Just want your thoughts on apple adding the Galaxy S 4 to the infringement suite....It is very upsetting to see a company as apple not to buckle down and compete like warriors instead they want to be pansies and do all this infringement crap...
Apple...Just wont leave Samsung alone....
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Um, they invented it and don't want it copied.
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Invented what? The reason for the lawsuit hasn't been announced. Don't post if you don't know the reason behind it.
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Invented it? The iPhone isn't even close to what the Samsung Galaxy line is.
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I'm surprised it took this long, to be honest. I mean, they made it thinner, lighter, and improved the internals. That's clearly an Apple patent for the iPhone 5.
They won't leave EACH OTHER alone. Samsung is not a victim here man LOL. They sue others just as well. Apple, Samsung and other companies (unfortunately) have the right to sue anyone for what they "think" is theirs. If it's not then they'll lose. If it is then they'll win. That's how it works. Now yes, the patent system is all jacked up but please stop it with the Samsung sympathy. None of these companies are innocent. They are all just as greedy as the next one. What are you thoughts on Samsung possibly stealing LG's display technology? And then then suing LG because "LG tarnished their brand name" on an advertisment. But they've openly admitted to paying people to blog negative about HTC? I mean come on...... let's stop it with the "woe is Samsung" stuff. They are all greedy in one way or another. In the court or on the web LOL.
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Come on, Apple is everybody's friend. they are even going to remove one of the Samsung phones from the lawsuit so that when the add the S4 it will still be only 22 phones (wait, does the one they remove no longer violate Apple's patents???) Apple is the um...the bad apple in the cell phone barrel.
"Apple on Monday submitted a list of 22 Samsung products to the U.S. District Court in California that it believes infringes upon its technology, The Verge reported. The list includes a variety of smartphones and tablets such as the Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. The company also asked the court for permission to add the newly released Galaxy S4 smartphone to the case, claiming that it too infringes upon Apple?s patents.
?Samsung recently released its newest smartphone, the Galaxy S4, which began shipping in late April 2013,? Apple?s legal team wrote in the document. ?Based on Apple?s analysis of the Galaxy S4, Apple has concluded that it is an infringing device and accordingly intends to move for leave to add the Galaxy S4 as an infringing product. Upon the grant of such motion, Apple will eliminate (without prejudice) one of the Accused Products named herein, so that it will continue to accuse only 22 products of infringement at this stage of the litigation.?"
Apple is the um...the bad apple in the cell phone barrel. "Apple on Monday submitted a list of 22 Samsung products to the U.S. District Court in California that it believes infringes upon its technology, The Verge reported. The list includes a variety of smartphones and tablets such as the Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. The company also asked the court for permission to add the newly released Galaxy S4 smartphone to the case, claiming that it too infringes upon Apple?s patents.
?Samsung recently released its newest smartphone, the Galaxy S4, which began shipping in late April 2013,? Apple?s legal team wrote in the document. ?Based on Apple?s analysis of the Galaxy S4, Apple has concluded that it is an infringing device and accordingly intends to move for leave to add the Galaxy S4 as an infringing product. Upon the grant of such motion, Apple will eliminate (without prejudice) one of the Accused Products named herein, so that it will continue to accuse only 22 products of infringement at this stage of the litigation.?"
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Of course they didn't invent it but they CHANGED the Smart Phone by making it what it is today.
Can you really say we would have the One's and S4's if Apple sticked to Macs? I believe we would still be in QWERTY keyboard, Sliders and 3" SD Screens.
Apple just wants the credit or this case money they deserve.
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Can you really say we would have the One's and S4's if Apple sticked to Macs? I believe we would still be in QWERTY keyboard, Sliders and 3" SD Screens.
Apple just wants the credit or this case money they deserve.
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The thing that really bothers me with Apple suing everyone is they are actually successfully getting features removed that they didn't even invent. Things such as universal search and the auto replace for the keyboard on the US GS4. These things may hurt Samsung but really in the end it just sucks for the consumers.
No sure about that. Following that logic Henry Ford should have sued anyone who ever used an assembly line. That is a prime example of how Apple is trying to stifle innovation. If Henry Ford had been successful in a patent battle regarding the assembly line (assuming he had every filed a patent lawsuit) how fast would the automobile have developed and how high would automobile prices be without other manufactures being able to use the assembly line?
EDIT: BTW, I believe you have to invent something to patent it. You don't get patents by changing existing things.
