Apple faces trademark fight over the name 'Vision Pro' in China

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  • Reply 21 of 35
    StrangeDaysStrangeDays Posts: 13,033member
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 

    Definitely living in different worlds. No Samsung or Huawei device will ever make it into my household by choice. Huawei has been banned by both Canadian and US governments for cellular network gear over concerns of possible spying via installed equipment.

    Well, we all know about that nonsense but it’s not relevant here. 
    As long as the CCP maintains its right to inspect & interfere with any company in China (and especially as long as high-ranking members are founders of the company!) it’s not nonsense. Single-party autocrat are terrible partners for nations that respect freedom & privacy. The CCP is opposed to the basic ideas of privacy and human rights. 

    Just say no to dictators. 
    tmaydarkvader
  • Reply 22 of 35
    StrangeDaysStrangeDays Posts: 13,033member
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 
    There are only a limited set of English words to describe a specific thing. To grant patent of a word to a company is not right. Especially if the word is extended to a family. 
    Yet lots of those limited words are present in trademarks. 

    In this particular case it is Vision Pro and it is taken for exactly the same product category as the Apple Vision Pro. 

    But then again, we used to have 'Apple Computer' and the fight with 'Apple music' . 

    How many different words are there for 'Apple'? 

    I don't disagree with you on the basics but that's how things are. 


    There are General Motors, General Electric, General Instrument, and many more. I think Appel Vision Pro should be good to go as long as Huawei did not have a similar product already in market. 
    Huawei has different eyewear products that range from simple 'smart' eyewear with audio, through to eyewear for AR and for viewing video.

    It also has cameras for TVs for AR related tasks and gesture support. 

    There are also non-eyewear products like AR-HUDs. 

    It's very active in the imaging 'Vision' fields and has been working on XR from both a consumer and industry perspective. 

    Huawei Vision does not have Apple Vision Pro equivalent. Judging from Huawei copycatting Apple products history, it will have one by the end of this year.

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/visions/s/
    It doesn't need to have an Apple Vision Pro equivalent. 

    There is absolutely no requirement for that but its case is strengthened by the fact that Huawei has been actively working in the AR field for years and with different shipping products. 

    LiDAR, camera technology, gesture technology, AI, display technology, ultra low latency communications, chipsets, battery technology, software. 

    On top of that it is also developing the ICT backend technology to support ubiquitous use of XR. 

    If it trademarked the 'Vision Pro' name for ten years, it's reasonable to assume that a product might appear during that timeframe. 

    As for the copycat claims, did you know that Apple is rumoured to licence almost 800 patents from Huawei, and over the last six years Huawei has pioneered a lot of features that have ended up in Apple products. 

    Well, Apple licensing from Huawei is not a valid defense that Huawei did not copycat Apple products. Visit its product page, you can see that Huawei is trying to fool consumers. MateBook? MatePad? FreeBuds? 
    Names? 

    The Mate branding has been around since 2013. As computers and tablets were introduced, the naming spilled over into those categories as they were built with interconnection in mind. Hence the MateBook and MatePad. The naming makes a lot of sense. 

    There is also a MatePad Paper with no Apple product equivalent. 

    The Freebuds Pro were actually more advanced than Apple Airpods at launch. I see nothing similar in the name. 

    At this year's WWDC did you notice that soon Apple will let you choose more devices for camera input/output (I can't remember which off the top of my head). Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    And they also claimed faster syncing/lower Bluetooth latency. Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    Air gestures? This is a few years old now:



    Smart Eyewear:

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/huawei-eyewear/

    That's now on Gen 3. 

    Vision Glasses:

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-Vision-Glass-smart-glasses-debut-in-China-with-Micro-OLED-displays.673972.0.html

    I really don't think they will have any problems defending their use of Vision Pro if it comes to the crunch but I don't think Apple will even try because it's no secret where Huawei is heading with all these technologies. 

    As for a valid defence against the copycat claims, patents and products are perfect for that, along with massive R&D outlay. 

    Anyone who only copies, doesn’t  invest 20 billion dollars in R&D every year and constantly make the top rankings for patents. It doesn't pioneer technology in several key industries. 



    Well, even Huawei founder Ren admitted Huawei was a follower of Apple. Apple choose TSMC as chip fabrication partner, use Sony image sensor, and Huawei copied. Apple is the center of high tech innovation. 
    "Apple is the center of high tech innovation"

    I think you may have lost touch with reality. 

    Remind me where Apple's 5G modem is? 

    Apple is a CE company. It is vitally important that you keep that front and foremost in your trains of thought. 

    Huawei has far more breadth (and responsability) in industry than Apple. 

    Here is just the latest announcement, in this case in for fintech:

    https://e.huawei.com/en/news/2023/industries/finance/data-infrastructure-architecture-f2f2x

    That is an architectural proposition that Apple would never touch. It has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology. 


    TSMC had Huawei as one its major customers and often began mass production of Huawei chips before starting Apple runs. That's why, up until government sanctions at least, Huawei and Apple were releasing phones on the latest nodes at the same time. 




    It's ironic that you would note that that Apple "has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology" as Huawei, which is in fact the ongoing argument for removing Huawei from critical telecom infrastructure in the West. That Huawei had its hands in Xinjiang, spying on minorities, is well known, and sufficient in itself for blocking Huawei from Western technology.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/

    and;

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-documents-xinjiang-region-uyghur-facial-recognition-prisons-surveillance

    The Washington Post says it obtained the PowerPoints from a public Huawei site before they were taken down. According to the report, the slides included details on Huawei’s involvement with other companies in creating several systems and had metadata dating them anywhere from 2014 to 2020 (with copyright dates being listed from 2016 to 2018).
    Facial recognition is for national security. But in western nations Chinese security is unimportant. It bugged my mind why TikTok is national security concern to US especially the state of Montana. 
    Tiktok has already abused its US-data pledges. TikTok is owned by a Chinese company that used it to spy on US journalists: 
    tmaydarkvader
  • Reply 23 of 35
    waveparticlewaveparticle Posts: 1,497member
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 

    Definitely living in different worlds. No Samsung or Huawei device will ever make it into my household by choice. Huawei has been banned by both Canadian and US governments for cellular network gear over concerns of possible spying via installed equipment.

    Well, we all know about that nonsense but it’s not relevant here. 
    As long as the CCP maintains its right to inspect & interfere with any company in China (and especially as long as high-ranking members are founders of the company!) it’s not nonsense. Single-party autocrat are terrible partners for nations that respect freedom & privacy. The CCP is opposed to the basic ideas of privacy and human rights. 

    Just say no to dictators. 
    Any government has the right to inspect & interfere with any company in the nation. Freedom & privacy can be circumvented with national security. Montana banning TikTok is a good example. 
    FileMakerFeller
  • Reply 24 of 35
    tmaytmay Posts: 6,453member
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 
    There are only a limited set of English words to describe a specific thing. To grant patent of a word to a company is not right. Especially if the word is extended to a family. 
    Yet lots of those limited words are present in trademarks. 

