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[General Topics] HIMFan:
Apple has great handheld devices. I use my iPad alongside my Evo 3D. iOS5 only copies a few things. And since Android is open source, Apple can get away with taking things of theres and tossing it in. But since Apple has patents on all of their ideas and code, others cannot. Bottom line, legally Apple can do this, obviously nothing is going to happen to HTC, they will probably just change how they do a couple things and no one will be any the wiser.
[General Topics] jags_the1:
true.. the same thing has happened so many times .. and still ppl are pms'ing for no perticular reason.

htc will find a another way out..
[General Topics] Gagins:
Android is the rule.
[General Topics] paul_nicko:
Pathetic, I can't believe you can actually patent tapping the screen to call someone
[General Topics] DEATH6:
I dont think that apple would win against google .
[General Topics] Tachi91:
As far as Apple suing Google... I don't know what google might have as a defense, but their a massive company and Apple would get destroyed or at the very lease kneel before the big G
[General Topics] Kiboe:
so, tapping the screen to call someone.

that's every mother ****ing touch screen phone on this planet, including touch screen feature phones.

so, the only phone with a capacitive touchscreen would be the iPhone? god damn this is as frivilous as it gets!.

and no, google owns like 135 subsidiaries world wide, thus they have a legion of lawers. apple will get egg on their face in court.

here;s the thing though...who really cares? they said it best on the Android central podcast last night, who cares about it?, google makes blog posts, yeah, that's how they communicate with the public, they own blogger....and they don't do press releases.
[General Topics] JonnyBDroid:
Seeing all of this going makes me think back to "Uncle Steve" and his "1984" speech, and laugh at the irony (unable to post a link so look for "1983 Apple Keynote-The "1984" Ad Introduction " on YouTube if you haven't seen it).

Apple has become that which he sought to deride & fight. :D
[General Topics] Mark-IE:
Sure the big companies are always suing each other, nothing new it'll get sorted out.
[General Topics] DroidFreek:
Google needs to fight back sometimes. You got to beat these companies at their own game. Peaceful measures almost never solve any problems in todays society.
[General Topics] keyler:
that would never happen
[General Topics] cruse2382:
correct me if im wrong but couldnt you do this on old Nokia's even before the iphone came out (not the tapping the screen to call) how can apple patent something they stole off someone else.

Steve Jobbs and all his loyal ipone/ipad sheep should be shot at dawn everyday for a month
[General Topics] Tachi91:
I would considered this a monopoly in the patent system, apple did patents on things that where in play before them

Sent from my HTC HD2
[General Topics] Tachi91:
Can I patent the idea of a "steve jobs" and have him killed for infringement?

Sent from my HTC HD2
[General Topics] Daeva:
Another reason to despise Apple.

I'm sure none of this will hold up in court.
[General Topics] forelli:
Well put. 10 chars

f.

Sent with Sith mastery of the Force from a S-off'd Sensation
[General Topics] Rejinderi:
This is really ridiculous =.= they're restricting competition using ways of the law. and its really really stupid to have patent over this kind of things.
[General Topics] krash2002:
...

Well this sucks.... My friend in Washington is actually a part of the side committee for the review board of the " full six-member committee in Washington" that will be reviewing the case in December. He said the committee is very biased against android and stealing the patents and he informed me that they said there is a very good chance they will push for the Ban of all android devices. If Apple decides to go with that approach.

This sucks...... I don't want to lose my ability to use my new HTC phone... Well folks. Looks like android may be screwed....I guess Karma does come around. Microsoft stole from Apple... therefore Apple is getting paid back in return.
[General Topics] MartyLK:
I really don't see that as possible. Android is far too diverse for it to be removed from the market. I certainly hope Apple will bargain with Google and come to an accommodation that will allow Android to.continue if such a thing can happen as Android being banned. It's far more likely that Samsung's devices will be banned than Android in its entirety being banned.
[General Topics] Tachi91:
America is falling apart as it is lets ban phones all together...

