HTC handsets held up at US customs due to ITC injunction over Apple patent

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  • Reply 21 of 73
    chris_cachris_ca Posts: 2,543member
    drdoppio wrote: »
    Not banned, just held up.
    No, they are banned as long as they use the same implementation that the ITC has ruled violate Apple's patents.
    They are held up to see if they are using this implementation. If so, back they will go.
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  • Reply 22 of 73
    drdoppiodrdoppio Posts: 1,132member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Chris_CA View Post





    No, they are banned as long as they use the same implementation that the ITC has ruled violate Apple's patents.

    They are held up to see if they are using this implementation. If so, back they will go.


    In other words, they are as much banned as Schrödinger's cat is dead.

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  • Reply 23 of 73
    blastdoorblastdoor Posts: 3,836member


    I bet the company that benefits most from this is Samsung. 


     


    Samsung should make a generous offer to settle all lawsuits with Apple, but just ask Apple to keep going after all the other Android OEMs. 

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  • Reply 24 of 73
    jragostajragosta Posts: 10,473member
    drdoppio wrote: »
    Not banned, just held up.

    Really? How do you know that? Oh, it's just you making things up.

    There was a ban on HTC phones using Apple's technology. If these phones still use Apple's technology, they're banned. Permanently. If HTC really did work around the patents, then the phones can be released. But you don't have any way of knowing that.

    Keep in mind that HTC said that they didn't infringe the patents originally, so their word that they worked around the patents isn't very convincing.

    Why are you defending a company which can't even come up with its own technologies and has to copy them from someone else?
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  • Reply 25 of 73
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Scaramanga89 View Post

    Stick one in with the pull down menu from iOS 5, sorry Android, will you?


     


    Quote:

    Originally Posted by sleepy3 View Post

    WOW, for a second there i thought that was an iphone. THAT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE AN IPHONE. Clearly they STOLE the iphone design and just shipped a product like apple said they did. 


     


    Thanks for ignoring the point I was making, trolls.


     


    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Blastdoor View Post

    Samsung should make a generous offer to settle all lawsuits with Apple, but just ask Apple to keep going after all the other Android OEMs. 


     


    Apple wouldn't take it. image The settlement, that is. They'd take the suggestion.

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  • Reply 26 of 73
    drdoppiodrdoppio Posts: 1,132member


    Enter strawman...


     


    Quote:

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    Really? How do you know that? Oh, it's just you making things up.


     


    The article says so. When did I ever make things up? I have repeatedly exposed you for making things up, never the opposite.


     



    There was a ban on HTC phones using Apple's technology. If these phones still use Apple's technology, they're banned. Permanently. If HTC really did work around the patents, then the phones can be released. But you don't have any way of knowing that.


     


    Exactly; that's why I made the reference to Schroedinger's cat before. So far the phones are held up. If HTC were stupid enough to keep the infringing code yet claim that they removed it, then they'll be banned. Which do you think is more likely?


     





    Keep in mind that HTC said that they didn't infringe the patents originally, so their word that they worked around the patents isn't very convincing.

    Why are you defending a company which can't even come up with its own technologies and has to copy them from someone else?


     


    I was not defending HTC but arguing against a factual error. So there goes again your straw man argument.


     


     


     

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  • Reply 27 of 73
    rogifanrogifan Posts: 10,669member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    How did we miss this blatant infringement?


     


    I'm not talking about the article, I'm talking about the picture on the right:


     


    htc-one-x.png


     


    IDENTICAL to the iPad.





    According to someone on MR that's a 3rd party app, not stock Android or HTC.

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  • Reply 28 of 73
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Rogifan View Post

    According to someone on MR that's a 3rd party app, not stock Android or HTC.


     


    Interesting, thanks for the clarification if that's the case. Though we know where they got their idea for it, at any rate. Unless it came out before the iPad. Do we know a name for it yet?

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  • Reply 29 of 73


    Why is the link taking them to http://www.svi.org/netday when the email's correspondence points to http://www.sci.org/netday ?


     


    Based on that slide i'd just say "Here at HTC you can clearly see our implementation is different. We send our users directly to the link they clicked. Apple runs all the links through a backend and determines using proprietary technologies the link they think the user wants to go based on the contextual contents of the entire email so you see your honor, we aren't infringing on apples IP at all. We have no intentions of sending our users someplace we feel they want to go. We truly believe that is apples standpoint and support their sheep herding ethics".


     


    Sorry. I couldn't help it......


     


    ................just another iSheep with a humorous side for my own demise.

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  • Reply 30 of 73
    fredaroonyfredaroony Posts: 619member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jragosta View Post





    Really? How do you know that? Oh, it's just you making things up.

