In some countries (EU countries) there are also laws that prohibit you to be drunk on the street or as a *passenger* of a car (as you may guess selective application of the law is required). Problem solved... I guess.
Very little has happened to reform the patent system though. It takes one company to go crazy against another big player, but the only effect is that its patent get invalidated one by one. That's bad for Apple, good for Samsung, but overall for the rest of the market it changes nothing. Shitty patents can still be used aggressively by trolls or used to pad patent portfolio in cross-licensing agreement to lock startup out of new markets.
* Because you are just human and if you code 8 hours a day, 250 days a year, a few of your numerous mistakes will made it through to the client.
* Then you get stuff wrong because you are not alone, and communication between humans is hard, so hard that it is another profession altogether. Something will eventually be lost in translation situation between you, your team, your bosses, your client.
* More importantly, unlike in the books, most of the choices you make do not have a right or a wrong answer. You chose a solution and you know if you right down the line.
Being wrong require costly rework, or the mythical "phase 2".
The goal of the unique charger was for the charger part, you know the inefficient black boxes that suck power all the time and the connector to those charger. There is some flexibility for the device-side adaptator. From that point of view, that was a success.
That's the EU, not China. There is always a lot of flexibility in whatever agreement. Anyway, micro-usb is kind of a shitty format (damn convenient for sure), you would not want all the brand on the market to be saddled with it for all eternity. (imagine if all computers needed to be plugged to the main using a parallel port, that's what micro-usb will look in a few years)
Have you entered an Apple Store recently ? Apple almost does not sell accessories at all, they are all provided by other brand, hell they do not even provide a dock at all for the new iPhone. So the theory that Apple want to keep all the market for themselves is a bit silly, even if they make 100% profit on there cable, that is a drop in their ocean of profit
So who makes money on this connector: big brand like JBL, Griffin, Belkin,... Those brands are fundamental to Apple success: when you provide a single device in each category, not having any accessories is a critical flaw. If you want to see evil, a better bet is that Apple keeps the exclusivity for the big name in exchange for a quick refresh of their lineup.
And what about the BBC News covering stories about pedophilia? And all the swearing in YouTube videos? Google searches can link through to objectionable material, complete with previews, so shouldn't that be banned too?
It does not work that way. It is much worse - big player are not filtered because of the outcry they produce. Instead random small website that have pissed either connected people or an obsessed joe calling customer service 10 times an hour, get filtered. Most of them would never even realise that they are filtered because, if this filter is implemented as all the others, the list of blocked website is considered confidential.
That is the danger. And yes, even Google could get along and filtering its search results. Google do loads of customization already to comply with various requirements in different countries, so it is possible (but not guaranteed, hopefully) they would get along with it.
Also, current human society is still too immature to commit for multi-generational anything. Look how the world and mentalities have changed in the course of a few generation.
Apparently the publicity works both ways, so much that the judge in the UK requested Apple to put the disclaimer on their home page. (reasoning was that the publicity of Apple victories in other countries of the world was impacting negatively the judgement in favor of Samsung)
The real confirmed loser here is the rest of the Android makers. In small mobile shop, 3/4 of the shelves are filled with Samsung models, I don't remember having seen a brand so dominating the shelve space before. IMO that is not good for Android to have only Samsung and Amazon as steward, but I have been told that's ok because the Galaxy S3 is a great phone:-/
they have no knowledge of it beyond advertising, slick presentations, and from watching hollywood movies as children
Big companies have actual requirements and actual businesses to run. If they still run Windows Servers a decade after they first "drank the kool-aid", that means that somehow, Windows is delivering.
Stop with this tiring/. attitude. Not everybody that chose to run a windows server is an incompetent graduate with PHB bosses.
Yeah, so that makes it twice worse. It does not matter who win or lose with a shitty patent. At the end of the day a shitty patent is a net cost to all of us.
We used to have a sub-par Mapping application on iPhone. Now we have 2. Even better, with Apple pushing his own map app, Google will not be able to keep as under-featured as before.
At the end of the day, that's the take-home message for people looking at buying an iPhone. All the rest is just noise by people looking at the whole affair with their favorite-brand colored glasses.
At last somebody noticed. Samsung and Apple are very happy to build custom made factories. Apple and Google are still friend for a variety of different venture.
Of course they are all competitors and kicking each other in the balls when it is profitable, but mostly all 3 companies have 3 different approaches and are happy to help each other for mutual benefit. All those talk about betrayal, war, hate,... is just business as usual blown out of proportion "for fun and profit".
