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  • Samsung's Galaxy Tab S4 focuses on productivity to take on iPad Pro

    anton zuykovanton zuykov
    howieisaacks said:
    Looks like a cheap piece of crap, just like the rest of their products.
    Actually, that piece of crap is quite expensive! Costs almost just as much as a good iPadPro.
    jbdragonAirunJae

  • Cupertino council pushes vote on employee tax for Apple, other firms until 2020

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    macxpress said:
    They should probably just permanently shelve it and stop running the city on a credit card and expect area businesses to bail them out. Hows that for an idea? 
    That is an UNACCEPTABLE idea!
    Do you expect council members to actually generate ideas on how to run a tight budget, when there is a main Apple campus in their city?
    I bet those sociali...cough...council members have already gotten themselves nice pensions from that famous Cali pension plan, when you work for an average X dollars per year, and get 1.3-1.5X bump when retiring. So, Apple is just gonna cover those pensions without council members sweating.
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  • Samsung's Galaxy Tab S4 focuses on productivity to take on iPad Pro

    anton zuykovanton zuykov
    Samsung is focusing on productivity with its Tab S4...
    Samsung thinks, it cares about productivity, Carl!
    claire1lamboaudi4watto_cobra

  • Qualcomm demands Intel share documents for iPhone and iPad modems

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    nunzy said:
    Qualcomm is going to get Appled if they keep this up.

    If you go up against the king, you best not miss.

    "The king"? Well business is business and judges rule what all business MUST do - no discussion. Business does not overrule legislation and execution. They can only negotiate. I would say Qualcomm seems to be asking for trouble by doing this, but Apple is nothing such as "king". It is just a successful business that can be squashed if it does not follow laws and regulations.
    The point was - Apple is a powerful player and they usually are not sloppy with how they guard themselves against such patent-based lawsuits.
    Apple can put massive supply orders, that can make any supplier very rich, and when not diversified enough, can break that supplier's back, when taken away.
    When a 220 million component order is put forth at $15 a component, that creates a 3.3B dollar contract. And that is just one component... How many companies you know of that can do that?
    Apple is a king, at least in terms of how many orders like that they can put, without even sweating!
    anantksundaramnunzy

  • New patent lawsuit targets Apple over voice control tech in Siri- & HomeKit-enabled device...

    anton zuykovanton zuykov
    gatorguy said:
    Typically, if your patent is cited as prior art in 46 of someone else’s patents, it’d be a fair bet they looked hard at your patent and either decided they aren’t infringing or they picked apart your claims and engineered their solutions to ensure they don’t infringe.  It’s difficult to write a patent that prevents someone working around it by adding, deleting or modifying some part of the claimed invention, just enough to escape infringement.

    Patents aren’t always about protecting inventions from infringement; they’re often about staking a claim in a space so that you don’t get sued for infringing someone else's patent.  And I think that’s a fair use.  It’s not such a noble pursuit when a non-practicing entity scopes out a piece of real estate in some new/emerging space for the express purpose of building a toll road there, charging any entity that intends to actually invent in that space something that would serve a market or society at large.  
    Unless you make your patent sound as permissibly vague as possible.
    Like, controlling a device with a voice, by utilizing computing systems for processing.

    I am surprised we can't patent "do stuff with stuff". What a wonderful patent that would be... until someone destroys it with prior art claim.
    I think that's the goal with most of the patents being filed by Apple, IBM, Samsung, Google and thousands of other large companies. 
    Sure, but at least, they actually do something useful with it, instead of creating a patent for a patent troll...
    Given a patent system that allowes only one of two options: patenting round corners and sliding unlocking feature (deliberately detailed patent) vs “do stuff with stuff” type of a patent, I would prefer the former....primarily because it is useless for patent trolls.
    watto_cobraAlex1N