Sweet for Apple is that there may be finally an end to the Android ripoff but sadly Steve never lived to see it.
It started when Samsung was hit by the spectacular ONE BILLION DOLLAR judgement in the USA.
Samsung is now being sued by another Korean Android manufacturer for ripping off patented display technology.
Samsung is the first Android manufacturer that may get hit with a FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLAR judgement from the governments for attacking Apple in the EU.
There is now an outside possibility that ALL other Samsung products including TVs may be effectively removed from the US market for four months if Samsung makes another misstep in the US Courts.
Samsung now has to post an 80% bond that may go to 100% covering Android products sold in the USA for four months.
Samsung was forced to agree never to bring their new Android mini to the USA which is going to hurt Samsung the most in their biggest Android market going forward.
Sadly for the leading global Android manufacturer who arrogantly choose to goto war with Apple over Android that is the equivalent of a financial thermonuclear hit!
A lot of cafes in my country are using some Turbo Vision based software for processing orders and receipts.
Not a problem. Thousands upon thousands are turning to Apple iPads for processing orders and creating receipts. It is quite an interesting phenomena to see such an explosive change. Already I am getting asked everywhere do I want a printed receipt or would I prefer an email receipt. I always take the email version which makes my life easier and saves on paper clutter. I don't care if they use my email address to shoot me a special deal to get me to come back either.
That is another key example of how Apple created a disruptive change in how an industry operates. Everyone seems to have simultaneously discovered they don't really need a PC to replace a cash registrar. Today for example I had a guy slide my American Express right there into his iPhone case which had a credit card reader and I signed the screen with my finger. That is right up there as the world's smallest checkout terminal.
Another sea change due to smart phones is the appearance of QR Codes everywhere. I am seeing some businesses devote one whole window display to a gigantic QR code that can be easily read a block away. These point to catalogs, special deals or the menu of the day.
Bottom line XP doesn't do these things and when it is time o stop using it there is no need to waste money on a new PC that isn't particularly well designed for the checkout task.
Germany just demonstrated in June 2012 a military tactic for taking out the vaunted US Stealth F22 Raptor in close combat and it works.
I bet Iran is paying close attention to this.
That expensive US stealth fighter can be had by the more nimble Germans!
It appears United States Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations Jonathan Greenert was proved right, the stealth advantage can be defeated in a real war!
No one is offering to let the Germans try it on the stealth F35 in a mock fight for obvious reasons (Obama's election?) but I bet that tactic may work on the F35 too.
The Wired update for 7/31/2012 has the US military spin doctors claiming the test was flawed as no German Typhoon will ever get close enough for 'close combat' in a real shoot out so you need to read the whole article to see for yourself.
Twenty five more patents were just granted to Apple that blow past Wii, Move, and Kinect which will all be instantly rendered obsolete the moment these patents appear as Apple 4D and 5D hardware.
As apposed to backdoor sponsorship? Makes for a nice trap. Like when Goldfinger got all the mafia guys into one room and gassed 'em.
In related news after Apple's earnings report, Apple in a conference call to investors this evening invited all of Slashdot's top posters to attend an all expenses Apple paid conference at the mogul retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho next Saturday.
But Ford has software technology made in the USA by Microsoft, doesn't that count for something?
Whoops my bad. No one would want to mention that about Ford.
Microsoft is the reason Ford just fell in JD Power reliability rankings because the Microsoft Ford custom multi media center user experience was so unreliable.
I just bought a new 2012 family car a couple of weeks ago. I was intrigued by new 2012/2013 technology from Ford but I clearly did not want my wife to be alone and suffer the Ford equivalent of the infamous 'Blue Screen of Death'. I bought a Toyota Hybrid Camry XLS which was manufactured in Kentucky a few days after my order and delivered a week later.
Marietta Toyota called the morning it was delivered and my wife drove it home that afternoon with less than five miles on the odometer.
BTW she just had her first free OTA software update from Toyota which added new features.
Who cares where it is built today? The proven high technology that you are getting today is a lot of where your satisfaction is in a global economy. NOTE: The 2012 THC has forty two computers managing all aspects of your ride.
