One of the principles of neurolinguistic programming is that the human brain does not store negation. If you tell a person "there is not a rattlesnake in your mailbox" the brain stores an image of a
rattlesnake in the mailbox. Additionally, the person to whom you said this will probably recall the image every time they open their mailbox from then on. Apple advertising that Samsung DOES NOT
copy will implant the association between Samsung and copying, even in the minds of people who knew nothing of the dispute between the two companies. If I were in Samsung's place, I would not
want this.
While there is truth to this. Apple would want to avoid the association of Apple making a statement about Samsung. If you talk about the other side that's a loss. So they would, if they can't get it overturned frame it as "The British Courts say" so that there's no "Apple said" association to risk going in a positive light
He essentially ruled that you could copyright an idea, not just an image... Now in the Apple case we see him going in the opposite direction.
but it wasn't just an idea. It wasn't just a bus driving past Westminister Abbey. It was the same type of bus, from the same side, similar angles and the same post processing down to the shade of red etc.
All as an attempt to recreate the original photo.
And that level of similarity is why he ruled the way he did.
That said, it is still interesting that he wouldn't negate the rule of 'copying' because the angles weren't spot on the same in the photos and yet did over what was perhaps 2MM and whose logo is on the back (which at least according to reports is the crux of his claim)
No appeal needed. Give it a few days . The supervising judges will issue a statement similar to:
'In the matter of Apple vs Samsung, we reviewed the elements of the case, & set aside the original decision as being in error, as it did not reflect the totality of the facts presented. We hereby reverse that decision, & find in favor of Apple.
They are unlikely to find in favor of Apple in such a reversal. Rather they would send it back to a different judge on the same level of courts to hear the whole thing again.
You obviously didn't read the article. The Judge has not granted Apple leave to appeal to a higher court. His decision is final and binding. If Apple fails to comply they will be fined and/or someone will go to prison.
No obviously you didn't read the article or at least not the source one. Because no such statement was made in that article.
Maybe we shouldn't blame the Koreans, Chinese etc. They're just trying to make an easy buck and create local jobs in their own countries off the sweat of western R&D. But the west seems bent on absolutely f***ing itself out of existence and giving away the farm in a single generation.
One US media outlet claims that America took advantage of England and European countries during the early days of capitalism.
You must have missed this from my earlier post "Before the iPhone, cell phones were utilitarian devices with key pads for dialing and small, passive display screens that did not allow for touch control." There was another similar line. Will post back with it later, in the middle of doing something else. Cheers
That still doesn't say the iPhone was the first smartphone, it says cell phones (referring to all phones including smartphones) were terrible and they were. Do you have an example of a phone before the iPhone that doesn't match Apple's statement? I certainly don't remember any phone from back then that made much of an impression. Blackberry devices didn't have touch screens and were utilitarian - they were solely used in business.
Only the LG Prada had a touch screen come to market before the iPhone and it wasn't multi-touch. It also launched Jan 2007 when Apple announced the iPhone and it used Flash Lite UI patched onto Symbian (presumably). It also didn't have a glass screen so touch interaction was just frustrating.
I know that as every day passes the iPhone launch drifts further away in people's minds (it moves faster for Android fans) but I remember it clearly because I hated all phones with a passion back then and I hated touch screens because my experience was of resistive screens. I was even very much against Apple building a phone because I saw the technology out there and I couldn't see how anyone could take all that junk and make something better. Of course, I couldn't see the tech they had because nobody else had it. At the launch, I still resisted after hearing their web-app-only SDK but I wandered into a store, picked one up and it was clear what they'd done had never been done before. Never was there a touch experience where everything on screen precisely followed your gestures and there would be nothing like it for years to come.
After the launch, everybody clambered to show how their hardware keyboards were so much better than the iPhone's virtual keyboard, how apps weren't limited to one store and that went on for ages. Then they started giving up, Android introduced the software keyboard in 2009 - 2 years after the original iPhone. Now look at where we are. Who's pushing hardware keyboards? Who's pushing apps outside of a single controlled marketplace? Nobody, they've all just decided to do what Apple was doing in 2007 and now they are claiming Apple doesn't have the right to own their ideas because now everybody is doing it their way.
That still doesn't say the iPhone was the first smartphone, it says cell phones (referring to all phones including smartphones) were terrible and they were. Do you have an example of a phone before the iPhone that doesn't match Apple's statement? I certainly don't remember any phone from back then that made much of an impression. Blackberry devices didn't have touch screens and were utilitarian - they were solely used in business.
