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Quote: Originally Posted by Gazoobee No, it's a very thin claim indeed. It's also illogical. The reason the cellular radio patents are essential is that you can't make a phone without them. Clearly, you can make a …
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So if you're going to steal something, go big. If you steal enough and make it popular you suddenly retroactively didn't steal it!
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No one ever accused Wozniak of having good taste.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan I've always wondered why, if the Fire was doing so well, wouldn't Amazon release sales figures? We get figures across the board but never anything just for Kindle Fire. If someone isn't willing to…
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What about a 13" iPad? Too soon? I already feel cramped with some of the stuff available for the current iPad... Not sure how going smaller would be feasible unless all you wanted is an eReader.
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna Which is why they didn't allow Apple to license that part of the system and likely won't nor would they put it in a free app on iOS. Except you can just download Waze for free or …
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Quote: Originally Posted by thisIsFunny ... The only reason Apple "seems" to be first, is just for the very same reason you argue for them....marketing. Apple will put together a bunch of other common technologies/concepts and cla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by benanderson89 Nokia is screaming like a baby about patents because Apple made the format free to use and RIM and Moto are complaining about............... a notch. 1. Nokia, shut up. You get it fo…
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According to this site HDTV sales are around 250M a year and slowly growing. Thing is, unlike phones which cost a few hundred and tend to be replaced every couple years, televisions cost thousands and are replaced maybe once or twice a decade. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta I estimated at one time that wireless charging of hundreds of millions of phones would waste enough power to cost an entire full scale power plant - and all the resulting pollution. And it's too…
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A unibody iPhone makes huge sense from a manufacturability point of view. Would also be very tough. And that prototype sure does look ugly... but I'm sure they're iterating fast on the design, and that it will be a bit more refined before shippi…
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Is the iOS/Android disparity a shortcoming of Apple's distribution, or people actually picking Android phones over iPhones? In every service provider I've seen stats on which sell both the iPhone 4S and the latest Android phones, iOS is ahead of …
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Welcome to the plaintiff side of a lot of patent lawsuits, Google.
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui Blow your socks off if you happen to be at home with a good WiFi connection. If you are actually anywhere you 'need' a mapping function, you will be out of luck because of bandwidth lack, cost or u…
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Siri uses conversational context to decide how to answer. If you've been asking about locations, Siri will put its answer in a locational context. If you want to completely eliminate the context question for such an experiment, turn Siri off the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Robin Huber Click the "contributor" link and read the earliest story by him posted there. You might well have said the same thing about his comments on Apple's future pricing then as well. Had we but …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Why spend any at all? This nonsense needs to be illegal. Haven't you heard? Bribes are protected First Amendment speech these days.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich It makes no difference to any of us personally what another person or another company paid in terms of taxes. All that matters to us personally is that WE don't like the idea that WE are …
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I think the reason is that it's a huge stretch to compare Apple to GE. GE paid zero taxes. None at all. Apple paid billions, although some think it should have been even higher. That's a pretty big difference.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mario How is cutting search or maps from a class of users violating monopoly status? Besides being a monopoly is not illegal either. Using your monopoly status in one market to win another is illegal. …