Posts by fandom

Re: Don't care

No need to remind him, Steve knows very well what irony means:

adj. sort of like iron

Re: Spanish startup Geeksphone? Hope they are better than ...

No, I did not, the German authorities did blame the outbreak on cucumbers that weren't even in Germany when the first cases were reported.

Re: Well, well, well. It does seem that Mr Jobs regarded his company's patent porfolio.........

There wasn't "legitimate grounds to deploy it"?!!!

Fox, the palm people weren't doing what Jobs told them to do, they were even daft enough to pretend to compete with Apple.

If that isn't legitimate I don't know what is.

I mean, Steve Jobs even bothered to speak with Palm's CEO, himself, as is people from other companies deserved to be told the time of day by Him.

It is clear that the use of litigation is something Apple only uses after being provoked the most.

So, people are going to go to that new search thing, while still using all the other Google services.

You really believe that?

Google has a much bigger moat about their business than you think.

Re: No doubt to be followed in 2014...

That's not likely Wall Street now "knows" that mobile is the road to riches, just like a few years ago they "knew" that software was the road to riches while hardware barely paid the bills.

If Intel were to drop mobile chipsets the stock would tank.

Crimes also have minimum sentences, so what does the minimum sentences of those 13 charges add up to?

If it is more than 6 months, the attorney is lying,

Re: "auction them off and get them working again. "

Of course it applies to banks, that's why banco santander now owns about 10% of the UK banking system.

Re: I think the problem is...

Dear Longrod,

To put in context, do you think that a civilisation capable of producing a moronic racist like you deserves to be called "advanced"?

Regards,

Andrés García

Re: Hmmmm

"2. Protection from being sued by Apple"

Apple did sue Nokia, the hubris required to sue a company that had been making cell phones since the beginning is nothing sort of amazing, but it's Apple, so they did.

They settled with Apple paying royalties to Nokia.

Re: I watch it on permanent repeat - on my 25th watch

Season 1 and 2 of Enterprise are pretty bland, the third is better and the fourth is pretty good.

Manny Cotto took over as showrunner in season four and it shows, unfortunately Rick Berman was back for the final episode, and so, it sucks.

Re: Winter cleaning?

Actually, it is spring.

Re: Worth considering...

On the other hand, in the olden days I could go to the mall and buy and upgrade but, at least here in Spain, they are none to be found.

MS want to keep all the upgrade money for themselves or something?

"Maybe they should, it would certainly rid us of some of the ignorant chaff that believe any old crap "ç

Yep, we need to make space for the kind of people that think that the make of a smartphone matters.

Re: They are giving the middle finger to microsoft at last!

"Which should be more than taken care of by the lack of windows license."

But, on the other hand, they don't get paid to install crapware

Re: Stupid review...

You stopped being funny a couple posts ago

"shareholders who want a part of the remaining 30 billion in cash"

Apple paid a dividend like two weeks ago.

The point is that if they are willing to licence their patents to HTC they can't claim that importing Sansumg goods in to the USA would cause them irreparable harm, as Sansumg can always pay them later, even if it is several times what HTC pays.

And if there no irreparable harm then there is no reason for an importing ban.

"Google, who is still very pissed off at not being able to grab market share from Baidu."

You've got to admit it is pretty hard to gain market share in a country where they don't want to have a search business.

Re: It was funny the first time...

"How about the first person to point out "rounded corners" gets banned for a year"

That would be Apple lawyers, but I don't think they care that much about being banned here.

It should be enough to get them disbarred, but that's unlikely.

Re: And...

"Samsung make Fords, Peugeots etc, and Apple make VWs, BMWs etc."

Is more like Samsung is like Toyota, making both Toyotas and Lexus

Re: Yup, good luck with that!

I would say that Windows 7 rund in Vista machines better than Vista ever did

Re: a rare sight these days...

From the Oxford dictionary:

verb

[with object]

1kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of: the inhabitants of the country had been decimated

drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something): public transport has been decimated

2 historical kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group: the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers

I guess you like to pretend dictionaries don't include the first definition

"Tablets have their own niche."

That's the point, that niche used to be occupied with laptops/desktops, so now that tablets have come they have displaced the PC from it and fewer are being sold.

Re: Herr Schmidt

"I don't see how patents prevent innovation"

The canonical example are copier machines, as long as Xerox had the patent changing a toner required a visit from Xerox people, as soon as the patent was over, other companies released machines in which the user could do it.

Re: "We think it would have been better if they had kept ours."

Apple could have done something radical like releasing an app that just worked.

Re: Hmm...

" Apple launched a phone, then shortly afterwards Google bought a phone OS in development,"

So, Apple launched a phone in 2007 and shortly afterwards Google bought a phone OS in 2005.

Wow! Why is Google bragging about map apps when they have a working time machine?!

Re: Limited time offer

Specially considering that Amazon has razor thin margins in everything, last quarter they needed 1,280 million dollars in sales to make a paltry 7 million dollar profit.

Yes, I know they are building lots of warehouses, still those are pathetic margins.

Re: It sure is.

"No one mentions Microsofts numbers in social"

Microsoft owns a big chunk of Facebook

Re: Facebook is not the social networking platform of the future

Start implementing your vision. If you are right either Facebook or Google will buy you out for a couple billion

Re: They might be crap, but at least they're marketing it properly

"However: It is possible to just shut up."

Isn't it nice when people abide by what they preach?

Re: Software Patents = Retardedness in the Extreme

"Microsoft FUDs about Linux 'breaching' 213 of Microsoft's Patents. It has never sued"

They did sue TomTom and Barnes & Noble.

Although suing B&N cost them 300 million dollars.

Geddit?

Actually no, I don't, but then, I have never been impressed with the 'guilt-by-association' argument.

It's almost as bad as the 'everyone who disagrees with my political views is both evil and moronic'