Only the LG Prada had a touch screen come to market before the iPhone and it wasn't multi-touch. It also launched Jan 2007 when Apple announced the iPhone and it used Flash Lite UI patched onto Symbian (presumably). It also didn't have a glass screen so touch interaction was just frustrating.
I know that as every day passes the iPhone launch drifts further away in people's minds (it moves faster for Android fans) but I remember it clearly because I hated all phones with a passion back then and I hated touch screens because my experience was of resistive screens. I was even very much against Apple building a phone because I saw the technology out there and I couldn't see how anyone could take all that junk and make something better. Of course, I couldn't see the tech they had because nobody else had it. At the launch, I still resisted after hearing their web-app-only SDK but I wandered into a store, picked one up and it was clear what they'd done had never been done before. Never was there a touch experience where everything on screen precisely followed your gestures and there would be nothing like it for years to come.
After the launch, everybody clambered to show how their hardware keyboards were so much better than the iPhone's virtual keyboard, how apps weren't limited to one store and that went on for ages. Then they started giving up, Android introduced the software keyboard in 2009 - 2 years after the original iPhone. Now look at where we are. Who's pushing hardware keyboards? Who's pushing apps outside of a single controlled marketplace? Nobody, they've all just decided to do what Apple was doing in 2007 and now they are claiming Apple doesn't have the right to own their ideas because now everybody is doing it their way.
Hi Marvin
I guess our interpretations of "Before the iPhone, cell phones were utilitarian devices with key pads for dialing and small, passive display screens that did not allow for touch control." are skewed by both of our experiences of pre-iphone handsets and our current preferences.
Utilitarian- do they mean devices designed to be functional rather than aesthetically pleasing? If they do then why have phones been winning design awards since day one?
key pads for dialing - The Nokia 9000 had a qwerty keyboard back in 1996 (not used for dialing). Later, phones, had onscreen (SW) keyboards and no dialing keyboards.
small ... display screens- The HTC Athena had a 5" screen, a screen larger than any iPhone to date. Indeed HTC's (2002) Wallaby had the same screen size as the current iPhone.
passive display screens that did not allow for touch control-Many handsets (with different OSes) had touch screens, from at least 2002 onwards. The earliest may well have been (non-dialing) keyboard navigated, then stylus based before eventually being finger navigable, eg the the aforementioned LG and any of the HTCs with TouchFlo (which had the ability to distinguish between finger and stylus input, eg the HTC Touch, which reached the market before the iphone)
I really don't understand how you can not see that the Apple statement is anything but disingenious, as are other, later, statements that claim that the iphone was the first to make the internet truly portable. I do not agree with your assertion that the above says that all phones, including smartphones, were crap, it clearly says that phones didn't have touch control, it doesn't even mention multi-touch™ multi-touch.
I for one do remember the day the iPhone was released. Comparing it to my HTC Athena, I was underwhelmed at the iPhone's specs. I had a bigger screen with a higher resolution, better/bigger RAM and storage, stereo speakers, 3G, A2DP, etc. True, it didn't have multi-touch but I could use my finger and I could install Apps. Additionally I had a removable magnetic keyboard that doubled-up as a see through screen protector, and helped to tilt the phone screen.
I am more than willing to agree that Apple have steered the direction of phone development but that does not allow them the right to pretend that all phones before the iphone were dumb feature phones, and IMO dong so in a court of law is going to make life difficult for them.
I see that claim as simply taking a bit of literary license.
Entymology is an exceptionally important part of AI discussions. If we couldn't pick apart each others' posts word for word we might accidentally find out that in general we have more in common than we wish to admit. Can you imagine how that would affect the forums? What would we do with all the built up ad-hom pressure, kick the dog instead?
Hi GatorGuy,
I referenced the the article you link to because i was suggesting that if Apple used the same kind of rhetoric in a UK court of law the judge may be more inclined to dismiss some of their claims (even the valid ones). I was trying to demonstrate that decent arguments can be debased when the claimant includes lines that can be easily discounted as factless and false. If Marvin is correct that Apple actually meant that all other phones were a bit crap, they should have just said that. It may indeed be poetic licence but it has entered the mythology surrounding the iPhone, I frequently meet people who honestly believe that Apple invented the smartphone, who believe that the 2007 iphone was accompanied by super-fast internet access and apps. Some of those people might be judges, reading the line i quoted would just re-enforce what they already thought. What do you think their reaction would be if whilst in chambers they turn to a fellow judge who knows better and he puts them straight, I would expect them to feel as though they had been played.
