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StrangeDays said:

dant said:

For once, it would be nice to see Apple try and not be the bully in the school yard and actually act responsibly and ethically for a change. These patents are used by all the phone providers. They are ground breaking patents. They have all signed licenses. The only one fighting was Apple. Now they have lost twice in court, to two jury's, and they still want to appeal? I mean, come on! The technology is not Apples, its been proven. Pay the damages of $85 million for the i phones 6 & 7 and then pony up for what you owe for iphones 8,9,10 and 11 too. (Yup, they now owe for the phones they have created since the case was initially filed, that they admitted ALSO infringed.) Then sign a license to 2023 to when the patents expire. And before anyone tries and spins the patent troll narrative, these patents were invented by the two guys who built the company Wilan, in the first place. They were never acquired from someone else. Just because you can tie things up endlessly in court doesn't mean you should. In fact its shameful and cowardly and arrogant. Apple has hundreds of billions of dollars stored off shore -- avoiding taxes -- and they still won't pony up for the technology they have used to build that mountain of cash. Time to do what is right. Pay for what you are responsible for. For a change.

That’s just, like, your opinion, man. 

The patents sound like typical BS software patents — patents on ideas, rather than implementation, which is written code, which is protected by copyright. The notion that companies can patent abstract ideas in software is unsound to begin with, and will result in never-ending litigation. Ideas are free, written code is not. Seriously doubt Apple lifted their code. 

andyring said:

In other words, don't back up your device(s) to iCloud. Problem solved. I never have and never will. I back up my phone directly to the computer, via encrypted backups. And my internal disk and both Time Machine disks are encrypted as well. My data is mine and mine alone.

ronn said:

All the bellyaching about a project within its first few months. People keep comparing Apple TV+ to the less than mediocre Netflix. The vast majority of the programming on Netflix is outright garbage, IMO. And Apple TV+ is free for now. I don't watch much TV even though I have Prime and Netflix (the latter for just another week or so). We'll have Apple TV+ for a year with an upcoming Apple purchase, so I will have a wait and see attitude about paying for it in the future. A few of the shows via free first episodes have intrigued us to watch in the future. And family and friends have talked up a few more. That's more than the combined shows we've watched on Prime & Netfilx.

magman1979 said:

Oh look, more negative news from the smut rags Gartner and IDC, known for totally fabricating numbers out of their asses...

Pardon me while I proceed with ignoring this crap.

magman1979 said:

Good, tell those bloody marketers to fuck off, and let them use the junk data gathered from privacy-ignorant Android users!