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Galaxy Nexus ban remains, Apple posts $95.6M bond, Google stops selling

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Re: Galaxy Nexus ban remains, Apple posts $95.6M bond, Google stops selling

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Post by scarmig »

Sigh. I've been planning on getting a new notebook and was leaning toward one of Apple's products... but this has shifted me away.

I know, I know: no one cares about nerd ideologies. But I'll do my part and lower their monthly revenues by 0.00001%.

Re: Galaxy Nexus ban remains, Apple posts $95.6M bond, Google stops selling

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Post by colinplamondon »

Karunamon wrote: post #3

Despicable. That's really the only polite word I have for both Apple's actions, and the current state of our patent system.

Compare Android to Windows Phone, Android tablets to the Surface, and the Lumia to the Galaxy Nexus.

Google and their partners could have taken the high road and created their own take on what a touch screen phone OS is, but instead they took the low road and did a wholesale look and feel copy and paste job of iOS to get scale.

Copying look and feel isn't actual wrongdoing, but it's certainly not the high road.

Now Apple is taking the low road and trying to smack the fuck down Google legally, instead of taking the high road and competing on its own merits.

Both companies have taken the low road, and both companies are culpable here- no one comes out looking good in this story.

Re: Galaxy Nexus ban remains, Apple posts $95.6M bond, Google stops selling

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Post by sigkill »

spaghetti wrote: post #10

First of all this makes me want one even more. Secondly I wonder if Steve Jobs would have cancelled this BS? I've been curious about Android development for the nearly four years I've been doing iOS development. I'll start porting my free ad-supported app to Android now. Bye Apple!

I don't think so. There are many pages online that say that Steve Jobs was absolutely against Android. As in, he wasn't in it for the money. He literally wanted to obliterate it. So, I think, if Steve was in charge, there would actually have been no "bond" or anything. He would just want a blanket ban, and that is all.

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Post by scarmig »

colinplamondon wrote: post #12
Karunamon wrote: post #3

Despicable. That's really the only polite word I have for both Apple's actions, and the current state of our patent system.

Compare Android to Windows Phone, Android tablets to the Surface, and the Lumia to the Galaxy Nexus. Google and their partners could have taken the high road and created their own take on what a touch screen phone OS is, but instead they took the low road and did a wholesale look and feel copy and paste job of iOS to get scale. Copying look and feel isn't actual wrongdoing, but it's certainly not the high road. Now A…

I really don't want to get into a stupid religious war about whether Android is a blatant copy of iOS or not. Let's grant, just for the sake of brevity, that Android is an identical copy of iOS.

There's still a world of difference between that and using government violence to ban a competitor from business.

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Post by juliano_q »

Isn't it ironic that the Galaxy Nexus (along with the rest of the Nexus line) is almost the only Android phone that Google can quickly update the software, remove/change the stuff that Apple supposedly "own" and sell it again quickly? If the ban happened for almost all other Android devices the pain would be much bigger. I am an Android phone and Macbook owner and I am really ashamed by Apple actions, I will not buy anything of them again until they change their attitude.

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Post by jsnell »

spaghetti wrote: post #10

First of all this makes me want one even more. Secondly I wonder if Steve Jobs would have cancelled this BS? I've been curious about Android development for the nearly four years I've been doing iOS development. I'll start porting my free ad-supported app to Android now. Bye Apple!

What? Apple's aggressive use of patents started on Jobs' watch. He crowed about Apple's patents in keynotes. He swore (on record to his biographer) that he was going to destroy Android even if it cost Apple every penny they had.

Why in the world would you think that he would be cancelling this, or any other kind of patent action?

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Post by juriga »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #13

The Galaxy SIII is still available and basically the same phone. Seems like there are just too many Android devices for Apple to block them all, they're just picking on the Galaxy Nexus to take a pot-shot at Google directly.

Even if they were "basically the same phone" (which they're not, the S3 seems to be somewhat better hardware-wise), the price difference is quite significant:

Unlocked Galaxy S3 (Amazon): ~$660

Unlocked Galaxy Nexus (Google Play): $349

Re: Galaxy Nexus ban remains, Apple posts $95.6M bond, Google stops selling

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Post by cryptoz »

spaghetti wrote: post #10

First of all this makes me want one even more. Secondly I wonder if Steve Jobs would have cancelled this BS? I've been curious about Android development for the nearly four years I've been doing iOS development. I'll start porting my free ad-supported app to Android now. Bye Apple!

"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson, in the book, which hit shelves last October.

"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this," Jobs said.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57445837-37/jobs-thermonuc...

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