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johnnash said:

I'm on the new beta and have had BT issues ever since the first one, including connectivity to my watch. 

BETA

Driverless electric cars are not happening for at least 10+ years. If ever.. Just to many variables to be anything more than a gimmick right now.

The issue is, a design patent has NO weight in court if you have NO PRODUCT. Which is why patent trolls have NEVER used design patents in cases..

This is a red-haring argument that they blatantly ignore the whole 'you need a physical product to directly associate with' issue that design patents require.. In-fact, design patent cases never win even if you've a 'demo' product unless you've RELEASED a true product to market. Design patents rely strictly on public association with a design to a company's recognition and name.

No product in the market or no functioning company with a known name, design patent is completely useless.

Patent trolls by definition have no products.. sooooo... umm.. huh?

zebra said:

I just don't understand the logic of this discussion.

Assuming 100% of all smart phones had zero encryption, there would always be many third party applications that encrypt messages on the fly. Many of them are free and quite effective. Most such developers are not subject to American law. I see no way to stop them. So why burden iOS or Android with laws designed to weaken encryption? Such restrictions the FBI and other authorities want defy logic.

What am I missing?

That this guy has NO clue as to what he's asking for. He admitted as much in the deposition with the house committee when they questioned Tim Cook, Him and others. He literally said, " I don't understand the details, I leave the technical stuff to others." If you're going to walk into a battle, you should have a least a FUNDAMENTAL idea of what the landscape is..

Interesting.. so if you want 15 min of fame.. just stop in front of a famous dudes house.. call cops saying they threatened you.. If this had been 5 years ago, I would have believed the guy, based on Dre's past.. but lately, not so much.