    In this particular case it is Vision Pro and it is taken for exactly the same product category as the Apple Vision Pro. 

    But then again, we used to have 'Apple Computer' and the fight with 'Apple music' . 

    How many different words are there for 'Apple'? 

    I don't disagree with you on the basics but that's how things are. 


    There are General Motors, General Electric, General Instrument, and many more. I think Appel Vision Pro should be good to go as long as Huawei did not have a similar product already in market. 
    Huawei has different eyewear products that range from simple 'smart' eyewear with audio, through to eyewear for AR and for viewing video.

    It also has cameras for TVs for AR related tasks and gesture support. 

    There are also non-eyewear products like AR-HUDs. 

    It's very active in the imaging 'Vision' fields and has been working on XR from both a consumer and industry perspective. 

    Huawei Vision does not have Apple Vision Pro equivalent. Judging from Huawei copycatting Apple products history, it will have one by the end of this year.

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/visions/s/
    It doesn't need to have an Apple Vision Pro equivalent. 

    There is absolutely no requirement for that but its case is strengthened by the fact that Huawei has been actively working in the AR field for years and with different shipping products. 

    LiDAR, camera technology, gesture technology, AI, display technology, ultra low latency communications, chipsets, battery technology, software. 

    On top of that it is also developing the ICT backend technology to support ubiquitous use of XR. 

    If it trademarked the 'Vision Pro' name for ten years, it's reasonable to assume that a product might appear during that timeframe. 

    As for the copycat claims, did you know that Apple is rumoured to licence almost 800 patents from Huawei, and over the last six years Huawei has pioneered a lot of features that have ended up in Apple products. 

    Well, Apple licensing from Huawei is not a valid defense that Huawei did not copycat Apple products. Visit its product page, you can see that Huawei is trying to fool consumers. MateBook? MatePad? FreeBuds? 
    Names? 

    The Mate branding has been around since 2013. As computers and tablets were introduced, the naming spilled over into those categories as they were built with interconnection in mind. Hence the MateBook and MatePad. The naming makes a lot of sense. 

    There is also a MatePad Paper with no Apple product equivalent. 

    The Freebuds Pro were actually more advanced than Apple Airpods at launch. I see nothing similar in the name. 

    At this year's WWDC did you notice that soon Apple will let you choose more devices for camera input/output (I can't remember which off the top of my head). Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    And they also claimed faster syncing/lower Bluetooth latency. Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    Air gestures? This is a few years old now:



    Smart Eyewear:

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/huawei-eyewear/

    That's now on Gen 3. 

    Vision Glasses:

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-Vision-Glass-smart-glasses-debut-in-China-with-Micro-OLED-displays.673972.0.html

    I really don't think they will have any problems defending their use of Vision Pro if it comes to the crunch but I don't think Apple will even try because it's no secret where Huawei is heading with all these technologies. 

    As for a valid defence against the copycat claims, patents and products are perfect for that, along with massive R&D outlay. 

    Anyone who only copies, doesn’t  invest 20 billion dollars in R&D every year and constantly make the top rankings for patents. It doesn't pioneer technology in several key industries. 



    Well, even Huawei founder Ren admitted Huawei was a follower of Apple. Apple choose TSMC as chip fabrication partner, use Sony image sensor, and Huawei copied. Apple is the center of high tech innovation. 
    "Apple is the center of high tech innovation"

    I think you may have lost touch with reality. 

    Remind me where Apple's 5G modem is? 

    Apple is a CE company. It is vitally important that you keep that front and foremost in your trains of thought. 

    Huawei has far more breadth (and responsability) in industry than Apple. 

    Here is just the latest announcement, in this case in for fintech:

    https://e.huawei.com/en/news/2023/industries/finance/data-infrastructure-architecture-f2f2x

    That is an architectural proposition that Apple would never touch. It has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology. 


    TSMC had Huawei as one its major customers and often began mass production of Huawei chips before starting Apple runs. That's why, up until government sanctions at least, Huawei and Apple were releasing phones on the latest nodes at the same time. 




    It's ironic that you would note that that Apple "has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology" as Huawei, which is in fact the ongoing argument for removing Huawei from critical telecom infrastructure in the West. That Huawei had its hands in Xinjiang, spying on minorities, is well known, and sufficient in itself for blocking Huawei from Western technology.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/

    and;

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-documents-xinjiang-region-uyghur-facial-recognition-prisons-surveillance

    The Washington Post says it obtained the PowerPoints from a public Huawei site before they were taken down. According to the report, the slides included details on Huawei’s involvement with other companies in creating several systems and had metadata dating them anywhere from 2014 to 2020 (with copyright dates being listed from 2016 to 2018).
    Facial recognition is for national security. But in western nations Chinese security is unimportant. It bugged my mind why TikTok is national security concern to US especially the state of Montana. 
    I dunno, could it be that only Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana have ICBM silos as part of the U.S. Nuclear Triad?
  • Reply 25 of 35
    waveparticlewaveparticle Posts: 1,497member
    tmay said:
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 
    There are only a limited set of English words to describe a specific thing. To grant patent of a word to a company is not right. Especially if the word is extended to a family. 
    Yet lots of those limited words are present in trademarks. 

    In this particular case it is Vision Pro and it is taken for exactly the same product category as the Apple Vision Pro. 

    But then again, we used to have 'Apple Computer' and the fight with 'Apple music' . 

    How many different words are there for 'Apple'? 

    I don't disagree with you on the basics but that's how things are. 


    There are General Motors, General Electric, General Instrument, and many more. I think Appel Vision Pro should be good to go as long as Huawei did not have a similar product already in market. 
    Huawei has different eyewear products that range from simple 'smart' eyewear with audio, through to eyewear for AR and for viewing video.

    It also has cameras for TVs for AR related tasks and gesture support. 

    There are also non-eyewear products like AR-HUDs. 

    It's very active in the imaging 'Vision' fields and has been working on XR from both a consumer and industry perspective. 

    Huawei Vision does not have Apple Vision Pro equivalent. Judging from Huawei copycatting Apple products history, it will have one by the end of this year.

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/visions/s/
    It doesn't need to have an Apple Vision Pro equivalent. 

    There is absolutely no requirement for that but its case is strengthened by the fact that Huawei has been actively working in the AR field for years and with different shipping products. 

    LiDAR, camera technology, gesture technology, AI, display technology, ultra low latency communications, chipsets, battery technology, software. 

    On top of that it is also developing the ICT backend technology to support ubiquitous use of XR. 

    If it trademarked the 'Vision Pro' name for ten years, it's reasonable to assume that a product might appear during that timeframe. 

