Sarath
iDota
I am surprised people are so aghast at this ruling. There was a much bigger one that affected Android forcing it to lose some features or pay royalties for them. This is miniscule in comparison.
This ruling is actually a good one. Samsung was blatantly copying iPhone which was disgusting. More so because Samsung is the major Android player while the rest are pushed to a minority hence it's not too far fetched to say that Sammy represents Android atm with respect to market share. And that major player has, on the HW side an exterior shell which is a crude copy of the iPhone while it's custom UI "touchwiz" is another cheap looking iPhone copy. This is in certain ways an insult to everything Android is.
Despite such ugly designs Sammy has made it so far, just think how far it would go if it had decent designs like the Xperia S or the HTC Ones. That would just kill Apple.
I believe apple is right to sue Sammy on this one.
For everyone, thinking Apple will make a monopoly, I am quite shocked. The only people who could have done that are Nokia, Motorola, Mircrosoft and Apple in that order. Apple couldn't possibly pull off becoming a monopoly in this space.
Of course it can if every Android user thinks of Apple as being superior to Android and hence would want to buy Apple for the features it has and at the same time believes that Apple is the only one that innovates while Android just copies. Which is not the case. Android is sure to pick up it's popularity looking at the speed of it's development. I for one, feel Android would be a generation ahead of iOS soon, maybe when 6.0 releases and Google starts producing through Motorola and fragmentation comes down. And if the patents Apple is carrying are general use one, the they quite obviously can be called for Fair use patents. Apple would get sued if they didn't allow others to use them for an appropriate fee. But no one is going to sell patents that set them apart.
This ruling is actually a good one. Samsung was blatantly copying iPhone which was disgusting. More so because Samsung is the major Android player while the rest are pushed to a minority hence it's not too far fetched to say that Sammy represents Android atm with respect to market share. And that major player has, on the HW side an exterior shell which is a crude copy of the iPhone while it's custom UI "touchwiz" is another cheap looking iPhone copy. This is in certain ways an insult to everything Android is.
Despite such ugly designs Sammy has made it so far, just think how far it would go if it had decent designs like the Xperia S or the HTC Ones. That would just kill Apple.
I believe apple is right to sue Sammy on this one.
For everyone, thinking Apple will make a monopoly, I am quite shocked. The only people who could have done that are Nokia, Motorola, Mircrosoft and Apple in that order. Apple couldn't possibly pull off becoming a monopoly in this space.
Of course it can if every Android user thinks of Apple as being superior to Android and hence would want to buy Apple for the features it has and at the same time believes that Apple is the only one that innovates while Android just copies. Which is not the case. Android is sure to pick up it's popularity looking at the speed of it's development. I for one, feel Android would be a generation ahead of iOS soon, maybe when 6.0 releases and Google starts producing through Motorola and fragmentation comes down. And if the patents Apple is carrying are general use one, the they quite obviously can be called for Fair use patents. Apple would get sued if they didn't allow others to use them for an appropriate fee. But no one is going to sell patents that set them apart.