As a lay person reading the article I feel that they have a compelling argument, BUT I walk away doubting the probity of some of the claims because of the obvious distortions. If I know that it has untruths I start to doubt the whole of it (rightly or wrongly, it is human nature). In short Apple had a good argument but fecked it up. This is a legal document not a marketing pamphlet.
Utilitarian- do they mean devices designed to be functional rather than aesthetically pleasing? If they do then why have phones been winning design awards since day one?
Mobile phone design awards back then were very much along the lines of 'in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. They had to give them to somebody but there's absolutely no way those phones were well designed and certainly didn't compromise their utility through their design. They hacked weird design on top of essential functions. Look at these monstrosities from 2006:
Nobody had a desire to use their phone in the same way nobody had a desire to use their vacuum cleaner, it wasn't rewarding enough. By contrast, people love using their iPhones.
key pads for dialing small ... display screens- passive display screens that did not allow for touch control
A lot of the devices you mentioned arrived in 2007 but you keep referring to them as if they had been around for a while. The iPhone was announced and demoed in January 2007. If a device launches in March 2007, that doesn't mean it predated the iPhone and influenced the market.
Apple's statement generalises the state of mobile devices before the iPhone. No phone with a big screen took the market by storm nor a phone with a hardware qwerty keyboard nor a phone with a resistive touch screen using a stylus so the market was saturated with junk phones.
If you want to use an example of an early 'smartphone' you may as well go right back to 1994:
but I don't see how it makes Apple's statement disingenuous. It's like saying the internet didn't exist before Netscape. Technically it did exist but not as we accept it now.
While you can say that if someone suggested Netscape or rather Mosaic invented the internet, they were being disingenuous, you wouldn't be able to adequately show that the alternatives that predated it match up to what we recognise as web browsing. It's all down to how you interpret the meaning and you've made it clear how you want to interpret Apple's meaning.
I really don't understand how you can not see that the Apple statement is anything but disingenious, as are other, later, statements that claim that the iphone was the first to make the internet truly portable.
So what were the mobile browsing stats before the iPhone? The mobile internet was pretty much unusable before proper touch screens. The PSP had a web browser but you couldn't use it like a normal browser.
I do not agree with your assertion that the above says that all phones, including smartphones, were crap, it clearly says that phones didn't have touch control
Ok, so then it's not talking about smartphones in which case, it's even more accurate.
I am more than willing to agree that Apple have steered the direction of phone development but that does not allow them the right to pretend that all phones before the iphone were dumb feature phones, and IMO dong so in a court of law is going to make life difficult for them.
Next you'll be telling me that phone manufacturers would have arrived at the same designs we have now had the iPhone never existed. It's only for their mild meandering in a different direction that we ended up here. If they did that, the competition would have had no trouble keeping up:
I frequently meet people who honestly believe that Apple invented the smartphone
They redefined the standard for what the word smartphone represents in a significant enough way that people are perfectly correct in believing they invented the smartphone. Technically they reinvented it but they absolutely invented our modern definition of it.
No, you're not a thread slayer. You're not even a bad troll. Our bad trolls here are better than this crap.
Come back when you have an actual argument.
No, you're not the Tallest Skill. You aren't even a tall Skil. Our short Skils are better than this crap.
I have an argument, ready? Apple heavily, heavily, heavily borrowed the idea of the GUI from Xerox, at best. Here, have a YouTube video, because this validates my claim more than just saying it outright. Shiny video.
I'll give you some more shinies too. This is a picture of the heavily photoshopped evidence Apple used against Samsung, versus the actual tablet sizes. Now, you can nitpick all you want, but Apple has some of the brightest minds available to them with their giant revenue stream. So if this corporate lie is a mistake, who let it slip through?
It's about time for Apple to act decent. Apple is too egocentric. I'm now celebrating with a bottle of Champagne ......hooray......hooray.... Love that judge.....
Apple's off the hook at least temporarily on the requirement to post the "Did-not-copy" notice on it's website. They've got a stay order until the appeal for this is heard in October.
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Originally Posted by charlituna
Samsung will scream biased saying that she uses an iPad herself
They'll claim outright racism. And cite this article. Somehow.
