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Quote: Originally Posted by battiato1981 Not a bad take except I don't think they ever worried about Apple launching their own proprietary ad service. Apple had never shown any interest in doing that and has striven, on the desktop at least, to o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hattig It's nothing of the sort. It's a legal disagreement based around the fact that Apple refused to pay a license for patents that Motorola have that are essential to some products that Apple sell. Because the tw…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Secular Investor So Zither, As Microsoft pointed out in their EU complaint, Motorola's attempt to charge 2.25% of the price of the entire product is outrageous and absurd and an anti-trust abuse of FRAND. They point…
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Quote: Originally Posted by I am a Zither Zather Zuzz If they were free, why would companies spend money developing them? That begs the question as to whether standards should be developed by an industry-wide body, rather than by individual co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by I am a Zither Zather Zuzz The part where "non-discriminatory" means "identical". This does not mean that the rates and payment terms can?t change dependent on the volume and creditworthiness of the licensee. Let…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil None, hopefully. If what you're saying is that Standards patents should be royalty free, I agree. After all, if such patents were not part of the Standard, they'd be worthless anyway.
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Apple are fully entitled to a licence for FRAND patents. These patents are now seen to be worthless in terms of forcing Apple to cross licence their IP. Moto's strategy has failed. All they're going to get are whatever crumbs Apple is prepared to l…
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Now the iPhone is $0.99, when a customer goes into a ATT store and asks "what FREE phones are available?", the iPhone 3GS will be ruled out as an option. This is designed to push other $0.00 smartphones which are probably sitting in their stockro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Great point. This is a key thing that people don't understand with SJ-V2, who appears to have three elements to his strategy: (i) Kill your own before your competitors can get match it; (ii) Keep driving…
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Quote: Originally Posted by timgriff84 The iPhone hasn't changed it's been tweeked. It still basically looks the same and has the same interface. The iPhone 4 is a very different beast when compared to the original iPhone. iOS is on it's fourt…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd Think motorola razr that dominated for years but people like change. Bad example. The iPhone is changed. Every year. The razr wasn't. Look how Apple have ditched successful iPods time and again and replace…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AIaddict For Facetime to "blow up" it will have to cause a seismic shift in the trend of communication behavior. Don't understand why you say that. Sometimes FaceTime will be the appropriate tool for the job, other …
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Quote: Originally Posted by robogobo I still don't get why Apple didn't use iChat for all of this. Too Apple centric... If this open standard is to be adopted by all, then are they need to have an generic name, hence facetime.