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.
Patent trolling is the new iWhite... (Score:5, Interesting)
Slide to unlock? Unified search bar?
I wonder, do the engineers and techs working at Apple feel ashamed all this trolling?
I know it's management and legal who make the decisions, but still...
Anecdotal evidence warning.... (Score:4, Interesting)
EVERYONE I know with an opinion on this topic is getting put MORE off Apple devices by it than on. I work on a floor of 40 nerds / gadget freaks, there is only 3 iphones left and 2 of those users intend to switch to Android as well.
Apple are doing themselves no favours at all.
Re:Patent trolling is the new iWhite... (Score:5, Interesting)
Have you actually used a Galaxy Nexus? I have one in my pocket right now. It looks nothing like an iPhone. The physical design and the way the OS looks and feels are entirely different. Not only is the design different, the hardware is superior in many ways. My friends routinely get me to take photos at parties because in low lighting conditions the GN camera seems to do a better job than the iPhone.
This is the most stupid decision yet. The GN has a very distinct design to the iPhone.
Oh, for fuck's sake! (Score:4, Interesting)
When are we going to get some goddamn patent reform???
This is like Chevy suing Toyota because people would buy more Chevy cars if Toyota wasn't selling a similar product. "They use a wheel and foot pedals to control their vehicles. We use a wheel and foot pedals. That's our thing!"
Ya know what? Fuck Apple. Fuck them right in their stupid asses. I was seriously considering making the switch back when they get an LTE iphone (paying full retail to retain my unlimited data plan and an ETF), and pick up a retina MacBook and iPad because they're freakin' gorgeous displays and it will be a year or more before anything like that hits the Android/Windows market and I'd have everything under one roof and this sentence is really long. But if this is how Apple chooses to "compete", fuck 'em. I'll wait for less litigious companies to catch up.
And that's what makes this so damn stupid. The competition is a year or more behind apple in just about everything (except data speed on phones). First to market with a consumer-friendly smartphone. First to market with a retina display smartphone. First to market with a high res tablet. First to market with a high res laptop. It's not enough for Apple to be the first up the mountain, they've got to hang their asses over the edge and shit on everyone below them.
Re:Boycott Apple (Score:5, Interesting)
My closest friend bought the iPhone 4 just over 18 months ago, even after all my efforts. He kept telling me it was an iPhone and that's all that mattered.
He's too cheap to buy the apps, another mate half-jailbroke it, stopping all his banking apps working, iTunes was taking half a day to backup and often failed, the phone wouldn't factory reset, we couldn't even copy his contacts. He's pissed off with the lack of high quality free mapping. No Siri. Dull screen. The list of moans is endless.
He's just bought his daughter one. His wife is getting one in a few weeks time.
I can't understand it. They've seen my S2 connect to their TV via a common USB cable and streaming 1080p. They've seen me wirelessly send files to their laptop. They've seen Google Maps on Android. They've seen the photos it takes. And it's not even the best Android phone any more!
It's not easy at all.
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Really? (Score:5, Interesting)
You hate Apple because they required you to update your operating system when you installed a new development kit?
Seriously?
If thats enough for you to hate a company, then you may want to look at anger management classes.
Best of luck with iPhone development on Fedora then.
Re:Well they are both rectangular (Score:5, Interesting)
Apple is in danger of triggering Armageddon. Google has been fairly good natured so far, but if they decide to start a war things can only get worse for the consumer.
We need to put a stop to this. Patent reform is the only way.
iLotus (Score:2, Interesting)
1 "do you remember apple retail stores?"
2 "yeah, they had this weird kind of dead-tech post modern bullshit theme going on, "
1 "like al pacino's wife in Heat?"
2 "yeah, like al pacino's wife in Heat"
1 "so what happened to them?"
2 "you see that Twist Berry over there? the yogurt place? "
1 "yeah"
2 "you see those big silver things coming out of the side..."
1 "oh shit.. .this was an apple store!"
2 "thats right. until they started suing everybody, instead of making new products"
1 "fuck... i remember when i used to go on itunes..."
2 "yeah. itunes, ipod, all that ishit. all down the shitter. "
1 "but why? why... "
2 "its ancient greek stuff man. greed. power. all that stuff. go read Aeschylus, its all explained pretty well"
1 "ok. ill download it on my Nook."
2 "Speaking of nook, do you remember that store called Borders?"
Re:Well they are both rectangular (Score:3, Interesting)
They could just be using iPad as the only name they know of for a new fangled flat computer.
This. I saw it myself with iPod; working at CompUSA back in the day, I'd say 75% of people would come in looking for an 'iPod' and then ask me why I was only showing them the ones Apple made and not the Sansui's, Samsungs, Zunes, and all the other branded ones. When I'd point out that they asked for an iPod, they'd respond "Yeah, but I don't necessarily just want the Apple iPods...these other iPods are much cheaper" while they're sitting there with an iRiver in their hands.
I would have to educate them that iPod is a specific product only made by Apple, and what they were actually looking for was an MP3 player, or later, when they started being able to play video and such, a digital media player. Still, a decent percentage would respond "Yeah, but everyone just calls them iPods anyway", and then I would have to fight the overwhelming urge to tell them, "No, actually, only fucking ignoramuses call them all iPods."
Among the technologically illiterate, iPod is pretty much a genericized trademark [wikipedia.org] at this point. It doesn't even stop there; I've had people use the term iPhone to describe any smartphone and, yes, iPad to describe any tablet, albeit not nearly as much as the iPod thing, but that's just a matter of time, honestly.
German engineering (Score:4, Interesting)
In fact, one of our suppliers used to sell their machines to the Far East after 18 months to 2 years because by then they had worn to the extent that they were about as good as new Far Eastern machines. By doing this, they helped German companies keep their machine tool sales up.
Re:Well they are both rectangular (Score:2, Interesting)
Did'ja ever notice how when a bully is confronted with the truth, they get louder.
Did'ja ever notice how when an innocent man is confronted with lies, they get louder.
Given that it works both ways, you can't tell who's in the right from someone getting louder.