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Crestfallen, Mike Kemble looked at his grunt tube as if it were a turd.
He hadn't been in his treestand for very long on Nov. 3, 2011, when the 130-inch buck at the top of his wish list appeared 60 yards down the creek that wound through his favorite patch of woods. To coax it closer, the hunter from Newton Falls, Ohio, pulled out his tube and grunted softly.
He might as well have shouted, "Run away, fool!"
Blue flames shot out from under its high white tail as the deer rocketed out of sight.
"I wondered what the heck caused it to do that," Mike said. "My grunting isn't THAT bad!"
A few minutes later, an absolutely HUGE 4x4 was broadside at a mere 15 yards, which is when Mike's crossbow bolt sliced through its shoulder. Leaking like crazy, the animal collapsed at the end of a 60-yard dash.
"Later that evening, several of my friends convinced me that we should measure the rack," Mike said. "The numbers we got were unreal. If we were right, based on what I found on the Internet, the deer was one of the largest 8-pointers ever harvested. Maybe THE largest!"
Waiting for Boone and Crockett's 60-day drying period was torture, and widespread speculation that the buck might be a world-record 8-pointer didn't make it any easier. It had not occurred to Mike that Buckmasters has no drying period.
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Prior to the 2011 season, Christian Kincheloe, his father and brothers pored over thousands of trail cam photographs, hoping to see the giant buck that had strolled in front of their cameras the previous fall. They salivated over several whitetails worthy of their hit list, but there wasn't a single image of the big one.
Had the estimated 200-plus-incher been among those photographed, Christian would've recognized it. He'd used one of the 2010 photos -- minus the drool stain -- as his computer's screensaver.
Christian chose to see the opening-bell sunrise from a newly hung stand on the family's 145-acre farm in Daviess County, Mo. The wind probably kept many hunters indoors that day, but Christian, a teacher and wrestling coach in the Park Hill School District, wasn't about to let the weekend – his only time to hunt – pass without being afield.
Early into his vigil, he watched a basket-rack 6-pointer and a young forkhorn chasing a couple of does. When the activity slowed midmorning, he decided to still-hunt his way back to the cabin to share a cup of coffee with the guys and to see if they'd seen anything.
When he was within 85 yards of the last thicket between him and a cup of joe, he saw a buck low to the ground, slinking away from him. Christian continued forward slowly, intending to circle the island of trees in hopes of catching the buck in range on the other side.
Just as he'd hoped, the buck was there, along with a doe -- probably the only reason it hadn't left the county. When the lovesick brute stepped into the clear, Christian squeezed the trigger, and he was at the fallen buck's side almost before the shot's echo had faded.
Until that moment, he'd had no idea he was shooting at his screensaver.
A bit later, the Kincheloes settled in front of a computer to compare photos to the nighttime trail shots from 2010. It was the same buck, no doubt, but it had lost several inches from one year to the next.
It's been said that the two happiest days in a fisherman's life are when he buys a boat and when he sells it. Might the same be true for hunters and land?
Prior to a rainy Nov. 28, 2011, Eric Williams could've believed it.
He and his wife, Angela, fled the cramped suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, in May 2010 to homestead 17 acres in Warren County. At the time, Eric had every intention of playing hard in his new back yard, but that didn't happen.
"With Angela and me both working, and three boys who seem to be into every imaginable sport, I was just strapped for time," he said.
Eric strolled the property a few times in 2010 and saw plenty of deer sign. He and his sons even erected a double ladder stand, but it sat vacant the entire season.
The first time anyone sat in the stand was in 2011, when Eric allowed his oldest boy, Tanner, to hunt alone for the first time. The kid wound up shooting his first antlered deer. Dad was thrilled, but even that didn't inspire him to suit up in camo.
Inspiration came when he and a friend (who ribbed him mercilessly) rabbit-hunted the property and saw lots of buck sign.
"You could smell, see and feel the presence of a dominant buck," Eric said.
