your an old fart aren't you. Nobodys called a subroutine in the last 20 years. Actually this would be accessing an API or possibly a framework or external library. But of course that's all mute as there was no patent awarded for that. If your looking for ignorance look to article submitters that create titles that are absolute BS based on some other ignorant persons misinterpretation of a patent there not smart enough to read or understand.
Were do some geeks get that retarded idea. In general the average consumer is a techo-noob. They don't know how a computer works or the internet either. All they want is to click onto something and see their facebook posts and see that video of the cat talking. Just because the all use it doen't mean they understand it. Half of them still refer to the tower as the CPU and say that they downloaded something from a disk. Hell a good number still the explorer is the internet.
umm dude. Apple has a bigger market share in Japan than in the US.
Fact is no one can compete with Apple because Apple gives the consumer what they want not what a bunch of whiny geeks want.