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  • SquareTrade iPhone X drop-test video disagrees with iFixit's repairability assessment

    maltz said:
    And how many people drop their phones from 6 feet?
    I like to carry my phone on top of my head.  #carryingitwrong
    New product idea!: sagittal crest adhesive. 
    Soliwatto_cobra
  • Apple cancels Elvis Presley biopic series amid Weinstein scandal

    shamino said:
    What I don't understand is why Apple is punishing TWC - Harvey Weinstein has been fired.  He's no longer running the company.  So why does Apple feel a need to pull out of the project now?

    Of course, it also begs the question about why Apple waited until now.  Surely these scandals were well-known, even if there hadn't been a confession until now.  OK, maybe you don't want to cancel contracts based on unproven rumors, but once the guilty party is thrown out of the company, why do you then decide to punish the company?  Are they afraid that more people will be implicated as we learn more?

    This news doesn't pass the smell test.  Something really stinks here.
    He could be fired and still benefit from the activities of the corporation, if he retains stock. That may be the rationale.
    lolliver
  • Apple cancels Elvis Presley biopic series amid Weinstein scandal

    adm1 said:
     Regardless of circumstance, everyone is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.
    And your actions have consequences, whether or not what you say or do ever rises to the level of criminality. The guy is clearly a serial a**wipe who deserves what happens to him.
    ronn
  • Apple's Siri latest target in string of natural language patent lawsuits


    rotateleftbyte said: Citing other peoples work in patent applications is done all the time. You can use the same Idea as someone else but as long as you do not copy the methods described in the other patents you are good to go. That's what you pay the patent lawyers the big bucks to work out.
    The problem comes when the numbskulls at the USPTO grant overly broad patents. These effectively block anyone else from working in the same area without infringing these broad patents.
    There are many cases that have ended up with the original patent being invalidated.

    If Apple, MS , Amazon etc were smart they'd file a gazillion motions to combine the cases and then take it to higher courts to get his patents invalidated.
    Voice Recognition has been around for several decades and not just in Movies. The validity of his case depends upon the wording of his patent. From my limited experience one-man-band patents tend to go for overly broad methods. These are just waiting to be shot down in flames.

    Yes, citing prior art usually required. You want to show how your invention doesn't infringe.
    It's not typical that patents "effectively block" others from inventing things. Can't think of any invention that has not reached the world simply because of another patent.
    There are some rare cases of patents being invalidated. Several hundred thousand of patent applications, a few hundred thousand issued patents per year. Challenges are way up, but invalidation is rare.
    SpamSandwich
  • Apple nixes plans to incorporate under-glass Touch ID in 'iPhone 8,' insider says

    There is one big reason to forgo having an under glass fingerprint sensor:  It would make the iPhone much harder for a blind person to use. 
    This made it unacceptable.
    I'm not sure I agree. People with sight deficits are, by necessity, quite clever when it comes to figuring out spatial relationships. Locating a space at the bottom of the phone (using the side buttons to first determine orientation) is simple enough, or a space in the middle two knuckle lengths of your index finger up from the bottom, etc. There may indeed be a myriad of other reasons that Touch ID is ruled out, but I don't think this is one of them.
    watto_cobranetmage