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Amazon in talks to purchase fitness equipment producer Peloton
This seems like an excellent way to kill a product just like Facebook burned Oculus.
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Sony acquires 'Destiny' game studio Bungie in $3.6 billion deal
I dunno how much Steve Jobs had to do with it, but the original version of halo was meant to be more of a strategy game like halo wars and it absolutely started its life as a Mac game. At some point in development they got approached by Microsoft to make it an Xbox exclusive leading up to the consoles launch. Eventually we got the games they made and Microsoft bought out the IP for halo.crowley said:
Nonsense. Steve Jobs had nothing to do with making Halo.Beats said:Halo was Steve Jobs’ idea and was supposed to kick off a new generation of Mac gaming.I personally can’t imagine Jobs being involved at all though, I doubt he took games very seriously in general. But it’s not impossible at least, since it was 100% a Mac game first. So nonsense is a bit extreme.
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Apple hit with patent infringement lawsuit for selling a smart water bottle
Cause Apple’s bank account is waaaaaaaaaay bigger. Lawsuits like this are basically created hoping they can find a judge that won’t throw them out and they can drag out the case through whatever means until Apple just doesn’t wanna deal with them anymore and pays them to go away. Remember after all, our previous president rubber-stamped a LOT of judges all over the country who based on normal standards for judges are woefully unqualified and/or are politically minded. All it takes is one who doesn’t know better or just wants to screw with “the librul teck companees” and allow outrageous things during discovery to give Apple a headache.netrox said:I don't understand this. Apple did not own those patents, it's merely reselling that product. Why is it not going after the actual company, Hidratespark, that made the bottle?They would have a leg to stand on IF their patent was was built in to their products (for example if apple bought cellular chips that did not pay Qualcomm and apple used the chips in their products and also didn’t pay Qualcomm then they would be partially liable. If they were mislead into believing the chips had already been licensed based on their purchase agreement or w/e then Apple could sue the chipmaker for damages as well). But you can’t infringe on IP just through being a reseller with no production or modification of a product unless you are knowingly doing so, but retail outlets are not obligated to do much else besides document the source of the stuff they sell. The way Apple would know said product was in violation would be by the patent holder suing the producer and winning.
There is no possible way any retailer could be expected to know if every product they sold was not violating any patents because it’s simply an insurmountable task that no retailer would ever be willing to deal with, there are WAY too many patents and a horrendous number are way too vague and generic in their description and/or subject such that lots of infringement occurs simply by accident because even by searching to make sure they aren’t infringing anything they couldn’t find a patent that fit their product and they quite possibly even have a patent on the same or similar wording because even the patent office didn’t find the issue.