Well considering this can't self-replciate, and you must be duped into opening the zip, then launching the attachment, your statement is true in the scope of this malware. It's a trojan, not a virus.
This is about as nefarious as me sending a batch file to you saying 'run this safe file'.
It is pure social engineering, and has nothing to do with the OS security, other than it targets a Mac. Rather poor social engineering at that.
Boom another major blow to Samsung and Android Tuesday and then the ruling specifically addresses any Geek's desire for a 'pure Android' to boot.
This could not get any more specific than Tuesday's Judgements. Here are some of them...
"The record contains evidence that, while Apples U.S. market share in unit shipments may have continued to grow from the third to fourth quarters of 2011, even after release of the Galaxy Nexus on December 15, 2011, Apples U.S. market share fell by several percentage points in the first quarter of 2012 i.e., the three months after the Galaxy Nexus was released while Samsungs U.S. market share grew by roughly the same percentage points," the order read.
"The Court found that Apple had shown a clear likelihood that Samsung has and will continue to take market share from Apple, and moreover that it is doing so with a product that likely infringes for of Apple's likely valid patents."...
Though Samsung attempted to block the injunction with its own argument that it would suffer irreparable harm, the court was not sympathetic to the line of reasoning. "The harms identified by Samsung in the coming weeks or months are no more than the expected harms that accompany any enjoined business"...
Here is proof Judge Koh clearly knows how to think and reason...
"Furthermore, Samsungs very argument at the hearing that it would be irreparably harmed by lost Galaxy Nexus sales to Apple, due to the strength of Apples platform stickiness and brand loyalty among its customers, undermines the position it has maintained during this litigation that Galaxy Nexus customers are unlikely to buy Apple products in Samsungs stead. Samsungs argument instead supports Apples position that the Galaxy Nexus is taking sales away from Apple."...
And the one that startled me the most as quoted from the blog AppleInsider...
"Samsung also made an absurd argument that a sales ban of the Galaxy Nexus would harm "certain "techie" consumers who value the pure Android operating system and who will be unable to find any close substitute within the same price point." The court summarily dismissed the claim, citing Samsung's own frequent assertion that it sells more than one smartphone."
--
There are plenty of cheap older Androids to choose from!
The Injunction against Samsung now stands and is in full effect....
Judge rejects Samsung's request to lift ban on U.S. tablet sales
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday rejected a request by South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. to lift a ban on U.S. sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1, a tablet computer that competes with Apple Inc.'s iPad.
Judge Koh deals next blow to Samsung, denies all 12 of its summary judgment requests against Apple Sunday, July 1, 2012 “On Saturday, Judge Koh denied the entirety of a comprehensive summary judgment motion that Samsung brought in May,”
But GOOGLE doesn't care about you any more than the OEM or Carrier does.
Think about it. Google could solve this with the stroke of a pen. It's their baby; they control the licensing, period.
But 2.2, 2.3 or 4.1 all return ad hits to Google quite nicely, thank you; so why SHOULD they care?
BINGO!
I would change this from INTERESTING to a solid (Score:5, INSIGHTFUL) for "all return ad hits to Google quite nicely, thank you; so why SHOULD they care?"
Presumably anyone who cant manage to support two versions of Android is stupid or incompetent.
I think the is the crux of the problem: is it that thousands and thousands of developers are all stupid or incompetent, or is it that Google has not provided an ecosystem that makes it financially worth it to make things work perfectly, debug, test, answer support questions, etc., for large numbers of versions and devices?
The iPhone is a whole different beast. There have been 5 total models since its initial release, and 5 versions of the OS. Over 80% of all iPhone users are on the latest OS. The iPhone 3GS, released about 3 years ago, runs the current OS and will be upgradable to the next one. That leaves the original iPhone, and the iPhone 3G (which many had complaints about its upgradability) as the only orphaned iPhones. That's one side of the equation. On the other side is an app marketplace which outsells Android by a significant margin despite a smaller installed base, and which is well-curated with a clear path from development to release to sales. That yields a dramatically better return on investment, and is (I think) the reason developers are less willing to support the latest (or multiple) Android versions.
