Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad
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Re: Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad
#2Pretty big piece of FUD here. Title is "secures Europe-wide sales ban", yet the article is littered with bits like "could be barred from sale" and "whether Germany can enforce a Europe-wide ban on 3G-enabled iOS devices is unclear".
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#3A german court enforcing a europe wide ban? Now that would be rich.
Re: Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad
#4I wonder if we could get into a situation where all leading mobile devices in the world are banned.
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#5Lol, can't blame the writer for not understanding how Europe works. It's actually a bunch of countries, not states.
Re: Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad
#6Pretty big piece of FUD here. Title is "secures Europe-wide sales ban", yet the article is littered with bits like "could be barred from sale" and "whether Germany can enforce a Europe-wide ban on 3G-enabled iOS devices is unclear".
It's a substantial win for sure. Of course it is unlikely that Motorola will try to enforce the ban, but it gives them an excellent bargaining position.
Re: Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad
#7Pretty big piece of FUD here. Title is "secures Europe-wide sales ban", yet the article is littered with bits like "could be barred from sale" and "whether Germany can enforce a Europe-wide ban on 3G-enabled iOS devices is unclear".
I like that HN tends to stay away from reddit-style sensationalist titles. I suppose here the OP is just copying the original title verbatim, but it's still misleading.
Regarding the article itself, hopefully this will help popularise the fact that software patents are a bad joke.
Re: Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad
#8Lol, can't blame the writer for not understanding how Europe works. It's actually a bunch of countries, not states.
The article doesn't use the word state anywhere, but one of the definitions of state is "a politically unified people occupying a definite territory; nation.", so yes, Europe consists of multiples states.
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#9Lol, can't blame the writer for not understanding how Europe works. It's actually a bunch of countries, not states.
The countries in the EU are known as 'Member States'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Un...
Edit: Also the author of the piece is a native of an EU member state
Edit2: Also now that I look I don't actually see the article mention the word 'state'.
What the hell, man?
Re: Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad
#10Lol, can't blame the writer for not understanding how Europe works. It's actually a bunch of countries, not states.
EU legislation doesn't use the word 'country' anywhere, and neither does anyone working in the Commission. The EU is made up of 'Member States' in the parlance.