Apple May Get To Remove Obvious Features From Android

[SquireSCA]

And Apple can sue everyone for anything all they want to, it will not change the facts. Just as Microsoft released their OS to manufacturers instead of keeping it solely proprietary, Google will always have the edge on mass consumer outreach. This, and this alone, is the real reason they have instigated these ridiculous patent wars.

As someone else mentioned, aside from SJ's unhealthy obsession with destroying android (good luck Apple, you would never have done it even if he were still with us), Apple is tired of being the number 2 for nigh-20 years.

Apple are fools if they think that they can sue their way to #1, or sue their way to innovating better products.

I hated Jobs, I am glad he is gone and I hope that Apple follows him to the grave. I don't feel that way about any other corporation, but I do feel that way about Apple. Good riddance.

 

[moose8989]

really?????

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In one of the many-pronged attack that Apple has been making on Android, it's scored a victory at the International Trade Commission, where it's been determined that the idea, that if you see a phone number in an email or on a web-page and click it to call the number, is so special and wonderful that only Apple could possibly use it. It's rulings like this that make anyone with a modicum of technology smarts shake their heads and wonder why we let clearly non-technical people make decisions like this. Patents are supposed to protect inventions that are non-obvious to those skilled in the space. If you put a 100 groups of five engineers in rooms, asking them to design various smartphone features and interfaces around things like this, I'd bet 99 would come up with a similar feature. It's just natural.

In the meantime, Apple's statements about the ruling are equally ridiculous, given Apple's history of copying others (including Android):



Copying an idea and building on it is not "stealing." And if Apple had to build its devices without building on the ideas of others, it wouldn't have very much today. This whole thing is a joke, and it's rulings like this that make engineers have even less respect for the patent system.

SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/t...ver-android-features.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

so does that mean google can take siri away .....being that we had voice search and speech to text and all that for over a year before that came to an iphone......why would apple (a company who relies heavily on google) try to cut them out like that.....they could take maps away from iphones.....why would they do this ????? besides the fact they're SCARED!!!

 

[SquireSCA]

so does that mean google can take siri away .....being that we had voice search and speech to text and all that for over a year before that came to an iphone......why would apple (a company who relies heavily on google) try to cut them out like that.....they could take maps away from iphones.....why would they do this ????? besides the fact they're SCARED!!!

If you cannot beat the competition, try to beat them in court?

 

[Narsil]

Oh, Great Job Squires!! Way to go...now Apple's going to patent semi-automatic firearms and independent suspensions!

Way to screw us the rest of the way over! :money:

 

[SquireSCA]

Oh, Great Job Squires!! Way to go...now Apple's going to patent semi-automatic firearms and independent suspensions!

Way to screw us the rest of the way over! :money:

You laugh, but it is almost that level of silliness.

There is the method of protecting something you worked hard to create. We all understand that.

And then there is patent trolling, stealing other people's designs and applying for the patent and claiming you invented it when you didn't, and then using those patents to stifle the competition because they beat you fair and square in the market and you have no way of fighting back.

I want a meteor to hit Apple HQ on Xmas day and take everyone out. Santa, can you arrange that?

 

[tjk629]

so does that mean google can take siri away .....being that we had voice search and speech to text and all that for over a year before that came to an iphone......why would apple (a company who relies heavily on google) try to cut them out like that.....they could take maps away from iphones.....why would they do this ????? besides the fact they're SCARED!!!

Stuff like that has been out for over a decade. I have a Moto flip phone that had voice commands on it.

Apple doesn't care. Samsung made a good portion of the iPhone. The A4/A5 (in addition to other things) are made by Samsung, and Apple didn't have a problem going after them.

 

[jpsil]

It's ok, Apple will end up suing Intel for designing a phone that looks remotely like theirs. http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-news/189293-breaking-intels-first-android-smartphone.html
Then they might end up screwing themselves over because their whole OS relies on Intel CPUs.
:icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana:

 

[rbw62]

Apples job is to look and check what does not have a patent and apply for it themselves.
Apple/Macintosh deserve to trashed.

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[jroc]

Yep, they were recently awared a patent for the "multitasking smartphone"...

Apple awarded a patent for in-call app switching, starts drafting next lawsuit -- Engadget

Ok....hasnt multi tasking on phones been around waaaaay before the iPhone?


Palm Cobalt:
Palm OS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brighthand's First Impressions of Palm OS Cobalt

Multitasking Though the current version of the Palm OS has some limited support for multi-tasking (running two apps simultaneously) Cobalt's is much more robust. I saw a demonstration of a test device playing a movie, making a phone call, and looking an address up, all at the same time.

So unless Apple got the rights, patents to something from waaay back here...I dont see how in the world they can have a patent for this.

 

[SwiftLegend]

[h=1]"Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal"[/h]Remember that Apple? You're glorious leader said that many times.

 

[tjk629]

Ok....hasnt multi tasking on phones been around waaaaay before the iPhone?


Palm Cobalt:
Palm OS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brighthand's First Impressions of Palm OS Cobalt



So unless Apple got the rights, patents to something from waaay back here...I dont see how in the world they can have a patent for this.

I have a TX from way back in 2005. People would be surprised at all Palm OS could do.

 

[kparks]

Apple is sue happy and they are looking for anything remotely possable that they can win I wouldn't be surprised if they just open a book that has all there mobile patents and close there eyes and flip through the pages picking random ones and then going to court lol..

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[g_what]

I hate Apple. I don't understand how they continually get patents on obvious ideas. The point of a patent is that it is NOT obvious.

 

[OneTenderRebel]

I hate Apple. I don't understand how they continually get patents on obvious ideas. The point of a patent is that it is NOT obvious.

well it's fine you hate apple but at one point they were not obvious ideas. Everything when first invented was an original idea and not obvious at all.

 

[g_what]

well it's fine you hate apple but at one point they were not obvious ideas. Everything when first invented was an original idea and not obvious at all.

When I'm looking at an email or text of any type, if I see a phone number I expect to be able to call it directly from tapping it, or at least be able to see it in the dialer. This has been the case since before I've had a smartphone. Even dumbphones are capable of this and have been for awhile. Granted, on a dumbphone it was a menu option rather than directly tapping the number, but it's still been a common and obvious feature for years.

*edit: This was even before the iPhone.