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Well the problem with boycot is you will find some reason to boycot one of the big players every week. When everyone does their ranking at their yearly smartpho
by hengheng 13y ago
Well the problem with boycot is you will find some reason to boycot one of the big players every week. When everyone does their ranking at their yearly smartphone purchase, the whole boycot becomes intransparent.
If there were an association of smartphone vendors, a club of app developers or a federation of tech bloggers, saying "Don't do this or we'll stop to support you", this would work out very differently.
You can meet even large corporations at eye level. Just find their vulnerable points, it's easy.
- bad_user 13y agoWell, true, but we also have to adjust our expectations - the patents system will never go away or be fixed until these big companies stop supporting it. When Apple released iOS as a really locked-down operating-system, I complained about it, but on the other hand it was nothing major. Heck, it was their toy, their hard work, their platform, when other people or companies want something different, more open, more tuned to certain niches, or whatever, then they should work in that direction by building their own operating-system, their own platform, right? But patents lawsuits are evil, because it prevents alternatives from emerging. It's a really bad loophole that works against healthy competition. Say, Firefox OS takes off, do you think it will be spared? So that's why right now I'm angry and I think we really should not tolerate patents trolling. It's one thing to acquire patents for defensive purposes. It's an entirely different thing when such a company becomes offensive (and don't think I have forgotten about Google not stopping the Motorola's lawsuits as soon as they bought them).