Posts by Lochias

@gatorguy The blink for facial recognition is sort of like the extra in fingerprint recognition gates: testing for a pulse. Ick!

Quote: Originally Posted by odditie  This is a really poor graph. It makes it look like Apple is 25% better than the competition instead of ~6%. The lead is big, but the graph is skewed.   Only if you see...

Quote: Originally Posted by Red Oak  I don't think Apple has 64.4% of the mobile phone market anywhere.   Even if you just look at smartphones in the US.  Is think that a typo    Of...

Quote: Originally Posted by austinguy23  Ugh, each year their ads get blander and cheesier. These are the worst yet. It's like they went out of their way to make them as generic and uninteresting as possible. Apple is...

We need a constitutional amendment forbidding patents on inventions employing software, wood products, or glass.  All require entirely too little investment.   Anything so inexpensive hardly deserves the attention of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy  Why wouldn't copyright laws fill the need quite nicely if the concern is truly "copying"? Because software does not protect in any way what the software does.  If I...

Quote: Originally Posted by AbsoluteDesignz  If I make a door hinge and patent it and you make a door hinge should I be able to sue you because our two products do the exact same thing even if they have different...

Quote: Originally Posted by derekmorr  That's a very disingenuous way to phrase it. You make it sound like Google stole an implementation from Apple. Nothing of the sort happened. Apple's universal search patent...

Quote: Originally Posted by Curmudgeon  So much effort - time and money, for such a lousy product name. The value of a product name is measured in dollars.  How lousy is it, exactly?

Quote: Originally Posted by Asherian Many people seem to not comprehend the issue. The issue is not the agency model (setting their "own price"). The issue is Apple's condition that no one else ever sell it for less than...