On Nov. 28, opening day of gun season, Eric woke up at 5 a.m., stood on the front porch and listened to the rain. He wouldn't normally venture afield on a day like that. But he was itching to go, and he's glad he did.
"I saw deer everywhere," he said. "That was the first time anyone had sat in the stand in the morning, and it was amazing, except for the weather."
After breaking for lunch and doing a few chores around the house, he returned to the woods in dry clothes. He hung a few fragrant wicks, sprayed himself with scent killer and used his grunt and bleat calls. Less than an hour later, he smoked what he thought was a 150-inch 8-pointer.
Seven-year-old Ethan Dorff of Carlyle, Ill., might well be the country's next millionaire -- in $5 increments -- if he can get a patent on the bottle-less buck lure he invented last fall.
Prior to the 2011 hunting season, Ethan accompanied his father, Doug, to the woods to hang a new stand about 100 yards from where Doug spotted a monstrous whitetail two years earlier. While Doug wrestled the stand onto a tree, Ethan built a teepee of sticks nearby.
"I told him that teepee was going to ruin the deer hunting," Doug said, fully intending to scatter the sticks before they left. Before he could do it, however, his wife, Joni, called and scattered his intentions.
"I ended up leaving the teepee there," he added.
The first day Doug bowhunted from the new stand, a doe walked right up to the teepee and stuck her head into it. Before that, he'd been prepared to kick it down when he left. But he wound up shooting her and leaving Ethan's deer attractor intact.
Later in the archery season, any plan of removing the teepee was forever forgotten.
"I was back in the same stand, watching a doe, and she turned and looked behind her," Doug said. "I looked, too, and saw a tree moving. A 10-pointer was rubbing it."
The buck abandoned the rub and hurried through the area, moving too quickly for Doug to get off a shot through the timber ... that is, until the buck stopped and took a long, hard look at the teepee.
"If it hadn't stopped to stare at the teepee, I wouldn't have gotten a shot," Doug said. "I guess it's true that deer really are curious."
Doug was back in that stand when the shotgun season opened on Nov. 18.
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Advocates chided the Bush administration for a lack of transparency and the Justice Department's policy of generally defending agencies' decisions to withhold records requested by the public. The number of FOIA requests that were fully granted fell steadily during the Bush administration: the government fully granted only 164,147 in 2007, compared to 302,480 approved in 2001, according to a recent analysis of 25 agencies' data by Sunshine in Government Initiative (SGI), a coalition of media groups. In relation to total requests, that's a drop from 55 percent of requests fully granted in 2001 to 38 percent in 2007.
In March, Attorney General Eric Holder issued new FOIA guidance to agencies that said Justice would defend agencies' decisions to deny FOIA requests only in limited cases. Holder also said agencies should not withhold information just because they can legally do so. Moreover, he said, agencies should consider partial disclosure rather than outright denial when full disclosure is not possible.
Holder also told agencies to respond to requests promptly and actively work to publish agency information online.
The new guidelines fleshed out a memo that Obama issued Jan. 21 that states that "all agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open government."
"Having the president issue a memo on his first full day in office sent such an immediate signal that this was a new day in terms of transparency," said Melanie Ann Pustay, director of Justice's Office of Information and Privacy. "It's been very gratifying to see that agencies are very responsive to these new guidelines, very enthusiastic about them, and they're looking forward to implementing these principles."
But the Obama administration's agency leaders also inherited backlogs of thousands of requests. In recent years, the time people have had to wait for FOIA responses from agencies typically exceeds the amount allowed by law. Indeed, some FOIA requests are still pending from more than a decade ago, according to open-government groups.
Although many observers laud Obama's policy changes, they caution that it will take time to judge its actual effects, especially given the massive backlog. SGI's analysis, released April 13, found that about one-third of FOIA requests were backlogged in 2008, up from 13 percent in 1998.
"These numbers paint a baseline for measuring the impact of President Obama's Day One policies on transparency," said Rick Blum, coordinator of SGI, in a statement. "If agencies improve their operations year after year, the Day One policy on disclosure will have made a substantial impact."