Let it be added "That yields a dramatically better return on end user experience also, which is the reason the iPhone is the single most popular SmartPhone in a world full of millions of fragmented Androids"
1. Reread the post 2. Read the "Android fanboy" site and see which company has the highest user satisfaction rating....
Here is a reasonable challenge, find a valid reference to a valid study by unbiased researchers in the last week, month, that Android anything has the highest user satisfaction compared to Apple. Android blogs and fanboy sites do not even remotely count as valid, free of distortion. Wall Street and related sites do count.
Common sense says that if was even remotely true Apple would not command so much of the global market for smartphones with a decent profit compared to the profit starved Android manufacturers. Wall Street is now increasingly aware that even Android has been a bad deal to date and doesn't make any decent money for Google by Google's own admission.
If anyone says that Apple manages to dominate by advertising, answer this question, Isn't Google's whole business built on serving targeted advertising to the masses via the Internet? Google has the strongest hand in the world for stuffing everything down the throat of the gullible which should have guaranteed that Android was the most profitable global venture in Internet history.
"Apple has been losing their ardent followers for some time now. People have seen android as a very viable alternative, and are switching over. Apple knows this, or they wouldn't be resorting to these bully tactics."
Right that must be why iPhone satisfsction ratings are so low compared to Android manufacturers....
And why Apple is seeing decreasing revenue and profit compared to Android manufacturers....
Oh wait.....
Honestly the moderators are not doing their job! This post above not only is delusional and but an outright lie backed up by an old 2011 post to an Android FanBoy site. Don't you just love the power of the Internet to mislead others?
Apple' lead in user satisfaction with the iPhone over all other smartphones appears to be so great it is untouchable.
if I was Samsung I wouldn't sell them so much as a screw.
Hint: If Sammy drops Apple as a customer, they'd need a major restructuring and they'd also need something to do with the 100 plants they have serving Apple.
Famous last words of Walmart suppliers before they go out of business replaced by in store brand.
Lets see this week it was clear it was Apple who now is in the driver's seat and Apple just dropped Samsung as a supplier for their new iPad 3 screens effective August - September 2012.
Poor Sammy or is it the poor Ferengy merchants from Star Wars where Google got the Android mascot?
After MS shipped Vista, MicroCenter used to advertise desktop systems with Vista preloaded and "XP downgrade rights". Expect similar with Windows 8 and "Win 7 downgrade".
We have a firm quote that the Microsoft TAX on Windows 8 to have Microsoft safely remove the crapware their partners load on top of each copy of Windows 8 will be an additional $99.
Apple was ordered to post a bond of $95 million to enact the injunction, which would be used to pay Samsung damages if the decision is later reversed.
But who will reimburse the consumers for the damages we suffer from having these devices temporarily off the market, if the decision is later reversed?
Be more realistic. The chances at very good that the injunction will be upheld permanently, they generally are when they each this stage. The question should be who bares the responsibility for selling you a banned product that you will not be able to get parts for if it is broken? The Koreans or Google?
Has anyone else noticed that Samsung's culture's actions mirror the lovable little scoundrels, the Fringy, in Star Wars:Underworld?
Take a look at both the outer design and software of Samsung's phones before and after the iPhone and say with a straight face that Samsung didn't copy at least some elements from Apple.
What makes Apple's behavior so wrong and destructive is that they copy liberally from others and then turn around and try to monopolize the market with bad patents.
Would you be so kind as to enlighten all of Slashdot of what bad patents have been issued to Apple that are being used to monopolize the market?
Prove to all of us how Apple has acquired a patent that has resulted in a monopoly they did not deserve for their American innovation?
it's really sad to see what capitalism is doing to a country that had such high goals when i was first created. now it seems mostly you will get incarcerated, sued, beaten up or criminalized for things that are perfectly normal in the rest of the free world.
i think it's really cynical of american polititians to even use the word "freedom" in their campaigns since it has basically lost all meaning due to the entanglement of business, military and politics.
Woud it not be more accurate to say the entanglement of business, political, and religion is what defies the true meaning of freedom?
