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ChadBroChillz Member Level: eHRPD

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I love apple as much as the next iSheep, but this is ridiculous. Htc is not even a threat to them. Just kicking them while they are falling. Apple is really petty. I thought with jobs gone, this would end.

 

 

I wish apple would follow Microsoft and just license thier patents. Hurt the manufacuters by taking a slice of their profits, instead of trying to destroy them( which is not working).

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I love apple as much as the next iSheep, but this is ridiculous. Htc is not even a threat to them. Just kicking them while they are falling. Apple is really petty. I thought with jobs gone, this would end.

 

 

I wish apple would follow Microsoft and just license thier patents. Hurt the manufacuters by taking a slice of their profits, instead of trying to destroy them( which is not working).

 

Apple & HTC were told to resolve this issue peacefully. I don't understand why they can't come to an agreement. Talk about a frustrating nightmare. But with Apple having over $100 billion in cash in the bank, I don't see this ending anytime soon.

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As an avid Apple user (my VZW iPad 4G is sitting next to my OG Epic, near the 2007 iMac I'm typing this on; my 2009 MacBook, recently upgraded to 8GB of RAM, is also nearby)...Apple is being petty.

 

If their hardware is so awesome (in the case of the iPad, it is) and they can stay ahead of the competition, they don't need to litigate. People can tell the difference between an iPhone and a competitor before someone even turns the device on, and Apple is eating any single manufacturer up in terms of sales/market share. What are they complaining about?

 

Personally, I hope that HTC, Samsung or Motorola come out with some awesome innovation, patent it, then force Apple to play nice on cross-licensing when Apple wants to get into the game. It's not like Apple hasn't copied from other manufacturers before...the pull-down notification bar in iOS 5 is very, VERY similar to the notification shade that has been in Android since its inception. Then again, it's kind of tit-for-tat; Google copied Apple's multiple-apps-in-one-icon UI element with Stacks in ICS.

 

Maybe, from Apple's viewpoint, it's sad that they have to actually compete for customers with Android devices that have superior hardware specs (though iOS tends to be smoother than Android despite these specs). But for the rest of us it's a very good thing.

 

Also, I'd rather have an Android phone than an iPhone. Fragmentation notwithstanding. For one thing, I love me some AmazonMP3 (as an actual app, not their web app that works on iOS). For another, even with the iPhone's awesome keyboard, a 3.5" screen is pretty darned small for doing useful stuff. It almost feels like an upsell for the iPad at this point :P

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I expect HTC and Samsung to attempt to block the iPhone 5 if they still use the same notification system. That threat might get Apple back to the negotiating table.

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Samsung has already tried to block apple.

 

Australia http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/samsung-sues-to-block-iphone-4s-in-australia-20111017-1lszh.html

Italy/France http://www.pcworld.com/article/241153/samsung_hopes_to_block_iphone_4s_sales_in_italy_france.html

Korea http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/19/samsung-moves-to-block-iphone-5-in-korea-expands-its-anti-apple/

 

 

Samsung even sued to try and get a peak at apple's iphone 5 and iPad 3 prototypes.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/22/samsung-denied-preview-of-ipad-3-iphone-5-in-ongoing-apple-infr/

 

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