Quote:
Originally Posted by quinney
One of the principles of neurolinguistic programming is that the human brain does not store negation. If you tell a person "there is not a rattlesnake in your mailbox" the brain stores an image of a
rattlesnake in the mailbox. Additionally, the person to whom you said this will probably recall the image every time they open their mailbox from then on. Apple advertising that Samsung DOES NOT
copy will implant the association between Samsung and copying, even in the minds of people who knew nothing of the dispute between the two companies. If I were in Samsung's place, I would not
want this.
While there is truth to this. Apple would want to avoid the association of Apple making a statement about Samsung. If you talk about the other side that's a loss. So they would, if they can't get it overturned frame it as "The British Courts say" so that there's no "Apple said" association to risk going in a positive light
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon T
He essentially ruled that you could copyright an idea, not just an image... Now in the Apple case we see him going in the opposite direction.
but it wasn't just an idea. It wasn't just a bus driving past Westminister Abbey. It was the same type of bus, from the same side, similar angles and the same post processing down to the shade of red etc.
All as an attempt to recreate the original photo.
And that level of similarity is why he ruled the way he did.
That said, it is still interesting that he wouldn't negate the rule of 'copying' because the angles weren't spot on the same in the photos and yet did over what was perhaps 2MM and whose logo is on the back (which at least according to reports is the crux of his claim)
Quote:
Originally Posted by kellya74u
No appeal needed. Give it a few days . The supervising judges will issue a statement similar to:
'In the matter of Apple vs Samsung, we reviewed the elements of the case, & set aside the original decision as being in error, as it did not reflect the totality of the facts presented. We hereby reverse that decision, & find in favor of Apple.
They are unlikely to find in favor of Apple in such a reversal. Rather they would send it back to a different judge on the same level of courts to hear the whole thing again.
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Originally Posted by Shaun, UK
You obviously didn't read the article. The Judge has not granted Apple leave to appeal to a higher court. His decision is final and binding. If Apple fails to comply they will be fined and/or someone will go to prison.
No obviously you didn't read the article or at least not the source one. Because no such statement was made in that article.
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Originally Posted by charlituna
He would appeal, just as Tim will.
That said, I'm not sure any Judge would have the balls to overstep like this if Steve were still alive.
????
Why would any judge be scared of Jobs?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Radar
Maybe we shouldn't blame the Koreans, Chinese etc. They're just trying to make an easy buck and create local jobs in their own countries off the sweat of western R&D. But the west seems bent on absolutely f***ing itself out of existence and giving away the farm in a single generation.
One US media outlet claims that America took advantage of England and European countries during the early days of capitalism.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/26/a_nation_of_outlaws/?page=full
That still doesn't say the iPhone was the first smartphone, it says cell phones (referring to all phones including smartphones) were terrible and they were. Do you have an example of a phone before the iPhone that doesn't match Apple's statement? I certainly don't remember any phone from back then that made much of an impression. Blackberry devices didn't have touch screens and were utilitarian - they were solely used in business.
Only the LG Prada had a touch screen come to market before the iPhone and it wasn't multi-touch. It also launched Jan 2007 when Apple announced the iPhone and it used Flash Lite UI patched onto Symbian (presumably). It also didn't have a glass screen so touch interaction was just frustrating.
I know that as every day passes the iPhone launch drifts further away in people's minds (it moves faster for Android fans) but I remember it clearly because I hated all phones with a passion back then and I hated touch screens because my experience was of resistive screens. I was even very much against Apple building a phone because I saw the technology out there and I couldn't see how anyone could take all that junk and make something better. Of course, I couldn't see the tech they had because nobody else had it. At the launch, I still resisted after hearing their web-app-only SDK but I wandered into a store, picked one up and it was clear what they'd done had never been done before. Never was there a touch experience where everything on screen precisely followed your gestures and there would be nothing like it for years to come.
After the launch, everybody clambered to show how their hardware keyboards were so much better than the iPhone's virtual keyboard, how apps weren't limited to one store and that went on for ages. Then they started giving up, Android introduced the software keyboard in 2009 - 2 years after the original iPhone. Now look at where we are. Who's pushing hardware keyboards? Who's pushing apps outside of a single controlled marketplace? Nobody, they've all just decided to do what Apple was doing in 2007 and now they are claiming Apple doesn't have the right to own their ideas because now everybody is doing it their way.
