Who So » Apple http://www.trondhuso.no/blog Blog about PHP, HTML, CSS, patents and all things inbetween Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:45:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Apple suing mobile maker http://www.trondhuso.no/blog/2010/03/05/apple-suing-mobile-maker/ http://www.trondhuso.no/blog/2010/03/05/apple-suing-mobile-maker/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:13:30 +0000 Trond Husø http://www.trondhuso.no/blog/?p=212 On March 2, 2010 Apple decided to filed a lawsuit against the mobile maker HTC. According to their website HTC is infringing on no less than 20 Apple patents.
It’s not the first time Apple files a lawsuit against another mobile manufacturer. In 2009 Apple was taken to court by the Finnish mobile company Nokia and returned that with a lawsuit against Nokia again for infringing Apple patents.
Nothing wrong with that, except that Apple in the first place used standard mobile technology that is patented by Nokia without paying the Finnish mobile maker.

So what have HTC done wrong? Probably by making Nexus One to similar to the iPhone. And when the words iPhone killer + HTC + Google started popping up on mr. Steve Jobs laptop (most likely an Apple), he just could not let this go by.

But there isn’t really anything new in this. In software and hardware development everyone has copied each other. Apple didn’t make the graphical desktop, but they copied it.
Looking forward to see the outcome of this.

Personally I really dislike all these patents and lawsuits. And the Nexus one is far from the same mobile as the iPhone. It’s most likely better as it can multitask and other stuff that the iPhone can’t. Also: You can update it without using the ….. (fill in your favorite swear word here) iTunes that mr Jobs only has made windows and (naturally) apple versions of. And Apple is continuing to make it hard for us Linux users to sync our apple iPods/iPhones with our OS.

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When you need to replace a battery you have to send it away.
When you need to upgrade software, you are locked to iTunes.

But that’s not the only reason: I am kinda sick of a company that is so focused on locking their users.
The other day I found a videoarticle from Dagens Næringsliv. They had made a story on the release of the second generation iPhone. Since Steve Jobs couldn’t come to Norway, Apple had sent the local market people to present the product.
But could the journalist and the video photographer show the Apple employees face? No!
That’s taking security and such far!
I mean: It is a good idea to have full control on your hardware by creating the software for it. But journalistic restrictions… come on guys. Be transparent!
I’ll stick to my Android phone from now on. And I am more or less putting my 30gb iPod 4gen or was it 5th gen, can’t remember to rest. It is a great piece of hardware and software, but I have lost so many phonecalls thanks to it :D

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