Posted on 07/12/2011 11:02:42 AM PDT by Swordmaker
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Apple has great design and makes great product. Shouldn’t that be enough? No, they have to shut down innovation elsewhere?
Send in the clowns......I mean lawyers.
It didn't save Apple in 1985 and it won't save Apple now. Even if there was merit to Apple's various cases (as before, there probably isn't) the legal system will render verdicts years after the marketplace does.
War? There’s a war?
Oh, yeah. I remember something about a “clone” war. Back in the 80’s or 90’s? How did that work out? :-)
Yep, thank goodness there are alternatives to Apple. Their closed nature always irks me.
No, by forcing competitors to find alternative or even better solutions, they are actually stimulating innovation. Well, that’s another way to look at it. ;-)
They are arrogant and pompous beyond belief.
They will loose, like they did with their “look and feel” lawsuits against Microsoft in the 90s.
Hopefully when they go down this time they take their sycophant fanboys with them.
I seem to recall them using the phrase “if you cant innovate, litigate” when Apple gets sued. Now it all happy “they are trying to protect their IP” nonsense.
idunno, but we’re all better off because they did.
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Apple is trying to become the Righthaven, LLC of the tech world. They better watch out, Righthaven might sue them for copyright infringement for stealing its business model.
It’s the liberal way. Use the courts to shutdown your competition when you can’t dominate by having the best product. Some folks don’t want an Apple product. It may be price, features or objection to supporting a company that finances leftists causes.
I know you are being sarcastic but I’ve had an iPad for about 6 months, it is pretty good as a ebook reader but I alway set it aside and used the laptop if I wanted to do more.
I bought an Asus Transformer last week. It is great. I can use the tab for reading then attach the keyboard when I want to type. 2 USB ports, SD and micro SD slots, 16 hour battery life, tabbed multitasking, Google Maps with a very good GPS, I actually use it instead of the laptop most of the time now.
Whether or not you agree with the strategy, that's a ridiculous comparison. Apple is attempting to protect its own research and development, something that Righthaven couldn't even dream of ever doing. You know, producing something other than legal documents.
Now, we could have an interesting discussion on patents in general, but not if it's going to start with cheap, inaccurate, and irrelevant ad hominem attacks.
Besides, the so-called Righthaven model originated in the tech world in the first place, by SCO (note: not the original SCO, but a patent troll outfit using that name). They failed, just as Righthaven did.
The “clone war” of the ‘80s or ‘90s worked out by IBM, creator and definer of the standard, being utterly crushed by the competition after giving them the keys to the kingdom. The kingdom is now dominated by a symbiotic competitor, who struggles to keep the squatting rabble under some semblance of control in a decades-stagnating ecosystem.
I bought an original IBM PC. It came with complete electronic schematics and complete BIOS source code listing. Small wonder IBM lost all control.
You knew that -- but just had to find something to bitch about.
Get back under your bridge...
In case you haven't noticed, Apple is dominating by having the best product in its market. Nobody sells more high-end cell phones, nobody sells more tablets, nobody sells more high-end consumer computers. Although I do think Apple's lawyers tend to go overboard, Apple is about as far away from being a patent troll as you can get.
Now show me Dell suing someone, that would look like pure desperation.
to supporting a company that finances leftists causes.
Then you're left out of almost all tech purchases.
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