Sale of Galaxy Nexus Banned in the US 696
New submitter busyqth writes "After the injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 earlier in the week, A U.S. district court judge has now also granted an injunction against the sale of Google's flagship ICS phone, the Galaxy Nexus. Is Steve Jobs laughing in the great beyond? Is this the beginning of the end for Android?"
Two blows to Samsung in one week, and now the FTC is investigating Google for misuse of Motorola Mobility patents in relation to RAND standards.
Sensationalist submission is sensationalist. (Score:5, Informative)
"Is this the beginning of the end for Android?"
Don't be so fucking stupid.
Boycott Apple (Score:5, Informative)
Please explain to all your non-techie friends and family what Apple is doing, and why they shouldn't ever touch any Apple product until they change their way.
It's very easy, I already prevented sale of a at least a few iphones.
Disclaimer: I'm not working for Google, Samsung or any other mobile related company. I'm just disgusted by Apple, and boycotting is the only way to stop them.
Re:The rest of the world does not care (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Well they are both rectangular (Score:5, Informative)
Think this is the closest Apple's come yet to going after core Google. It's the search patent that appears to have snagged them. If they get this, they get every android phone currently out there and serve a continual warning to every potential Android licensee that if they even think of entering the Phone Market, they WILL be sued out of existence. Don't think even MS back in the day was ever as obviously aggressive as this.
For something that I've always suspected started as a way to negotiate cheaper component prices out of Samsung, Apple's really stirred up a poo storm.
Samsung? Contacts be damned, now's the time to stop shipping anything to your competitor who only wants to see you destroyed the second they can replace you.
Apple started the nerf bat swinging, never know who it'll take out in the end.
Re:Patent trolling is the new iWhite... (Score:5, Informative)
JooJoo Tablet came out before the iPad was even announced I believe. I keep hearing 'well, there wasn't anything like the iPad before the iPad came out' but there were devices that worked like it (though cheap and bad Chinese Android tablets), and tablets that /looked/ like the iPad (JooJoo tablet).
Samsung had similar designs in other places, I don't think it's a stretch of imagination to use those same designs in your own products, that someone else just happens to have also used. Though even then, hold a Samsung Android Tablet and an Apple tablet, and the difference is obvious.
Re:Patent trolling is the new iWhite... (Score:4, Informative)
Everybody stands on the shoulders of giants, even Apple.
Nokia video 2006 (slide to unlock, gestures)
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Here-is-how-Nokia-imagined-touchscreen-phones-in-2006_id28668/ [phonearena.com]
Samsung F700 (Korean design patent, December 2006)
http://gizmodo.com/235112/apple-iphone-vs-samsung-f700-which-is-touchscreenier [gizmodo.com]
Silver Lining (Score:5, Informative)
Apple was ordered to post a bond of $95 million [arstechnica.com] to enact the injunction, which would be used to pay Samsung damages if the decision is later reversed.
Can we end software patents now? (Score:5, Informative)
Maybe this would be a good place to mention the EFF's new campaign to reform software patents [defendinnovation.org]?
Re:short memories (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Well they are both rectangular (Score:5, Informative)
"It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging," an Apple spokeswoman said in an email. "This kind of blatant copying is wrong and, as we've said many times before, we need to protect Apple's intellectual property when companies steal our ideas."
Oh yes because Apple invented phones, calendars, address books, web browsers and SMS messaging tools. I'm sure don't believe their own shit, rather they see this as a means to delay successful delpoyment of a competitive product.
the combination of ignorance and arrogance (Score:5, Informative)
apple did not invent the floppy drive
apple did not invent the mouse
apple did not invent the windowing operating system
apple did not invent the cellphone
apple did not invent the smartphone
apple did not invent lossy audio encoding
apple did not invent portable music players
apple did not invent the online music store
apple did not invent unix
apple did not invent digital typography
apple did not invent video chats
apple did not invent the laptop
apple did not invent the internet
apple did not invent hard disk drives
apple did not invent fiber optic communications
apple did not invent wireless networks
apple did not invent OpenGL 3d graphics subsystem
apple did not invent voice recognition
apple did not invent outsourcing
Re:Well they are both rectangular (Score:2, Informative)
Webcrawler with OS/2 Warp 4 speech recognition in 1996?
Re:citation needed (Score:5, Informative)
Wonder over to your favorite search engine and search for 'apple xerox parc'
The first link is the wikipedia link (for me anyhow)
for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company) [wikipedia.org]
Look under the Adoption by Apple section:
"The first successful commercial GUI product was the Apple Macintosh, which was heavily inspired by PARC's work; Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO stock from Apple, in exchange for engineer visits and an understanding that Apple would create a GUI product "
And:
"However, Apple's designs included quite a few concepts that were not part of (or were non-trivial advances to) the prototype developed at PARC. For example[6]:
The mouse was not invented at PARC, but by Douglas Engelbart in 1963, Apple's mouse was an improvement on PARC's version.
Unlike the Macintosh, PARC's prototype was incapable of any direct manipulation of widgets.
Unlike the Macintosh, PARC's prototype did not feature Menu bars, or pull-down menu, nor the trash.
Unlike the Macintosh, PARC's windows could not overlap each other."
Oh and about the Xerox lawsuit:
"The Xerox lawsuit was dismissed because the presiding judge dismissed most of Xerox's complaints as being inappropriate for a variety of legal reasons"
Re:Well they are both rectangular (Score:2, Informative)
"Apple has been losing their ardent followers for some time now. People have seen android as a very viable alternative, and are switching over. Apple knows this, or they wouldn't be resorting to these bully tactics."
Right that must be why iPhone satisfsction ratings are so low compared to Android manufacturers....
http://androidcommunity.com/android-loses-out-to-iphone-bigtime-in-jd-power-satisfaction-ratings-20110318/ [androidcommunity.com]
And why Apple is seeing decreasing revenue and profit compared to Android manufacturers....
Oh wait.....
Re:Well they are both rectangular (Score:5, Informative)
The problem is, everything can be invented twice...
That's the whole point of reverse engineering [wikipedia.org]. And it's not a problem. It's a common sense limitation on patents - if it takes your competition all of 30 seconds to reverse engineer your software patent for X, without seeing the code or the specifications for it, the patent isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Obviousness.