I'll be the last to say Apple is the creator of stuff but people never want to give them credit. Innovation isn't just about creation. It's also taking existing technology and using it for new uses or in a better way and Apple did that. They take things and make them super simple to use. But it takes a lot of work and smart people to take something complicated and make it easy. Samsung is doing the same thing. With the gesture stuff they have implemented in touchwiz and some of the features. 3rd party apps have been doing a lot of those things for a while but Samsung is trying to make it more usable and I don't fault them for that and they'll get credit for doing so if the widespread use is adopting. Again, neither is innocent but crazed fanatics on boths sides don't want to give either credit for anything. Just blind followers who takes sides based on their favorite devices rather than looking at the total impact.
Apple helped changed the music industry with iTunes and google took that same idea and put it in the cloud. But there would probably be no google music if Apple didn't first have iTunes. Maybe or maybe not but Apple has done some things that made it mainstream because it was clunky and unusable before and people should acknowledge that or at least not be in denial. You don't have to love them but come on man. I mean I couldn't care less but I give credit where it is due. And all the lawsuits both ways are silly but it's understandable. If you think someone is using your stuff without your permission you have the right to fight for that. Whether you invented it or bought the patent, it's yours and the courts will decide. Now hopefully that change the patent system so this stuff can be facilitated differently. But that's a different discussion.
Yeah but the assembly not is not something that's patented. I agree with your premise but that's apples and oranges. As you know, when it comes to technology, everything is patented. And if you want to use it, you have to license it. And the courts will decide that. None of us here are really qualified to speak on these patents because most of us don't know the patents laws well enough and we don't know out the underlying patented technology is really implemented until we read detailed information. So if Apple or Samsung feels they have something be infringed on, they certainly have the liberty to sue. Now it doesn't mean they are right. I don't care if they're right but they do have the right to file if they think they are. Samsung suing LG, but no one's complaining about that. Microsofting suing and getting sued all the time, but no one cares. We only care because we have a Samsung phone. If we didn't, we wouldn't care either. Whether Apple is right or not, has nothing do with it around here. People just assume any company, i.e. Their favortie Android OEM can use any piece of technology without licensing it and hope they don't get caught. And in my opinion that isn't right either.
Don't act like if any of you guys had a multi billion dollar company and you saw someone create or copy your idea in the slightest way that u would sit back and let them do it. You would protect your company/products/ patents with your life. You have to think about it from the consumer side and the business side. Companies don't get as big as apple or Samsung by sitting back and watching people take their ideas.
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I agree. I don't like it either. But again, that's a problem with the patent system. Not the fact that Apple choose to exercise a right they currently have. Yes, I have a problem with the system and the outcome in some cases but I don't have a problem with a company doing what the system allows them to do.
Absolutely correct. That includes Google as well. They have and will sue people or companies who don't use Android the way they would like. Apparently for some people you are outraged depending on what device you own whether you know the facts or not.
Android handset manufacturers have sued each other too, most notably Motorola.
Android handset manufacturers have sued each other too, most notably Motorola.
Actually it is. For example, Henry Ford's "method" of assembling cars. I can only shutter to think what would have happened to innovation if the Apple patent addicts had been around in Henry Ford's day.
"In United States patent law, a method, also called "process", is one of the four principal categories of things that may be patented through "utility patents". The other three are a machine, an article of manufacture (also termed a manufacture), and a composition of matter."
It was a while ago when I read some where that the judge actually said something about this patent issue. Cant remember who sued whom, pretty sure its either samsung or apple, but the judge actually called out one of these companies and accused them of using our justice system for their own business gains.
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And cell phones don't get to the point they are now by companies like Apple tying up all the patents that wouldn't allow others to produce innovative phones. Let's be honest here, if Apple had their way the iPhone would be the only smart phone and every other manufacturer would now be selling non smart phones.
"In an order released earlier this week, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Scola said that he believes Apple and Motorola "have no interest in efficiently and expeditiously resolving this dispute; they instead are using this and similar litigation worldwide as a business strategy that appears to have no end." According to Bloomberg, which was first to report on the ruling, Scola said that the companies are not properly using the court's time and resources."
Yup this is it! Hopefully through a series of continuous never-ending suits our law makers will take a look at how they can stop this and make improvements/adjustments so the their continue to be healthy competition. Bc this is seriously getting out of hand.
Quite frankly i'm to the point where I am boycotting apple. They might've started a foundation for the so called Smartphone, but their software lacks many features that android based phones possess and many of those foundations have been improved by the competitors to make it an overall cleaner and better experience for the consumer. If apple keep suing everyone out there what would be the point of an oligopolistic market where competition brings out the best?
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