Sprint Confirms Samsung GS3 Update Disables Search
Top message: Patients were made to protect property and ideas... by WhySoBluePandaBear
Replying to: Re: Patients were made to protect property and ideas... by HawkeyeOC
Re: Patients were made to protect property and ideas...
Guess what? Apple didn't "invent", and they sure as hell didn't "spend their life savings" developing their unique approach to searching all areas of memory on a phone. Nor did Google (or anyone else) "steal" their unique approach to that problem. Google (and everyone else who has a similar search feature) spent time and money developing THEIR OWN unique approach to that feature.
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 and including a better SEARCH ENGINE bar on their phone than the competition (and god forbid putting it on the home screen which, you know, is the most logical place to put it).
I don't hate Apple, I really don't. Some of their products are legitimately good, though few are really for me. But this is just pants-on-head retarded. :\
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 and including a better SEARCH ENGINE bar on their phone than the competition (and god forbid putting it on the home screen which, you know, is the most logical place to put it).
I don't hate Apple, I really don't. Some of their products are legitimately good, though few are really for me. But this is just pants-on-head retarded. :\
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