    As for the copycat claims, did you know that Apple is rumoured to licence almost 800 patents from Huawei, and over the last six years Huawei has pioneered a lot of features that have ended up in Apple products. 

    Well, Apple licensing from Huawei is not a valid defense that Huawei did not copycat Apple products. Visit its product page, you can see that Huawei is trying to fool consumers. MateBook? MatePad? FreeBuds? 
    Names? 

    The Mate branding has been around since 2013. As computers and tablets were introduced, the naming spilled over into those categories as they were built with interconnection in mind. Hence the MateBook and MatePad. The naming makes a lot of sense. 

    There is also a MatePad Paper with no Apple product equivalent. 

    The Freebuds Pro were actually more advanced than Apple Airpods at launch. I see nothing similar in the name. 

    At this year's WWDC did you notice that soon Apple will let you choose more devices for camera input/output (I can't remember which off the top of my head). Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    And they also claimed faster syncing/lower Bluetooth latency. Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    Air gestures? This is a few years old now:



    Smart Eyewear:

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/huawei-eyewear/

    That's now on Gen 3. 

    Vision Glasses:

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-Vision-Glass-smart-glasses-debut-in-China-with-Micro-OLED-displays.673972.0.html

    I really don't think they will have any problems defending their use of Vision Pro if it comes to the crunch but I don't think Apple will even try because it's no secret where Huawei is heading with all these technologies. 

    As for a valid defence against the copycat claims, patents and products are perfect for that, along with massive R&D outlay. 

    Anyone who only copies, doesn’t  invest 20 billion dollars in R&D every year and constantly make the top rankings for patents. It doesn't pioneer technology in several key industries. 



    Well, even Huawei founder Ren admitted Huawei was a follower of Apple. Apple choose TSMC as chip fabrication partner, use Sony image sensor, and Huawei copied. Apple is the center of high tech innovation. 
    "Apple is the center of high tech innovation"

    I think you may have lost touch with reality. 

    Remind me where Apple's 5G modem is? 

    Apple is a CE company. It is vitally important that you keep that front and foremost in your trains of thought. 

    Huawei has far more breadth (and responsability) in industry than Apple. 

    Here is just the latest announcement, in this case in for fintech:

    https://e.huawei.com/en/news/2023/industries/finance/data-infrastructure-architecture-f2f2x

    That is an architectural proposition that Apple would never touch. It has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology. 


    TSMC had Huawei as one its major customers and often began mass production of Huawei chips before starting Apple runs. That's why, up until government sanctions at least, Huawei and Apple were releasing phones on the latest nodes at the same time. 




    It's ironic that you would note that that Apple "has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology" as Huawei, which is in fact the ongoing argument for removing Huawei from critical telecom infrastructure in the West. That Huawei had its hands in Xinjiang, spying on minorities, is well known, and sufficient in itself for blocking Huawei from Western technology.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/

    and;

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-documents-xinjiang-region-uyghur-facial-recognition-prisons-surveillance

    The Washington Post says it obtained the PowerPoints from a public Huawei site before they were taken down. According to the report, the slides included details on Huawei’s involvement with other companies in creating several systems and had metadata dating them anywhere from 2014 to 2020 (with copyright dates being listed from 2016 to 2018).
    Facial recognition is for national security. But in western nations Chinese security is unimportant. It bugged my mind why TikTok is national security concern to US especially the state of Montana. 
    I dunno, could it be that only Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana have ICBM silos as part of the U.S. Nuclear Triad?
    No! Montana state government tried to ban TikTok. 
  • Reply 26 of 35
    tmaytmay Posts: 6,453member
    tmay said:
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 
    There are only a limited set of English words to describe a specific thing. To grant patent of a word to a company is not right. Especially if the word is extended to a family. 
    Yet lots of those limited words are present in trademarks. 

    In this particular case it is Vision Pro and it is taken for exactly the same product category as the Apple Vision Pro. 

    But then again, we used to have 'Apple Computer' and the fight with 'Apple music' . 

    How many different words are there for 'Apple'? 

    I don't disagree with you on the basics but that's how things are. 


    There are General Motors, General Electric, General Instrument, and many more. I think Appel Vision Pro should be good to go as long as Huawei did not have a similar product already in market. 
    Huawei has different eyewear products that range from simple 'smart' eyewear with audio, through to eyewear for AR and for viewing video.

    It also has cameras for TVs for AR related tasks and gesture support. 

    There are also non-eyewear products like AR-HUDs. 

    It's very active in the imaging 'Vision' fields and has been working on XR from both a consumer and industry perspective. 

    Huawei Vision does not have Apple Vision Pro equivalent. Judging from Huawei copycatting Apple products history, it will have one by the end of this year.

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/visions/s/
    It doesn't need to have an Apple Vision Pro equivalent. 

    There is absolutely no requirement for that but its case is strengthened by the fact that Huawei has been actively working in the AR field for years and with different shipping products. 

    LiDAR, camera technology, gesture technology, AI, display technology, ultra low latency communications, chipsets, battery technology, software. 

    On top of that it is also developing the ICT backend technology to support ubiquitous use of XR. 

    If it trademarked the 'Vision Pro' name for ten years, it's reasonable to assume that a product might appear during that timeframe. 

    As for the copycat claims, did you know that Apple is rumoured to licence almost 800 patents from Huawei, and over the last six years Huawei has pioneered a lot of features that have ended up in Apple products. 

    Well, Apple licensing from Huawei is not a valid defense that Huawei did not copycat Apple products. Visit its product page, you can see that Huawei is trying to fool consumers. MateBook? MatePad? FreeBuds? 
    Names? 

    The Mate branding has been around since 2013. As computers and tablets were introduced, the naming spilled over into those categories as they were built with interconnection in mind. Hence the MateBook and MatePad. The naming makes a lot of sense. 

    There is also a MatePad Paper with no Apple product equivalent. 

    The Freebuds Pro were actually more advanced than Apple Airpods at launch. I see nothing similar in the name. 

    At this year's WWDC did you notice that soon Apple will let you choose more devices for camera input/output (I can't remember which off the top of my head). Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    And they also claimed faster syncing/lower Bluetooth latency. Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    Air gestures? This is a few years old now:



    Smart Eyewear:

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/huawei-eyewear/

    That's now on Gen 3. 

    Vision Glasses:

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-Vision-Glass-smart-glasses-debut-in-China-with-Micro-OLED-displays.673972.0.html

    I really don't think they will have any problems defending their use of Vision Pro if it comes to the crunch but I don't think Apple will even try because it's no secret where Huawei is heading with all these technologies. 

    As for a valid defence against the copycat claims, patents and products are perfect for that, along with massive R&D outlay. 

    Anyone who only copies, doesn’t  invest 20 billion dollars in R&D every year and constantly make the top rankings for patents. It doesn't pioneer technology in several key industries. 



