Apple granted preliminary sales ban of Galaxy Nexus • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple granted preliminary sales ban of Galaxy Nexus

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Post by walker456 » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 10:28 AM UTC

taligent wrote: post #12

ars wrote: post #4

I'm starting to hate Apple more and more. Apple: Are your products so terrible that you have to force people to buy them by preventing any other competition? I think it may be time for high profile developers to boycott Apple till they stop acting like this.

So boycott Apple and do what. Jump over to Android ? Would that be the same Android platform that has the main OEMs (Samsung, HTC, Google) under FTC/EU investigation for anti competitive behaviour due to FRAND abuses. Abuses which undermine the entire foundation of key IT/CE standards. The fact is that nobody's hands are clean. It's a bloody mess that is only going to get worse.

Well dont buy from Samsung or HTC then, youre acting like Apple, Samsung, and HTC are the only options.

Theres many other companies like Asus or you can even go with Windows Phone which is pretty awesome these days, the main con about WP (it has no apps) that everybody says is pretty much invalid now since it had about 100,000+ apps.

Re: Apple granted preliminary sales ban of Galaxy Nexus

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Post by gcb » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 5:07 AM UTC

rimantas wrote: post #148

gcb wrote: post #51

Hope you felt good upvoting all those articles stating how ridiculous patent law is FROM YOUR DAMN APPLE DEVICES Time to vote with your wallet is way overdue. And while you're at it may think about the Sony stuff you own.

> Time to vote with your wallet is way overdue. Damn right! So I will never buy anything from that court again. And from USPTO for that matter. And from US legislators. As for Apple—I enjoy using their products and I enjoy developing for iOS. As for Google—as I get older I start to hate ads more and more. I want to pay myself for the products I buy and use. A little more privacy is a nice side effect of that. So yep,…

That's a bit extreme, but totally fine. And will save you a lot since i know Apple pays well thanks to their hold on some markets.

Lots of people refuse to pay taxes for similar reasons.

just don't do it before trying other methods, like writing to your representatives and all that.

Re: Apple granted preliminary sales ban of Galaxy Nexus

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Post by ThePherocity » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 5:40 AM UTC

slavak wrote: post #159

ThePherocity wrote: post #62

There is no abuse of the law, there is law, and there is not law. Using the law is not an abuse, regardless of what it may seem from the cheap seats where we are all sitting. If you don't like it, fix the laws.

There is most definitely such a thing as abuse of the law. The law should be followed in spirit, not only in letter. The courts often underscore this, but unfortunately by that point it's already too late, as the abuse has been done.

Can you refer me to the amendment that states that law should be followed in spirit? Just curious, cause I don't recall seeing it.