Apple Granted 'The Mother of All Smartphone Software Patents'

I can't believe you people actually celebrate a company actively attempting to build a monopoly

I can't believe you people actually celebrate a company actively attempting to build a monopoly

semianonymous

Building a monopoly? Protecting your own innovations and expecting the competition to come up with their own ideas is building a monopoly? :|

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I can't believe you people actually celebrate a company actively attempting to build a monopoly

santoron

Building a monopoly? Protecting your own innovations and expecting the competition to come up with their own ideas is building a monopoly? :|

Did nintendo try to block the PS move? It's a much bigger ripoff than android ever was of iOS.

Did youtube try to ban every single video streaming website since it was the one with the original idea?

Did rovio try to ban every single game that copies the fundamental basics of angry birds which mind you are a pretty significant amount of casual smartphone games?

Did rockstar try to ban every game that copied GTA3 which again are a pretty significant number?

Did microsoft try to ban every single shooter which copied the health regeneration system of halo?

Did RIM try to ban nokia qwerty phones that ripped of blackberry?

Are you really trying to say that only apple should have devices with multi-touch input? Thats like saying only RIM should have a phone with a portrait keyboard.

What you guys dont even realise is how much android has done for iphone. You wont be seeing an iphone 4 if not for android. Up until the 3GS apple was always lacking behind in hardware and would still be if not for android. You will also not be seeing a big iphone without android.

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I can't believe you people actually celebrate a company actively attempting to build a monopoly

Gambler_3

Building a monopoly? Protecting your own innovations and expecting the competition to come up with their own ideas is building a monopoly? :|

Did nintendo try to block the PS move? It's a much bigger ripoff than android ever was of iOS.

Did youtube try to ban every single video streaming website since it was the one with the original idea?

Did rovio try to ban every single game that copies the fundamental basics of angry birds which mind you are a pretty significant amount of casual smartphone games?

Did rockstar try to ban every game that copied GTA3 which again are a pretty significant number?

Did microsoft try to ban every single shooter which copied the health regeneration system of halo?

Did RIM try to ban nokia qwerty phones that ripped of blackberry?

Are you really trying to say that only apple should have devices with multi-touch input? Thats like saying only RIM should have a phone with a portrait keyboard.

What you guys dont even realise is how much android has done for iphone. You wont be seeing an iphone 4 if not for android. Up until the 3GS apple was always lacking behind in hardware and would still be if not for android. You will also not be seeing a big iphone without android.

Keyboards were standardized methods of input since the birth of computing. Name one company that employed multi-touch capacitive touchscreens as an exclusive method of input before Apple. (Single touch resistive screens are not multi-touch capacitive screens) Microsoft was in deep with the government two decades ago for straight up monopoly.Kid-Atari

I am not defending microsoft.

And the most important thing is apple has already reaped the rewards of their innovation they are the highest valued company in the world right now what more can you ask for? In this industry being the first to do something right is in itself the biggest thing, competitors cant just copy over night you know.

This is like nintendotrying to patent Mario-esque platformers, or the entire 3d platforming genre. ...Heirren

Apple's actions have shown how broken the US patent system is and it could bring a fundamental change in the system. You know someone somewhere is horribly wrong when apple gets a patent in US which gets flatly rejected as trivial in europe.