    Well, even Huawei founder Ren admitted Huawei was a follower of Apple. Apple choose TSMC as chip fabrication partner, use Sony image sensor, and Huawei copied. Apple is the center of high tech innovation. 
    "Apple is the center of high tech innovation"

    I think you may have lost touch with reality. 

    Remind me where Apple's 5G modem is? 

    Apple is a CE company. It is vitally important that you keep that front and foremost in your trains of thought. 

    Huawei has far more breadth (and responsability) in industry than Apple. 

    Here is just the latest announcement, in this case in for fintech:

    https://e.huawei.com/en/news/2023/industries/finance/data-infrastructure-architecture-f2f2x

    That is an architectural proposition that Apple would never touch. It has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology. 


    TSMC had Huawei as one its major customers and often began mass production of Huawei chips before starting Apple runs. That's why, up until government sanctions at least, Huawei and Apple were releasing phones on the latest nodes at the same time. 




    It's ironic that you would note that that Apple "has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology" as Huawei, which is in fact the ongoing argument for removing Huawei from critical telecom infrastructure in the West. That Huawei had its hands in Xinjiang, spying on minorities, is well known, and sufficient in itself for blocking Huawei from Western technology.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/

    and;

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-documents-xinjiang-region-uyghur-facial-recognition-prisons-surveillance

    The Washington Post says it obtained the PowerPoints from a public Huawei site before they were taken down. According to the report, the slides included details on Huawei’s involvement with other companies in creating several systems and had metadata dating them anywhere from 2014 to 2020 (with copyright dates being listed from 2016 to 2018).
    Facial recognition is for national security. But in western nations Chinese security is unimportant. It bugged my mind why TikTok is national security concern to US especially the state of Montana. 
    I dunno, could it be that only Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana have ICBM silos as part of the U.S. Nuclear Triad?
    No! Montana state government tried to ban TikTok. 
    Whew, glad it isn't about spying on missile silos...

    Bipartisan efforts for a nationwide TikTok ban have accelerated in recent months, after an initial proposal to ban the app by former President Donald Trump in 2020 was revoked by the Biden Administration the following year. A majority of U.S. states banned TikTok from government devices after reports—in Forbes and elsewhere—indicated the app could track user keystrokes and that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, was tracking American citizens. A similar ban was issued by Congress in December. Several schools and universities have also issued bans that block access to TikTok via campus Wi-Fi. Federal regulators have threatened to ban the app in the U.S. if TikTok’s China-based owners did not sell their stake in the company. The Chinese government and TikTok subsequently opposed this.

    I don't have any use for TikTok and frankly, it's probably no worse than any other social networking, but it is true that Douyin is China's TikTok and it certainly is compliant with the Chinese Government when it comes to censorship. I'd bet that TikTok is quite the tool for Chinese propaganda in most countries.

    https://theconversation.com/china-could-be-harvesting-tiktok-data-but-much-of-the-user-information-is-already-out-in-the-open-201897#:~:text=For%20a%20long%20time%2C%20TikTok,in%20China%20could%20access%20data.

    Security concerns were supported by a report in 2022 from cyber security firm Internet 2.0. Their investigations appeared to show that TikTok was capturing data with the potential to be useful, should someone wish to build a profile of the user. 

    This would have remained a purely theoretical threat if the data were not being passed back to China. For a long time, TikTok insisted any data collected by their servers could not be accessed by anyone in China.

    In November 2022, the company changed its privacy policy. It now said staff in China could access data. In fact, it went further, stating that European users’ data was accessible to TikTok staff in Brazil, Canada, Israel, the US and Singapore. This did little to help quell security concerns.

    ByteDance has responded to recent bans by saying it has not provided user data to the Chinese government. It also claims that its data collection practices align with those of other social media companies.

    Who's to know, outside of the Chinese Government and Byte Dance, if Byte Dance actually provides data to the Chinese Government? 

    Yeah, I don't trust Byte Dance.

    edited June 2023 darkvader
  • Reply 27 of 35
    waveparticlewaveparticle Posts: 1,497member
    tmay said:
    tmay said:
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 
    There are only a limited set of English words to describe a specific thing. To grant patent of a word to a company is not right. Especially if the word is extended to a family. 
    Yet lots of those limited words are present in trademarks. 

    In this particular case it is Vision Pro and it is taken for exactly the same product category as the Apple Vision Pro. 

    But then again, we used to have 'Apple Computer' and the fight with 'Apple music' . 

    How many different words are there for 'Apple'? 

    I don't disagree with you on the basics but that's how things are. 


    There are General Motors, General Electric, General Instrument, and many more. I think Appel Vision Pro should be good to go as long as Huawei did not have a similar product already in market. 
    Huawei has different eyewear products that range from simple 'smart' eyewear with audio, through to eyewear for AR and for viewing video.

    It also has cameras for TVs for AR related tasks and gesture support. 

    There are also non-eyewear products like AR-HUDs. 

    It's very active in the imaging 'Vision' fields and has been working on XR from both a consumer and industry perspective. 

    Huawei Vision does not have Apple Vision Pro equivalent. Judging from Huawei copycatting Apple products history, it will have one by the end of this year.

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/visions/s/
    It doesn't need to have an Apple Vision Pro equivalent. 

    There is absolutely no requirement for that but its case is strengthened by the fact that Huawei has been actively working in the AR field for years and with different shipping products. 

    LiDAR, camera technology, gesture technology, AI, display technology, ultra low latency communications, chipsets, battery technology, software. 

    On top of that it is also developing the ICT backend technology to support ubiquitous use of XR. 

    If it trademarked the 'Vision Pro' name for ten years, it's reasonable to assume that a product might appear during that timeframe. 

    As for the copycat claims, did you know that Apple is rumoured to licence almost 800 patents from Huawei, and over the last six years Huawei has pioneered a lot of features that have ended up in Apple products. 

    Well, Apple licensing from Huawei is not a valid defense that Huawei did not copycat Apple products. Visit its product page, you can see that Huawei is trying to fool consumers. MateBook? MatePad? FreeBuds? 
    Names? 

    The Mate branding has been around since 2013. As computers and tablets were introduced, the naming spilled over into those categories as they were built with interconnection in mind. Hence the MateBook and MatePad. The naming makes a lot of sense. 

    There is also a MatePad Paper with no Apple product equivalent. 

    The Freebuds Pro were actually more advanced than Apple Airpods at launch. I see nothing similar in the name. 

    At this year's WWDC did you notice that soon Apple will let you choose more devices for camera input/output (I can't remember which off the top of my head). Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    And they also claimed faster syncing/lower Bluetooth latency. Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    Air gestures? This is a few years old now:



    Smart Eyewear:

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/huawei-eyewear/

    That's now on Gen 3. 