The task is harder than it might have been because the ranks of FOIA officers dwindled during the Bush years, declining by 34 percent during the past decade.
"It's really wonderful that the president said what he said, and it's also wonderful that the attorney general so quickly came out and said what he said, but now making it a reality is going to take more than big statements of good principles," said Meredith Fuchs, general counsel for George Washington University's National Security Archive, which has filed thousands of FOIA requests.
Pustay said chief FOIA officers will need to report each year on the steps they've taken to improve transparency in their agencies.
Fuchs said agencies could improve FOIA response by holding employees who process records under FOIA more responsible for their performance. She also said the government should give agencies incentives to encourage them to do a good job on FOIA requests, and senior agency executives should demonstrate that they think FOIA and transparency are important.
In March, the National Security Archive cited the FBI for "outstandingly bad responsiveness to the public that flouts the letter and spirit" of FOIA by giving the bureau its annual Rosemary award. The award is named for Rose Mary Woods, President Richard Nixon's secretary during the Watergate scandal.
The group said the FBI provided documents for less than 14 percent of the 17,717 total FOIA requests it processed in 2008. That equated to the bureau partially granting documents to 2,276 requests and granting full, unredacted documents to only 89 requests.
The FBI is one of the agencies that open-government advocates sued during the Bush administration because of its response to FOIA requests. In one holdover case brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the new Obama guidance appears to uphold the previous decision to withhold information. Justice said in a court filing April 13 that it did not intend to reverse its decision.
"There's one of two things going on," said David Sobel, EFF's senior counsel. "Either they are paying lip service to [the new guidance] and not really taking a look or they're taking a second look and deciding it doesn't make any difference." Sobel is among the advocates who would have liked to have seen the attorney general's new FOIA guidelines specifically address pending litigation.
Fuchs said that so far, she has not seen a major turnaround in litigation regarding FOIA requests. The Obama administration has been uneven in its handling of ongoing FOIA litigation under the new guidelines, she said.
"It's very hedging language, and it calls for DOJ lawyers to confer essentially with the agency people who turned the request in the first place under the Bush administration" Patrice McDermott, director of OpenTheGovernment.org, added.
Still, despite what McDermott characterizes as the administration's cautious desire not to get ahead of itself, she said, "in general, the rhetoric of the Holder memo is terrific."
Sobel said the new guidance would affect agencies' ability to employ a commonly used FOIA exemption called deliberative process privilege, which is meant to "prevent injury to the quality of agency decisions." But there is broad agreement that it will likely take some time for the effects of the Obama administration's FOIA policy to be evident.
"It's not like the flood gates open up and every document comes out, but I do think there will be sort of incremental change and it will happen over time," Fuchs said.
Blum said FOIA performance should be a benchmark for evaluating this administration's transparency efforts.
"FOIA is that fundamental backstop guarantee that you will be able to ask agencies for information and get it unless it meets one of the exemptions," he said.
Ari Schwartz, vice president and chief operating officer of the Center for Democracy and Technology, said it would be ideal if the number of FOIA requests were to decrease because of agencies' proactive openness.
"So much information will be made directly available it will obviate the need for FOIA requests – that's the goal," he said.
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Jury awards Apple $1bn damages in Samsung patent case
The nine-member jury in the closely watched patent litigation between Apple and Samsung has returned a verdict decidedly in Apple's favor, awarding the fruity firm a whopping total of $1.05bn in damages. The jury took less than three days to reach its verdict, something that apparently startled even Apple's legal team, as …
Re: I think that I should....
but the people who reached the verdict probably know no more than the average tech aware commentard on these forums, probably less.
Replying to myself, I stand corrected based on the Reuters story.
"Hogan worked as an engineer for decades before he retired, and holds a patent of his own. He said jurors were able to complete their deliberations in less than three days - much faster than legal experts had predicted - because a few had engineering and legal experience, which helped with the complex issues in play."
(Hogan being the jury foreman)
Re: I think that I should....
