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From: enough on 2 Oct 2009 09:28 This is why I would never buy a phone from Apple http://apple.slashdot.org story: Apple wants patents for cripling cellphones
From: ZnU on 2 Oct 2009 11:12 In article <abe9dc55-80b2-4cdb-a55e-35e8a485d647(a)t32g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>, enough <blinkingblythe02(a)gmail.com> wrote: > This is why I would never buy a phone from Apple http://apple.slashdot.org > story: Apple wants patents for cripling cellphones Sigh. You'd really think after all these years, people who follow the technology industry would actually understand the dynamics that surround software patents. In particular, people need to understand that just because a company patents something, it doesn't necessarily mean they will a) implement it themselves or b) sue other people for implementing it. This particular patent seems to essentially cover technology already used in the iPhone and other cell phones; Apple is probably patenting it to avoid a situation in which some patent troll is granted a patent on it and then tries to extort money from companies that make actual products. -- "The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes
From: Nigel Ratburn on 2 Oct 2009 17:23 In article <abe9dc55-80b2-4cdb-a55e-35e8a485d647(a)t32g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>, enough <blinkingblythe02(a)gmail.com> wrote: > This is why I would never buy a phone from Apple http://apple.slashdot.org > story: Apple wants patents for cripling cellphones You misspelled "crippling."
From: Rod Speed on 2 Oct 2009 19:47 Scott in SoCal wrote > enough <blinkingblythe02(a)gmail.com> wrote >> This is why I would never buy a phone from Apple http://apple.slashdot.org story: >> Apple wants patents for cripling cellphones > That's actually a good thing. If Apple has a patent on crippling > cell phones, then nobody else will be allowed to cripple them. Wrong again, they can pay Apple a royalty when they use Apple's patents.
From: enough on 4 Oct 2009 06:01
The reason this re-enforces my decision NOT to buy from Apple is because they seem to be gloating about how they lock down their cell phones to the point that they even patented the method of doing so. I highly doubt that Apple wants to protect customers from lock downs by other companies. |