radarthekat

22july2013 said:

The patent system and the court system are both vitally important institutions. Let it play out.

But I certainly find it interesting to wonder whether a patent owner should be suing the final merchant or the initial merchant of the part. I suspect the patent owner can choose either.

Usually when you go after the final product manufacturer it’s a case of indirect infringement; use of infringing technology in a product.  I’m this case the manufacturer (Apple) would hold its supplier liable via indemnification clauses in the supplier contract.  

But by suing Apple for direct infringement it’s implied that Apple introduced the infringing tech and not its suppliers.  So either they are suing for something Apple introduced to the OLED tech specific to Apple’s implementation, or the plaintive is going to have their  suit rejected.  

I’m wondering when titanium dropped from being a strategy metal, mined mostly in Russia.  When I was in the Air Force in the early 80s ami got hold of a small thin piece, about the length but half the height of a credit card.  And very thin.  Nothing I or my friends could do to it would bend it.  Very tuff stuff.   

rotateleftbyte said:

TBH, I hope that Apple does not include MWave in their 5G phones until 2022 at the earliest.

I am sure that there are lots of people out there just waiting to climb on the next 'lets sue Apple' bandwagon.

There are lot of reports out there stating that MWave causes Cancer. I'd wait and let someone else take the sueballs first. Cancer is an emotive subject and not to be trivialised. If you have had it (like me with HCL) you know what I mean.

Even in 2019 we still get the occassional story about 3G/4G phones causing brain cancer. Why chance it while the jury is still out OR at least give users the option of NOT enabling the MWave hardware in the phone.

Does a phone That supports mm-Wave transmit on this frequency?  Or only receive on it?  

If the latter then it won’t matter about your phone supporting it.  The waves are gonna be there piping through you if you’re near a tower that supports it. In this case it won’t be the phone giving you cancer whether your phone supports it or not or even if you aren’t carrying a phone.   It’s the service provider’s, if anyone, who would be the target of any lawsuits.  

That sidebar on how FB will protect privacy under the FTC agreement...  that’s gonna make a lot of FB engineers and tech writers and managers take a hard look at their jobs.  

I don’t mean looking at how they can do their jobs better to protect users’ privacy.  I mean, exercising and selling their vested options and preparing to find another, more interesting and less tedious job.  

I won’t be at all surprised even to see Zuck begin to disengage; go think about some new challenge to direct his enormous funds and limited energies to.  The bloom is off the rose.  

Trust me, my entire career was in software startups and I know when that switch gets flipped and you start disengaging from that thing you previously thought was the coolest thing ever and start thinking about the next thing you want to do with your life.  

There’s really nothing special in the display of a TV.  It’s become a commodity.  Apple has stated, Steve had stated, that Apple is interested only in areas where they can meaningfully differentiate the experience.  Walter doesn’t seem to recall that being stated, as recently as the demise of the Airport products.  

Walter also doesn’t seem to grok the fact that the smartphone, as invented by Apple, has incorporated one after another after another stand-alone product.  The future is in miniaturization of devices that cover what ground the smartphone hasn’t.  That means your wallet, your keys (home and car) and access fobs/cards to work spaces, etc.  Devices that you need to have on your person but shouldn’t need to carry as separate items.  Those go into wearables.  Then there’s augmented reality, which needs to cover your field of view, thus wearable.  Duh!  And how does one create such products, which require even more processing power than what came before yet need to fit in vastly smaller, minimal forms?  By a great deal of R&D and advancement across the industry, including fabrication.  In other words, it will take some time to get there.  You can’t just design physics in a drawing app.  

Bottom line, we don’t need a new Leica camera design.  We don’t need a new tablet/laptop geometry.  We need to make some big leaps to get small.  Steve Martin can relate, Walter apparently cannot.  The word Luddite comes to mind.