Isn't that how Australia got colonized in the first place?
Sort of, after the American revolution they had to find somewhere else to send convicts to, otherwise I would have been American or not have existed at all.
Which I still don't understand, by the way… So lack of patent infringement means anyone can make anything that looks just like something else and get away with it? It's certainly one thing not to infringe, which Apple has acknowledged, but Apple will NEVER in good faith say they didn't copy.
Apple was fighting on trademark designs, but Apple had not filed a trademark for the iPad. That's why they lost on that one.
Simple. If the stock is going down, then something is wrong fundamentally at Apple. Nexus 4, which is almost as good as iPhone 5 costs 299$ unlocked while the iPhone 5 is between 700$ and 1000$ unlocked! Come on, this is unbelievable greedy! Yes, stock going down will be good for customers in the long run.
Stock price moves can be caused by many different things, and often they have little to do with how the company is being run. Tech companies are especially hard to track because most pundits don't understand tech companies and they certainly don't understand Apple.
But that's fine, because Apple understands that share price is a fashion thing, and is a very poor measure of a company's true value. Still, that doesn't prevent them from playing the game: When Tim Cook apologized for the Maps foulup, Apple's share price dived, and only a few pundits noticed that he made the apology the day before Apple initiated its share buyback programme.
Anyway, none of that is really important, because the biggest flaw in your argument is this: No one buys unlocked iPhones, so no one is paying the prices you quoted.
Apple calls their original published statement "inaccurate" (their words). Isn't that a less-harsh synonym for incorrect? Not entirely true might be another way of putting it?
I believe this might be where the discussion turns pedantic.
... Nexus 4, which is almost as good as iPhone 5 ...
BTW, NelsonX, we know you have no idea what you are talking about when you say things like this. As Android fans have told us for at least a year now, the Nexus 4 is junk because it doesn't have LTE: a good phone must have LTE. We've been told that repeatedly, as a reason why the iPhone 4S wasn't as good as other phones, it didn't have LTE. So, since the Nexus 4 doesn't have LTE, it must be a piece of crap, and not even in the same class as the iPhone 5.
Apple calls their original published statement "inaccurate" (their words). Isn't that a less-harsh synonym for incorrect? Not entirely true might be another way of putting it?
I believe this might be where the discussion turns pedantic.
Oh, GG, you just can't help but say things you know to be BS, can you? We all know that Apple characterized their previous statement as "inaccurate" because the court ordered them to do so, despite the fact that it was entirely accurate. So, basically, the court ordered them to now lie, so the court didn't look like quite the fools they did before.
Apple calls their original published statement "inaccurate" (their words). Isn't that a less-harsh synonym for incorrect?
They were told to call their original statement "inaccurate". There was no inaccuracy in their original statement. There were no falsehoods in their original statement.
Pedantry would be calling out differences between the words 'inaccurate' and 'incorrect'. That's silly.
That judge should be removed.
Apple has copped it thrice here.
Once when Samsung copied them, a second time when the legal system failed to recognise that, and the third with this ridiculous attempt to embarrass them for attempting to protect their intellectual property.
The legal system over there is a joke.
Thanks for that report from a country inhabited principally by criminals, crooks, thieves and expatriated undesirables - otherwise known as Down Under Arrest. ;-)
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I think you must mean, in the second place.
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Originally Posted by boredumb
Isn't that how Australia got colonized in the first place?
Sort of, after the American revolution they had to find somewhere else to send convicts to, otherwise I would have been American or not have existed at all.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Which I still don't understand, by the way… So lack of patent infringement means anyone can make anything that looks just like something else and get away with it? It's certainly one thing not to infringe, which Apple has acknowledged, but Apple will NEVER in good faith say they didn't copy.
Apple was fighting on trademark designs, but Apple had not filed a trademark for the iPad. That's why they lost on that one.
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Originally Posted by NelsonX
Simple. If the stock is going down, then something is wrong fundamentally at Apple. Nexus 4, which is almost as good as iPhone 5 costs 299$ unlocked while the iPhone 5 is between 700$ and 1000$ unlocked! Come on, this is unbelievable greedy! Yes, stock going down will be good for customers in the long run.
Stock price moves can be caused by many different things, and often they have little to do with how the company is being run. Tech companies are especially hard to track because most pundits don't understand tech companies and they certainly don't understand Apple.
But that's fine, because Apple understands that share price is a fashion thing, and is a very poor measure of a company's true value. Still, that doesn't prevent them from playing the game: When Tim Cook apologized for the Maps foulup, Apple's share price dived, and only a few pundits noticed that he made the apology the day before Apple initiated its share buyback programme.
Anyway, none of that is really important, because the biggest flaw in your argument is this: No one buys unlocked iPhones, so no one is paying the prices you quoted.
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Originally Posted by hill60
It's only over when the fat lady sings...
...on Apple's UK website.
Looks like the fat lady has sung.
Originally Posted by reefoid
Looks like the fat lady has sung.
Except the statement WASN'T incorrect.
How can anyone possibly defend that nonsense?
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Originally Posted by Quadra 610
You don't need to be a judge to recognize absurdity.
Then what is the point of having courts or third party independant parties?
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Except the statement WASN'T incorrect.
Apple calls their original published statement "inaccurate" (their words). Isn't that a less-harsh synonym for incorrect? Not entirely true might be another way of putting it?
I believe this might be where the discussion turns pedantic.
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Originally Posted by NelsonX
... Nexus 4, which is almost as good as iPhone 5 ...
BTW, NelsonX, we know you have no idea what you are talking about when you say things like this. As Android fans have told us for at least a year now, the Nexus 4 is junk because it doesn't have LTE: a good phone must have LTE. We've been told that repeatedly, as a reason why the iPhone 4S wasn't as good as other phones, it didn't have LTE. So, since the Nexus 4 doesn't have LTE, it must be a piece of crap, and not even in the same class as the iPhone 5.
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Originally Posted by Gatorguy
Apple calls their original published statement "inaccurate" (their words). Isn't that a less-harsh synonym for incorrect? Not entirely true might be another way of putting it?
I believe this might be where the discussion turns pedantic.
Oh, GG, you just can't help but say things you know to be BS, can you? We all know that Apple characterized their previous statement as "inaccurate" because the court ordered them to do so, despite the fact that it was entirely accurate. So, basically, the court ordered them to now lie, so the court didn't look like quite the fools they did before.
Originally Posted by Gatorguy
Apple calls their original published statement "inaccurate" (their words). Isn't that a less-harsh synonym for incorrect?
They were told to call their original statement "inaccurate". There was no inaccuracy in their original statement. There were no falsehoods in their original statement.
Pedantry would be calling out differences between the words 'inaccurate' and 'incorrect'. That's silly.