Apple Wins Patent Dispute, HTC Phones Banned From Store Shelveshttp://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/19/itc-sides-with-apple-in-patent-dispute-with-rival-htc/
12/20/2011 11:12:19 PM
Way to be a sensationalist moron. You bolded the part that says this can be fixed...
12/20/2011 11:24:43 PM
12/20/2011 11:42:59 PM
A bit dramatic? You don't think that by 19 April, HTC will have remedied the problem to get around the ban? They're not likely to sit idle and watch one of their biggest markets go away.
12/21/2011 11:35:44 AM
God I hate Apple so much.
12/21/2011 11:49:03 AM
Apple to a large extent pioneered the touchscreen interface present on the iPhone and practically all other (Android) phones. Google was concerned about this enough to purchase Motorola (for their trove of patents). I think going forward we'll see Microsoft phones will gain popularity in part because many manufacturers will choose to avoid producing products that infringe on Apple's (and other) patents thus avoiding the legal costs and court ordered payments to the patent holder(s).
12/21/2011 4:30:53 PM
you have got to be fucking kidding me. clicking on a phone number? jesus, I hate Apple. you can NOT say that bullshit like this isn't stifling innovation. a whole phone gets blocked because someone wrote their own code to do something similar to what someone else did?[Edited on December 22, 2011 at 10:31 PM. Reason : ]
12/22/2011 10:30:51 PM
Whatever happened to patents having to be something non-trivial. This is like trying to patent an alphabetic sort.Apple needs to be broken up by the government. Google too, actually.http://www.google.com/patents?id=Szh4AAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q&f=false[Edited on December 22, 2011 at 11:00 PM. Reason : .]
12/22/2011 10:58:10 PM
changing the patent laws would do a lot more than breaking up apple.
12/23/2011 2:37:24 AM
12/23/2011 8:15:56 AM
12/23/2011 8:51:11 AM
didn't motorola make the first cell phone?wonder if they have a patent on portable devices being able to make calls that they can sue apple for, that'd be pretty funny
12/23/2011 9:33:11 AM
^^^ Palm used a stylus. The stylus interface is much different than the finger interface. Furthermore, Apple created Newton. The Newton people created Palm. So, Palm and everyone else actually owes a lot to Apple in the portable computing device department. Apple was developing PDAs in the 80s. Good thing Apple killed Newton because it would have died anyway as Palm did. The stylus interface is garbage.[Edited on December 23, 2011 at 9:37 AM. Reason : .]
12/23/2011 9:37:15 AM
12/23/2011 12:41:07 PM
wow... now that's pretty fucking stupid. who knew that a small bit of code that detects xxx-xxx-xxxx would be so hard and complicated that it would warrant a patent. I kinda want to see how they wrote out the patent and what the diagrams had... probably something really stupid.
12/23/2011 1:37:31 PM
^^ What if Moto decided they weren't going to take Apple's money and instead wanted any Apple phones banned?[Edited on December 23, 2011 at 1:51 PM. Reason : Considering Google owns Moto now (or soon will) this seems like it might happen]
12/23/2011 1:50:38 PM
next thing we know... all smart phones will be banned and all we are left with is simple cell phones with no cameras...
12/23/2011 2:05:34 PM
12/23/2011 2:27:07 PM
tww is going to get sued for autolinking urls
12/23/2011 2:27:08 PM
12/23/2011 3:23:25 PM
Apple was just awarded another patent last week regarding how to switch apps during a call. I see no end to this utter BS!!
12/23/2011 4:39:21 PM
My Samsung phone allows me to click phone numbers in emails and make a call...is Apple coming after them next? As if I didnt have enough reasons to hate Apple...
12/23/2011 7:54:50 PM
yeah my Moto Q with Windows Mobile 5 had the ability too. Guess everyone is going to have to retroactively bend over for Apple. The courts are just idiotic on this one.
12/23/2011 8:06:24 PM