You might as well. What a joke of a country the United States has become. Just imagine Franklin getting sued by some guy who patented straight lines, insisting that electricity can't use wires unless he's paid.
The most hilarious part is that the few patents in the case which actually had some sort of engineering value, Samsung's, were tossed for no apparent rhyme or reason. I guess Apple's marketing team can chalk up a big win for having brainwashed the jury ahead of time.
Re: I think that I should....
It appears that the evidence had nothing to do with the verdict.
Everything was decided based on an email from Google to Samsung.
Re: I think that I should....
yeah - there were several emails given as evidence that the Samsung team took a long hard look at the iOS devices before designing anything themselves - this was no accident. That was ultimately why they lost.
@John Brown (no body)
Did you see what patent that "engineer" has? Here - http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7352953.html
A patent for a tivo or any other system that records video from a tuner... No wonder he "instructed" the jury to ignore previous art because "it was bogging us down" and to vote for punitive sanctions against Samsung even if that was clearly stated not to be done in the jury's instructions (which they didn't read, apparently).
Re: @John Brown (no body)
Did you bother to read that Reuters article? It wasn't a case of the Forman giving the others instructions, it was a joint decision based on the evidence provided, testimony and examination of the devices in the jury room. They honestly thought as a griup that the prior art claims were't valid so threw them out.
It doesn't set any precidents for the forman's own patent so there is no benefit to him.
Re: @ turtle
In short: "Apple is entitled to abuse the system".
This has nothing to do with Android. Some of us have been ranting about the broken patent system for a long time. This is just the latest episode. Calling us "competing fanboys" won't alter the fact that we're arguing based on principle and you're just a corporate shill.
Re: The Fanbois
It is very likely that NEITHER side should have "won".
The American patent office has been running amok for quite some time now. Chances are that out of 100 patents, only one of them is anywhere near reasonable.
Re: I think that I should....
Many of these commentards are THOSE PEOPLE that "do a job for a living". They are the relevant experts. This is the site that "bites the hand that feeds IT". You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting someone that can probably replicate a lot of these nonsense patents with a couple lines of Perl.
It's the "legal experts" that have run off the rails and are ignoring the relevant technical details.
Patent examiners leave it up to the courts. Courts assume that the patent examiners "know what they're doing" and the whole mess blows up in everyones faces.
Re: I think that I should....
Why is looking at something evidence of a patent infrringment?
Re: Can you hear
"It certainly should be! Samsung's designs may be similar to Apple's, but I can't see anything to suggest that they necessarily copied anything from the iPhone."
Good luck finding an optician who doesn't mind dealing with complete jackasses who don't do ANY research before opening their mouths.
Re: @John Brown (no body)
Steve, either you limited your information to apple's PR and that single Reuters article, or your comprehension skills really are low. Take a look at Groklaw's take on the subject; and before accusing PJ of being anti-apple look up what she wrote on Apple vs Psystar - here. You'll see that from what the jurors have been saying, they basically deferred to the foreman, a person who is very interested in defending idiotic patents with lots of prior art, being a holder of one himself.
The jurors also seem to have decided not to bother with previous art, as it was bogging them down, have ignored the judge instructions and awarded punitive damages, and decided on the first day that Samsung was guilty, effectively ignoring all evidence presented afterwards. In a fair legal system, this should be enough to grant a mistrial; lets see what happens in the US.
Really? A thread from crappleinsider, with a bunch of fanbois posting pictures pretending that the iphone was completely different from everything else, which have already been debunked to death everywhere? Qre you really that brainwashed?
Re: @John Brown (no body)
@jbernardo, oh come on, Groklaw has been about as rabidly pro Samsung in this case as it is possible to get. There is no way you can regard them as a neutral source.
Once again, the Forman gains no advantage by finding for Apple. It doesn't make any challenge to his own patent more or less likely to succeed, and he was only one of nine that had to agree that the patent was both valid and infringed. He suggested an approach for their method of deciding this, but the other members had to agree to that and come to the same decision on the result.