Don't you have roadsigns in Australia ? If there are indeed a few cities and only a few road, what's the problem with putting a roadsign at the crossroads ? How the hell did you survive before GPS ?
What is amazing, is that people will follow the turn by turn indication of a GPS unit in priority of any road indication or even indication given by a local.
I had to argue with a friend to take a direct road to the highway, he wouldn't. He didn't even follow my car, or even the big green sign that indicate the highway: at some point he decided to turn in the direction the GPS told him to. What's wrong people: I was doing that road several time a day every day and my wife has been living there for more than 30 years. What are the fucking chances that the GPS knows better ?
But yes that is true that people want freedom and privacy. However, as computer specialist we are a bit how of touch with the real world meaning of that. Most people are happy to share minute details of their life to anybody interested to hear them. But they want privacy from the people that would use that information in a negative way, or more precisely, they want to be protected from the people that would not follow the "social contract". A bit like how people were leaving their door opened in village: the understanding was that you would not enter if you hadn't some good reason.
Until Joe User figure out what kind of place internet really is, open and free system will be a tough sell.
That's a good point. Assange has seen quite a bit of the US dirty laundry. Better he didn't lie, he showed the world the f*cking documents and those documents are not even disputed.
So the real question is where are all the interviews in the US press and why do we need to read that in Russia Today ?
A double of Johnny Walker has about the same alcohol content as a pint of beer (i.e. 500ml at 5% has the same alcohol as 50ml at 50%) - if that makes you feel better:-)
Alleged miss interpretation. As I said in another post, there is conveniently a lot of stories around this jury. Remember that only the jury members were there but there a thousands of journalists ready to pay for an exiting story.
OK it could have happened the way the "press" says it has. But really, the guy hold that kind of a grudge for 20+ years, but then blew it up in the press ? And what kind of revenge is that ? That's a movie or book revenge, not a real life one. Victories in first instance is only good as a movie ending, everybody knows that winning or losing, there will be an appeal. Also, temporarily shifting slightly the balance of power between 2 giants seems like little return on investment.
All this is is another episode in the media circus that is the legal battle between Samsung and Apple. I guess the jury member are just trying to get their slice of the media pie. The fat check for the book right is going to be the real jury foreman revenge.
We seem to always know an awful lot nowadays. Secret meeting, secret negotiation. Yet there seem to be always plenty of people ready to say something. Maybe I am cynical, but I guess there too much incentive to have something "interesting" to say nowadays.
Let see it the other way. Neither Samsung, nor Apple has anything to benefit from any of this, much the contrary - winning, losing, their strategy was probably set for the next 10 years. But then out of nowhere, here comes a nicely packed little story for one of the biggest case of the year. I feel a book with "revelation" coming soon.
Companies cannot grab talent in general on the market, no matter if it is locally or in a foreign country. Hell, they cannot even recognised talent when they have employed him for years, locally.
The Android market is split in 2: the flagship market and the budget market. There is very limited choice on the flagship market. The budget market comes however in all shapes, form, price point, but brand support is unpredictable. You can get a phone that will be supported for years, and another that will be forgotten after a few months.
The high end market in which Apple compete was mostly unoriginal and expensive. I said "was" because Google just crashed the party with the Nexus 4, a high end phone from a reputable brand at very competitive price. That will be interesting to see how Apple, but also HTC, Sony, Samsung, LG will manage to justify a 100% premium. Worst case scenario, they will just align the price. Personally I hope they will innovate. Since the original iPhone in 2007, there hasn't been much innovation (larger, faster, thinner, widget on the lock screen,... are improvements, very important that you could not live without and some that required great engineering innovation, but since the original iPhone nothing has created the same wow factor )
However Nokia Drive ( on a Nokia phone ) works more like a GPS device. It allows you to download map on a country by country basic. Very useful in Europe.
I'm not familiar with the Airline unions, but I have experience with other unions in other sectors. Pay based on seniority is often indeed required by the union. However, the fact that experience does not carry over, is not required by the union, it is the price they had to pay. Seniority can be carried over during contract negotiation.
When you change job, there is negociation for the salary either directly or using seniority as a proxy. You get experienced pilot working for 20K for the same reason you get PHD flipping burger at McDonald, nothing to do with the union stance on seniority.
Depends if you look volume or profit, tablet included or not,.... It is worse if you think they are number 1 though - that means the mass market is already fucked. Apple is retreating in the high-end and Samsung will be the Microsoft of the smartphone generation, with vanilla (free) Android painfully maintaining a few percent market share from/. geeks.
