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[MsRowdyRedhead]

65840

This day will go down in history as the Day Innovation Died.

A US court has not only upheld the validity of apple's patent portfolio, but banned most Samsung android products from sale in the USA due to "willful and blatant" vialotion of apple's illegitimate patents, including:

-pinch to zoom
-a countoured back and a flat front on a mobile device
-a rectangular grid of icons on the "home screen" of a mobile device
-and 5 more

Many Samsung devices are now banned from sale in the US, with the judge and jury both agreeing that Samsung was wrong to deny apples request for payment - at over $30 a device. Normal liscence fees are less than $5 a device, and the $8 Microsoft charges some OEMs for patent liscencing is considered excessive by everyone in the industry. With the judge and jury upholding apples fee as acceptable, apple now plans to raise liscencing fees for those who have already reached a liscencing agreement with them, and "violently" proscecute infringing companiesthat have previously "escaped" their grasp.

Almost all of samsungs defenses and accusations against apple were dismissed as irrelevant, and in fact, apple was found to have commited no wrongdoing in its entire history.

Samsung is making plans to appeal, and apple is making movements to deny appeal rights.

Apple plans to file suit against additional, newer Samsung devices in the "near future"

 
#boycottappleforlife
#teamsamsung

Well another win for big empire who makes millions on the backs of slave Chinese labor, to think how their loyal fan base loathed Microsoft for many years. Never wanted an apple product or ever saw the need. There are far too many  far better products for consumers than price gouged while made on the dirt cheap that Apple makes. 
Apple is a patent troll. They did not invent, innovate or make anything truly original here.
What they did was send a request in to the patent office for a geometric shape and an idea. The good ol boys in the patent office just went ahead and rubber stamped in approval.
As if Apple needed more money!!

[Trijhak]

65841

Just you wait until they find the small company with the patent to destroy Apple, which will be A New Hope against the empire of Apple. And of course, their Empire will Strike Back, and after a series of devastating blows we'll see the Return of the Sane Patents.

[Canama]

65840

This day will go down in history as the Day Innovation Died.

A US court has not only upheld the validity of apple's patent portfolio, but banned most Samsung android products from sale in the USA due to "willful and blatant" vialotion of apple's illegitimate patents, including:

-pinch to zoom
-a countoured back and a flat front on a mobile device
-a rectangular grid of icons on the "home screen" of a mobile device
-and 5 more

Many Samsung devices are now banned from sale in the US, with the judge and jury both agreeing that Samsung was wrong to deny apples request for payment - at over $30 a device. Normal liscence fees are less than $5 a device, and the $8 Microsoft charges some OEMs for patent liscencing is considered excessive by everyone in the industry. With the judge and jury upholding apples fee as acceptable, apple now plans to raise liscencing fees for those who have already reached a liscencing agreement with them, and "violently" proscecute infringing companiesthat have previously "escaped" their grasp.

Almost all of samsungs defenses and accusations against apple were dismissed as irrelevant, and in fact, apple was found to have commited no wrongdoing in its entire history.

Samsung is making plans to appeal, and apple is making movements to deny appeal rights.

Apple plans to file suit against additional, newer Samsung devices in the "near future"

 
#boycottappleforlife
#teamsamsung

Well another win for big empire who makes millions on the backs of slave Chinese labor, to think how their loyal fan base loathed Microsoft for many years. Never wanted an apple product or ever saw the need. There are far too many  far better products for consumers than price gouged while made on the dirt cheap that Apple makes. 
Apple is a patent troll. They did not invent, innovate or make anything truly original here.
What they did was send a request in to the patent office for a geometric shape and an idea. The good ol boys in the patent office just went ahead and rubber stamped in approval.
As if Apple needed more money!!

65842

You do of course realize that the "Chinese slave labor" stories were wildly exaggerated and in some cases patently false?

[MsRowdyRedhead]

65843

You just cling to that...

[mtmerrick]

65844

They are paid, so they're not technically slaves. However, their wages are so low that they can't afford to feed themselves, and the hour and factory conditions are so bad that they are dying like flies. And they're some of the best treated factory workers in china.

International intervention has increased worker treatment somewhat, but is still nothing short of inhuman.

[MsRowdyRedhead]

65845

All so we can have STUFF.. =(

We were talking about this tonight..and the fun we used to have with nothing... making a whistle from a blade of grass, stickball, climbing trees and fences and the many games we made up.. Our moms used to have to drag us in the house... Sean's generation as well. People were rarely in debt. Now we are owned by our stuff...enslaved in a way.

[Rakoua]

65846

Look on the bright side, high ranking Apple executives will have no problem with the Blessed Exchequer...

[Magical Girl Mimi]

65847

Stuff isn't necessarily the problem. It's forced obsoletion that renders that stuff useless days within purchasing.

As much as the elder days when things grew more slowly weren't so great(Everyone would complain if we still had 60 GB HDDs. =P), the rapid pace of advancement means that the new computer you just got? It'll be out of date likely within the next months. =/

[Canama]

65848

Yo, MTM, since you love Samsung:

You may want to know that they have been accused of using child labor.

My point is that there ARE NO GOOD GUYS.

Off the moral high ground please

[MsRowdyRedhead]

65849

Canama.. ALL manufacturing in China uses child labor. Even Nike.

[Canama]

65849

Canama.. ALL manufacturing in China uses child labor. Even Nike.

65850

That was the point.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

65851

We've given everything we can...
There are no heroes left in man!
They watch you die to 'save' their lives...
They will not stand here by your side!

[MsRowdyRedhead]

65851

Apple just pays sub standard wages.. even for China.

Anyhow.. new day..

Happy Saturday!

[Magical Girl Mimi]

65853

I must admit, if ever I get given an iPod, especially this year; there's only one thing that'd keep me from taking it back, or better yet, tossing it out the window:

The fact that I really want to play Megaman Xover. >_<

[MsRowdyRedhead]

65854

LOL

[The Truth]

65855

YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW SO SEW SO-SO GREETINGS CHEESE POPSICLE THE NUMBER YOU HAVE DIALED IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PORK CHOPS FROM EAST TO WEST IT GOES GOES BROKEN BROKEN OH SO SOW SEW BROKEN

[Magical Girl Mimi]

65856

Heh. =P

[The Truth]

65857

[Magical Girl Mimi]

65858

I can answer the question in that first comic: Yes. =P(That's also the same girl who takes on the role of Engie in the TF2 ones you've been posting, if you pay attention, too.)

That second comic explains everything, though. xD

[The Truth]

65859
Yes, I noticed that. (Though technically, there are two Engies in the comic)