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Someone needs to post the link to the Simpson's episode where they ask the question, "can you picture a world where there are no lawyers?"
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10.1 in Germany available without any problems
I was strolling around in Augsburg today, your average sized German city.
I've seen Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in about 5 shops freely available: Vodafone store, Handystore, ... Not the 10.1v anymore, not even from Vodafone. Will be interesting to watch, whether 10.1 briefly will disappear... Anyway: I don't like it anyway. 10.1v (the original "fat" one) at least did have a special back plate. But 10.1 is really standard. Looks more or less the same as Xoom... Although I don''t find iPad that special, I have to say: For now, no contender is there already. PlayBook and TouchPad would have advantages on the OS front, but seriously lack apps. Honeycomb does have the diversity, but the iTunes experience still is missing. Samsung doesn't seem to be the company to bring new ideas to the table. Maybe HTC with its next generation tablet will be able to compete with iPad2(3)? |
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I haven't played with the Tablet, but I enjoy my Captivate and that's a Samsung. There's also a strong CM7 community for the Samsung phones -- no reason to think there wouldn't be for the tablet as well, I imagine.
I'm really looking forward to the HTC for the pencil-writing, but that's in Patent Hell too, now, I hear. |
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To build a modern, mobile OS you have to build it from scratch, concept and all, as MS did with Windows Phone 7. Or you have to shrink your already licensed PC OS to the mobile world, as Apple did with iOS, and license the parts that infringe, also as Apple has done. There is no "make a copy of whats out there and give it away for free to undercut the guys already in the market" scenario in this modern business environment. Whats happening to Android is simply what happens in a competitive business environment. Last edited by RockdaMan; 08-11-2011 at 04:37 PM. |
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Actually, that's what can happen, at least in the US. One defense to a patent infringement suit is that the patent is invalid because the patented idea is not one that should have been patentable in the first place. |
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I'd like something a little more cutthroat: You lose and/or have dismissed 3 suits over a certain patent? You automatically lose the patent and it's public domain forever. Would teach companies to not waste the court's time and to pick their battles wisely... But I'm edgy that way. ![]() |
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Has someone noticed how much publicity in this patent battle, Galaxy line is getting free publicity? I am sure Samsung couldn’t have done this with advertising. A product that scared the mighty Jobs! Get them before they vanish!
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Normally I'm against such abuses of the patent laws without any reservation. But dear lord, Samsung isn't exactly subtle with their desire to emulate Apple.
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