Sprint Confirms Samsung GS3 Update Disables Search
Patients were made to protect property and ideas...
If only you could obtain a patient for having devices power on by battery.....
You see where I'm getting at. Where do we draw the line - and why is Apple so malicious?
Not that their computers are even worth half of what they cost, the iPhone is really their only product, and I'm sure they will do whatever they can to protect it and it's identity.
This is totally uncalled for, though. Apple is ruining this for everybody else, they are running up prices with these frivolous lawsuits, getting NOTHING acomplished.
Honestly, I really used to like apple and their products, I really did. But I will never, ever, ever again spend a single cent on any product made by apple. I'm thinking of selling my iPod and picking up a Samsung Galaxy Player, too. It's just not worth it to support that kind of compa...
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no! they just like to screw people!
netboy said:
does forcing Samsung to remove that search function make people buy idiotPhone instead?
no! they just like to screw people!
You would feel very different if you were the one that owned the patent. In fact if you were the individual that owned the patent and spent your life savings developing it only to have another take it...you would be doing the same thing apple is doing.
An individual almost shut down RIM in its prime a few years ago for a patent violation...its all a good thing
Universal search is not, in itself, a unique idea. Apple was not the first to implement it. They are, however, the first and only to decide not only to patent a unique approach to an idea, but to a general idea altogether so that they can sue competition rather than, you know, compete.
Not to mention the irony of suing a SEARCH ENGINE company for building...
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Now, if Apple had a special, non-obvious algorithm that performed searches, that might be something that could be patented, but just claiming a patent on the idea of allowing searches from the home screen (i.e the most convenient and most obvious place to put a search function)?
Are you really going to defend the legitimacy of that patent?
It doesnt seem so out of hand because this is a new thing, but imagine if this kind of patenting applied to more than just the cellular industry ?
You'd get people Patenting a Car's wheel location. People patenting just about anything anywhere, and this will happen. reform is definately required.
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