someone made a better product than ours???? better sue!!!

[Rainbow Dash]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=22173

Could these patents be any more fucking obscure?

[Cortexian]

These patent wars are just getting anoying, kinda stopped caring to read the news articles.

[Warsaw]

Clearly that lawsuit had no effect, seeing that it is now September and HTC has since released many more new Android phones in this country.

But yeah. This patent war is bullshit. Also, US Senate passed a bill that makes the US PTO give rights to the first to file rather than the first with the idea, making this country cater to the big guys.

Yay.

[annihilation]

Apple apparently owns the right to technology.

[JackalStomper]

Hey apple,


suck my fucking cock.
.

[Warsaw]

Apple apparently owns the right to technology anything useful.

ftfy.

[Donut]

because apple needs more money.

[t3h m00kz]

There is always open source and free stuff... do patents apply to that stuff?

[Bodzilla]

isn't HTC backed by google?

google will own apple.

[Warsaw]

Sort of. Apple is deliberately avoiding a straight fight with Google. That said, I wouldn't mind HTC stopping manufacture of Android handsets because then they'd actually put some effort into their WP7 line. I would like to see another company other than Nokia produce a quality WP7 handset, because I like that platform.

[neuro]

and how many Apple products do all of you own?

i'm still comfortable sitting on 0

[TeeKup]

I owned 1, I sold it at Gamestop for 50 bucks. Didn't buy it originally.

[Phopojijo]

There is always open source and free stuff... do patents apply to that stuff?Ohhhhhh yeah. Big time.

Here's how the patent system works: If I can't beat you through innovation I sue you for infringing on my obscure patents. You either die, pay a royalty (which is difficult for Free/Open Source to say the least) or you (or a friend) counter-sues for the plaintiff infringing on your patents -- which they invariably do because there's too many of them that any given company is infringing on dozens/hundreds of them for everything they do at every given time. They then agree to cross-license -- maybe with a little cash settlement one way or the other -- and life carries on as usual.

Basically patents are one of a handful of ways that the big stay big... and there literally is no benefit in the patent system for the little guy.

Unless the little guy is a patent troll and literally doesn't actually do anything to be counter-sued against.

[Warsaw]

and how many Apple products do all of you own?

i'm still comfortable sitting on 0

Zero. I am never, ever spending money on an Apple product. If a family member or whatever wants to buy me one as a gift, that's one thing. But I'm voting with my wallet, and my vote says "No Apple." It also says "No Google."

[TeeKup]

The Wallet commands all.

[Kornman00]

Only one solution to this problem.

We must kill. Steve. Jobs.

Well that, or make a Worm that eats Apple from the inside out.

Nah, both!

[=sw=warlord]

Isn't Jobs dying anyway due to Cancer?
I seem to remember something a while back about Liver Cancer or something.

[sleepy1212]

He's suing cancer for violating a patent for incurability.

[Zeph]

If those two patents are valid, Apple owns the patent to every program that works with data and every device that plugs into another device.

[Kornman00]

I'm surprised they hadn't made a device yet that self replicates by plugging in to one another...

Coming this Fall, the all new iFuck!

[Warsaw]

I'm surprised they hadn't made a device yet that self replicates by plugging in to one another...

Coming this Fall, the all new iFuck!

So we are all going to get sued for violating the Apple patent on sexual reproduction?

[Kornman00]

You can't reproduce without Steve Christ's Job's blessing! Or without paying 1 bajillion dorras.

Heh, I can already imagine Apple owning all the whore houses in the world.

Say, don't Apple fanbois usually quip about MS being assholes and such? I don't see a difference between the companies and their profiles anymore.

[Nero]

It is a matter of time before Apple falls and becomes the old Mac.... Where no one gave a shit about them.

[t3h m00kz]

Ubuntu and android.

Yes I'm a hippy

[Warsaw]

If you were a hippie you'd be using ArchLinux and rooting your phone to run Android sans Google services.

[Cortexian]

I've only ever bought one Apple product, my iPhone 4. That's because I need a phone that actually runs the apps the way they were designed to be run. Literally every other phone I've had has been unstable as fuck, which is not something I need to deal with when trying to make a call, send email, etc..

[neuro]

CONFORMIST CONFORMIST!!

NAZI LOVER!

[Warsaw]

I've only ever bought one Apple product, my iPhone 4. That's because I need a phone that actually runs the apps the way they were designed to be run. Literally every other phone I've had has been unstable as fuck, which is not something I need to deal with when trying to make a call, send email, etc..

WP7 is stable as hell...was that not out at the time, or were the device offerings with it just not up to par? I just ordered myself an unlocked Samsung Omnia 7 because none of the US offerings are any good.

[Spartan094]

CONFORMIST CONFORMIST!!

NAZI LOVER!
:like:

Oh and I will enjoy my HTC Evo 3d, suck my dick apple.

[Warsaw]

I just bought a Samsung Omnia 7 for $340 unlocked. :-3 It's not a US phone, but it works with voice and UMTS 1900MHz 3G on AT&T. All of the US-market devices with WP7 are garbage for varying reasons.