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well that should keep apple from going bankrupt for another year or two. ridiculous though that a company that basically does nothing but buy things from other
by mSparks 11y ago
well that should keep apple from going bankrupt for another year or two.
ridiculous though that a company that basically does nothing but buy things from other companies and puts them in a shiny box should be allowed to win and lose cases like this IMHO.
annoying we have to wait for 2021 for all the obvious patents granted during the dot com bubble to expire.
- zitterbewegung 11y agoThat's not the point of the cases even to win lawsuits it's to remove features from other people's products.
- WoodenChair 11y agoApple is anything but a commodity assembler. In fact that's what distinguishes it from its competitors in most markets. Most people are upset with Apple for the opposite - choosing to create from scratch proprietary software and hardware standards instead of choosing commodity options.
- nitrogen 11y agoMany of the ideas they assembled into the iPhone were derivative of work done by others in academia and private companies, especially the things they sued Samsung for. Maybe that's what the OP was getting at.
- gh02t 11y agoWell yeah, that's true in just about every industry. Everything from biotech to nuclear reactors have a technology flow like that. I don't own any Apple products (at least not nowadays), but they are really good at recognizing what upcoming tech has potential, buying it and then packaging it in a way that makes it appealing to consumers. They may not have invented many of the things they sell, but they definitely helped to popularize a ton of things that we take for granted now. Smartphones are a good example. They existed before the iPhone (I remember the days of ye olden Palm Treo), but they weren't something the average person really cared about or wanted until the iPhone came around. Now, I won't go so far as to say that we wouldn't have smartphones like we do now without the iPhone as I think largely that it was just about the right time that smart phones were really becoming technically feasible, but Apple still deserves credit for being the ones who were there first with the pieces put together into a product that finally made people want one. Though I also remember the strange delusion they seemed to have had with the original iPhone pre-App Store that people would be OK with just HTML "apps", but that's a different tale.
- mSparks 11y agothis is for their "design patents" issued in 2007. which can basically be described as "a phone as a box with a touchscreen and no keyboard" all they "make" is the box. they don't own the rights to any of the parts inside it (although they do have exclusive distribution rights for the versions of the components they put in the box) OK they write their own firmware for those boxes. but none of that is actually that good. anyone using their latest kit knows their phones don't even work that good as a phone. apple as a company won't survive past the last of Steve jobs patents expiring. which is no later than 2028.
- evan_ 11y agoJust so we're clear the $548 million they got is roughly equal to the profit they made in 4.5 days last quarter.
- jxdxbx 11y agoApple designs the best mobile CPUs in the industry. They're years ahead of Qualcomm and the rest. They have some of the best hardware and software engineers on the planet. You just have no idea what you're talking about.
- mSparks 11y agodon't they owe US$862.4 million in damages for infringing others patents for that?
- vaishaksuresh 11y agoApple is one of the richest companies! what makes you think they are going bankrupt?
- archmikhail 11y agoSarcasm, bro.
- vaishaksuresh 11y agoI would think so if it was just the first line. The whole rant about patent does not indicate it is sarcasm.
- davito 11y agoReal sarcasm bruv
- mSparks 11y agoapple got rich from this patent. aka the phone with only a screen patent. it expires in 2028. if it is overturned before that they won't last that long. downsizing is never pretty.
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- mSparks 11y agomaybe you're right. with awesome products like the never done before iWatch their future looks bright. on the other hand. the bears made good money shorting them this year. and their gains don't look likely to reverse any time soon.
- usaphp 11y ago> company that basically does nothing but buy things from other companies and puts them in a shiny box I think you are referring to samsung or other company building screens or other parts for apple, you have to realize that apple is the one who develops specs and ideas for these things to be built and is only using Samsung and LG for their manufacturing resources because they are leaders in actual manufacturing. It's like praising a construction workers for building a bridge that was designed by a extremely talented engineer, all the praise for designing a functional bridge should go to the engineer who designed it. It's easy to follow instructions, it's incredibly hard to come up with something that was never done before and create specs for a construction worker (samsung factory) to actually build it.