Don't you think Apple has been rewarded for all of these things? What more do they need?
On Aug 10, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Interesting quote from the URL you posted: > Ultimately, the U.S. Department of Justice intervened, forcing Microsoft to > sell the patents it bought and demanding that the winning group (Microsoft, > Oracle, Apple, EMC) give a license to the open-source community, changes the > DoJ said were “necessary to protect competition and innovation in the open > source software community.” This only reaffirms our point: Our competitors > are waging a patent war on Android and working together to keep us from > getting patents that would help balance the scales. > > So basically, I think Android as an open source based OS is pretty safe, save > for Oracle's claim it violates the Java Community Process. > > Apple's attack is likely to be more difficult. Android clearly has a very > iPhone-y UI, and the carriers/manufacturers (Samsung for example) tend to > make it even more so. > > iPhone changed the industry, even forcing ATT to create new monthly data > plans. It was a breath taking change. I don't like Apple's hegemony but > they clearly need protection from copy-cat devices and services. It really > does look odd that as soon as Apple's brilliant creativity nailed a new > market, built a brilliant device, created the "App" market and distribution > scheme .. you see exactly the same thing in the Android world. > > Subtle: I do think creativity should be rewarded. > > -- Owen > > PS: Interestingly enough, many Apps are still not available on Android. One > reason, apparently, is that Android devices have a large number differences, > making a single Android app difficult. Apple, on the other hand, makes it > increasingly easy to write one app for iPad, iPhone, iPod .. and with Lion, > even "computers". > > Reminds me of the microsoft problem: app developers would have liked to have > a Mac product too, but found keeping up with all the versions of windows hard > enough to make Mac development not worth it. > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Google suggested last week ( > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html ) > that everything Android is under a coordinated attack. The evidence is that > Apple and Microsoft are colluding to bid up patent portfolios to several > times their face value which prevents Google from gaining ownership of any > patents that could be used to defend Android. > > It could be a very interesting anti-trust proceeding since the evidence is > all out there in plain sight. > > -- rec -- > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Whoa! I knew Apple was after Google for its Java architecture, but now the > Samsung Tab for UI: > http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=16416 > > I'll be a bit unpopular here and say, Yes, it really does look like Samsung > did very little original work here .. after all they're a hardware outfit > doing little more than cosmetic "branding". > > But it's based on Android, so shouldn't Google be the target? I suppose it > is, but Samsung is getting the brunt of it all. > > This is going to be quite a battle .. looking at the article's image, the > average consumer would have assumed it was a nice, smaller sized addition to > the iDevice line. > > In the phone world, I know Google has a "standard UI" and that most handset > manufacturers mess with it to be their own (often making a mess of things and > wasting your battery for you!). It seems Android phones have not had this > level of patent threat from Apple. The OS is certainly not an infringement. > But I guess the UI and look-alike design is under attack. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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