[EVO 4G General] newuser134:
Well,

I think it's funny that you join a forum full of HTC and Android phones, then try to defend the fact that Apple is trying to unjustly sue HTC (and 2 other large Android phone manufcturers) out of existense. If you agree with Apple, then you also want this forum to get shut down, since this forum is useless without any Android phones, so why should you have the right to come here and tell people that you wish their phones stopped being produced? Does that not show how ironic your point of view is? If you love your Apple so much, why are you here? If you don't have an apple, why don't you go get one and let AT&T take advantage of you? If you do have an Android phone, then what you write makes even less sense.

If Apple is doing this based on protecting their IP and isn't worried about losing to a better phone maker and losing its market control, why is it that it has taken several years for them to "realize" their patent is being infringed upon? Why did they have to wait for the absolute iPhone slayer to come out (Evo), then see their sales go down, before filing anything? That shows their true intent. If this is a common thing in this business, why is it that Apple always sues others first, then they have to counter-sue or defend themselves. You can't tell me that even though you THINK Apple should get sues for stealing too, it's just a coincidence that no one does actually sue Apple first even though Apple does steal their IP's, right? Other phone makers just focus on making better phones, not sue their competitors to be able to sell more of their own phones.

Take the example with the notification bar that everyone says Apple stole from Android. We all agree that if Apple did steal it, they didn't do so with the intention of being sued, right? They wanted to get away with it. By doing so, they implied that it is ok to use others' ideas, whether patented or not. No one sued them for it, but when someone uses something so broad that is theirs, they always get sued, so it is only wrong if someone does it to Apple, right? Don't you think this is all done not to protect themselves, but to "mass patent" everything just so they can later find something to sue the competition for, and stop them if Apple doesn't seem to be doing that well. We all know Apple has done the same thing before. If you don't agree with me, just watch the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley". In that movie, Apple seems to think that the best innovators are the ones that use other people's work which already exists.

I think it is a waste of time that you and people like you are here, this is a forum for people to discuss their Android and Evo related topics and resolve them, not argue with Apple fans that are pissed off because the manufacturer of iPhones is losing the worldwide phone sales 2 to 1 to Android. I would consider that a loss, even if Apple is a more wealthy company. When HTC wasn't that good compared to Apple, they didn't sue anybody, they made better phone. I used to like iPhones better myself, until I saw their lack of ability to do anything, and I realized HTC and Android phones got a lot better over time than iPhones did. So I went to an Android phone, yes, out of my own free will, I didn't stay stuck with an iPhone because of monopoly, as they're trying to get, that is what I meant by my comment. If they force Android phones to stop producing, then guess what, there are not many other choices, even if an iPhone user thinks the iPhone sucks. Also, I had many WinMo phones, and they sucked as well. They also made me want to get an Android phone. So don't you think it is funny that the phone makers or OS makers that have crappy products have joined forces to push Android and HTC phones out of existense? I mean I came to want to have an Android phone from my own choice, not by someone else forcing me to, and I don't think a lot of other people's experience is that different from me. So if you're forced to have an iPhone, who or what is the real totalitarianism here?