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In some countries (EU countries) there are also laws that prohibit you to be drunk on the street or as a *passenger* of a car (as you may guess selective application of the law is required). Problem solved ... I guess.
Very little has happened to reform the patent system though. It takes one company to go crazy against another big player, but the only effect is that its patent get invalidated one by one. That's bad for Apple, good for Samsung, but overall for the rest of the market it changes nothing. Shitty patents can still be used aggressively by trolls or used to pad patent portfolio in cross-licensing agreement to lock startup out of new markets.
Another one: in real world you get stuff wrong.
Being wrong require costly rework, or the mythical "phase 2".
Last one: code in books and academia sucks.
The goal of the unique charger was for the charger part, you know the inefficient black boxes that suck power all the time and the connector to those charger. There is some flexibility for the device-side adaptator. From that point of view, that was a success.
That's the EU, not China. There is always a lot of flexibility in whatever agreement. Anyway, micro-usb is kind of a shitty format (damn convenient for sure), you would not want all the brand on the market to be saddled with it for all eternity. (imagine if all computers needed to be plugged to the main using a parallel port, that's what micro-usb will look in a few years)
Have you entered an Apple Store recently ? Apple almost does not sell accessories at all, they are all provided by other brand, hell they do not even provide a dock at all for the new iPhone. So the theory that Apple want to keep all the market for themselves is a bit silly, even if they make 100% profit on there cable, that is a drop in their ocean of profit
So who makes money on this connector: big brand like JBL, Griffin, Belkin, ... Those brands are fundamental to Apple success: when you provide a single device in each category, not having any accessories is a critical flaw. If you want to see evil, a better bet is that Apple keeps the exclusivity for the big name in exchange for a quick refresh of their lineup.
And what about the BBC News covering stories about pedophilia? And all the swearing in YouTube videos? Google searches can link through to objectionable material, complete with previews, so shouldn't that be banned too?
It does not work that way. It is much worse - big player are not filtered because of the outcry they produce. Instead random small website that have pissed either connected people or an obsessed joe calling customer service 10 times an hour, get filtered. Most of them would never even realise that they are filtered because, if this filter is implemented as all the others, the list of blocked website is considered confidential.
That is the danger. And yes, even Google could get along and filtering its search results. Google do loads of customization already to comply with various requirements in different countries, so it is possible (but not guaranteed, hopefully) they would get along with it.
Also, current human society is still too immature to commit for multi-generational anything. Look how the world and mentalities have changed in the course of a few generation.
Apparently the publicity works both ways, so much that the judge in the UK requested Apple to put the disclaimer on their home page. (reasoning was that the publicity of Apple victories in other countries of the world was impacting negatively the judgement in favor of Samsung)
The real confirmed loser here is the rest of the Android makers. In small mobile shop, 3/4 of the shelves are filled with Samsung models, I don't remember having seen a brand so dominating the shelve space before. IMO that is not good for Android to have only Samsung and Amazon as steward, but I have been told that's ok because the Galaxy S3 is a great phone :-/
they have no knowledge of it beyond advertising, slick presentations, and from watching hollywood movies as children
Big companies have actual requirements and actual businesses to run. If they still run Windows Servers a decade after they first "drank the kool-aid", that means that somehow, Windows is delivering.
Stop with this tiring /. attitude. Not everybody that chose to run a windows server is an incompetent graduate with PHB bosses.
Yeah, so that makes it twice worse. It does not matter who win or lose with a shitty patent. At the end of the day a shitty patent is a net cost to all of us.
WinWin for us.
We used to have a sub-par Mapping application on iPhone. Now we have 2. Even better, with Apple pushing his own map app, Google will not be able to keep as under-featured as before.
At the end of the day, that's the take-home message for people looking at buying an iPhone. All the rest is just noise by people looking at the whole affair with their favorite-brand colored glasses.
At last somebody noticed. Samsung and Apple are very happy to build custom made factories. Apple and Google are still friend for a variety of different venture.
Of course they are all competitors and kicking each other in the balls when it is profitable, but mostly all 3 companies have 3 different approaches and are happy to help each other for mutual benefit. All those talk about betrayal, war, hate, ... is just business as usual blown out of proportion "for fun and profit".
Don't you have roadsigns in Australia ? If there are indeed a few cities and only a few road, what's the problem with putting a roadsign at the crossroads ? How the hell did you survive before GPS ?
What is amazing, is that people will follow the turn by turn indication of a GPS unit in priority of any road indication or even indication given by a local.
