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Quote: Originally Posted by IQ78 A person picking up a tablet that looks like an iPad, thinking it's crap can effect Apple's sales beyond that single sale. It can hurt their branding. It can effect future sales as well. And if this is true,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram You really didn't answer my question. Yes I did. I said they had it at least in 2009. iOS4 was announced in 2010. If you want a specific date, you can google it. EDIT: Here is a review from Sep…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody It's a faulty assumption that sales figures would "prove" anything at all. This doesn't sound like a rational request. Apple asserts that the design of the Tab mimics the iPad in a way that negatively…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shompa Fun defense from Samsung: We sell so few Tablets that it does not impact iPad sales. But Samsung; "if people want an Android tablet they buy an Android tablet. It does not impact Apple" This defense s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addicted44 Exactly...its impossible to project this in a field so young. And yet Apple's "trade dress" based claims hinge on this. The point of trade dress is to prevent users from buying a competing product "by mi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram When did Aldiko have this "innovation"? They were founded in 2009. The iBooks store was introduced in January 2010. Aldiko's bookstore, that I installed on my Droid the FIRST DAY I got it, had the boo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nagromme Those Baidu Android screenshots so some really cool interface innovations! * The wooden bookshelves Aldiko and other eReaders had this "innovation" long before apple adopted it. Quote: * The way th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by d-range Not saying this to offend you, but you really come off as being in denial about Android fragmentation, and that way failing to recognize the real reasons why Netflix isn't on your Galaxy Tab or why you have to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by d-range Maybe, but meanwhile, all these forks are counted as 'Android' to prove how 'Android' is taking over the world in market share. Fact of the matter is that Android is starting to move from a stable, well-def…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Netflix has said their problems with Android have been with security and DRM. They said they cannot guarantee proper DRM support which is required by their contracts with the studios. And I'm telling you, t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Are you implying that Google is going to fork Android into 2 forks: 1) Android Motorola 2) Android Everyone Else I think he was implying more the opposite, that samsung, htc, etc would all f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross But most admit that they can only develop for a few of the devices on the market. So they develop for the most popular. Many Android users never even see many apps, because Android Market hides them from the d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism So long as they don't claim to be Android and try to access the Android Market I wouldn't call them Android fragmentation, but that's why we have the term fork. But's that's all beside point because Android d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addicted44 haha...Your response to Google completely revamping the idea of a smartphone based on the release of the iPhone is to compare a minor iOS5 feature's bleak resemblance to a failed MS product's software featur…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism That's a silly argument. To be accurate you need to compare flavours of UNIX with that of Linux. No one said it was silly for Android to be built atop Linux just as it's not silly for Mac OS X to be built ato…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I like that. I like that a lot. The only obstacle they have to people getting to use that is how the UI hides unseen information. With home screens, it's implied that to find anything on the device y…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil No one intelligent holds this position. I posit that therefore, no one here holds that position. We want Android to have its own, unique interface. We want OEMs to make hardware that is differentiated t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by thompr Well you thought wrong. The trade dress infraction is based on a LOT more than just the shape of the rectangle. Thompson Actually, it's not. And it's not trade dress they're accused of in the EU, it's Co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta That's absurd. Let's say Amazon addressed all the complaints here: - Access to Android store - Dual core processor - More storage - eInk rather than LCD and so on How would that make it look any more…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism So what is it? Is Apple suing everyone that has ever created a digital picture frame with a black border or aren't they? From what I can tell they are suing zero, zip, zilch for digital picture frames. If tha…