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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips So you support the concept of patent trolls. Did you actually follow my link? They're sole existence is to do this. Your land analogy would be the equivalent of not a normal land owner, but …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Crosslad Didn't Apple patent pinch to zoom. Every tablet on the market now uses it. How much should Scroogle pay Apple for building it into android? No, I don't think Apple has a pinch to zoom patent.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by waldobushman If their patents are vital, then Frand should apply. Frand patents occur when a company agrees to license their technology according to FRAND to get the tech community to adopt the technology…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hezetation Funny how blackmail is illegal but patent trolling is not. Not saying they are exactly the same but both are forms of extortion if you ask me. That's ridiculous. Patent owners are not extortion…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Please learn something about the patent system. There's no 'patent troll' here. The patent was litigated and found to be valid and infringed. Given that it was valid and infringed, the pa…
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roy fiore wrote: » If Tim wants to the livingroom for Apple tv, pay the royalty and settle. Virnetx owns the patents. Five companies have already settled. Tim be the gentleman with ethics and do the right thing for your customers and redeem the …
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tallest skil wrote: » Yeah, it's causing complaints. The first complaint is that this company wasn't disbanded after losing the trial, because Apple did nothing wrong. You obviously don't understand patent law. If they infringe the patent than th…
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scotty321 wrote: » These patent trolls need to be stopped. You don't understand what a troll is. A troll sues on a patent that is probably not valid but settles for so little it isn't worth putting up the fight. The troll then sues many people to…
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digitalclips wrote: » Buying and sitting on patents just to extort should be stopped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirnetX While you are at it, force all raw land holders to develop their land or lose it. If we dug into this, I'll bet the ori…
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constable odo wrote: » I know it's probably too much to ask, but why can't a company sitting on $145 billion spend a bit more on R&D than say most other companies on the entire planet. All Apple needs to do is focus on just a couple of techno…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chrispoe This is nothing new and was more or less copied from the competition, it's called stealthy audio watermarking. Yes this can be used for DRM and can be nearly impossible to remove from the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleTechSpot Yes the PC has commoditized but you forgot one key thing. Apple is dominating profits in the PC business as well while HP and Dell are looking to get out of the business. Apple makes more i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by CustomTB He is right in one respect.... Android phone makers will compete by lowering prices towards marginal cost and no profit. Samsung is enjoying the ride for now but... In a healthy market, the m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rjc999 For 20 years people shipped PCs with razor thin margins and almost no one made money except for Dell/HP/IBM selling into the enterprise market. You can keep pushing the narrative that profit == succe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by snova I think a mini Retina will be available when Apple says its ready. I agree with most of what you said, but you have to admit that Apple failing to meet expectations on display quality is a let do…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Macky the Macky So, the WSJ says this will happen in the 4Q so they can write in the 4Q that Apple failed to ship it on time. I'll bet they have the second story already set in print. Not likely. The …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii This is a key point IMHO. Google has always been about the web and web apps. A browser based OS such as Chrome makes much more sense as "their" OS, than a thick client OS (whether that be native or Ja…
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Quote: Originally Posted by snova The AppleTV YouTube experience really sucks with just the Apple IR remote. Granted its a lot simpler using the Apple Remote App on my iPhone or iPad to search and type for YouTube clips. Ho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gazoobee It's not cross platform. It does web streaming. Period. Also, there are lots of reports already that it doesn't work, or doesn't work well, on iOS at all. It basically works on Firefox an…
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Google has a tiger the tail. Google lost the web app vs standalone app in the smartphone and laptop markets. However, TVs are different because they are fixed near a constant source of wifi. Perfectly suited for web apps. Chromecast is going t…