Japan looking pretty nice right now, or taiwan where htc is at... Decisions decisions

Sent from my HTC HD2
[General Topics] Dat Kid Named...:
this patent thing is pretty stupid imo
[General Topics] FatalityBoyZahy:
Google > All
[General Topics] majorpay:
Is this fud? Sounds like an Apple extremest fan spreading fud to me. Microsoft never stole from Apple, and the patent office putting billions of dollars out of circulation is bad Karma on the entire world. Let's not forget Xerox did it while Apple was still in diapers. The mouse wasn't either company's invention, neither was the idea for a windowed environment. Come to think of it, nothing REALLY originated from either of those companies (Microsoft and Apple). It was how they placed other ideas together that created what they have today. Same deal with the phones. Apple's just decided to get all stupid (and they will be taken down).

Apple tries to take out competition these days by elimination using dirty techniques. Kind of like the whole "you can't have an app on our market that sells books unless you give us your entire profit margin" type crap. Jobs is a washed up hack that is making a money grab because his "innovation" is all dried up. It's time to take the old dog out back before he completely sinks his company with his draconian BS.

And as for the stealing, if you want to get to the nitty gritty, I suppose you should wipe out all telephones completely, all vehicles on the road, every piece of technology IN EXISTANCE. Because if it's legal to patent vague ideas, say goodbye to your ass, because there is nothing you touch that doesn't originate from somewhere else. If Steve Jobs wants to level the playing field and play "fair," then the inventors before him that he has "borrowed" from could literally WIPE APPLE OFF THE MAP.

There's a healthy dose of reality for you.
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haha, remember when Apple banned an Android magazine from their App Store? Yeah... That pretty much sums up Apple's techniques, whether their products are great or not.
[General Topics] Tone_:
seems they will be starting before December.

http://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2011/er0808jj1.htm
[General Topics] ricky babalu:
In the end Apple will lose this battle as well.
[General Topics] joosix9:
If companies would just work together better think of some of the crazy well manufactured products we could have!
[General Topics] Tone_:
What makes you say that, it could go either way.
[General Topics] ssmr2t:
I bet the cancer that Jobs has right now is a result of karma from GOD
[General Topics] ferparedes:
I just wanted to let you guys know that I just patented an idea I had this morning.

"A method and system to gleam medical, physical, chemical, electromagnetic, radio, and other types of information on a handheld or portable device"

So when someone actually invents the tricorder, I'll have his ass. At least on the software side...

- Me
[General Topics] ricky babalu:
HTC, a Taiwanese co. and Samsung a Korean company can pressure their governments to play hardball with Apple if they choose to. The majority of components used in Apple products originate from these countries. Its just a matter of time before some of these governments get involved, and then were is Apple going to get their parts and labor to assemble their products?

To boot, now apple has successfully blocked the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in EU. It is going to start getting ugly! I think Apple may have opened a "Pandora's box".
[General Topics] DroidFreek:
The grab is dead.
[General Topics] majorpay:
Because although the U.S. does stupid things, destroying an entire economic ecosystem through draconian business techniques is not *usually* one of them. This wouldn't look good on Obama, and yes, this does go to the top when you are talking about devastating an entire economy.

You may think the phone is mostly developed outside the United States, but there are a lot of middle men in between that make good money right here in the states off of the sale of those millions of phones.

This would be a blow to every major provider (as us Android followers aren't going to jump ship to Apple because of this), every distributor, and every shipment company, as well as the American producers of Android products.

Even if Apple won, how many overseas distributors of chips and boards are going to play nice with them? If Apple was successful in it's idiotic venture, it would be firmly nailing it's coffin shut from all sides.
[General Topics] MartyLK:
Just saw on the national news...for the US...that Apple is on track to becoming the most valuable American company, exceeding Exxon Mobile. It said they are approaching being a trillion dollar company.

Nah...Apple is litigating for financial or competitive concerns at all. They don't need to. They have more money than the entire US government. That leaves the rationality that the litigation is just exactly what Apple says it is: correcting injustices.
[General Topics] Tone_:
That does not mean google will win as per the post I replied to, Apple could win and HTC would just have to remove the infringing items, it does not have to be as devastating as you outlined.

