In a statement released today, Apple announced it is suing HTC, claiming the Taiwanese phone maker infringed upon 20 of Cupertino's patents related to the iPhone. After Nokia and Apple suing one another a number of times over the past couple of months, this is the next high-profile patent lawsuit in the mobile phones business. Engadget has the filings, and it seems that Apple wants to avoid angering Microsoft, but has no qualms about taking on Google. Update: Engadget analyses every single patent in the claim.
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That's preaching to the choir. Apple fanatics eat that stuff up. Let him enjoy commanding his own army of imps.
As for the suit itself - I hope all of these companies suffer major financial blowbacks because of this nonsense. Nokia, Apple, I don't care.
Oh, and LOL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU&feature=player_embedded
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Thanks for the link to the video interview of Jobs.
Jobs misquotes Pablo Picasso when he says, "Good artists copy, great artists steal."
Picasso actually said, "Bad artists copy, good artists steal." The Picasso quote has a different connotation than Jobs' misquote.
Jobs/Apple do significantly more copying than "stealing."
By the way, decades before Pablo Picasso's quote, T.S. Elliot stated: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal..."
In the same video interview, Jobs makes this statement about Microsoft and "taste": "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste..., and what that means is... they don't think of original ideas." ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=upzKj-1HaKw )
Interesting. Especially when that quote is juxtaposed with another Picasso quote: "Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness." (Anderson, SC, March 24, 1957)
The juxtaposition of these two quotes exemplifies the philosophical dichotomy between those who are truly creative/original and those who try to seem creative/original. I tend to side with the brilliant, pioneering artist, rather than the snobby, self-deluded CEO.
Of course, this dramatic difference in creative philosophy (and in quote interpretation) didn't stop Apple from shamelessly exploiting Pablo Picasso's image in its advertising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdxVIyuO4OU
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I wrote a very brief article on this myself.
It reads like this (and pardon the flame-bate, but Job's comments hit a nerve)
Once again, Apple chooses to lead by hypocrisy and sue a technology giant that has been building iPhone-like handsets long before the iPhone was even a message from God *ahem* Jobs.
In a statement published by the BBC, Apple boss Steve Jobs said: "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it.
"We've decided to do something about it," he said. "We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."
So I'll be expecting Apple to concede to Nokia's demands in their patent trial then....
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The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
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"We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."
That statement by Jobs made me shoot coffee out of my nose. You couldn't make irony like this up.