I'll agree that there are signs that the jury was getting sick of the whole proceeding and rushed some of the form filling, but the basic finding seems about right to me. The design patents weren't found as broad as Apple's lawyers wanted, the damages were far less than Apple were hoping for but still sizable, non of Samsung's patents were invalidated and the principles of FRAND were left intact. Not a great day for Samsung but there was plenty of evidence of deliberate copying for them to fight against. If they hadn't skinned Android then most of the software claims wouldn't exist, and Google were warning them about infringement with the Galaxy Pad.
Re: The USA patent system is a disgrace
If Judge made comments that showed and Opinion before the case was presented it sounds like Samsung has a very strong case for appeal and expectation to do much better next time.
Despite comments above, even though the Samsung team acted like amateurs and presented it poorly (or failed to in some cases) the truth is that Apple's patents were all shown pretty clearly to be based on or copying ideas and form factors from other previously existing technology.
Christ square app buttons... not only did the case coverage show that Samsung gave examples, (HP mobile devices for example) but my old Palm, and even Windows App Icons, already had this format for the last 20 years. Look at the Register of comment icons when comment here... looks too much like apple iph*Ck phone to Apple I am sure, but to anyone else with a brain its standard computing.... Hell, books, and other media have used similar pictures for thousands of years as well
Sham of a trail... stupid decision, and yes I dislike Apple even more now than before..... At least previously their despicable behavior was reserved for their willing customers who signed up and paid for the dishonor... now they are like a spoiled kid trying to ruin it for everyone else when they loose. F@#$ apple and the horse they rode in on....this whole case was a joke coming from a company that stole and copied so much to get their riches, and the own fearless leader even made the now famous comment about good companies "stealing" ideas
Re: The USA patent system is a disgrace
Poppycock I say!! I had a HP ipaq little mobile PC that did much more than iphone years before it came out. My Palm Centro had similar look and feel BEFORE the iphone came out... KyoCera had a great smartphone too. and both had cut and paste when the crippled copy-cat iphone came out it couldn't even do that. Centro played videos, had office apps for word/excel etc and could surf the net.... was only missing GPS and WIFI and other models of Palm had both of those (just too pricy for me at the time).
Apple got to market with a larger screen, and it had NOTHING to do with their innovation..
Shrewd business men maybe... the flat screen companies that actually made the screens had finally got down the process for making a small good screen like that for a reasonable price... and Apple went and bought up all their forseeable future inventory... good (maybe illegal) business move, but not patentable and certainly not creative...
You really need to re-examine what was out there before making such statements... just because YOUR iphone was the first phone you saw with those features doesn't make it true for the world.
Re: The USA patent system is a disgrace
Yes, compaq had the iPaq long before the iPhone, but it ran Windows CE like many early smart phones which was basically desktop Windows cut to fit with a single point touch sensor. Apple had the Newton before that. Neither are relevant to this case, which is about multi-touch gestures and animation metaphors which are well beyond that kind of tech.
Re: Can you hear
Yeh. But still Apple are patently shitheads.
Re: Just because you disagree with the verdict, doesn't make the verdict wrong!
Oh, so we have an anonymous judge here, what is your jurisdiction, sir ? Have you really read those big thick books on patent law ? I doubt it ... Next !
I love this ...
PS: I love it how any comment anti-Apple gets loads of upvotes, are you bitter, my friends?
No wait.
Completely believable.
Did any-one really expect the American jury to find in favour of a Korean company?
No, me neither.
Re: Unbelievable...
Curious contrast to the findings of the S. Korean court, which found the both partly guilty...
Re: Unbelievable...
>Did any-one really expect the American jury to find in favour of a Korean company?
It wasn't beyond the realms of possibility - and it's important to remember that the jury weren't allowed to see much of Samsung's evidence.
Well what do you know!
We were all wrong!
Re: Well what do you know!
Your definition of "all" is very odd. Anyone who wasn't a completely blind fandroid could see Samsung was copying Apple in every way they could.
