Judge blocks Google Nexus in US after Apple suit

[koopatroopa90]

The iPod touch and iPhone design are clearly based on PADDs from Star Trek The Next Generation. Paramount: go - KILL.

I've been saying this for ages, and Siri is essentially the computer.

I'll have a replicator in my iPad 4 please Apple.

[speedlolita]

Voice recognition has been available natively in Windows since Vista's release.

[koopatroopa90]

lol don't worry I realise Apple didn't create voice recognition.

My year 8 geography teacher had a headset he used to use that would type what he said. It didn't work very well (much to the amusement of everyone, him included) but was fairly impressive. That must have been 2003 (I think?) so in the days of XP...

[Yakumo]

I moved away from Apple with my new phone. Oh man, the freedom with Android is amazing. No more bull **** "You can't do that" crap from my phone.

[Brad]

It's not just Apple. Nokia are suing left right and centre. Apple have to pay them 8 euros for every iPhone sold. Nokia make more money from iPhone sales than they do their own Lumia.

[briareos_kerensky]

Can a fictional product design be brought forward? Serious question. Not really expecting a serious answer, but would be nice.
I think I've answered my own question. As long as there's a patent, then it's all good. Many patents have not been created.

IIRC Samsung brought "tablets" from 2001: A Space Odyssey and other well known sci-fi movies to defend their tablets when Apple sued them for being too similar to the iPad. Can't recall if Samsung were successful in upholding their case, will have to search the article.

[Nijo]

It'll be interesting in 200 years when we can purchase our own "item printing" kits, which will print phones from raw materials.

200 years?! This is a problem now!

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/05/3-d-printing-patent-law/

Last winter, Thomas Valenty bought a MakerBot ? an inexpensive 3-D printer that lets you quickly create plastic objects. His brother had some Imperial Guards from the tabletop game Warhammer, so Valenty decided to design a couple of his own Warhammer-style figurines: a two-legged war mecha and a tank.

He tweaked the designs for a week until he was happy. ?I put a lot of work into them,? he says. Then he posted the files for free downloading on Thingiverse, a site that lets you share instructions for printing 3-D objects. Soon other fans were outputting their own copies.

Until the lawyers showed up.