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zeit37[/url]":1ojxyi2w]i have not bought an apple product in a couple of years and doubt i will anytime soon. I love my nexus 4 and love android 4.2

What does that have to do with anything?

On a more serious note, I'm really tired of hearing about these patent lawsuits... Need software patent reform ASAP.

Instead of blaming the game how about for once we blame the player, namely Apple pretty much the biggest douche on the planet. Blaming the "system" makes your claim look like Apple is all innocent in all of this. They started this shit on April 15, 2011. THEY fired the first shot not only via the lawsuit but through Steve "The Douche" Jobs's comment on destroying Android, and have continued against everyone from HTC to Moto. Apple can go frak off. They aren't defending themselves. They are taking advantage of a screwed up system to try and frak over their competition without innovating. And they are finding its not working as well as they thought it would.

 

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But I am sure you are fine with the fact that Microsoft goes around to every Android OEM and threatens to sue them unless they sign a license agreement. At least Apple discloses the patents they claim infringe. We have no idea what MS claims. They even got Foxconn to sign a license agreement and they just put the damn things together.

Many estimates put the revenue that MS generates from Android OEMs at over $1B per year.

Yah whatever. Microsoft hasn't been looking at trying to ban products. Apple hasn't been approaching companies with the intent on licensing. Per Steve "The Douche" Jobs's decree: they want to crush Android. That's the difference. MS wants to make money off Android. Apple wants to kill it.

 

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Pubert[/url]":9uvjadgv]Let's say Apple was originally right and Samsung copied their design and functionality totally.

With the amount of time it apparently takes to have a trial and a decision handed down, what's the point?

By the time all is said and done, the handset has been used, thrown away, and you're now three generations up the line!

The whole process is a joke. The only ones making out are the attorneys.

You miss a point. Unless Apple can get the products yanked off the market or force the competition to hold up sales as they reconfigure software. If they can get that initial injunction they "win" to a certain extent. Even if it takes years for the final verdict to be handed down a 3 month hold up in sales gives Apple time to make the next iPhone with a minor update.