Google asks ITC to ban every Mac, iPad, and most iPhones
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Sep 2012 21:40 UTC
Legal "The International Trade Commission voted yesterday to investigate Apple for patent infringement allegations launched by the Google-owned Motorola Mobility. As expected, Motorola is asking for import bans on just about every iOS device, including iPhones, iPods, and iPads. What might be surprising is that Motorola is also asking for a ban on every type of Mac OS X computer, claiming Apple's iMessage technology infringes a Motorola patent." Let's hope all those products get banned. And that all Motorola phones get banned. Let's hope everything gets banned from the US. And yes, I changed Motorola into Google for the headline.
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RE[3]: Bravo!
by bentoo on Fri 21st Sep 2012 16:55 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Bravo!"
bentoo
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2012-09-21

...But webOS? Speaking as someone who owns a Pre 2, an iPod touch, and a few and Android device, webOS is a HELL of a lot more iOS-like than any implementation of Android I've ever encountered. Not that I think that's a bad thing - the developers of webOS obviously looked at iOS for inspiration


Or more likely Palm OS. Really the only thing I can think of that webOS and iOS have in common is the static icon grid application launcher.

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RE[4]: Bravo!
by StephenBeDoper on Fri 21st Sep 2012 17:38 in reply to "RE[3]: Bravo!"
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2005-07-06

"...But webOS? Speaking as someone who owns a Pre 2, an iPod touch, and a few and Android device, webOS is a HELL of a lot more iOS-like than any implementation of Android I've ever encountered. Not that I think that's a bad thing - the developers of webOS obviously looked at iOS for inspiration


Or more likely Palm OS. "

That's a separate topic, but I do think it's a little more complex than that. Rather, it's probably a case of iOS taking inspiration from PalmOS, and webOS in turn taking inspiration from iOS.

Really the only thing I can think of that webOS and iOS have in common is the static icon grid application launcher.


Off the top of my head, webOS possesses two of the exact same features that Apple has sued Android handset makers over: webOS has had both "pinch to zoom" and "bounceback" since day one, IIRC. And in terms of basic look-and-feel, webOS and iOS are more similar to each other than either is to Android - this article is a bit old, but it has a nice side-by-side screenshot (under "Native Input Controls"):

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/11/forms-on-mobile-dev...

Which was my original point - or, rather, counter-point to the GP's claim that webOS doesn't/didn't possess the features that were the subject of the Apple-Samsung lawsuit (and others). Note that I'm not attempting to criticize webOS and/or claim that it's a ripoff of iOS (either explicitly or implicitly).

Simply put, my point is that there's obviously more to the Apple lawsuits than the mere existence of those features in certain Android implementations - as evidenced by the fact that those features existing in other mobile platforms, which have not been the subject of legal action by Apple.

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