iPhone patents WTF!
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- dibec0
I think they have a right. Not going to argue if it is justified or not. There is a lot of heat around the corner for Apple. Everyone and their mom is trying to follow in Apple's footsteps. They have invested a whole bunch of time and money, why let that go to waste?
- Thank you. +1 ...and don't even look at Windows 7 with their dock.hellrod
- werdmonospaced
- drgss0
America must die, reason #901102
- TheMagicSheep0
i would think with all these restrictions competitors would be forced to make something new and (hopefully) better.
when apple got into the smartphone business, they didn't make an os that was a knock-off of blackberry os or windows mobile os. they made something better.
they made a phone that was easy to use. they should protect what they created. other companies should sew it up and grow a pair and start making a better os
- utopian0
- borrowing is smart. stealing is brilliant.ifeltdave
- still beating this dead horse, I seemonospaced
- none of these are that close. esp the iphone comparison. It's laughable.Amicus
- whatsup0
The entire phone market looks like they're copying apple. How is it that only HTC gets sued? Often I look at some of these cellphones and I swear, I would think that it was an iPhone knock-off
- Mimio0
These patent claims are outlining a reverse-engineering type of infringement lawsuit. They mean to prove that HTC just dissected their design.
- vaxorcist0
hmmm.... I would like to see somebody release a modded version of android that violates none of the above patents, in order so show how useless devices will be if all these patent lawsuits are successful...
I mrean really....
* 7633076: Automated Response To And Sensing Of User Activity In Portable Devices- It knows when you take the phone away from your ear and lights up the screen, for instancemonospaced
- yeah this one covers the proximity sensorernexbcn
- GeorgesII0
I patented little cunts® last year,
you've got a lawsuit coming your way set!
- patented?? it's spelled p-e-n-e-t-r-a-t-e-d you titProjectile
- set0
I guess being wingey little cunts are partly why they are where they are today. You have to be a cunt in business. Its the system.
- pizzafire0
everyone's suing everyone!
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/20…
- GeorgesII0
the only reason why I propagate news like this is to give work to Apple's PR machine.
Thanks to me, they have work and can feed their families,GeorgesII, the job maker
- wtf are you talking about, Projectile started this threadmonospaced
- you do not get sarcasm, don't you,
Mr ThickGeorgesII - hey, only your mom can call me Mr. Thickmonospaced
- nice one monocamer
- I'm here every night.monospaced
- BuddhaHat0
Apple turns the flamethrower on Android
If you tolerate this your handset will be nexthttp://www.theregister.co.uk/201…
The article suggests if Apple wins, manufacturers will be too afraid of legal action to continue with Android as it is, leaving Apple, Nokia and RIM with the largest number of patents as the 'last men standing'.
I don't want an iPhone, I don't like my Blackberry, and nothing Nokia has made in years tempts me to go back there.... pity for everyone, really.
- monospaced0
Whatever. Nokia just sued the fuck out of Apple for creating a phone in the first place. It's not just Apple, it's everyone doing this.
- rson0
How can Object-Oriented Graphic System be patent?
- arson
- anmonospaced
- an really?rson
- when it's before a word that begins with a vowel, the a becomes anmonospaced
- You're talking about Object, aren't you? Or were you talking about patent? You missed a couple.monospaced
- Hmm does not read well with 'an'.rson
- How can AN object-oriented system be A patent? That's how it's supposed to be.monospaced
- Weird in my head I was reading Object-Oriented Graphic System (OOGS) as an acronym. Just did not seem right.rson
- hans_glib0
i remember when they launched the iphone Jobs reassured everyone they had locked down as many patents as they could to stop or slow down competitor efforts to match the phone. i guess he wasn't lying...