n2itivguy

beautyspin said:

Beats said:

mcdave said:

The may have to leave the UK market to set an example and cool the current wave of attacks. What would be the cost of not leaving?

I don’t know. Everyone on forums seem to agree that Apple should leave every country that attacks them. Seems like a good plan!
/s

The cost of not leaving? Not sure what you mean but leaving means it leaves the market open for knockoffs and patent thieves like Huawei and Samsung to take over the market Apple spend decades and billions of dollars inventing.

Samsung and Huawei are knockoffs and patent thieves? The case clearly proves who the patent thief is. Are you being sarcastic? Apple is literally being tried for infringing on patents, and that too not cosmetic patents like rounded edges. Would definitely like to see Apple pull out of UK. 

The case hasn’t proven anything, making everything else you’ve stated worthless not even consider. How hard is it to see that Apple isn’t the infringer if the products that infringed _weren’t even made by them and are products used in many, many, MANY other products? I mean, should a patent troll sue _you_ for using an iPhone or Android device that has the same technology in it because you’re now somehow infringing on the patent?! 🙄 Stinkin’ use your head here. A child could, should and would see how stupid this patent troll garbage is. 

spheric said:

CloudTalkin said:

I don't know man.  This feels like typical Apple: deny, deny, deny the thing.   

Typical would imply that it's a regular thing. I recall video on iPod and music subscription services as two cases in the last twenty years. That's pretty much it, though. 

And Apple were right about both: video on iPod sucked, and music subscription is a really, really shitty idea. But that ship has sailed.

Don’t forget ebooks. 

5G is 5G regardless. There’s a slower and a faster version, but it’s all 5G. IMHO, a more steady and useable 5G (slower) is a better start than the unsteady (difficulty penetrating, etc.) faster 5G one. 

lkrupp said:

The next tech bubble in the making, subscriptions. Streaming service after streaming service trying to get your subscription dollars. Software subscriptions plowing down the same path. Eventually there will be a HUGE shakeout/correction and it will be bloody. 

And if publishers, as they claim, are not making much money with Apple News+ yet then how will a Mozilla service fair any better at half the price?

I hear you. Although I’m dry selective in what I watch, read, listen to and play, subscription burnout is a real thing. The key thing I like about what’s occurring is the fight between ad-supported and non-ad supported when it comes to streaming content, but that’s a whole other discussion. 

I wonder if the reimbursement model model would be different, like getting a set percentage of overall monthly price vs length of engagement like AN+ has?

StrangeDays said:

n2itivguy said:

So very, very disappointing. Ridiculous, really. 

Yes, it is a ridiculous world we live in when real-life engineering problems make my entitlement to consumer goods secondary. Don't they know who I am??

How immature. No need to be so aggressive. It’s ridiculous Apple announced a product as early as they did. There’s nothing entitlement related to that at all.