ITC bans some HTC android phones in america~

[amddude]

I'm an admitted android fanboy.

Having said that, I think apple is going to fuck themselves on this route. They're starting a war on an awful fucking lot of fronts with some big name players. That can't end well.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

oh nose!

 

[MotF Bane]

HTC is a Chinese company.

Fail.

 

[Wyndru]

I'm an admitted android fanboy.

Having said that, I think apple is going to fuck themselves on this route. They're starting a war on an awful fucking lot of fronts with some big name players. That can't end well.

I doubt it, this will be news for a little while, then things will be done to bypass the stupidity and it will be business as usual. These kind of stories always come out, sound really bad then fizzle out without anyone really being affected other than the businesses that just need to tweak something slightly.

 

[child of wonder]

I hope the iPhone5 will look a lot different than the 4s so people will be able to tell I upgraded.

 

[SP33Demon]

Apple is fcking themselves. Good luck dragging every Android company to court to try and trying to stop a superior product. Kindle Fire just punched a hole in that (ipad) ass.

 

[waggy]

I hope the iPhone5 will look a lot different than the 4s so people will be able to tell I upgraded.

joke aside from what i have read the Iphone 5 is sopposed to be diffrent and great (yeah they said that about the iphone 4).

I nearly traded in my D2 for the iphone 4 S or whatever it is. sire (however its is spelled) is great.

i get a upgrade next month though. not sure what i'm getting.

 

[sactoking]

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and...ictory-Unlikely-to-Damage-HTC-Android-375557/

Apple scored a minor victory in its battle against Google Android, with the International Trade Commission (ITC) banning certain HTC smartphones from import in April 2012. However, observers believe HTC will have little trouble altering its devices in order to sidestep the ban.

The patent in question, considered a minor one by analysts, concerns the ability to dial a phone number in an email or text by tapping on it. “We believe there are workarounds available to HTC, and HTC has noted that it can quickly remove the feature,” Peter Misek, an analyst with research firm Jefferies & Co., wrote in a coauthored note Dec. 20. “A prior ruling that HTC was infringing one of Apple’s broader patents was overturned.”

In other words, Apple hasn’t exactly crippled HTC’s efforts in the United States. “This ruling falls far short of anything that would force HTC out of the U.S. market in the near term,” patent expert Florian Mueller wrote in a Dec. 19 posting on his FOSS Patents blog. “Out of ten patents originally asserted, Apple finally managed to enforce one, and it’s one of medium value.”

Apple is embroiled in several legal battles over Android. “In the real world, there’s a race going on for the first decision of major disruptive impact, and the ten patents Apple initially selected for this first ITC complaint were clearly chosen for that purpose,” Mueller continued. “A knock-out blow is a must-have, not merely a nice-to-have, when you’re embroiled in a race for leverage with a view to settlement negotiations.”

It remains to be seen whether Apple will use this legal victory as leverage against HTC or other Android device makers. According to Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography, the very existence of Android drove Apple co-founder Steve Jobs into a white-hot fury, in which he pledged “thermonuclear war” against what he termed a “stolen product.”

In a meeting with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Jobs supposedly refused to accept any sort of Android-related payout: “I don’t want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won’t want it. I’ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want.”

Although Jobs died in October following a long battle with cancer, Apple is evidently continuing its crusade to shut down Android however and wherever it can. The question now is whether other legal battles can translate into more of a marketplace impact than this latest HTC decision.

 

[HFS+]

so why is apple exactly going after android companies but not windows phone companies, blackberry etc?

 

[zerocool84]

so why is apple exactly going after android companies but not windows phone companies, blackberry etc?

Because it's their #1 competition. They're scared of Android.

 

[JJ650]

goodbye android!
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/19/itc-sides-with-apple-bans-sale-and-import-of-some-htc-phones/

You don't read well...

 

[Patranus]

Woot patenting a hyperlink!

How was that hyper link generated?
(Oh wait, THAT is what was patented.)

 

[Patranus]

Now Microsoft score a victory for the rule of law.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/20/us-microsoft-itc-idUSTRE7BJ2AD20111220

Then again, I guess all of you who supports Googles flat out theft and blatant patent/copyright infringement would welcome them into your job and be overjoyed if they stole your companies intellectual property.

 

[SSSnail]

I now have three companies in the same proverbial bucket: Rambus, Monster and Apple. Any others? Oh, and when these companies fail spectacularly, I'll be there to dance on their proverbial ashes.

 

[Patranus]

I now have three companies in the same proverbial bucket: Rambus, Monster and Apple. Any others? Oh, and when these companies fail spectacularly, I'll be there to dance on their proverbial ashes.

Google
Microsoft
Motorola
HTC
Kodak
Samsung

um......

Oh wait, you only hate it because its Apple. Got it.

 

[TuxDave]

Google
Microsoft
Motorola
HTC
Kodak
Samsung

um......

Oh wait, you only hate it because its Apple. Got it.

Don't forget RIM, Nokia, Qualcomm, Oracle!

 

[Blueychan]

Apple is fcking themselves. Good luck dragging every Android company to court to try and trying to stop a superior product. Kindle Fire just punched a hole in that (ipad) ass.

lolz ... so much hate

 

[xSauronx]

Because it's their #1 competition. They're scared of Android.

i dont really see why, apple has made a stupid amount of money the last few years. between decent products and excellent marketing (and i use windows/android) theyd have to fumble pretty bad to have any sort of serious trouble from android

 

[SSSnail]

Google
Microsoft
Motorola
HTC
Kodak
Samsung

um......

Oh wait, you only hate it because its Apple. Got it.

So which of those have the most ridiculous amount of patent trolling and frivolous law suits out there? Care to share?

 

[JD50]

lolz ... so much hate

I just clicked on your profile and "view other posts by Blueychan", easily more than half of your posts are in some way putting down Android.

 

[Patranus]

So which of those have the most ridiculous amount of patent trolling and frivolous law suits out there? Care to share?

All of them.