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Originally Posted by Marvin
That still doesn't say the iPhone was the first smartphone, it says cell phones (referring to all phones including smartphones) were terrible and they were. Do you have an example of a phone before the iPhone that doesn't match Apple's statement? I certainly don't remember any phone from back then that made much of an impression. Blackberry devices didn't have touch screens and were utilitarian - they were solely used in business.
Only the LG Prada had a touch screen come to market before the iPhone and it wasn't multi-touch. It also launched Jan 2007 when Apple announced the iPhone and it used Flash Lite UI patched onto Symbian (presumably). It also didn't have a glass screen so touch interaction was just frustrating.
I know that as every day passes the iPhone launch drifts further away in people's minds (it moves faster for Android fans) but I remember it clearly because I hated all phones with a passion back then and I hated touch screens because my experience was of resistive screens. I was even very much against Apple building a phone because I saw the technology out there and I couldn't see how anyone could take all that junk and make something better. Of course, I couldn't see the tech they had because nobody else had it. At the launch, I still resisted after hearing their web-app-only SDK but I wandered into a store, picked one up and it was clear what they'd done had never been done before. Never was there a touch experience where everything on screen precisely followed your gestures and there would be nothing like it for years to come.
After the launch, everybody clambered to show how their hardware keyboards were so much better than the iPhone's virtual keyboard, how apps weren't limited to one store and that went on for ages. Then they started giving up, Android introduced the software keyboard in 2009 - 2 years after the original iPhone. Now look at where we are. Who's pushing hardware keyboards? Who's pushing apps outside of a single controlled marketplace? Nobody, they've all just decided to do what Apple was doing in 2007 and now they are claiming Apple doesn't have the right to own their ideas because now everybody is doing it their way.
Hi Marvin
I guess our interpretations of "Before the iPhone, cell phones were utilitarian devices with key pads for dialing and small, passive display screens that did not allow for touch control." are skewed by both of our experiences of pre-iphone handsets and our current preferences.
Utilitarian- do they mean devices designed to be functional rather than aesthetically pleasing? If they do then why have phones been winning design awards since day one?
key pads for dialing - The Nokia 9000 had a qwerty keyboard back in 1996 (not used for dialing). Later, phones, had onscreen (SW) keyboards and no dialing keyboards.
small ... display screens- The HTC Athena had a 5" screen, a screen larger than any iPhone to date. Indeed HTC's (2002) Wallaby had the same screen size as the current iPhone.
passive display screens that did not allow for touch control- Many handsets (with different OSes) had touch screens, from at least 2002 onwards. The earliest may well have been (non-dialing) keyboard navigated, then stylus based before eventually being finger navigable, eg the the aforementioned LG and any of the HTCs with TouchFlo (which had the ability to distinguish between finger and stylus input, eg the HTC Touch, which reached the market before the iphone)
I really don't understand how you can not see that the Apple statement is anything but disingenious, as are other, later, statements that claim that the iphone was the first to make the internet truly portable. I do not agree with your assertion that the above says that all phones, including smartphones, were crap, it clearly says that phones didn't have touch control, it doesn't even mention multi-touch™ multi-touch.
I for one do remember the day the iPhone was released. Comparing it to my HTC Athena, I was underwhelmed at the iPhone's specs. I had a bigger screen with a higher resolution, better/bigger RAM and storage, stereo speakers, 3G, A2DP, etc. True, it didn't have multi-touch but I could use my finger and I could install Apps. Additionally I had a removable magnetic keyboard that doubled-up as a see through screen protector, and helped to tilt the phone screen.
I am more than willing to agree that Apple have steered the direction of phone development but that does not allow them the right to pretend that all phones before the iphone were dumb feature phones, and IMO dong so in a court of law is going to make life difficult for them.
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Originally Posted by Gatorguy
I think he's mixing court filings, which confuses things. I suspect he's referencing this one, claim 1 under "The Nature of the Action". http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/110415samsungcomplaint.pdf
I see that claim as simply taking a bit of literary license.
Entymology is an exceptionally important part of AI discussions. If we couldn't pick apart each others' posts word for word we might accidentally find out that in general we have more in common than we wish to admit. Can you imagine how that would affect the forums? What would we do with all the built up ad-hom pressure, kick the dog instead?
