Here we go again....

[Snokio]

[h=1]Samsung's Galaxy S4 infringes on 5 patents, Apple says [/h]
https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239447/Samsung_39_s_Galaxy_S4_infringes_on_5_patents_Apple_says?

[smilodon]

Go away Apple and design something decent of your own, like you used to.

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[T-Bag]

Apple has done a lot for the technology sector in the past decade, but the patent abuse that they've brought about has near enough wiped out that positive gain. Software patents are a disgusting mess with no place in this world. Open source is the way of the future, it's becoming increasingly clear. The pace in development of open standards is becoming huge, whereas smart phones are a classic example of the opposite. No phones have all the features a customer wants all in one place. Phones have gone backwards in a lot of ways. The Motorola Atrix had a cool fingerprint scanner, but since authentec was bought by apple its unlikely to license that to any of its rivals, so say goodbye to any more android phones with that technology. Companies can buy a manufacturer of a feature they don't want their rivals to have and sit on it for years, not even using it in their own devices. I'm sure eventually the iphone will have a fingerprint sensor built in, and they'll claim it's the first ever in a smart phone (like they do when they claim to have the fastest or thinnest phone on the market...they'll come up with some reason why the other thinner phones don't count. The only reason to buy the company outright though is to stop rivals using a feature.

Anyway, it's just a bit pathetic that once an idea has been thought of, rather than everyone build upon it, people are forced to work around it. Short term you need a big pot of patents where if you're a company who wants to use one you have to give access to yours as well. Assess the price independently and that's it. If you want a feature include it, pay the license etc, if not don't. None of this hoarding patents and refusing to let anyone else have them just to try and prevent competitors making good products. That just hurts the customers. Long term hopefully people will move away from patents, if you want a feature and you develop the code yourself then you've not gained anything from someone else getting there first. In fact it's good to have some consistency across a range of different devices.

[kregoron]

Apple just does two things these days, design things that break, and play patent troll...