Try hanging around with people who have better things to do with their lives than installing hacked firmwares on their phones.
Re: Well what do you know!
My local former iFan now uses (Samsung) Android devices for how they are NOT like Apple products.
The same goes for me.
It's nice to have choices. Not everyone agrees with your fascist vision for technology.
Re: Well what do you know!
"Try hanging around with people who have better things to do with their lives than installing hacked firmwares on their phones."
Sent from the most hipster iClub in town.
Re: Well what do you know!
Fascist? Oh no I can sense Goodwin's law quickly approaching....
There is nothing fascist about a court of law finding Samsung guilty of copying. Samsung did this to themselves, they even wrote a manual about it.
I completely disagree
iPhone owner here, and Android Tablet owner, also considering buying an iPad and I really fancy a Nexus 7 as well, so neither a Fandroid or iFan but instead a tech lover and personally I think you need to be completely blind and/or mental to confuse Samsung and Apple products, either on the shelf or when ordering one. It's a sad day not just for Samsung but for technology.
Re: "fascist", I was thinking Rick and _Young Ones_ reruns myself.
Re: I completely disagree
The problem with your opinion - and others like you - is precisely that you only consider the "tech lover" perspective of it.
Most people are not tech lovers, they are tech users. They don't know or care much about the differences between Android and iOS or who makes what tablet, beyond the ads they see.
They expect that if one thing looks similar to the other then they probably have equal functionality. By mimicking Apple's products, even down to the dock connector as in the case of tablets, Samsung creates confusion for these buyers. All it takes then is a crafty salesman or confusing display to do the rest.
One of the reports from Best Buy showed many of the returns for Samsung's tablet were from people who had thought they bought an iPad.
Re: Well what do you know!
Nothing in these patent suits involved firmware.
Re: I completely disagree
Gonna be a sad dayfor apple, too, because whereas i wanted to be open minded and consider buying a 17 inch mac pro in maybe a year, apple ass can kiss that revenue goodbye. Take that, apple, and count it as "your" money "lost".
I suspect the jury was tainted or biased at the very least.
There WILL be blowback...
@Martin Huizing
"We were all wrong!"
Yeah well Google wasn't wrong when they warned Samsung that their products looked too much like Apples, now were they?
Re: dx
Sorry, I forgot to enable sarcasm mode. Thought I was being obvious...
Re: I completely disagree
>Gonna be a sad dayfor apple, too, because whereas i wanted to be open minded and consider buying a 17 inch >mac pro in maybe a year, apple ass can kiss that revenue goodbye.
You're now not going to buy a machine they've never made?
Unless you mean you are now not going to buy a 17" MacBook Pro. Which they also don't make any more.
Is there also a Samsung machine you wouldn't buy if they'd won? Or can we take it that you're not as open minded as you claim to be?
BTW, if you think Apple cares enough to withdraw it's claims and the $1Bn in exchange for your custom and purchase of a whole machine (and who knows even a second one in a few years!), then I have some bad news for you.
Re: I completely disagree
"One of the reports from Best Buy showed many of the returns for Samsung's tablet were from people who had thought they bought an iPad."
We cannot build our legal system or society based around the most stupid members of it. At some point, blame for something has to lie with a person's stupidity rather than with a company for not being able to do their thinking for them.
Re: I completely disagree
@Nine Circles
I understood the interpretation of the Best Buy reports was that people bought a Samsung Tablet thinking it was "just like an Ipad", a bit like the "Just like a Golf" adverts that ran some time back in the UK. In which case should I take my Renault back to the dealer and demand a refund because it's not a Golf?
Re: Well what do you know!
I think the "firmware" comment was intended to indicate something about "smeely yooves in der mum's basements tinkering". rather than any applicability to the case per se.
Re: I completely disagree
"One of the reports from Best Buy showed many of the returns for Samsung's tablet were from people who had thought they bought an iPad"
Obviously a pretty stupid thing to have done, so then they rectify their mistake making Apple officially the preferred choice of idiots.