They could win and be forced to license the patents, who knows?
[General Topics] vetvito:
Apple won in EU against Samsung.
[General Topics] majorpay:
Listening to "Appl"ostles flap gums about the situation is downright hilarious. Yeah, that's what it is... Justice. Sweeping vague generalized patents that applied to items decades before the iPhone hit the market (and in fact, the parsing of links patent applies to all modern computing from browsers, to every product Microsoft produces in software) is exactly "seeking justice." Do Apple products come with a partial lobotomy as well? It honestly wouldn't surprise me, as who needs to think or use their brain, when Jobs lays out his domination plan for "Apple America" strategy for you under the guise of "justice" that only the lowest forms of society would actually "buy into?"

And it just so happens that Apple is using the patents to attempt to take down the ACTUAL largest company in the U.S. one distributor at a time while their phone line just *happens* to be struggling under the weight of it's competitor. It has nothing to do with a power hungry, egocentric, megalomaniac looking to control the entire electronic population, just like demanding 30% of e-book sales distributed from purchases made off the iPhone was perfectly normal (which "coincidentally" was all the major distributors' profit)?

Well, I guess we know where your kool-aid comes from. Keep drinking it, it makes you funnier. Perhaps it is mean to poke fun at those with corporate induced mental disabilities. I'll have to consult Jobs on that, as I assume he has been preordained to be God who shall bring "justice" to us wretched beings...

And weren't you supposed to have me on ignore?
[General Topics] majorpay:
The last part is key. If that happens, it will just be the trading money for patents deal like Microsoft. Jobs can say he won't license, but if the U.S. forces him too, that would surely correct this situation (although, I'm not overly fond of even giving as little as five bucks to that megalomaniac).

As a programmer, this type of crappy "play the government's patent system" burns my hide big time.
[General Topics] pmcqueen:
+9999999999999999999

I'm not employed as a programmer, but I am in the IT field and do occasional programming for my company depending on the project/complexity.

for bona fide development as a career, this sort of stuff would scare the **** out of me. some asshole with too much money and a bloated ego can decide that your work is stolen based on archaic, irrelevant pieces of paper laying claim to standard functions across all operating systems? what's the point of even trying?

Jobs will probably come back and tell us that forcing us to learn new methods of input is just the continuation of innovation... next thing you know, we'll be using our toes to operate cellphones so we don't anger the beast that is Apple.
[General Topics] Carbon Trooper:
What's hilarious is that because of Apple's inability to innovate (Notice iOS 5) they can't get a proper profit. Therefore they must copy others, sue for stupidity, and try and cheat their way to getting cash.

I like Apple, I have a late 2009 Macbook and I love it so much. But to see them doing this in the mobile platform area disgusts me. All I know is, I can't wait for my Evo 3D!
[General Topics] krash2002:
I wish this was fud... I'm with you on the idea that apple should lose. I mean beat someone in the market place and not dirty tactics. I hate facing reality... I think Android may see some repercussions, but it will never be banned. I'm sorry but too much is being made from these devices to just cut it off. Steve jobs will see his maker some day and will be slapped in the face with the reality that he failed at trying to monopolies lol!
[General Topics] Borat38:
Am I glad Apple isn't significant here in Asia. Samsung & HTC are tops here, that's all that matters for us now. Jobs can get his panties bunched up over Samsung, but he won't get anywhere. Samsung is a chaebol corporation--one of the government-nurtured congolomerates of South Korea, so good luck trying to sue in SoKor.