The military is just an expression of the political teeth that can bite the government's enemies.
Well - pity for those in the US, they wont get the new stuff now...
Fortunately the rest of the world can enjoy all those things that are forbidden in the US. Seems the US is no longer the place to get your new stuff. Now I am the last one to say anything about the quality or something, but at least the rest of the rest of the world has a free choice.
The same issues Google/Samsung/Motorola ran afoul off in the USA are also being brought up before governments all over the world.
Google/Motorola is preparing for a major hit where it hurts.
Could you loose your ability to speak if you have been screaming in pain and anger at adverse developments rapidly revealing themselves as you prepare to celebrate your accomplishments?
The blow to Google Android Motorola was prompted by six key congressmen who visited the FTC on Thursday and told them FRAND ABUSE as practiced by Google in protecting Android would not be tolerated as it was anti competitive. In effect they told the FTC to step up their game as they were now watching what transpires.
Overseas the EU is investigating the same FRAND ABUSE issues and is preparing to smack down Google/Motorola for the same reasons. The FTC just provided documents to the EU to help the EU build their case.
Google's strategy of buying Motorola to protect Android using FRAND has been hit hard after six key congressmen visited the FTC Thursday and warned them FRAND ABUSE will not be tolerated in the USA either. Don't you just love an election year?
Then Google has been hit hard by Apple dropping Google maps from Apple mobile this fall. Google looses map revenue and market share while Google is forced to dump large sums into new map display technology to try to convince mobile users Google maps are better.
For those experienced with android it tells you something:
Nexus = owned by google = apple equivalent experience = things will work right.
Buying non-nexus products = responsibilities on the shoulders of either the mfr or the carrier if it's a phone = shoddy experience = things are broken and will not be fixed.
But things went horribly wrong for Google a few hours ago. The new Google Android flagship Nexus that was just released Monday has been banned in the USA by an emergency court injunction obtained by Apple.
To make matters worse for Google and Motorola six key senators just visited the FTC and warned them they were watching how the FTC dealt with accusations of FRAND abuse (read Google/Motorola vs Apple). Don't you just love an election year?
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Sweet for Apple is that there may be finally an end to the Android ripoff but sadly Steve never lived to see it.
It started when Samsung was hit by the spectacular ONE BILLION DOLLAR judgement in the USA.
Samsung is now being sued by another Korean Android manufacturer for ripping off patented display technology.
Samsung is the first Android manufacturer that may get hit with a FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLAR judgement from the governments for attacking Apple in the EU.
There is now an outside possibility that ALL other Samsung products including TVs may be effectively removed from the US market for four months if Samsung makes another misstep in the US Courts.
Samsung now has to post an 80% bond that may go to 100% covering Android products sold in the USA for four months.
Samsung was forced to agree never to bring their new Android mini to the USA which is going to hurt Samsung the most in their biggest Android market going forward.
Sadly for the leading global Android manufacturer who arrogantly choose to goto war with Apple over Android that is the equivalent of a financial thermonuclear hit!
Oh wait...
A lot of cafes in my country are using some Turbo Vision based software for processing orders and receipts.
Not a problem. Thousands upon thousands are turning to Apple iPads for processing orders and creating receipts. It is quite an interesting phenomena to see such an explosive change. Already I am getting asked everywhere do I want a printed receipt or would I prefer an email receipt. I always take the email version which makes my life easier and saves on paper clutter. I don't care if they use my email address to shoot me a special deal to get me to come back either.
That is another key example of how Apple created a disruptive change in how an industry operates. Everyone seems to have simultaneously discovered they don't really need a PC to replace a cash registrar. Today for example I had a guy slide my American Express right there into his iPhone case which had a credit card reader and I signed the screen with my finger. That is right up there as the world's smallest checkout terminal.
Another sea change due to smart phones is the appearance of QR Codes everywhere. I am seeing some businesses devote one whole window display to a gigantic QR code that can be easily read a block away. These point to catalogs, special deals or the menu of the day.
Bottom line XP doesn't do these things and when it is time o stop using it there is no need to waste money on a new PC that isn't particularly well designed for the checkout task.
