Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 Patents...

[thrashingdeth]

Originally Posted by MrGoodCat

maybe instead of suing companies apple should be trying to figure out how they are going to make a 3.5" screen with 20 icons on it seem like a revolutionary idea after its been out for almost 3 years. it took them nearly 8 months to figure out how to make the icons wiggle and change positions. how much longer will it take them to figure out how to trap your soul to its internal storage? bet they'll try to patent that too...next lawsuit "Apple vs Religion...Which has the right to your soul?"

lmao oh man i almost cried. apple makes me laugh. i hope i wont be enslaved by them though. viva la revolution!

[greeced]

Being first in-line to the patent office does not necessarily mean you own or invented the technology.

It just means you decided to file first and patent offices didn't do their diligence to ensure this technology wasn't elsewhere.

HTC has a lot of power behind it. The Goliath Google has already pushed their support behind them, no doubt Microsoft will be doing the same.

There are tons of patents Apple has infringed on here, and I'm sure that will be brought up in court.

Apple is not the little guy anymore, and Apple needs to reel itself back in. For years they flew under the radar... but they are becoming bullies just like Microsoft has/continues to be. The court doesn't like that and those Monopoly suits the government has tastes for will surely come out.

At the end of this, Apple will be made to look stupid, and may end up having to pull its own phone off the market if HTC gets a group of companies together to countersue Apple on their own patents.

Apple doesn't realize they've just pushed the button to self-destruct.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by Maxx134

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Such sore losers they dont care that they were also once a smaller company.
Now they are a worse bully than M$ ever was.

I don't really see much difference between the two myself.

MS & Apple are both trying to defend monopolies, I don't think ones any worse than the other.......

~John

[Chuck_IV]

Originally Posted by bluedeer

...Though they may hope to tie HTC up in court to make it expensive.

This is my take on it. They are seeing HTC as a big threat(bigger than they used to be) and they wanna try to take a bite out of them financially, while also slowing their progress/release of newer and better devices than the iphoney.

Apple had better be careful what they wish for tho. Bringing all these patents to the forefront could get them invalidated in the end, if the right arguments are presented.

[awenthol]

Originally Posted by Kaine16

All i got to say, Apple patenting multi-touch is like getting a patent on the wheel. It can not and will not be allowed, they can bitch and mourn all they want. Like some said this is more a publicity stunt, after they pissed off ALOT of ppl with their shitty Ipad.

Exactly...patents are for innovative, original ideas. Patenting things like multi-touch, "slide to unlock", etc is a crock as they are intuitive....

[pmeunier]

This is my smart phone. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My smart phone is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life. My smart phone, without me, is useless. Without my smart phone, I am useless.
My smart phone and myself know that what counts in this war is not the ho-hum of sameness, the set registry, nor the app store they visit. We know that it is the customizations that count. We will customize...
My smart phone is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weakness, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its tweaks and its hacks. I will keep my smart phone clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will...
Before God I swear this creed. My smart phone and myself are the defenders of competition. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is the consumers and there is no enemy, but Peace.

[p-slim]

Finally we hear from Google, and their backing HTC 100% (obviously)

http://i.engadget.com/2010/03/03/goo...ehind-our-and/

[chardog]

when you cant innovate, litigate. I'm a software engineer, and I've looked at M$ and apple patents before, and their sole purpose is for monopolistic reasons.

[Cicatrize]

It will be interesting to see if Google will allow its Maps application on the next generation of iPhone.

[p-slim]

Originally Posted by Cicatrize

It will be interesting to see if Google will allow its Maps application on the next generation of iPhone.

I don't think so. M$ and Apple are looking to make bing the search and map app on the iphone.