[Nuke]

patents were never intended as a means to allow massive corporations to hold monopolies.

[StarSlayer]

Apple vs Starfleet

[jr2]

Love it.  

[Pred the Penguin]

I remembered a time when I wanted to buy Apple products...

Anyway, any opinions on Samsung tablets?

[Nuke]

apple, theyre the new microsoft.

[Bobboau]

I just can't wait until they start getting anti-trust cases agenst them, I mean the whole walled garden philosophy is effectively giving them power to decide who lives and who dies on their platform.

[Woolie Wool]

This whole court case is indicative of how far patents/copyright law has gone off the rails.  Seriously, a patent on rectangular devices with rounded corners?  **** off.

Also, juries have no place in deciding patent cases.  The average person has nowhere near the technical or legal experience to render a judgement, as the article linked above quite obviously shows.

Lay juries should really be abolished. Either train a corps of professional jurors or adopt a fully inquisitorial justice system with judges finding fact and deciding the case.

[StarSlayer]

Either train a corps of professional jurors or adopt a fully inquisitorial justice system with judges finding fact and deciding the case.

or adopt a fully inquisitorial justice system.

inquisitorial justice system.

[Wobble73]

Lay juries should really be abolished. Either train a corps of professional jurors or adopt a fully inquisitorial justice system with judges finding fact and deciding the case.

Then give them guns! Judge Dredd anyone?

[butter_pat_head]

Either train a corps of professional jurors or adopt a fully inquisitorial justice system with judges finding fact and deciding the case.

or adopt a fully inquisitorial justice system.

inquisitorial justice system.

Two birds with one fix... 

[SpardaSon21]

Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!

[Aardwolf]

Nice derail, guys.

[Bobboau]

So, I hear that the new iPhone 5 is using a Qualcom LTE chipset that Apple didn't bother getting a license for, from the current patent holders, who are Motorola, Samsung and HTC

[karajorma]

That would be poetic justice.

[Ashrak]

apparently the new ipod nano looks EXACTLY like lumia lineup from nokia. i mean DEAD copy. with icons from PS Vita

[Nuke]

ive decided that when my "immortal" (apparently there was a defect in production where the self destruction system failed to initialize) ipod 5th gen dies, i will instead of buy an mp3 player, to build one from scratch. i intend to violate as many patents as possible in the process.

[Polpolion]

So, I hear that the new iPhone 5 is using a Qualcom LTE chipset that Apple didn't bother getting a license for, from the current patent holders, who are Motorola, Samsung and HTC

As much as I'd like this to be true I've only seen a single article on this and it wasn't very convincing.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231173/Samsung_mulls_lawsuit_against_Apple_over_LTE_in_next_iPhone_report_says

[jr2]

FWIW, if you are curious about what the new ip 5 looks like: www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/iphone-5-hands-on  There's a picture and a description.  Nothing breathtaking, just as light as all the other phones are now, and incremental updates and features like panorama that were already available via third-party apps.  It's about the same width, but longer, with a fifth row of icons.  Still locked to 4 columns though.  I wonder how long until a JB for iOS6 comes out.  Not that I care, if I'm in a position to upgrade when my contract is up, I'll get a Samsung Galaxy SIII, I saw one and they are feather light, big but fit naturally into my (admittedly largish) hand, and seem pretty smooth...

[Mikes]

Apple vs Samsung .... whoever wins will have first dibs on being the new "Evil Overlord Style Company".

[Mongoose]

It's kind of sad just how identical all of these touchscreen phones look nowadays.  I miss all those crazy-looking flip phones, like when the original Razr came out and made a huge splash.