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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 02:12 AM EST |
I'm not going so far as to accuse Apple of doing this deliberately
to hide the Samsung notice. It's a common web publishing ploy
and may have been introduced to Apple's site as long ago as
June this year. However not all countries are blessed with it.
Canada and Mexico get it, but not US, nor any of the BRICS.
I've cut Apple a little slack thus far, they did less than required
with the font sizes, then more than required in adding their spin
to the story. But this time they really need a stiff dose of whatever
it takes to cure what my granny describes as shiftiness.
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| Authored by: tknarr on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 02:38 AM EST |
One suspects that the UK court will be... unamused. If I were Apple's
counsel, I'd be looking at how I explain to the judge that my client's not
listening to me and I'd like to make them not my client anymore. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: eric76 on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 03:49 AM EST |
Playing with the zoom function with the Opera web browser, as I lower the zoom,
the page resizes when necessary, presumably to require using the scroll bar to
find the link, until I reach 50% of normal size. From then on down, it no
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 04:20 AM EST |
That website sleight of hand and the lack of any attribution
in the newspaper adverts (contrary to the court order that it
was "...from the horses mouth...") might be seen as contrary
to the order. There comes a point where it starts to be
nitpicking though, which I guess is what Apple is banking on.
If I played like this in front of the Court of Appeal I doubt
I would get away with it! (But then, to me it was clear what
the Court ordered/expected and I think I'd have just complied
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 07:49 AM EST |
I strongly suspect that that feature has been there for quite a while, while it
does hide the notice it also legitimetally makes there home page look better
with it then without it so I doubt it was introduced just for this notice. After
all hiding the privacy policy, terms of use, and stuff like that, just makes
senes.
If were trying to nitpick apples html notice that they still have the class
'sosumi' (so sue me) in there, though at least it isn't directly around the
court ordered statetement. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: ailuromancy on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 08:13 AM EST |
Given more time, they could have scripted it so
judges and penguins see the
statement easily, but
no one else does.
This
pushing-the-statement-below-the-edge-of-the-window
trick reminds me of Steve
Martin's drinking problem.
I have forgetten which film it was, but we learn
Steve Martin's character had a drinking problem. Later
the problem returns. He
snatches up a drink, misses
his mouth and throws the liquid over his left
shoulder.
Apple has a similar truthful statement problem. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 08:17 AM EST |
Apple accused of hiding U.K. Samsung 'apology' with
code
Quote:
No matter how large their screen resolution is or
their browser window is, visitors to Apple's U.K. Web site may struggle to see
the "mea culpa" statement on the home page
Quote:
It's unclear
whether the resize code on Apple's U.K. Web site is a deliberate attempt to
skirt the appeal's court ruling, or an ill-timed legitimate marketing technique,
one employed by many Web sites in order to display graphics on a variety of
devices at the best possible quality.
Interestingly a comment on
reddit suggests that the JavaScript code may allow Apple to calculate the number
of viewers that don’t scroll down.
May be worth Samsung asking what that number
is :-)
http://images.apple.com/v/home/n/scripts/hero_resize.js---
RMS:
The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 08:49 AM EST |
This is priceless! Apple is shooting themselves in the
foot and inflicting
more damage on themselves than any
external agent could possibly cause. Keep it
up Apple! It is
so wonderful to see you revealed as you are, and great
entertainment to boot! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 10:04 AM EST |
European courts do not tolerate the US style spinning. You don't try to game UK
judges and certainly not Appeal Court judges. If Samsung goes back to the court
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