I had to argue with a friend to take a direct road to the highway, he wouldn't. He didn't even follow my car, or even the big green sign that indicate the highway: at some point he decided to turn in the direction the GPS told him to. What's wrong people: I was doing that road several time a day every day and my wife has been living there for more than 30 years. What are the fucking chances that the GPS knows better ?
GPS have transformed people into lemmings.
everybody want freedom and privacy
Yeah, that explains twitter and facebook.
But yes that is true that people want freedom and privacy. However, as computer specialist we are a bit how of touch with the real world meaning of that. Most people are happy to share minute details of their life to anybody interested to hear them. But they want privacy from the people that would use that information in a negative way, or more precisely, they want to be protected from the people that would not follow the "social contract". A bit like how people were leaving their door opened in village: the understanding was that you would not enter if you hadn't some good reason.
Until Joe User figure out what kind of place internet really is, open and free system will be a tough sell.
Have we already forgotten about the trans-fat ? There was a time when they were fairly creative with bread ingredients.
That's a good point. Assange has seen quite a bit of the US dirty laundry. Better he didn't lie, he showed the world the f*cking documents and those documents are not even disputed.
So the real question is where are all the interviews in the US press and why do we need to read that in Russia Today ?
A double of Johnny Walker has about the same alcohol content as a pint of beer (i.e. 500ml at 5% has the same alcohol as 50ml at 50%) - if that makes you feel better :-)
Alleged miss interpretation. As I said in another post, there is conveniently a lot of stories around this jury. Remember that only the jury members were there but there a thousands of journalists ready to pay for an exiting story.
OK it could have happened the way the "press" says it has. But really, the guy hold that kind of a grudge for 20+ years, but then blew it up in the press ? And what kind of revenge is that ? That's a movie or book revenge, not a real life one. Victories in first instance is only good as a movie ending, everybody knows that winning or losing, there will be an appeal. Also, temporarily shifting slightly the balance of power between 2 giants seems like little return on investment.
All this is is another episode in the media circus that is the legal battle between Samsung and Apple. I guess the jury member are just trying to get their slice of the media pie. The fat check for the book right is going to be the real jury foreman revenge.
We seem to always know an awful lot nowadays. Secret meeting, secret negotiation. Yet there seem to be always plenty of people ready to say something. Maybe I am cynical, but I guess there too much incentive to have something "interesting" to say nowadays.
Let see it the other way. Neither Samsung, nor Apple has anything to benefit from any of this, much the contrary - winning, losing, their strategy was probably set for the next 10 years. But then out of nowhere, here comes a nicely packed little story for one of the biggest case of the year. I feel a book with "revelation" coming soon.
Companies cannot grab talent in general on the market, no matter if it is locally or in a foreign country. Hell, they cannot even recognised talent when they have employed him for years, locally.
The Android market is split in 2: the flagship market and the budget market. There is very limited choice on the flagship market. The budget market comes however in all shapes, form, price point, but brand support is unpredictable. You can get a phone that will be supported for years, and another that will be forgotten after a few months.
The high end market in which Apple compete was mostly unoriginal and expensive. I said "was" because Google just crashed the party with the Nexus 4, a high end phone from a reputable brand at very competitive price. That will be interesting to see how Apple, but also HTC, Sony, Samsung, LG will manage to justify a 100% premium. Worst case scenario, they will just align the price. Personally I hope they will innovate. Since the original iPhone in 2007, there hasn't been much innovation (larger, faster, thinner, widget on the lock screen, ... are improvements, very important that you could not live without and some that required great engineering innovation, but since the original iPhone nothing has created the same wow factor )
However Nokia Drive ( on a Nokia phone ) works more like a GPS device. It allows you to download map on a country by country basic. Very useful in Europe.
I'm not familiar with the Airline unions, but I have experience with other unions in other sectors. Pay based on seniority is often indeed required by the union. However, the fact that experience does not carry over, is not required by the union, it is the price they had to pay. Seniority can be carried over during contract negotiation.
When you change job, there is negociation for the salary either directly or using seniority as a proxy. You get experienced pilot working for 20K for the same reason you get PHD flipping burger at McDonald, nothing to do with the union stance on seniority.
Depends if you look volume or profit, tablet included or not, .... It is worse if you think they are number 1 though - that means the mass market is already fucked. Apple is retreating in the high-end and Samsung will be the Microsoft of the smartphone generation, with vanilla (free) Android painfully maintaining a few percent market share from /. geeks.