Apple sues Samsung over Galaxy Nexus lock screen

JD914 · Thread Author #1 01-21-2012, 11:34 AM

C'mon Apple enough is enough! WTF?

http://www.androidcentral.com/latest...nexus#comments

JD914 · Thread Author #2 01-21-2012, 11:39 AM

BTW I'm a big Apple fan but its stuff like this that completely turns me off to them. Instead of competing and improving Apple would rather crush the competition over litigation? That's a cowardly move on their behalf.

Karmaloop · #3 01-21-2012, 03:42 PM

LOL, how in the world are the two alike??

d-backs1 · #4 01-21-2012, 07:58 PM

I think this is just an indication of the nexus selling very well and apple trying to stop that like usual. Notice they only really start suing about products that are selling well(samsung galaxy, tab, nexus)

avt123 · #5 01-22-2012, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by d-backs1

I think this is just an indication of the nexus selling very well and apple trying to stop that like usual. Notice they only really start suing about products that are selling well(samsung galaxy, tab, nexus)

They have sued other companies as well, and none of their Android devices come close to the sales of the Galaxy S line. Also, Apple is still making a ton of money, with or without those products on the market.

Apple has to sue to protect IP and please investors. If there is a way for them to make money from this, the investors will love it. If they don't protect "their IP", they can upset many shareholders and I believe they can even lose their patents if not protected.

I don't agree with it, as I believe this game (that not only Apple is playing, but they are the most active) is hurting technology if the grand scheme of things. The patent system needs reform, and until then, Apple is playing the system in a way to try and give them an advantage.

The Apple fanboys will think Apple is completely right for doing this (and technically according to the system, they might be) and they will call Google out for constantly for including things they have no right to and then Google (and its fanboys) will come out and complain that Apple is stifling innovation because Google doesn't want to pay up and pay for these licenses to protect them from certain things.

Both sides are correct. This is why the patent system needs reform. These wars ARE stifling innovation, BUT if you feel like your IP is being attacked or stolen and so does your shareholder/lawyers you must do something about it to please them.

I think the whole situation sucks. I like iOS and Android. I can care less about who had what first.

Like the saying goes, "don't hate the player, hate the game".

thebignewt · #6 01-23-2012, 03:29 PM

This is straight from the Steve Jobs Handbook. In the biography one of the last important things/ideas he put forth was that Google stole Apple's OS ideas. I think they did. Look at the GN Gallery, how there are little thumnails of your album running along the bottom when you select one to view. If that's not a copy of iPhoto I don't know what is. Apple has a ton of patents. Jobs said to the Google CEO something like this: I'll use every cent of Apple's 80 billion in cash to sue you until you stop stealing from us. I'll never settle for money, only if you stop." I like Apple and I like andriod. Steve Jobs is dead but I think his relentless pursuit of Android is still alive here.

trelawrence · #7 01-23-2012, 03:34 PM

If Apple is suing, it is a good phone. I have to get the Nexus!

lssanjose · #8 01-23-2012, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by trelawrence

If Apple is suing, it is a good phone. I have to get the Nexus!

Talk about openness. Nothing proprietary, because you don't have to wait on manufacturers to release their closed source items

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lssanjose · #9 01-23-2012, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by d-backs1

I think this is just an indication of the nexus selling very well and apple trying to stop that like usual. Notice they only really start suing about products that are selling well(samsung galaxy, tab, nexus)

If you think about the commercials depicting the sgs 2 in a light, against the iPhone, Apple had other "reasons" to sue

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darreno1 · #10 01-23-2012, 09:37 PM

This is going to be thrown out like most of their other worthless 'patents'. Besides the Nexus lock screen hardly looks like anything from the iPhone.

Apple is afraid of Android and rightly so. And they are particularly afraid of Samsung, the one manufacturer that's gaining steam like no tomorrow. What they don't get is that 2 can play at that game and their luck will eventually run out.