In the end the only true winners, are the lawyers.
Except in a case like this, aren't most of the lawyers already on one or the other company's payroll? If so, they're not getting a cut of the award.
Samsung hired one of the best known law firms Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. They even have a Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinn_Emanuel_Urquhart_%26_Sullivan.
So at least Samsung's lawyers are not on their payroll.
Samsung's lawyers are from Google's specially chosen and retained law firm, most seem to be ignorant of that detail.
Germany just demonstrated in June 2012 a military tactic for taking out the vaunted US Stealth F22 Raptor in close combat and it works.
I bet Iran is paying close attention to this.
That expensive US stealth fighter can be had by the more nimble Germans!
It appears United States Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations Jonathan Greenert was proved right, the stealth advantage can be defeated in a real war!
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/f-22-germans/
No one is offering to let the Germans try it on the stealth F35 in a mock fight for obvious reasons (Obama's election?) but I bet that tactic may work on the F35 too.
The Wired update for 7/31/2012 has the US military spin doctors claiming the test was flawed as no German Typhoon will ever get close enough for 'close combat' in a real shoot out so you need to read the whole article to see for yourself.
What a waste of money!
Apple's Wild New Patent Covers TV & Advanced 5D Technology -
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/07/apples-wild-new-patent-covers-tv-advanced-5d-technology.html [patentlyapple.com]
Twenty five more patents were just granted to Apple that blow past Wii, Move, and Kinect which will all be instantly rendered obsolete the moment these patents appear as Apple 4D and 5D hardware.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/07/apples-25-granted-patents-include-apple-tv-future-id-app.html
Could this be why Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all now fear Apple TV?
Samsung get your hardware and software copiers ready, you know you have nothing to fear.
Quote
“They copied all they could follow,
But they couldn’t copy my mind.
“So I left ‘em sweatin’ and schemin’,
a year and a half behind”
Apple's Wild New Patent Covers TV & Advanced 5D Technology - Patently Apple
2012/07 Granted Patent Number One
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/07/apples-wild-new-patent-covers-tv-advanced-5d-technology.html
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/07/apples-25-granted-patents-include-apple-tv-future-id-app.html
Could this be why the industry now fears Apple TV?
Quote
“They copied all they could follow,
But they couldn’t copy my mind.
“So I left ‘em sweatin’ and schemin’,
a year and a half behind”
As apposed to backdoor sponsorship? Makes for a nice trap. Like when Goldfinger got all the mafia guys into one room and gassed 'em.
In related news after Apple's earnings report, Apple in a conference call to investors this evening invited all of Slashdot's top posters to attend an all expenses Apple paid conference at the mogul retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho next Saturday.
Funny that you mention this.
I just bought a Ford made in Cologne, Germany.
But Ford has software technology made in the USA by Microsoft, doesn't that count for something?
Whoops my bad. No one would want to mention that about Ford.
Microsoft is the reason Ford just fell in JD Power reliability rankings because the Microsoft Ford custom multi media center user experience was so unreliable.
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/ford-continues-to-slide-in-jd-power-survey-on-automaker-quality/
I just bought a new 2012 family car a couple of weeks ago. I was intrigued by new 2012/2013 technology from Ford but I clearly did not want my wife to be alone and suffer the Ford equivalent of the infamous 'Blue Screen of Death'. I bought a Toyota Hybrid Camry XLS which was manufactured in Kentucky a few days after my order and delivered a week later.
Marietta Toyota called the morning it was delivered and my wife drove it home that afternoon with less than five miles on the odometer.
BTW she just had her first free OTA software update from Toyota which added new features.
Who cares where it is built today? The proven high technology that you are getting today is a lot of where your satisfaction is in a global economy. NOTE: The 2012 THC has forty two computers managing all aspects of your ride.
Well considering this can't self-replciate, and you must be duped into opening the zip, then launching the attachment, your statement is true in the scope of this malware. It's a trojan, not a virus.
This is about as nefarious as me sending a batch file to you saying 'run this safe file'.