    There was a ban on HTC phones using Apple's technology. If these phones still use Apple's technology, they're banned. Permanently. If HTC really did work around the patents, then the phones can be released. But you don't have any way of knowing that.

    Keep in mind that HTC said that they didn't infringe the patents originally, so their word that they worked around the patents isn't very convincing.

    Why are you defending a company which can't even come up with its own technologies and has to copy them from someone else?


    As you know, Apple has also done this many times in the past....

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  • Reply 31 of 73
    fredaroonyfredaroony Posts: 619member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Rogifan View Post




    According to someone on MR that's a 3rd party app, not stock Android or HTC.



    We are talking about the gallery picture on the 3rd phone right? Just looked at my One X and it's the HTC gallery app but saying it looks identical to the iPad app, which I also just looked at on my iPad 3 is nonsense.


     


    This is hardly a surprise considering where the comment originally came from.

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  • Reply 32 of 73
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by fredaroony View Post

    We are talking about the gallery picture on the 3rd phone right? Just looked at my One X and it's the HTC gallery app but saying it looks identical to the iPad app, which I also just looked at on my iPad 3 is nonsense.


     


    This is hardly a surprise considering where the comment originally came from.



     


    Yes, particularly when you've ignored the content of his post in your reply here. image

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  • Reply 33 of 73
    fredaroonyfredaroony Posts: 619member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


     


    Yes, particularly when you've ignored the content of his post in your reply here. image



    It was obvious to anyone who read the whole thread.

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  • Reply 34 of 73

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Rogifan View Post




    According to someone on MR that's a 3rd party app, not stock Android or HTC.



    I have a HTC Rezound and would never buy an Apple product because of it lacks so much of the features that an Android phone can do, but the picture of the HTC One X (third picture of the picture gallery) is stock Android gallery app, which is on my Rezound as we speak, and I haven't rooted my phone or installed any 3rd party ROM on it. The question is, when did the iPad came out with that UI compared to when Android implemented the same "identical" UI design for the gallery app as well?

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  • Reply 35 of 73
    fredaroonyfredaroony Posts: 619member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by AndroidUser View Post


    I have a HTC Rezound and would never buy an Apple product because of it lacks so much of the features that an Android phone can do, but the picture of the HTC One X (third picture of the picture gallery) is stock Android gallery app, which is on my Rezound as we speak, and I haven't rooted my phone or installed any 3rd party ROM on it. The question is, when did the iPad came out with that UI compared to when Android implemented the same "identical" UI design for the gallery app as well?



    Are you sure? HTC have their own gallery app and it looks exactly like that.


     


    The stock Android app even has a different icon.


     


    This is the gallery app in the Nexus http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_nexus-review-699p5.php

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  • Reply 36 of 73
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by fredaroony View Post

    It was obvious to anyone who read the whole thread.


     


    So anyone who read the whole thread somehow knew automatically that the photo app in question wasn't the stock HTC one?


     


    Quote:


    Originally Posted by AndroidUser View Post

    I… …would never buy an Apple product… 


     


    So why are you HERE?!


     


    Quote:


    …the picture of the HTC One X (third picture of the picture gallery) is stock Android gallery app…



     


    Interesting. I can't find that reference to it being a third-party app on the MacRumors thread, either… 

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  • Reply 37 of 73

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by fredaroony View Post


    Are you sure? HTC have their own gallery app and it looks exactly like that.


     


    The stock Android app even has a different icon.


     


    This is the gallery app in the Nexus http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_nexus-review-699p5.php



    Yes I am sure. The Nexus gallery app is a stock ICS app so the HTC gallery app is Sense 3.5 to 4.0 UI.

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  • Reply 38 of 73

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    So why are you HERE?!


     


    Interesting. I can't find that reference to it being a third-party app on the MacRumors thread, either… 



    I am here because I have the right to be here just like all of you do, to offer my input and opinions..


     


    Where in my sentence did I say the 3rd picture is a 3rd-party app? Or did I misunderstood your sentence?

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  • Reply 39 of 73
    e_veritase_veritas Posts: 248member


    This is disappointing news. A couple individuals at my office have switched to the HTC One S, and it is a beautiful phone. My only critique is that it is almost TOO difficult to pick up from a counter because of how thin it is. Was curious to see it next to the larger HTC One X in the near future.

     

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  • Reply 40 of 73
    mechanicmechanic Posts: 805member


    If any here would like to know in detail about the patent HTC is infringing here is a very good breakdown of apples win over HTC clear back in December 2011 and HTC was given till april 19 2012 to work around the issue.  If they didn't its there own damned fault.


     


    http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/12/apple-wins-itc-ruling-of-narrow.html

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