gwydion

robin huber said:

Their name is an oxymoron. Being a patent troll is the opposite of being creative. Those who can, do; those who can't, sue. I agree with the above, they should be forced to pay back their extortion. 

cali said:

fieldgulls said:

First, please no making the iris scanner such a huge deal merely because Apple is implementing one next year. Several Android devices already have iris scanners, including even ZTE, a budget device maker, who introduced one in 2015. Qualcomm put iris scanning support in their SOCs awhile ago, so I have no idea why it is taking so long for the device makers to enable the feature in their phones.

Second, I am sick of Samsung. They are lily-livered cowards. Their first design proposals are often really interesting and boundary-pushing stuff, and then they get scared, retreat and just release iterations. They wait until Motorola, LG, Huawei, Google, Asus or Apple implements it instead, and THEN they put the idea that they kicked around into the next phone.

Their first proposal for the Galaxy Note 7 (Galaxy Note 6 at the time) was awesome. It was going to be 6' (or 5.9'), have 6-8 GB of RAM, dual boot Android and Windows 10, and come with a laptop dock where the USB Type C port would connect to a keyboard, the MHL out in the USB Type C would drive the laptop screen, and the CPU and OS would reside on the phone. But like Samsung always does, they whittle it down, whittle it down until now the Galaxy Note 7 is basically just a bigger Galaxy S7 Edge.

The funny thing: other companies are now implementing their own versions of what Samsung was RUMORED to be doing with the Galaxy Note. A $99 laptop dock for an Android phone has passed $1 million on Kickstarter and is on the verge of reaching their stretch goals. And a Chinese company named Akyumen is marketing a Holophone that will dual boot Android and Windows 10, and will run on an x86 PC CPU, not a mobile SOC. They offer various docking options as accessories, and they have had 1 million preorders for the thing.

So companies who were motivated by the rumors of what Samsung was going to do came out with products that they thought that they could use to compete with the Galaxy Note. Ridiculous. Maybe Android smartphone fans should buy the competitors' products and leave cowardly Samsung alone.

NO ONE GIVES A SH** what an android device is doing. All eyes are always on Apple and Apple only.


Poor guy, can't afford iPhone so you settled for a knockoff. Tough. The biggest laugh for me is how Sammy claims it works just like a stripe and you hold the iKnockoff up to the terminal, yet they wanna add iris scanning? What a clusterf*** and must look silly for knockoff users. Imagine?

jbdragon said:

gwydion said:

Taking into account that most of the fines for illegal state aids and that most of the fines for anti competitive behaviour have gone to EU companies, perhaps you should provide some link to your claims

Yes the EU company's have also been fined. Maybe in larger numbers. But the simple fact is, the EU company's get these joke fines, while the U.S. company's get fines for MILLIONS. It's not even close.

monstrosity said:

crowley said:

The Apple prescence is in the Republic of Ireland, which has never been English, and hasn't been British for almost 100 years.  There is no plan for the RoI to exit the EU.

Interesting, because during my trip to ROI last week, every person I met congratulated me for leaving the EU, and wanted their own referendum to leave the EU.
It's crumbling, like it or not. Now or later, the EU will die.

maestro64 said:

prof said:

I'm not quite sure why you think UK would be the first choice for "free loaders", there're much better countries in the EU for that.

This is rather quick to explain: There's still hope at some point (potentially after more tax relaxation) Apple would repatriate the shitloads of money they have all over the planet (but mostly in the EU) and pay a decent amount of money to the US treasury for doing so. If Apple actually has to pay proper taxes for that shitload, the shitload would diminish quickly to 3 quarters of a shitload and thus diminish the income of the US treasury. At the moment Apple is realising most of its income overseas and (re-)financing it in the US by issuing bonds (i.e. borrowing money).

The UK has better health system for starters, my current understanding is the way the EU works it tells each country how may people they have to take based on their ability to support and the UK can support more and has their fair share.