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ktappe said:

I wonder if a legal expert could answer this Q:   If the requisite evidence has already been presented in U.S. court, isn't it therefore available to the German court? Or are German courts willfully blind to previously available discovery? If the latter, that seems like a pretty f---ed up "justice" system Germany has.

No. That’s not possible anywhere even within the US. You can’t simply take evidence from one case and automatically use it in another case. 

“f—ed up” would be if that was possible since the opposing party would not have an opportunity to challenge the admissibility of that evidence (you know that whole due process thing from the Constitution). 

What you may have meant is whether a judgment or ruling in one case would apply in another, which is called collateral estoppel or res judicata (which is what permits the enforcement of judgments across states, for example). The answer is likely no, primarily because German and US patent and injunction law are different, and the facts of the case may be different. 

22july2013 said:

An article comparing a macOS computer with a Windows computer is like comparing the best English-language newspaper with the best French-language newspaper. What's the point? They serve different customers; they don't compete.

I think the comparison is a poor one, but not because they don't compete. People indeed shop both.

The comparison is a poor one because it compares computers that were designed 2 years apart, and one is a PC where this is an Apple-focused website (or it's supposed to be). I doubt people are coming here for info on Windows computers.

applejeff said:

Since the devices are, as far as I understand, only listening to the satellites, not transmitting to them, why do they need FCC approval?

Because the FCC’s authority is not limited to “transmitting” and because even devices that are purely receivers emit radio frequency energy that can interfere with other devices. 

ascii said:

The definition of a "pro" computer is simply one that has the latest technology. And new technology is always big and hot and noisy before it is small and cool and quiet. So a pro chassis is necessarily large with lots of cooling.

Source for this definition?

dr. x said:

MplsP said:

But the current glass can already survive a 1000 foot fall from an airplane - how are they going to top that?

They need to test it from Space. Fly to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere and drop a device, if it cracks upon impact, back to the drawing board. it if it survives, well, that's it they've finally developed glass tech that will withstand anything.

You do know that above a couple of hundred feet it doesn't make a difference what the starting altitude is?