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by gibwell 13y ago
What's wrong with Dilger? He is unashamedly opinionated, but he is a far more professional reporter of facts than the vast majority of mainstream outlets.
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by gibwell 13y ago
You don't think refinement of failed products into wildly successful ones is a creative activity?
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by gibwell 13y ago
> The market is broader than just the end-users of phones. Share markets, patents, deals with collaborators (such as network operators, music companies), and bribes (mostly in less developed countries) are just as much a part of the mark
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by gibwell 13y ago
Well IBM did end up divesting itself of the businesses people expected them to. They just did so in an orderly manner while simultaneously executing a new and very successful strategy. As for Tomi Ahonen, by the time of that 2011 statement
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by gibwell 13y ago
> but they sure are milking it for all it's worth. Apple are doing nothing different from their competitors with regard to patents.
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by gibwell 13y ago
People are reading this because despite a small market share, Apple is more successful than any other PC, Tablet, or Phone maker. It's easy to point to rising market share less than one month after an annual product release. If it was
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by gibwell 13y ago
All corporations do this in one way or another, so this is a generic anti-corporate argument. In the case of Apple, it is clearly irrelevant since they have such a tiny market share.
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by gibwell 13y ago
Are you talking about open protocols like Skype, and Google hangouts?
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by gibwell 13y ago
Was she considering an Apple laptop, or an iPad? Are the educational apps ones for her to use herself, or ones she'll use for teaching kids? Also, are they apps she already has and wants to keep running, or ones she will buy now that s
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by gibwell 13y ago
He also later founded and ran an Apple competitor that built highly respected computers and a highly respected OS. Dismissing this person's opinion simply because they don't agree with an unsubstantiated attack on Gruber makes n
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by gibwell 13y ago
Do you know anything about the author?
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by gibwell 13y ago
The arguments for Apple's failure seem to focus on what Apple isn't doing, rather than what it is doing. E.g. - they aren't establishing or milking a monopoly - they aren't making commodity hardware - they aren't e
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by gibwell 13y ago
I don't think you are contradicting the original point. Nobody is saying that the android team sat around in a smoke filled room plotting about how it could be all about ads. Once Android was at Google, obviously most people would be
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by gibwell 13y ago
I'm sure you're right about the motivations of many of the people within Google being essentially, 'to build a better platform'. I don't believe the idea that this was an entirely altruistic goal. I don't think
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by gibwell 13y ago
I'm not calling this license free. I'm just pointing out that the FSF's definition of free is a very specific one of many.
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by gibwell 13y ago
The FSF has a very narrow definition of freedom.
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by gibwell 13y ago
It's a shame that they don't mention that the purpose of Android is to safeguard Google's access to this information.
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by gibwell 13y ago
Did you not notice that the GM had been released? I think it was mentioned in the press...
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by gibwell 13y ago
So you're saying you didn't know the GM had been released?
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by gibwell 13y ago
You locked yourself out by deliberately installing a time limited piece of software and then neglecting to update it when a complete version was offered to you for free. You aren't being treated like a criminal on parole. You're
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by gibwell 13y ago
Most users would do so without really understating what they were doing. As Google discovered through interviews on the street, most people don't understand what a browser is.
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by gibwell 13y ago
The pundits make money by stirring up negativity, not by informing people.
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by gibwell 13y ago
I'm sure this can't be what you intended, but it sounds as though you just said that developing something like the iPhone is a matter of routine for companies like HTC, Samsung and Nokia, and that Apple only found it hard because
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by gibwell 13y ago
I routinely now encounter non-tech literate friends who are experiencing trouble doing things like printing, or working with attachments, that they understood how to do using their native OS, and don't understand why things are differe
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Despite smoking gun, Samsung denies rigging benchmarks.(arstechnica.com)
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by gibwell 13y ago
You seem to claim to understand the law better than the judge.
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by gibwell 13y ago
If the jury didn't agree that the prior art was clear, then the prior art obviously was not clear. So really you're just saying that you don't agree with the jury. You also seem to be saying that Samsung should be allowed to
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by gibwell 13y ago
Samsung has been sanctioned for intentional destruction of evidence, found guilty of being part of a price fixing cartel, and repeatedly guilty of other price fixing crimes, as well as of bribing officials. They have also been discovered t
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by gibwell 13y ago
"to prove to Nokia that he knew the confidential terms of the Apple-Nokia license, Dr. Ahn recited the terms of the license, and even went so far as to tell Nokia that 'all information leaks.'" So no, since they acknowle
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by gibwell 13y ago
This issue has nothing to do with whether patent law is correct or not. It's about Samsung obtaining documents illegally.

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