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radarthekat 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.  

tmay said:

gatorguy said:

tmay said:

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Aloysius said:

Soli said:

These are solid ads.

Eh, I don't think so really. At least not on attracting new customers.

I think this whole ad campaign is great at making Samsung's customers feel better that they made the superior choice. It's preaching to the choir, so to speak.

I have trouble thinking the average person is concerned about the notch (considering just about every phone has one now), sd card slots (it may be expandable, but a pain when you need to transfer data if you outgrow one and don't have a pc), or split screen. At least not as buzz words. 

If these things are truly important, than show it in action and sell the benefits, not just listen a few random things the iPhone doesn't have.

1) I"m not sure what you mean by "new customers."

2) I think these videos are good because they're targeting their base well. These are not for iPhone users (although they'd love to get some switchers from Android). On a minor level I think these are people that have never used a smartphone but have heard various chatter from the Android-using masses about how Apple doesn't do this or that and how Apple just charges you for for their brand name. Mostly, I think these ads are targeted towards Android users. People that already make those dumb comments about Apple sucks to justify their current crap device. These ads target those people.

This is just Samsung positioning itself as "Android's iPhone", and I agree that it is targeted at existing Samsung customers especially those that might me be lured to some to the other Premium Android OS devices.

Still, Apple's ecosystem remains unparalleled, so I don't see many current iPhone users leaving, and certainly the data shows more entering.

Increasingly that's the same with Android users. Both camps are pretty well ensconced. Apple users will remain Apple users and Android owners are even more likely to remain with Android according to the report from last month. 

You might be referring to this report;

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/10/apples-ios-loyalty-rate-is-lower-than-googles-android-but-apple-may-steal-more-users-each-year/#258d10f268a8

Indicates a likely net gain of users to iOS, but loyalty rate favors Android OS

iOS switchers

• 86% loyalty during 2017 (therefore 14% switch)
• 215.8 million iPhones sold
• “Lost” about 30 million to Android

Android switchers

• 91% loyalty rate during 2017 (therefore 9% switch)
• 1.244 billion Android smartphones sold
• “Lost” about 112 million to iOS

No mention of what is happening to remaining Windows phone users...

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The iPhone is "becoming a stable business, performing more like software than hardware," 

larryjw said:

Trump's trade war with the world means nobody's financial forecasts can be taken seriously, including Apple's.