It is pure social engineering, and has nothing to do with the OS security, other than it targets a Mac. Rather poor social engineering at that .
Yes I would assume this Mac attack will prove successful only among those geeks who normally would fall for this seeming legit instruction...
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/epic-fail-photos-fail-nation-seems-legit-fail.jpg
Boom another major blow to Samsung and Android Tuesday and then the ruling specifically addresses any Geek's desire for a 'pure Android' to boot.
This could not get any more specific than Tuesday's Judgements. Here are some of them...
"The record contains evidence that, while Apples U.S. market share in unit shipments may have continued to grow from the third to fourth quarters of 2011, even after release of the Galaxy Nexus on December 15, 2011, Apples U.S. market share fell by several percentage points in the first quarter of 2012 i.e., the three months after the Galaxy Nexus was released while Samsungs U.S. market share grew by roughly the same percentage points," the order read.
"The Court found that Apple had shown a clear likelihood that Samsung has and will continue to take market share from Apple, and moreover that it is doing so with a product that likely infringes for of Apple's likely valid patents." ...
Though Samsung attempted to block the injunction with its own argument that it would suffer irreparable harm, the court was not sympathetic to the line of reasoning. "The harms identified by Samsung in the coming weeks or months are no more than the expected harms that accompany any enjoined business" ...
Here is proof Judge Koh clearly knows how to think and reason...
"Furthermore, Samsungs very argument at the hearing that it would be irreparably harmed by lost Galaxy Nexus sales to Apple, due to the strength of Apples platform stickiness and brand loyalty among its customers, undermines the position it has maintained during this litigation that ...
Galaxy Nexus customers are unlikely to buy Apple products in Samsungs stead. Samsungs argument instead supports Apples position that the Galaxy Nexus is taking sales away from Apple."
And the one that startled me the most as quoted from the blog AppleInsider...
"Samsung also made an absurd argument that a sales ban of the Galaxy Nexus would harm "certain "techie" consumers who value the pure Android operating system and who will be unable to find any close substitute within the same price point." The court summarily dismissed the claim, citing Samsung's own frequent assertion that it sells more than one smartphone."
--
There are plenty of cheap older Androids to choose from!
The Injunction against Samsung now stands and is in full effect. ...
Sources
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/07/03/court_denies_samsungs_motion_to_stay_galaxy_nexus_injunction.html
and
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3136023/samsung-request-stay-galaxy-nexus-injunction-denied-Apple
Judge rejects Samsung's request to lift ban on U.S. tablet sales
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday rejected a request by South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. to lift a ban on U.S. sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1, a tablet computer that competes with Apple Inc.'s iPad.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/03/us-apple-samsung-stay-idUSBRE86201G20120703?
Judge Koh deals next blow to Samsung, denies all 12 of its summary judgment requests against Apple Sunday, July 1, 2012
“On Saturday, Judge Koh denied the entirety of a comprehensive summary judgment motion that Samsung brought in May,”
http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/07/judge-koh-deals-next-blow-to-samsung.html
But GOOGLE doesn't care about you any more than the OEM or Carrier does.
Think about it. Google could solve this with the stroke of a pen. It's their baby; they control the licensing, period.
But 2.2, 2.3 or 4.1 all return ad hits to Google quite nicely, thank you; so why SHOULD they care?
BINGO!
I would change this from INTERESTING to a solid (Score:5, INSIGHTFUL) for "all return ad hits to Google quite nicely, thank you; so why SHOULD they care?"
Presumably anyone who cant manage to support two versions of Android is stupid or incompetent.
I think the is the crux of the problem: is it that thousands and thousands of developers are all stupid or incompetent, or is it that Google has not provided an ecosystem that makes it financially worth it to make things work perfectly, debug, test, answer support questions, etc., for large numbers of versions and devices?