And I'd love to see Apple try to throw its weight around in China, where Huawei and HTC's founders have close links to the Beijing government.
[General Topics] THUDUK:
I sound like a school boy, but my initial first thoughts are, I hate that I own an apple product, and to think that this company is hugely powerful and wealthy can do what it likes to other companies, then I realise that the other companies are seriously powerful and wealthy as well, so I think why do I bother with any of them, it's all just plastic and small bits of mobile ****e at the end of the day
[General Topics] majorpay:
Because it's the powerful companies that run our ecosystem. Being low man on the totem pole means that ****e runs down hill. If a company like Apple can take down a good portion of Google using dirty patent tricks, what do you think is on the horizon? You let a company get away with it a few times, it sets a precedence. Then when Apple sues the rest of the technology industry out of existence, what are you left with? A PC with a half-assed OS that no one wants to write for? A shiny Apple phone where Jobs demands 30% of everyone's profits go to him? Maybe locked into iTunes, iMovies, iToilet, or whatever the next pay out the nose thing he invents is?

Maybe using the latest patent (the one they got an injunction against Samsung with), being that it's just a rectangular box in a rectangular box, maybe they can sue the TV industry, so all you can watch is Apple TV? The fanbois would love this Apple controlled world, that's why they swoop in to defend this BS. As for me, I don't live in North Korea, so Jobs can suck it.

Then comes the destruction of our economic system. Take a moment to think if Google was actually taken down. How do you think that would affect us? Apple has started a corporate war, and they are putting their feelers out. It is people who pass them the nod and say "who cares" that are letting them succeed. Apple sues HTC and succeeds off of stupid patents. Realizing their patent tricks actually worked, they moved on to attacking the entire tablet sector in the EU and are once again, successful.

Then they bring that back to the U.S., and since the precedence has already been set, the U.S. complies to make Apple a monopoly of tablets. Then Apple goes after the remaining companies utilizing Android, after they are successful, then Google TV, then eventually, after they have enough previous legal precedence, they take out their final competitor: Microsoft.

Now you're left with Apple. So should you care? If you're not North Korean, and appreciate your freedom, you should.

See the slippery slope that all this apathy is creating? This is only the beginning, and Apple has made it clear by its actions, that is just the beginning of their tech domination. The guise of "justice" is what they are claiming. Anti-competitive practice is what they're playing. It's not so funny when you see the broader scope.
[General Topics] MartyLK:
That's true of the other companies. But Apple products have always been mostly metal and sturdily made. Apple products are the Harley Davidsons of the electronics world. The other bike makers use plastic and imitation stuff to compete. But Harleys are all no-nonsense good old American steel. Apple products are the same. Apple put quality into them and it costs. The others keep their costs down by fakery.
[General Topics] majorpay:
See, and this is one of the looney tunes I've been talking about. Fully supports Apple's anti-competitive practices, and would love to see Apple controlling his life, and calls that "American."

As for me, screw Jobs and his fascist way, he can take his shiny toys and shove them right up his wazoo.
[General Topics] cruse2382:
really "Apple products are the Harley Davidsons of the electronics world"

ive only ever owned one apple product a gen 2 ipod had it about 2 month and it just died on me that went straight back exchanged for a generic mp3 player which saved me about £100 and i think the mp3 player is still floating around here somewhere years later

and when the iphones first came out i must admid thought they look ok so went to get one playing about with it in the shop had it for bout 5 min while sorting out the contract when it froze up and just would not turn on again so i left with a nokia instead

the one thing apple has going for them is that they've somehow managed to brainwash a bunch of sheep into thinking they sell a good product
[General Topics] cruse2382:
the real reason jobs hate google
[General Topics] majorpay:
The phones are pretty, and Apple spends all their time on making transitions smooth and flashy, so it looks cool. It's called "turd polishing." The people that buy into Apple's crap are the same ones that buy a Lambo kit for their Ford Focus.

'Nuff said
[General Topics] Kiboe:
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[General Topics] ferparedes:
You had bad luck. Apple makes good products. I've owned a few ipods, an iPhone and an ibook g3. They're all still chugging away happily, though I think the iphone's battery is done for (haven't used it for a while).

The problem with apple products is not the quality. But rather that they're horribly crippled by what jobs thinks "is the right way to do it". The infamous reality distortion field (magical and revolutionary? Pleaaaase!) and, of course, their monopolistic business practices.
[General Topics] majorpay:
Wow... Eye opening and hilarious.

