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| Authored by: stegu on Wednesday, August 22 2012 @ 03:45 PM EDT |
"Having a case" does not mean you are right,
only that you have some chance of winning.
Even being factually right does not guarantee
a victory in court. I do not envy the jury
their job. Regardless of the outcome of their
deliberations, we should probably expect the
appeals from both sides to continue for years.
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| Authored by: DannyB on Wednesday, August 22 2012 @ 04:10 PM EDT |
A number of people seem to do this, including some of my friends.
Apple, a real or wannabee monopolist? Control freak? Temper tantrums? Vowing
"to our utter destruction" with stockholders' money?
Apple may have style, but it has inferior technology (today). And I cringe at
saying that. I was an Apple fanboy back in the days when it was so far ahead in
technology. Sadly, that was a very different Apple. Today's Apple is about
style. Their phone/tablet OS doesn't even have a real managed runtime with
garbage collection. And is programmed in only one primary language, which is
obscure at that -- an artifact of NeXT. (Yes, I know there are secondary
languages -- but they are a lot more "secondary" than the alternate
languages that can be used on Android.)
Based simply on principle, I have no problem saying Apple is an evil monopolist
that wants nothing less than to destroy any and all forms of competition. Apple
considers the entire mobile phone and tablet market to be God's exclusive gift
to Apple by divine right. Apple doesn't have to take licenses to FRAND patents,
because Apple is special. (How's that for hypocrisy?) Apple can, and has,
stolen from others (and this is all good by Steve Jobs own words) but woe be
anyone who designs an icon with a phone handset (to mean phone call) and green
background (to mean "go" or "action").
I am dismayed at people whose views I value giving Apple a free pass.
I am a Google fanboy and I don't give Google free passes.
I just don't get the "see no evil" treatment that Apple seems to get.
In my view this makes them even *more* evil than the evil that they *actually*
*are*.
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