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The Patent Thing
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It’s a power struggle (ie cock – fight) at this point.
Somewhere, attorneys are staying up late and reaping the benefits while people preorder new phones from every manufacturer.
The scales of Justice at work.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s a power struggle (ie cock – fight) at this point.
Somewhere, attorneys are staying up late and reaping the benefits while people preorder new phones from every manufacturer.
The scales of Justice at work.
“Yup. And, i’m sure this will lead to new innovations. New innovations in billable hours.
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I was actually struck by how many “new” features on this iPhone are things I’ve seen around for a very long time already. (My phone is the HTC Thunderbolt mentioned in the article.) I don’t know anything about LTE, so maybe there really are 434 things for Apple to patent that Samsung and HTC hadn’t patented already — BUT THERE AREN’T SO ALL OF YOU SHUT UP — but Samsung and HTC jumped immediately to mind today, and I wondered how long it would take them to file papers. THIS long.
We need a name for patent spam. Or is “patent spam” good enough?
Tim Wilson
Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
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[Tim Wilson] “We need a name for patent spam. Or is “patent spam” good enough?”
Spatents? Patspam. Naw. Trying to hard. Patent spam, it is.
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[Tim Wilson] “I was actually struck by how many “new” features on this iPhone are things I’ve seen around for a very long time already.”
Like what? Hardware stuff?
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[Tim Wilson] “I was actually struck by how many “new” features on this iPhone are things I’ve seen around for a very long time already. “
“I’m always open for a new phone”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Like what? Hardware stuff?”
Yeah, the thing that jumped out at me was the 4-inch screen. Surely Samsung and HTC patented the 4-inch form factor. Right?
Anywayyyyy….
I know that coming to market first doesn’t mean patented first, but Samsung has been advertising taking pictures while also recording video for a while. The Epic 4G has been out over a year and takes panoramic pictures with the stock camera. There are others, but I remember that one off the top of my head.
There were other features that I know I’ve seen before, but to get more specific, I’d have to look at the iPhone features again and I really don’t want to. LOL
In general though, I didn’t see anything that struck me as all that new, EXCEPT to iPhone, even compared to some year-old phones from other people. But I definitely think any iPhone user should dump whatever they have and grab this one ASAP. Within the four walls of the iPhone world, this looks like their first real step forward in a long time, and it looks like a pretty good one.
Tim Wilson
Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
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[Tim Wilson] “Yeah, the thing that jumped out at me was the 4-inch screen. Surely Samsung and HTC patented the 4-inch form factor. Right? “
Yeah but with 88 degree angles in all four corners. It’s an engineering breakthrough. 3 lefts now make a rhombus. The books are being rewritten as we speak.
[Tim Wilson] “I know that coming to market first doesn’t mean patented first, but Samsung has been advertising taking pictures while also recording video for a while. The Epic 4G has been out over a year and takes panoramic pictures with the stock camera. There are others, but I remember that one off the top of my head.
There were other features that I know I’ve seen before, but to get more specific, I’d have to look at the iPhone features again and I really don’t want to. LOL”
This is what I have been wondering about, and its merely for my own curiosity and fascination with the human condition. NOw that there’s been a few whole days of tech press, there’s been talk in these articles that Apple is going to fall down to ordinary, the stock price is going to peak, Apple is now boring, the iPhone is sending clear messages that Apple can’t innovate it’s way out of a cardbox box even though they have innovated the cardboard box itself, etc and so forth.
These parts that these tech companies source are all making really similar parts. What does everyone expect from Apple, Samsung, Motorola, etc? I am asking seriously.
You can have a taco or a burrito, but they still have mostly the same basic ingredients. If you go to different restaurants, perhaps one has a different homemade sauce which perhaps changes the flavor completely. You either choose to take a bite out of the Apple ecosystem, or you choose to munch on the Ice Cream Sandwich, or you choose to take the Metro ecosystem. The tortilla is more or less the same. Or am I oversimplifying this again with a sh*tty analogy?
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It is inevitable that they look the same. Samsung makes most of the screens.
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[Michael Gissing] “It is inevitable that they look the same. Samsung makes most of the screens.”
So all phones have the exact same Retina display, or can Apple order their patented version of a Samsung manufactured screen?
Did Samsung have the first touch screen phone?
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