+1
[General Topics] MartyLK:
That's pretty much what I meant about being like Harleys. The iPhone is an unchanging and no-nonsense product. Apple doesn't just frivolously add this or that new thing to it to keep it ever more fresh. What they do is keep it the same. And whether or not it is bad policy, the market seems to accept it as is.

If you have something that works and is a fantastical success like the iPhone is, you don't screw with it. And just because a tiny percentage of users think it fails doesn't make a fail. To them it fails. To the rest, it is a massive win. That tiny percentage of users wants every product to be made their way. They have Android. But that isn't enough. They have to have every other phone their way also or they can't stand to live.

Too bad for that tiny percentage that Apple is unmovable. And as long as the money from Apple's products keep flooding in, there won't be any chance of Apple doing things their way. They'll just need to content themselves with other brands and leave the Apple products to the people that are satisfied with them.
[General Topics] majorpay:
Life in a box must be awesome.

Sheep are usually content with confinement as well.
[General Topics] cruse2382:
maybe if Apple did just frivolously add this or that new thing to it to keep it ever more fresh (instead of the same crap repackaged) they wouldn't be loosing out on sales and wouldn't need to come up with stupid lawsuits
[General Topics] cruse2382:
thats awesome

may as well named it IOStolen
[General Topics] cruse2382:
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well someone changed there mind
[General Topics] majorpay:
It's because they were way ahead in the global market - if you watch the entire interview, he makes reference to that - placing Google at #4, below IOS.

Being that it has shifted, so has his demeanor.

It's easy to be a good sport when you're sitting at the top.
[General Topics] Clemopp:
This is a sad sad thing to do for Apple. They are most probably feeling the pressure from Android.

Those functions mentioned were there already, haven't been invented by Apple. I don't mind patents if they were expensive to develop but these don't fall under that category.

This is just pathetic behavior. These small functions aren't what differentiates Apple from the competition.

So for their IOS 5. Are they going to patent the """""new""""" (extra quotes because they aren't new) functions? Patent for tabs, button for making pictures, slide down notification bar etc etc etc.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] 19sayid62:
Hello,

Please tell me if there is any way of replacing standard theme files by launcher ones? I guess when launcher is running in the background it drains battery. That is why i'd like to install it by replacing standard files. Is there any way to do so?

Thanks :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] rhadrio:
By "standard theme" you mean stock launcher?

If yes then my answer would be no, no you cant get rid of it totally, sadly. But let me tell you a thing, it wouldnt do any harm to your battery life..

Android will only run one launcher at a time.

Tapatalked from my Noirette III
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] 19sayid62:
Thanks for reply :)
[Milestone XT720 General] agag1002:
1. Can I use FM radio?

2. If I forget the password of PIN lock, can I use gmail to help me to unlock my phone?

3. How to delete 2D gallery?

thx~
[Milestone XT720 General] agag1002:
has someone to help me? :(
[Milestone XT720 General] firzen_net:
How did you get CM 7.1 for the XT701?

I'm a newb as well - all i know to do is to flash sbf and follow directions. But I've read in a lot of forums, chinese and english, that the CM 7.1 is extremely buggy. Meaning that the FM radio doesn't work, and there are call problems and all that. Thats probably why you are experiencing those problems.

Those problems cannot be fixed until they have a better version of the CM for XT701.

However, what I'm REALLY interested in is how you got CM to run on your phone, because I am having problems with my XT701.
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] xRemingtonx:
How to change this theme http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1108490 to work on froyobread v20?
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] Hontch:
You could always try this one, the original and better IMO

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1152821
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] xRemingtonx:
how to change background in settings and phonecall in this theme ?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ikke008:
Hello,

I've updated my device to mango beta.

Now I've version 7661.WP7_5_Trial?

How can it be that I don't have Bing Music?

Also, Instant resuming is not working?

Do I have an older version or something?

I have an Omnia 7.