    Vision Glasses:

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-Vision-Glass-smart-glasses-debut-in-China-with-Micro-OLED-displays.673972.0.html

    I really don't think they will have any problems defending their use of Vision Pro if it comes to the crunch but I don't think Apple will even try because it's no secret where Huawei is heading with all these technologies. 

    As for a valid defence against the copycat claims, patents and products are perfect for that, along with massive R&D outlay. 

    Anyone who only copies, doesn’t  invest 20 billion dollars in R&D every year and constantly make the top rankings for patents. It doesn't pioneer technology in several key industries. 



    Well, even Huawei founder Ren admitted Huawei was a follower of Apple. Apple choose TSMC as chip fabrication partner, use Sony image sensor, and Huawei copied. Apple is the center of high tech innovation. 
    "Apple is the center of high tech innovation"

    I think you may have lost touch with reality. 

    Remind me where Apple's 5G modem is? 

    Apple is a CE company. It is vitally important that you keep that front and foremost in your trains of thought. 

    Huawei has far more breadth (and responsability) in industry than Apple. 

    Here is just the latest announcement, in this case in for fintech:

    https://e.huawei.com/en/news/2023/industries/finance/data-infrastructure-architecture-f2f2x

    That is an architectural proposition that Apple would never touch. It has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology. 


    TSMC had Huawei as one its major customers and often began mass production of Huawei chips before starting Apple runs. That's why, up until government sanctions at least, Huawei and Apple were releasing phones on the latest nodes at the same time. 




    It's ironic that you would note that that Apple "has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology" as Huawei, which is in fact the ongoing argument for removing Huawei from critical telecom infrastructure in the West. That Huawei had its hands in Xinjiang, spying on minorities, is well known, and sufficient in itself for blocking Huawei from Western technology.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/

    and;

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-documents-xinjiang-region-uyghur-facial-recognition-prisons-surveillance

    The Washington Post says it obtained the PowerPoints from a public Huawei site before they were taken down. According to the report, the slides included details on Huawei’s involvement with other companies in creating several systems and had metadata dating them anywhere from 2014 to 2020 (with copyright dates being listed from 2016 to 2018).
    Facial recognition is for national security. But in western nations Chinese security is unimportant. It bugged my mind why TikTok is national security concern to US especially the state of Montana. 
    I dunno, could it be that only Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana have ICBM silos as part of the U.S. Nuclear Triad?
    No! Montana state government tried to ban TikTok. 
    Whew, glad it isn't about spying on missile silos...

    Bipartisan efforts for a nationwide TikTok ban have accelerated in recent months, after an initial proposal to ban the app by former President Donald Trump in 2020 was revoked by the Biden Administration the following year. A majority of U.S. states banned TikTok from government devices after reports—in Forbes and elsewhere—indicated the app could track user keystrokes and that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, was tracking American citizens. A similar ban was issued by Congress in December. Several schools and universities have also issued bans that block access to TikTok via campus Wi-Fi. Federal regulators have threatened to ban the app in the U.S. if TikTok’s China-based owners did not sell their stake in the company. The Chinese government and TikTok subsequently opposed this.

    I don't have any use for TikTok and frankly, it's probably no worse than any other social networking, but it is true that Douyin is China's TikTok and it certainly is compliant with the Chinese Government when it comes to censorship. I'd bet that TikTok is quite the tool for Chinese propaganda in most countries.

    https://theconversation.com/china-could-be-harvesting-tiktok-data-but-much-of-the-user-information-is-already-out-in-the-open-201897#:~:text=For%20a%20long%20time%2C%20TikTok,in%20China%20could%20access%20data.

    Security concerns were supported by a report in 2022 from cyber security firm Internet 2.0. Their investigations appeared to show that TikTok was capturing data with the potential to be useful, should someone wish to build a profile of the user. 

    This would have remained a purely theoretical threat if the data were not being passed back to China. For a long time, TikTok insisted any data collected by their servers could not be accessed by anyone in China.

    In November 2022, the company changed its privacy policy. It now said staff in China could access data. In fact, it went further, stating that European users’ data was accessible to TikTok staff in Brazil, Canada, Israel, the US and Singapore. This did little to help quell security concerns.

    ByteDance has responded to recent bans by saying it has not provided user data to the Chinese government. It also claims that its data collection practices align with those of other social media companies.

    Who's to know, outside of the Chinese Government and Byte Dance, if Byte Dance actually provides data to the Chinese Government? 

    Yeah, I don't trust Byte Dance.

    So? Microsoft and Google provide data to the US government. 
  • Reply 28 of 35
    humbug1873humbug1873 Posts: 156member
    Obviously you forgot the major first issue with trademarks Apple Computer Inc. (as it was called then) had.
    The one with Apple Corps (the company used by the Beatles to hide their income from the British Tax collector, release their Albums and eventually sueing Apple Inc. every few product releases for more money) and the Beatles made tons of money (~$600 Million) using that name:
    1st time they licensed the name (because it's only computers)
    2nd time when Macs started to make sounds (because now it also could play Music)
    3rd time when they added a system sound (The reason that sound is still named 'sosumi')
    4th time ... when the iTunes Music store opened  (at least this one is obvious)
    One of the reasons Beatles wasn't available in the iTunes Music store for a long time (until 2010 to be exact)

    So they made tons of money in licensing fees even though the company was essentially mothballed in 1975 about a year before Apple Computer was founded.
  • Reply 29 of 35
    avon b7avon b7 Posts: 7,959member
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 

    Definitely living in different worlds. No Samsung or Huawei device will ever make it into my household by choice. Huawei has been banned by both Canadian and US governments for cellular network gear over concerns of possible spying via installed equipment.

    Well, we all know about that nonsense but it’s not relevant here. 
    As long as the CCP maintains its right to inspect & interfere with any company in China (and especially as long as high-ranking members are founders of the company!) it’s not nonsense. Single-party autocrat are terrible partners for nations that respect freedom & privacy. The CCP is opposed to the basic ideas of privacy and human rights. 

    Just say no to dictators. 
    No. It's nonsense. 

    The US 'interferes' and does so by signing executive orders 'willy nilly' on 'national security' grounds, threatening and bullying all and sundry, imposing unilateral, extraterritorial sanctions and then, even when the law doesn't allow something it will do it anyway, just illegally.

    Hasn't the Snowden episode taught you anything?

    To quote a former agency chief:

    "It's what we do". 

    But why throw politics into this? The point was technology.

    Keep it on technology. 
    muthuk_vanalingam
  • Reply 30 of 35
    avon b7avon b7 Posts: 7,959member
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 
    There are only a limited set of English words to describe a specific thing. To grant patent of a word to a company is not right. Especially if the word is extended to a family. 
    Yet lots of those limited words are present in trademarks. 

    In this particular case it is Vision Pro and it is taken for exactly the same product category as the Apple Vision Pro. 