Hi GatorGuy,
I referenced the the article you link to because i was suggesting that if Apple used the same kind of rhetoric in a UK court of law the judge may be more inclined to dismiss some of their claims (even the valid ones). I was trying to demonstrate that decent arguments can be debased when the claimant includes lines that can be easily discounted as factless and false. If Marvin is correct that Apple actually meant that all other phones were a bit crap, they should have just said that. It may indeed be poetic licence but it has entered the mythology surrounding the iPhone, I frequently meet people who honestly believe that Apple invented the smartphone, who believe that the 2007 iphone was accompanied by super-fast internet access and apps. Some of those people might be judges, reading the line i quoted would just re-enforce what they already thought. What do you think their reaction would be if whilst in chambers they turn to a fellow judge who knows better and he puts them straight, I would expect them to feel as though they had been played.
As a lay person reading the article I feel that they have a compelling argument, BUT I walk away doubting the probity of some of the claims because of the obvious distortions. If I know that it has untruths I start to doubt the whole of it (rightly or wrongly, it is human nature). In short Apple had a good argument but fecked it up. This is a legal document not a marketing pamphlet.
Ultimately the case was Apple's to lose.
Mobile phone design awards back then were very much along the lines of 'in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. They had to give them to somebody but there's absolutely no way those phones were well designed and certainly didn't compromise their utility through their design. They hacked weird design on top of essential functions. Look at these monstrosities from 2006:
http://www.gizmag.com/go/5338/
Nobody had a desire to use their phone in the same way nobody had a desire to use their vacuum cleaner, it wasn't rewarding enough. By contrast, people love using their iPhones.
A lot of the devices you mentioned arrived in 2007 but you keep referring to them as if they had been around for a while. The iPhone was announced and demoed in January 2007. If a device launches in March 2007, that doesn't mean it predated the iPhone and influenced the market.
Apple's statement generalises the state of mobile devices before the iPhone. No phone with a big screen took the market by storm nor a phone with a hardware qwerty keyboard nor a phone with a resistive touch screen using a stylus so the market was saturated with junk phones.
If you want to use an example of an early 'smartphone' you may as well go right back to 1994:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon
but I don't see how it makes Apple's statement disingenuous. It's like saying the internet didn't exist before Netscape. Technically it did exist but not as we accept it now.
While you can say that if someone suggested Netscape or rather Mosaic invented the internet, they were being disingenuous, you wouldn't be able to adequately show that the alternatives that predated it match up to what we recognise as web browsing. It's all down to how you interpret the meaning and you've made it clear how you want to interpret Apple's meaning.
So what were the mobile browsing stats before the iPhone? The mobile internet was pretty much unusable before proper touch screens. The PSP had a web browser but you couldn't use it like a normal browser.
Ok, so then it's not talking about smartphones in which case, it's even more accurate.
You were underwhelmed with the iPhone but not with this device that launched in 2007?:
[VIDEO]
Next you'll be telling me that phone manufacturers would have arrived at the same designs we have now had the iPhone never existed. It's only for their mild meandering in a different direction that we ended up here. If they did that, the competition would have had no trouble keeping up:
They redefined the standard for what the word smartphone represents in a significant enough way that people are perfectly correct in believing they invented the smartphone. Technically they reinvented it but they absolutely invented our modern definition of it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
No, you're not a thread slayer. You're not even a bad troll. Our bad trolls here are better than this crap.
Come back when you have an actual argument.
No, you're not the Tallest Skill. You aren't even a tall Skil. Our short Skils are better than this crap.
I have an argument, ready? Apple heavily, heavily, heavily borrowed the idea of the GUI from Xerox, at best. Here, have a YouTube video, because this validates my claim more than just saying it outright. Shiny video.
I'll give you some more shinies too. This is a picture of the heavily photoshopped evidence Apple used against Samsung, versus the actual tablet sizes. Now, you can nitpick all you want, but Apple has some of the brightest minds available to them with their giant revenue stream. So if this corporate lie is a mistake, who let it slip through?
It's about time for Apple to act decent. Apple is too egocentric. I'm now celebrating with a bottle of Champagne
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Originally Posted by audihy
It's about time for Apple to act decent.
So… they make all their patents, they come up with or buy/license everything they do, and they're indecent whores.
But Samsung just up and steals everything they've done in the past four years from Apple, and they're heroes.
Sounds like you've already had too much champagne.
Apple's off the hook at least temporarily on the requirement to post the "Did-not-copy" notice on it's website. They've got a stay order until the appeal for this is heard in October.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-26/apple-gets-stay-on-posting-notice-over-samsung-tablet.html