Apple Insider : Apple on Friday filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, adding two versions each of the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note to its original claims of patent infringement against a number of Samsung smartphones and tablets.
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Galaxy s3 looks ugly due to them designing it so that it looks clearly different, but apple is basically trying to say anything that's rectangle shaped with a touchscreen = IPHONE COPY!!!!!!!
Also the note has a huge ass screen(so does S3) how the hell could anyone mix them up when you put them next to each other?
Apple have patents on the most stupid shit, now im not saying samsung and other companies do not have stupid patents, but apple is the one going overboard with patent claims trying to sue all it's major competitors to stop them competing so they can have a monopoly, fuck them.
TLDR; Apple makes good products but seems to think that because they started the smartphone revolution that they deserve a monopoly.
i despise apple for this one, kill away your biggest threats thats how to succeeded and create a monopoly
funny because like a week ago i went to the mall and the apple store was almost empty while the microsoft store was exploding with people.
"We are Apple, how dare you make a Smartphone better than ours, we have many customers willing to splash out each year for very little change, how dare you give them an alternative"
Next they will be claiming to have invented the phone.
^^^^ please show me how to make a phone that looks nothing like an apple smartphone whilst sticking to those guidelines.
People can't seem to understand that the touchscreen replaced the number pad so there is no need for more then a couple face buttons, and the rectangle shape has been the shape of all phones for fucking decades, apple only made a few changes to the already existing design and then they come in and want to claim it for themselves.
research shows......
siri - well thats exactly like the xiaoi bot, a 2010 chinese assistant for android.
the rounded corners with home button design - meet the samsung F700. the designer of this phone wasn't allowed testimony in the court case. seems fair right?!!
a simple icon homescreen - sony erricson M610i did. a year before the first iphone.
slide to unlock - that was officially Windows CE, 2 years before the iphone.
notification bar - well we all know thats an android feature. three years too late Apple.
talk about patenting shit that seems obvious to the rest of the world. guess if the next phone can make a call, sms, IM, use internet....apple will sue them.
effectivly predictive text, search functions, and im not sure either right clicking for functions, or pressing a button to get a result.
those are ridiculous patents
oh there sueing them again also....
"rounded rectangles and smooth edges"... That's not what won in the patent battle. The main thing was the over scroll bounce. Apple legitimately created this, and was the first to do so on a phone. @kingpin look at the announcement/release dates...
samsung f700: http://www.gsmarena.com/sam...
Apple iphone: http://www.gsmarena.com/app...
Windows CE is barely related to phones, and does not hold A slide to unlock patent that is in any way applicable to phones. Fair game. I will not defend Siri, because I hate siri. I don't know what apple was thinking with the notification bar. I honestly do not. Stupid move, apple.
and i said slide to unlock was OFFICIALLY released on windows CE. doesnt mean it wasnt available on other mobile phones. My SE P910i had slide to unlock.
only a blind apple fanboy will stand behind this decision and look at it as fair.
Biased decisions, in Japan, samsung infringed no patents. In America, Apple wins the decision. Yet in europe, NEUTRAL territory, Samsung products are all good and are not infringing on any intellectual property. clearly even you can see something isn't right here.
as for the notification bar, i hope Apple gets their asses handed to them. show them what its like to nit-pick on small things.
as for features, i certainly hope developers of custom roms can sue too because a lot of custom roms look and feel way better than stock roms. im sure even google sees what they can borrow from custom roms and adds it to official roms.
no corporation is bigger than open community development.
The same people that buy apple are the same idiots who buy xbox360's.
Android is the future. iphone needs to die.
The iphone looks like other phones that have been out. Take alook at this old windows mobile for the early 00s and tell me the iphone shape looks alot different to this one. http://pockethacks.com/wp-c...
Im mot saying is a exact copy but you get my point.
Apple are starting to become the new Microsoft where they think they can stop peoplle from gaining market share by taking them to court to try and stop there devices ect.
The iphone when it came out blue everyone out the water in terms of ease of use and lack of issues but since then not much has changed and both Google and Microsoft have given us new mobile os's that are just as easy to use but also offer better service than the iphone and because of this apple will start to lose there market share over the next few years and unless they change the look of the iphone in that time they will start to slip away like blackberry have started too.
gay marriages is legal in 6 states.
having sex with a horse is legal in 23 states.
welcome to the home of Apple.
Ps: There are man good things in Usa as well. But something needs to be done about their laws which prevents freedom.
I remember during the MS Anti-Trust hunt days every news media painted MS as the evil guy that stifle innovation by being anti-competitive (buying up companies, patent buying). With Apple today those same news media are doing everything NOT say a bad thing about Apple's patent flaunting. What happened?