    But then again, we used to have 'Apple Computer' and the fight with 'Apple music' . 

    How many different words are there for 'Apple'? 

    I don't disagree with you on the basics but that's how things are. 


    There are General Motors, General Electric, General Instrument, and many more. I think Appel Vision Pro should be good to go as long as Huawei did not have a similar product already in market. 
    Huawei has different eyewear products that range from simple 'smart' eyewear with audio, through to eyewear for AR and for viewing video.

    It also has cameras for TVs for AR related tasks and gesture support. 

    There are also non-eyewear products like AR-HUDs. 

    It's very active in the imaging 'Vision' fields and has been working on XR from both a consumer and industry perspective. 

    Huawei Vision does not have Apple Vision Pro equivalent. Judging from Huawei copycatting Apple products history, it will have one by the end of this year.

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/visions/s/
    It doesn't need to have an Apple Vision Pro equivalent. 

    There is absolutely no requirement for that but its case is strengthened by the fact that Huawei has been actively working in the AR field for years and with different shipping products. 

    LiDAR, camera technology, gesture technology, AI, display technology, ultra low latency communications, chipsets, battery technology, software. 

    On top of that it is also developing the ICT backend technology to support ubiquitous use of XR. 

    If it trademarked the 'Vision Pro' name for ten years, it's reasonable to assume that a product might appear during that timeframe. 

    As for the copycat claims, did you know that Apple is rumoured to licence almost 800 patents from Huawei, and over the last six years Huawei has pioneered a lot of features that have ended up in Apple products. 

    Well, Apple licensing from Huawei is not a valid defense that Huawei did not copycat Apple products. Visit its product page, you can see that Huawei is trying to fool consumers. MateBook? MatePad? FreeBuds? 
    Names? 

    The Mate branding has been around since 2013. As computers and tablets were introduced, the naming spilled over into those categories as they were built with interconnection in mind. Hence the MateBook and MatePad. The naming makes a lot of sense. 

    There is also a MatePad Paper with no Apple product equivalent. 

    The Freebuds Pro were actually more advanced than Apple Airpods at launch. I see nothing similar in the name. 

    At this year's WWDC did you notice that soon Apple will let you choose more devices for camera input/output (I can't remember which off the top of my head). Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    And they also claimed faster syncing/lower Bluetooth latency. Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    Air gestures? This is a few years old now:



    Smart Eyewear:

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/huawei-eyewear/

    That's now on Gen 3. 

    Vision Glasses:

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-Vision-Glass-smart-glasses-debut-in-China-with-Micro-OLED-displays.673972.0.html

    I really don't think they will have any problems defending their use of Vision Pro if it comes to the crunch but I don't think Apple will even try because it's no secret where Huawei is heading with all these technologies. 

    As for a valid defence against the copycat claims, patents and products are perfect for that, along with massive R&D outlay. 

    Anyone who only copies, doesn’t  invest 20 billion dollars in R&D every year and constantly make the top rankings for patents. It doesn't pioneer technology in several key industries. 



    Well, even Huawei founder Ren admitted Huawei was a follower of Apple. Apple choose TSMC as chip fabrication partner, use Sony image sensor, and Huawei copied. Apple is the center of high tech innovation. 
    "Apple is the center of high tech innovation"

    I think you may have lost touch with reality. 

    Remind me where Apple's 5G modem is? 

    Apple is a CE company. It is vitally important that you keep that front and foremost in your trains of thought. 

    Huawei has far more breadth (and responsability) in industry than Apple. 

    Here is just the latest announcement, in this case in for fintech:

    https://e.huawei.com/en/news/2023/industries/finance/data-infrastructure-architecture-f2f2x

    That is an architectural proposition that Apple would never touch. It has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology. 


    TSMC had Huawei as one its major customers and often began mass production of Huawei chips before starting Apple runs. That's why, up until government sanctions at least, Huawei and Apple were releasing phones on the latest nodes at the same time. 




    It's ironic that you would note that that Apple "has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology" as Huawei, which is in fact the ongoing argument for removing Huawei from critical telecom infrastructure in the West. That Huawei had its hands in Xinjiang, spying on minorities, is well known, and sufficient in itself for blocking Huawei from Western technology.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/

    and;

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-documents-xinjiang-region-uyghur-facial-recognition-prisons-surveillance

    The Washington Post says it obtained the PowerPoints from a public Huawei site before they were taken down. According to the report, the slides included details on Huawei’s involvement with other companies in creating several systems and had metadata dating them anywhere from 2014 to 2020 (with copyright dates being listed from 2016 to 2018).
    And yet, their technology continues to roll out worldwide, and yes on swathes of critical infrastructure, too. 

    The west? Over 30 years delivering tech solutions and not a single major breach. 

    The link I shared mentioned over 1,300 financial institutions onboard for the products using F2F2X and this part, almost mentioned in passing, represents a massive technological advancement:

    "Core technologies such as decoupled storage and compute and multi-controller and multi-active architecture"

    Have you any idea what that sentence is hiding? 

    Baby steps but this is the goal:

    https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/04/14/huawei-denser-storage-systems/

    That is absolutely essential for when XR really hits the cloud. 

    Of course, you chose to basically ignore what I said and simply injected politics. 
    edited June 2023
  • Reply 31 of 35
    tmaytmay Posts: 6,453member
    avon b7 said:
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 
    There are only a limited set of English words to describe a specific thing. To grant patent of a word to a company is not right. Especially if the word is extended to a family. 
    Yet lots of those limited words are present in trademarks. 

    In this particular case it is Vision Pro and it is taken for exactly the same product category as the Apple Vision Pro. 

    But then again, we used to have 'Apple Computer' and the fight with 'Apple music' . 

    How many different words are there for 'Apple'? 

    I don't disagree with you on the basics but that's how things are. 


    There are General Motors, General Electric, General Instrument, and many more. I think Appel Vision Pro should be good to go as long as Huawei did not have a similar product already in market. 
    Huawei has different eyewear products that range from simple 'smart' eyewear with audio, through to eyewear for AR and for viewing video.

    It also has cameras for TVs for AR related tasks and gesture support. 

    There are also non-eyewear products like AR-HUDs. 

    It's very active in the imaging 'Vision' fields and has been working on XR from both a consumer and industry perspective. 

    Huawei Vision does not have Apple Vision Pro equivalent. Judging from Huawei copycatting Apple products history, it will have one by the end of this year.

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/visions/s/
    It doesn't need to have an Apple Vision Pro equivalent. 

    There is absolutely no requirement for that but its case is strengthened by the fact that Huawei has been actively working in the AR field for years and with different shipping products. 

    LiDAR, camera technology, gesture technology, AI, display technology, ultra low latency communications, chipsets, battery technology, software. 

