Michal Marek It's no secret that Apple is fighting hard against Android devices. He leads his endless patent wars mainly with companies that are somehow connected with the mobile operating system from Google. Most such disputes are probably with the Asian companies Samsung and HTC. Last week, Apple achieved one of its biggest court victories. Lawyers working for Apple succeeded in achieving a ban on sales in the US of two fairly key products that Samsung "competes" with Apple. These banned products are the Galaxy Tab tablet and mainly the flagship of the new Android Jelly Bean – the Galaxy Nexus phone.
Samsung is slowly but surely running out of patience and intends to join forces with Google in order to get a strong teammate for the next battles. According to the "Korea Times", the representatives of Google and Samsung have already drawn up a war strategy with which they will enter the legal battle with the company from Cupertino, California.
"It is too early to comment on our joint plans in the following legal battles, but we will try to get as much money as possible from Apple because it thrives on our technologies. Our disputes are intensifying, and as time goes on it seems more and more likely that eventually some agreement will have to be reached on the mutual use of our patents.”
Licensing agreements are nothing special in the technology sector, and more and more companies prefer such a solution. The giant Microsoft, for example, has had such agreements with Samsung since September last year. Steve Ballmer's company has other agreements with, for example, HTC, Onkyo, Velocity Micro, ViewSonic and Wistron.
Samsung and Google have expressed that they would like to focus on creating new products and not waste time on legal battles. What is certain is that if Samsung and Google really effectively team up, Apple will face a major Android force.
yupiii :) and into them to the apple bridge :)
Die a miserable death green robot from China! How would you like it if you invented, for example, a Teleporter (EXAMPLE!) and some jong from Asia copied it and passed it off as his own? Would you like it and make billions?
Damn… just be able to connect…
Samsung and Google have expressed that they would like to devote themselves to creating new products and not waste time in court battles. That's what the right ones say - one copies everything from Apple and the other hacked the iOS system while sitting on Apple's board of directors. Crow sets to crow….
I wonder if Google or Samsung copied your lamps :D
Kazan, you probably don't know what a copy is, or mobile technology doesn't tell you anything, then you'd better go to the children's corner somewhere. I would also be interested in the technologies of Google and which Apple earns. It's obvious that it's a lot of fun how Apple is doing :) they can connect as they want. If the court says copies, it will simply be banned again. They should think about what they will produce if they were not interested in reaching an agreement earlier. Now all of a sudden you're full of bullshit.
This will be very interesting to watch ;) because I don't think that Google has patents for something that Apple makes so much money from, they probably forgot that they stole it from Apple first and now they want to sue Apple for stealing it from Apple : It's going to be a real mess... I'm quite sorry that Apple doesn't have such a financial amount to be able to buy and liquidate Google ;) or rather just the part of it that is stuffed where it doesn't belong, and that's into the mobile OS. Other Google services are great, search, gmail, chrome, they are all great products, Google is a good internet company and no one knows more about the internet, but they just screwed it up with Android….
I don't regret the fact that Apple won't buy Google or its part where the products meet! I am very glad that there is a competitive environment!
This is the only adequate reminder, Apple's competition proves that even SJ himself said that healthy competition is good. The question is what is still healthy competition... I don't think that Google's behavior in the development of Android features is okay and that Samsung's behavior and their absolutely blatant and visible copying is okay... As for Samsung, Apple could significantly threaten them if they of them became independent, but that obviously won't happen yet. But Apple is already distancing itself from Google, I just hope that these struggles will not result in the disappearance of Google Search from iOS devices.
More has been written here (not only here) about copying than the lawyers have said in all the court cases between Apple and the rest of the world. It must be remembered that the headline "Apple in court..." has become a phenomenon of the media and the hen that lays the golden egg. I do not want to minimize the fact that the same elements appear on both sides. And it's about design or SW. Yes, there are legal disputes, the courts are trying to solve them, and the companies then compensate each other for the damages. But above all, it's a theme for the endless flame. As a non-shareholder of Apple, it can be basically sumac to me. The same flame is about which fan is the best, which one is the most advanced. Often these are quite smiling and silly comments. I am interested in a product that will suit me. And the fact that another product suits someone, for whatever reason? SO WHAT? It is his free choice. But people just have a lot of fun arguing and insulting the safety of the other end of the wire. And that's why every flash or speck of dust on the Apple brand will be written about. The detachment from Google is understandable in certain ways, but the disappearance of Google Search from iOS or OS X will not be the result. :O)
I don't think GSearch should disappear; rather, it's probably the only thing from Google that I couldn't miss on an iOS device ;)
JZ: name me 3 copies from Samsung and 3 from Google :D Oh, and the word "vide" is written as well :) You should probably get out of that children's corner and start learning.
Samsung: 30-pin connector (identical only black), Tablet extremely "similar" to iPad, phone similar to iPhone 3G (almost identical design except for details and brand), SVoice and other copies
Google: Slide to unlock, and more (I don't know off the top of my head right now, I don't have any Android store at hand) ;) - otherwise I would call all of Android a bad copy of iOS
And by whom did Apple get Slide to unlock, huh?
I'd like to know that :D trust us…
From the Swedish company that released the Neonode 1m phone in 2006.
There is at most a certain similarity, but with neonode it is not the same principle, i.e. yes, it is unlocked by dragging to the right on the display, but that is all by dragging nothing to nowhere, so the method of Slide to unlock in Apple and Neonode is not the same, it only shares the method of movement. With Apple, it is a matter of dragging a virtual object with an arrow from one side to the other; with Neonode, you just swipe the display from one side to the other, so it cannot be considered exactly the same way.
Are you kidding me? Unlocking with a gesture - that's what Apple has patented and what it's brandishing now. If your theory were true, Apple wouldn't add this patent to the lawsuit, because the Galaxy Nexus doesn't have an object with an arrow, but with a lock, and you don't have to perform the gesture along a predetermined route.
I won't comment on the 30-pin connector, I know several electronic toys with a similar number of pins and it's embarrassing from Apple, it's like cursing that radios have an antenna or that a car has exhaust :/
the tablet was only similar to the first one, so I don't understand why they attacked the next version, the phone was only similar to the first Galaxy S, so I also don't know why the resi gave the similarity. Svoice is not a copy of such a service, no one has a patented appearance at most.
Slide to Unlock is only patented by Apple, with its awkward left-to-right stripe, but Android uses a completely different gesture for unlocking, and you can even launch several apps by unlocking it.
And copied appearance? Android? :D I don't know who uploaded the notification sheet :D