The iPhone is a whole different beast. There have been 5 total models since its initial release, and 5 versions of the OS. Over 80% of all iPhone users are on the latest OS. The iPhone 3GS, released about 3 years ago, runs the current OS and will be upgradable to the next one. That leaves the original iPhone, and the iPhone 3G (which many had complaints about its upgradability) as the only orphaned iPhones. That's one side of the equation. On the other side is an app marketplace which outsells Android by a significant margin despite a smaller installed base, and which is well-curated with a clear path from development to release to sales. That yields a dramatically better return on investment, and is (I think) the reason developers are less willing to support the latest (or multiple) Android versions.
Let it be added "That yields a dramatically better return on end user experience also, which is the reason the iPhone is the single most popular SmartPhone in a world full of millions of fragmented Androids"
And you still didn't read the link. The link from the Android fan site showed that Apple had the highest rating. It's called sarcasm dude.
My bad
I finally got your point as he humbly reminds himself never to again challenge any one on slashdot with a low six digit id.
Did I really need to put tags around the post?
1. Reread the post
2. Read the "Android fanboy" site and see which company has the highest user satisfaction rating....
Here is a reasonable challenge, find a valid reference to a valid study by unbiased researchers in the last week, month, that Android anything has the highest user satisfaction compared to Apple. Android blogs and fanboy sites do not even remotely count as valid, free of distortion. Wall Street and related sites do count.
Common sense says that if was even remotely true Apple would not command so much of the global market for smartphones with a decent profit compared to the profit starved Android manufacturers. Wall Street is now increasingly aware that even Android has been a bad deal to date and doesn't make any decent money for Google by Google's own admission.
If anyone says that Apple manages to dominate by advertising, answer this question, Isn't Google's whole business built on serving targeted advertising to the masses via the Internet? Google has the strongest hand in the world for stuffing everything down the throat of the gullible which should have guaranteed that Android was the most profitable global venture in Internet history.
Waiting.
"Apple has been losing their ardent followers for some time now. People have seen android as a very viable alternative, and are switching over. Apple knows this, or they wouldn't be resorting to these bully tactics."
Right that must be why iPhone satisfsction ratings are so low compared to Android manufacturers....
http://androidcommunity.com/android-loses-out-to-iphone-bigtime-in-jd-power-satisfaction-ratings-20110318/
And why Apple is seeing decreasing revenue and profit compared to Android manufacturers....
Oh wait.....
Honestly the moderators are not doing their job! This post above not only is delusional and but an outright lie backed up by an old 2011 post to an Android FanBoy site. Don't you just love the power of the Internet to mislead others?
Apple' lead in user satisfaction with the iPhone over all other smartphones appears to be so great it is untouchable.
if I was Samsung I wouldn't sell them so much as a screw.
Hint: If Sammy drops Apple as a customer, they'd need a major restructuring and they'd also need something to do with the 100 plants they have serving Apple.
Famous last words of Walmart suppliers before they go out of business replaced by in store brand.
Lets see this week it was clear it was Apple who now is in the driver's seat and Apple just dropped Samsung as a supplier for their new iPad 3 screens effective August - September 2012.
Poor Sammy or is it the poor Ferengy merchants from Star Wars where Google got the Android mascot?
After MS shipped Vista, MicroCenter used to advertise desktop systems with Vista preloaded and "XP downgrade rights". Expect similar with Windows 8 and "Win 7 downgrade".
We have a firm quote that the Microsoft TAX on Windows 8 to have Microsoft safely remove the crapware their partners load on top of each copy of Windows 8 will be an additional $99.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/microsoft-to-charge-customers-99-to-remove-oem-crapware/20446
Wait, you mean all those news about his death, claiming he was the inventor of computing, are not to be believed!? (/sarcasm)
No, that was the political hero Al Gore.
Apple was ordered to post a bond of $95 million to enact the injunction, which would be used to pay Samsung damages if the decision is later reversed.
But who will reimburse the consumers for the damages we suffer from having these devices temporarily off the market, if the decision is later reversed?
Be more realistic. The chances at very good that the injunction will be upheld permanently, they generally are when they each this stage.
The question should be who bares the responsibility for selling you a banned product that you will not be able to get parts for if it is broken?
The Koreans or Google?
Has anyone else noticed that Samsung's culture's actions mirror the lovable little scoundrels, the Fringy, in Star Wars:Underworld?