    On top of that it is also developing the ICT backend technology to support ubiquitous use of XR. 

    If it trademarked the 'Vision Pro' name for ten years, it's reasonable to assume that a product might appear during that timeframe. 

    As for the copycat claims, did you know that Apple is rumoured to licence almost 800 patents from Huawei, and over the last six years Huawei has pioneered a lot of features that have ended up in Apple products. 

    Well, Apple licensing from Huawei is not a valid defense that Huawei did not copycat Apple products. Visit its product page, you can see that Huawei is trying to fool consumers. MateBook? MatePad? FreeBuds? 
    Names? 

    The Mate branding has been around since 2013. As computers and tablets were introduced, the naming spilled over into those categories as they were built with interconnection in mind. Hence the MateBook and MatePad. The naming makes a lot of sense. 

    There is also a MatePad Paper with no Apple product equivalent. 

    The Freebuds Pro were actually more advanced than Apple Airpods at launch. I see nothing similar in the name. 

    At this year's WWDC did you notice that soon Apple will let you choose more devices for camera input/output (I can't remember which off the top of my head). Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    And they also claimed faster syncing/lower Bluetooth latency. Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    Air gestures? This is a few years old now:



    Smart Eyewear:

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/huawei-eyewear/

    That's now on Gen 3. 

    Vision Glasses:

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-Vision-Glass-smart-glasses-debut-in-China-with-Micro-OLED-displays.673972.0.html

    I really don't think they will have any problems defending their use of Vision Pro if it comes to the crunch but I don't think Apple will even try because it's no secret where Huawei is heading with all these technologies. 

    As for a valid defence against the copycat claims, patents and products are perfect for that, along with massive R&D outlay. 

    Anyone who only copies, doesn’t  invest 20 billion dollars in R&D every year and constantly make the top rankings for patents. It doesn't pioneer technology in several key industries. 



    Well, even Huawei founder Ren admitted Huawei was a follower of Apple. Apple choose TSMC as chip fabrication partner, use Sony image sensor, and Huawei copied. Apple is the center of high tech innovation. 
    "Apple is the center of high tech innovation"

    I think you may have lost touch with reality. 

    Remind me where Apple's 5G modem is? 

    Apple is a CE company. It is vitally important that you keep that front and foremost in your trains of thought. 

    Huawei has far more breadth (and responsability) in industry than Apple. 

    Here is just the latest announcement, in this case in for fintech:

    https://e.huawei.com/en/news/2023/industries/finance/data-infrastructure-architecture-f2f2x

    That is an architectural proposition that Apple would never touch. It has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology. 


    TSMC had Huawei as one its major customers and often began mass production of Huawei chips before starting Apple runs. That's why, up until government sanctions at least, Huawei and Apple were releasing phones on the latest nodes at the same time. 




    It's ironic that you would note that that Apple "has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology" as Huawei, which is in fact the ongoing argument for removing Huawei from critical telecom infrastructure in the West. That Huawei had its hands in Xinjiang, spying on minorities, is well known, and sufficient in itself for blocking Huawei from Western technology.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/

    and;

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-documents-xinjiang-region-uyghur-facial-recognition-prisons-surveillance

    The Washington Post says it obtained the PowerPoints from a public Huawei site before they were taken down. According to the report, the slides included details on Huawei’s involvement with other companies in creating several systems and had metadata dating them anywhere from 2014 to 2020 (with copyright dates being listed from 2016 to 2018).
    And yet, their technology continues to roll out worldwide, and yes on swathes of critical infrastructure, too. 

    The west? Over 30 years delivering tech solutions and not a single major breach. 

    The link I shared mentioned over 1,300 financial institutions onboard for the products using F2F2X and this part, almost mentioned in passing, represents a massive technological advancement:

    "Core technologies such as decoupled storage and compute and multi-controller and multi-active architecture"

    Have you any idea what that sentence is hiding? 

    Baby steps but this is the goal:

    https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/04/14/huawei-denser-storage-systems/

    That is absolutely essential for when XR really hits the cloud. 

    Of course, you chose to basically ignore what I said and simply injected politics. 
    Uhm, that's nice, but you seem to brush aside the fact that China is an authoritarian power whose aim is to change the rules of order, by force if necessary. That would probably be a bad thing for the world. 

    Guess who has been the guarantor of Freedom of Navigation since the end of WWII, and it isn't China. Without Freedom of Navigation, there would be no Global economy, and as China becomes more authoritarian, they are forcing the West to reconsider investment and technology transfer to China. 

    So yeah, I injected politics, that you happily ignore so that you can enjoy even more Chinese technology.
    darkvader
  • Reply 32 of 35
    avon b7avon b7 Posts: 7,959member
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 
    There are only a limited set of English words to describe a specific thing. To grant patent of a word to a company is not right. Especially if the word is extended to a family. 
    Yet lots of those limited words are present in trademarks. 

    In this particular case it is Vision Pro and it is taken for exactly the same product category as the Apple Vision Pro. 

    But then again, we used to have 'Apple Computer' and the fight with 'Apple music' . 

    How many different words are there for 'Apple'? 

    I don't disagree with you on the basics but that's how things are. 


    There are General Motors, General Electric, General Instrument, and many more. I think Appel Vision Pro should be good to go as long as Huawei did not have a similar product already in market. 
    Huawei has different eyewear products that range from simple 'smart' eyewear with audio, through to eyewear for AR and for viewing video.

    It also has cameras for TVs for AR related tasks and gesture support. 

    There are also non-eyewear products like AR-HUDs. 

    It's very active in the imaging 'Vision' fields and has been working on XR from both a consumer and industry perspective. 

    Huawei Vision does not have Apple Vision Pro equivalent. Judging from Huawei copycatting Apple products history, it will have one by the end of this year.

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/visions/s/
    It doesn't need to have an Apple Vision Pro equivalent. 

    There is absolutely no requirement for that but its case is strengthened by the fact that Huawei has been actively working in the AR field for years and with different shipping products. 

    LiDAR, camera technology, gesture technology, AI, display technology, ultra low latency communications, chipsets, battery technology, software. 

    On top of that it is also developing the ICT backend technology to support ubiquitous use of XR. 

    If it trademarked the 'Vision Pro' name for ten years, it's reasonable to assume that a product might appear during that timeframe. 

    As for the copycat claims, did you know that Apple is rumoured to licence almost 800 patents from Huawei, and over the last six years Huawei has pioneered a lot of features that have ended up in Apple products. 

    Well, Apple licensing from Huawei is not a valid defense that Huawei did not copycat Apple products. Visit its product page, you can see that Huawei is trying to fool consumers. MateBook? MatePad? FreeBuds? 
    Names? 

    The Mate branding has been around since 2013. As computers and tablets were introduced, the naming spilled over into those categories as they were built with interconnection in mind. Hence the MateBook and MatePad. The naming makes a lot of sense. 

