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I love how absolutely fucking dismissive this community can be about Apple. They fundamentally reinvented mobile phones. They brought real touch screens (resis

by sscalia 12y ago

I love how absolutely fucking dismissive this community can be about Apple. They fundamentally reinvented mobile phones. They brought real touch screens (resistive doesn't count) to the masses. They had very real, seemingly obvious now, because they are so utterly perfect (slide to unlock) innovations. They absolutely have the right to sue a company that is fundamentally a copying lab. Samsung has absolutely nothing to stand on here. This community is hilarious. I hope when one of you innovates even at 1/1,000th the level of Apple, someone ganks your idea (badly) and see how you feel.

rtx 12y ago
Only they were actually using all the stuff made by Samsung.
- whoismua 12y ago
  and iPhone is made (assembled) in China by Foxcon. Your point makes no sense, Apple paid Samsung for the parts delivered. Samsung has a long history of waiting what side wins and then cut and paste the winning one.
- sscalia 12y ago
  Dude, what the fuck are you talking about?
- sbuk 12y ago
  I'm sorry, but I don't see your point.
chao- 12y ago
I would consider myself lucky to fulfill your request and, one day, make something substantial enough that it is worth "ganking". As of yet, I have not achieved such acclaim.
briandh 12y ago
Your comment history is full obvious of pro-Apple, anti-Google, and anti-bitcoin trolling. Like or dislike any of those you please, but can't you find some other way to occupy your time?
ticktocktick 12y ago
Your emotional outburst is not a constructive addition to this discussion. Despite this tantrum it would seem that more people on HN agree with you than disagree as your comment is still visible. So I am not sure why you are bitching.
meric 12y ago
For their innovation they were rewarded for being first to market with a good product and win a very large market share which they profited from for several years and are still profiting handsomely, and managed to build a powerful brand that will help them to continue to help them earn abnormal profits in the short to medium term. You're saying that Apple deserves to make abnormal profits for many more years (15 or so more or however long their patents last). Profit is a feature that exists not to serve the entity the profit goes to, but to serve society at large, to encourage services to be provided, to encourage innovations. You're saying Apple should be awarded additional abnormal profits above the monopolistic competitive profits they're already generating. Is their current situation not enough to have encouraged Apple of 2006 their innovations? I doubt it. If Steve Jobs was told patents only lasts 5 years, I'm sure he'd have gone on to lead Apple to invent the exact same things. If that's the case, what's the point of giving Apple additional monopoly protections, at the expense of society at large, due to the increased prices they must pay and reduced innovations they will receive in return (since other companies are disincentivized to innovate on top of what Apple has invented)? Is it because of how Steve Jobs would have felt? He's a great man, but we should not be reduced to living in his shadows forever. We must stand on his shoulders, for that is how humanity have advanced ever since the first hammer was passed down from father to son.

by sscalia 12y ago

rtx 12y ago

Only they were actually using all the stuff made by Samsung.

whoismua 12y ago
and iPhone is made (assembled) in China by Foxcon. Your point makes no sense, Apple paid Samsung for the parts delivered. Samsung has a long history of waiting what side wins and then cut and paste the winning one.
sscalia 12y ago
Dude, what the fuck are you talking about?
sbuk 12y ago
I'm sorry, but I don't see your point.

chao- 12y ago

I would consider myself lucky to fulfill your request and, one day, make something substantial enough that it is worth "ganking". As of yet, I have not achieved such acclaim.

briandh 12y ago

Your comment history is full obvious of pro-Apple, anti-Google, and anti-bitcoin trolling. Like or dislike any of those you please, but can't you find some other way to occupy your time?

ticktocktick 12y ago

Your emotional outburst is not a constructive addition to this discussion. Despite this tantrum it would seem that more people on HN agree with you than disagree as your comment is still visible. So I am not sure why you are bitching.

meric 12y ago

For their innovation they were rewarded for being first to market with a good product and win a very large market share which they profited from for several years and are still profiting handsomely, and managed to build a powerful brand that will help them to continue to help them earn abnormal profits in the short to medium term. You're saying that Apple deserves to make abnormal profits for many more years (15 or so more or however long their patents last). Profit is a feature that exists not to serve the entity the profit goes to, but to serve society at large, to encourage services to be provided, to encourage innovations. You're saying Apple should be awarded additional abnormal profits above the monopolistic competitive profits they're already generating. Is their current situation not enough to have encouraged Apple of 2006 their innovations? I doubt it. If Steve Jobs was told patents only lasts 5 years, I'm sure he'd have gone on to lead Apple to invent the exact same things. If that's the case, what's the point of giving Apple additional monopoly protections, at the expense of society at large, due to the increased prices they must pay and reduced innovations they will receive in return (since other companies are disincentivized to innovate on top of what Apple has invented)? Is it because of how Steve Jobs would have felt? He's a great man, but we should not be reduced to living in his shadows forever. We must stand on his shoulders, for that is how humanity have advanced ever since the first hammer was passed down from father to son.