Take a look at both the outer design and software of Samsung's phones before and after the iPhone and say with a straight face that Samsung didn't copy at least some elements from Apple.
What makes Apple's behavior so wrong and destructive is that they copy liberally from others and then turn around and try to monopolize the market with bad patents.
Would you be so kind as to enlighten all of Slashdot of what bad patents have been issued to Apple that are being used to monopolize the market?
Prove to all of us how Apple has acquired a patent that has resulted in a monopoly they did not deserve for their American innovation?
it's really sad to see what capitalism is doing to a country that had such high goals when i was first created. now it seems mostly you will get incarcerated, sued, beaten up or criminalized for things that are perfectly normal in the rest of the free world.
i think it's really cynical of american polititians to even use the word "freedom" in their campaigns since it has basically lost all meaning due to the entanglement of business, military and politics.
Woud it not be more accurate to say the entanglement of business, political, and religion is what defies the true meaning of freedom?
The military is just an expression of the political teeth that can bite the government's enemies.
Well - pity for those in the US, they wont get the new stuff now...
Fortunately the rest of the world can enjoy all those things that are forbidden in the US. Seems the US is no longer the place to get your new stuff.
Now I am the last one to say anything about the quality or something, but at least the rest of the rest of the world has a free choice.
The same issues Google/Samsung/Motorola ran afoul off in the USA are also being brought up before governments all over the world.
Google/Motorola is preparing for a major hit where it hurts.
Could you loose your ability to speak if you have been screaming in pain and anger at adverse developments rapidly revealing themselves as you prepare to celebrate your accomplishments?
The blow to Google Android Motorola was prompted by six key congressmen who visited the FTC on Thursday and told them FRAND ABUSE as practiced by Google in protecting Android would not be tolerated as it was anti competitive. In effect they told the FTC to step up their game as they were now watching what transpires.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/29/civil.investigative.demands.issued.to.google.apple.microsoft/
Overseas the EU is investigating the same FRAND ABUSE issues and is preparing to smack down Google/Motorola for the same reasons. The FTC just provided documents to the EU to help the EU build their case.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/02/19/apple-files-frand-abuse-complaint/
Two cellphone manufacturers enter!
RIM takes one on the chin, and is down for the count!
Google, Samsung, and Android just took a bunch of horrible hits.
The import and sale of the Google flag ship Nexus released Monday has just been banned in the USA by court order obtained by Apple a few hours ago.
http://gigaom.com/apple/apple-gets-another-injunction-this-time-on-samsungs-galaxy-nexus/
Google's strategy of buying Motorola to protect Android using FRAND has been hit hard after six key congressmen visited the FTC Thursday and warned them FRAND ABUSE will not be tolerated in the USA either. Don't you just love an election year?
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/7/3071117/ftc-standards-related-patents-can-cause-substantial-harm-when-used-to
Then Google has been hit hard by Apple dropping Google maps from Apple mobile this fall. Google looses map revenue and market share while Google is forced to dump large sums into new map display technology to try to convince mobile users Google maps are better.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/06/google_maps_can_apple_dominate_mapping_by_kicking_google_off_the_iphone_.html
Is it really true you can loose your voice if you excessively scream in anger and pain?
For those experienced with android it tells you something:
Nexus = owned by google = apple equivalent experience = things will work right.
Buying non-nexus products = responsibilities on the shoulders of either the mfr or the carrier if it's a phone = shoddy experience = things are broken and will not be fixed.
But things went horribly wrong for Google a few hours ago.
The new Google Android flagship Nexus that was just released Monday has been banned in the USA by an emergency court injunction obtained by Apple.
http://gigaom.com/apple/apple-gets-another-injunction-this-time-on-samsungs-galaxy-nexus/
To make matters worse for Google and Motorola six key senators just visited the FTC and warned them they were watching how the FTC dealt with accusations of FRAND abuse (read Google/Motorola vs Apple). Don't you just love an election year?
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/7/3071117/ftc-standards-related-patents-can-cause-substantial-harm-when-used-to
Be careful.
Can anyone really loose their voice by excessive screaming in anger and pain?