    There is also a MatePad Paper with no Apple product equivalent. 

    The Freebuds Pro were actually more advanced than Apple Airpods at launch. I see nothing similar in the name. 

    At this year's WWDC did you notice that soon Apple will let you choose more devices for camera input/output (I can't remember which off the top of my head). Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    And they also claimed faster syncing/lower Bluetooth latency. Where have I heard that before? HarmonyOS!

    Air gestures? This is a few years old now:



    Smart Eyewear:

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/huawei-eyewear/

    That's now on Gen 3. 

    Vision Glasses:

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-Vision-Glass-smart-glasses-debut-in-China-with-Micro-OLED-displays.673972.0.html

    I really don't think they will have any problems defending their use of Vision Pro if it comes to the crunch but I don't think Apple will even try because it's no secret where Huawei is heading with all these technologies. 

    As for a valid defence against the copycat claims, patents and products are perfect for that, along with massive R&D outlay. 

    Anyone who only copies, doesn’t  invest 20 billion dollars in R&D every year and constantly make the top rankings for patents. It doesn't pioneer technology in several key industries. 



    Well, even Huawei founder Ren admitted Huawei was a follower of Apple. Apple choose TSMC as chip fabrication partner, use Sony image sensor, and Huawei copied. Apple is the center of high tech innovation. 
    "Apple is the center of high tech innovation"

    I think you may have lost touch with reality. 

    Remind me where Apple's 5G modem is? 

    Apple is a CE company. It is vitally important that you keep that front and foremost in your trains of thought. 

    Huawei has far more breadth (and responsability) in industry than Apple. 

    Here is just the latest announcement, in this case in for fintech:

    https://e.huawei.com/en/news/2023/industries/finance/data-infrastructure-architecture-f2f2x

    That is an architectural proposition that Apple would never touch. It has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology. 


    TSMC had Huawei as one its major customers and often began mass production of Huawei chips before starting Apple runs. That's why, up until government sanctions at least, Huawei and Apple were releasing phones on the latest nodes at the same time. 




    It's ironic that you would note that that Apple "has nowhere near the resources or knowhow to get anywhere near that kind of mission critical technology" as Huawei, which is in fact the ongoing argument for removing Huawei from critical telecom infrastructure in the West. That Huawei had its hands in Xinjiang, spying on minorities, is well known, and sufficient in itself for blocking Huawei from Western technology.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/

    and;

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-documents-xinjiang-region-uyghur-facial-recognition-prisons-surveillance

    The Washington Post says it obtained the PowerPoints from a public Huawei site before they were taken down. According to the report, the slides included details on Huawei’s involvement with other companies in creating several systems and had metadata dating them anywhere from 2014 to 2020 (with copyright dates being listed from 2016 to 2018).
    And yet, their technology continues to roll out worldwide, and yes on swathes of critical infrastructure, too. 

    The west? Over 30 years delivering tech solutions and not a single major breach. 

    The link I shared mentioned over 1,300 financial institutions onboard for the products using F2F2X and this part, almost mentioned in passing, represents a massive technological advancement:

    "Core technologies such as decoupled storage and compute and multi-controller and multi-active architecture"

    Have you any idea what that sentence is hiding? 

    Baby steps but this is the goal:

    https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/04/14/huawei-denser-storage-systems/

    That is absolutely essential for when XR really hits the cloud. 

    Of course, you chose to basically ignore what I said and simply injected politics. 
    Uhm, that's nice, but you seem to brush aside the fact that China is an authoritarian power whose aim is to change the rules of order, by force if necessary. That would probably be a bad thing for the world. 

    Guess who has been the guarantor of Freedom of Navigation since the end of WWII, and it isn't China. Without Freedom of Navigation, there would be no Global economy, and as China becomes more authoritarian, they are forcing the West to reconsider investment and technology transfer to China. 

    So yeah, I injected politics, that you happily ignore so that you can enjoy even more Chinese technology.
    The point I was replying to was technology related. Demostrable with facts. 
  • Reply 33 of 35
    jfabula1jfabula1 Posts: 152member
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Yes, Huawei has been using the 'Vision' branding for a while now and specifically in AR glasses and smart screens too, so the Apple name does overlap slightly.

    I'm currently interested in a Vision 3 to replace a Samsung TV if it gets a release in Spain. The previous model was available here. 

    We are talking about well known, commercial products (and not all of them are limited to China) so it is hard to believe Apple wasn't well aware of the situation. 

    It's possible that the issue has already been taken into account. 
    There are only a limited set of English words to describe a specific thing. To grant patent of a word to a company is not right. Especially if the word is extended to a family. 
    Yet lots of those limited words are present in trademarks. 

    In this particular case it is Vision Pro and it is taken for exactly the same product category as the Apple Vision Pro. 

    But then again, we used to have 'Apple Computer' and the fight with 'Apple music' . 

    How many different words are there for 'Apple'? 

    I don't disagree with you on the basics but that's how things are. 


    There are General Motors, General Electric, General Instrument, and many more. I think Appel Vision Pro should be good to go as long as Huawei did not have a similar product already in market. 
    Huawei has different eyewear products that range from simple 'smart' eyewear with audio, through to eyewear for AR and for viewing video.

    It also has cameras for TVs for AR related tasks and gesture support. 

    There are also non-eyewear products like AR-HUDs. 

    It's very active in the imaging 'Vision' fields and has been working on XR from both a consumer and industry perspective. 

    Huawei Vision does not have Apple Vision Pro equivalent. Judging from Huawei copycatting Apple products history, it will have one by the end of this year.

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/visions/s/
    It doesn't need to have an Apple Vision Pro equivalent. 

    There is absolutely no requirement for that but its case is strengthened by the fact that Huawei has been actively working in the AR field for years and with different shipping products. 

    LiDAR, camera technology, gesture technology, AI, display technology, ultra low latency communications, chipsets, battery technology, software. 

    On top of that it is also developing the ICT backend technology to support ubiquitous use of XR. 

    If it trademarked the 'Vision Pro' name for ten years, it's reasonable to assume that a product might appear during that timeframe. 

    As for the copycat claims, did you know that Apple is rumoured to licence almost 800 patents from Huawei, and over the last six years Huawei has pioneered a lot of features that have ended up in Apple products. 

    Oh WOW…..i dont know that rumor -; spy ballons anyone??
  • Reply 34 of 35
    TinCookTinCook Posts: 11member
    Is that why Apple always called it Apple Vision Pro instead of Vision Pro?
  • Reply 35 of 35
    avon b7avon b7 Posts: 7,959member
    TinCook said:
    Is that why Apple always called it Apple Vision Pro instead of Vision Pro?
    That probably wouldn't change much. 

    I doubt Apple would favour the idea of a name like 'Huawei iPhone 14 Pro'.  
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