Re: dssf
Does not matter who you buy from. Apple and MS get paid either way now. ;) :(
Re: I completely disagree
Re returning Samsung tablets, are the buyers really so thick to think that even if it says SAMSUNG on the box (and no apple logo) there'll be an APPLE device inside?
Re: I completely disagree
Buyers are used to seeing the same device with different brands on it (everything from cars to kitchen appliences). They reason that if it looks the same it must BE the same, never mind the logo.
Re: I completely disagree
This lawsuit began over two years ago and was in regard to Samsung's products at that time. Android was still essentially a blatant iOS clone at the time, which didn't help. Its GUI only really started down its own (visually less derivative) path with the v3.x and v4.x releases, but most Android users are still on that 2.x series even today, so Apple's point still stands.
For those who insist that software != hardware, bear in mind that Apple's design philosophy does NOT separate the two: the software GUI is considered an integral part of the entire product design. Apple are a hardware company, not a software company. Their software is just another component, like a GPU or a display panel. THAT is where Samsung's lawyers kept going wrong: assuming that laypeople could tell where the hardware ends and the software begins. That's a nerd distinction. I've had to deal with customers who genuinely believed their PC was running an operating system called "Windows Office".
As far as most non-IT people are concerned, the device's design includes both its hardware and its software. If your device is a rectangular slab of glass with a button on edge, and rows of square-ish icons on its screen, they're really going to struggle to spot the difference.
Just ask Samsung's own lawyers, if you don't believe me.
Stop artificially separating hardware and software components in a device. It really helps when trying to argue design issues. Samsung copied Apple. They've admitted it repeatedly: there's even a bloody document that says it was policy at the time to copy every feature from Apple's devices.
And Steve Jobs never, ever, made any secret of the fact that Apple had patented their research and development to the hilt. He even said as much in the presentation for the original iPad's launch.
Note, too, that Apple are NOT suing Motorola over their keyboard-dock-and-tablet Transformer devices. Nor are they going after a number of other, financially easier, targets. Because most of Samsung's fellow Android licensees are NOT just slavishly copying the iPad and iPhone. They're actually creating some original products.
On a completely separate note: Apple haven't been responsible for Java on OS X since the release of OS X "Lion" (v10.7, which was released in summer last year.) Neither OS X 10.7, nor the just-released 10.8 ("Mountain Lion") include a Java VM any more. The responsibility for patching and maintaining Java is Oracle's.
Re: I completely disagree
In some aspect I would tend to agree with you, but my point is I don't agree that Samsung ARE mimicking Apple's products, I don't think they look anything like each other. I have the Asus Transformer and the dock on it looks "quite similar" to my iPhone dock, does that mean Asus slavishly copied the dock connector. Crafty salesmen, confusing displays... c'mon. If a salesman is a bit dishonest he will be that regardless, and any store I've been in that stocks Apple products have them all in their own Apple section. If someone is planning to spend £500 on a product, the very least they should do is ensure they know what product they are picking up. According to Samsung's survey of Best Buy returns, only 9% were attributed to market confusion but most were for malfunctions. I have a feeling though that market confusion was spread over all the tablets with people buying those instead of iPads as well and not just the Tab.
Re: "creates confusion for these buyers"
It would take a particularly stupid buyer to not see the difference between the words "Apple" and "Samsung".
Every flat panel TV on the market looks the same too, and yet somehow consumers manage to spot the difference between Panasonic and LG, etc., so unless you're claiming smartphone and tablet buyers are more stupid than TV buyers, I'm not sure you really have much of a case.
Meanwhile, in the UK, Judge Colin Birss not only ruled that Samsung didn't copy Apple, but even went so far as to rule that Apple must advertise that fact, by "[placing] a notice on its own UK website for six months and advertise in UK online and print media explaining that Samsung did not infringe on its patents".
Clearly there's a huge disparity between the US and the UK over what's considered an "invention", such as simple and pre-existant geometric shapes, for example.
Maybe it's time for the rest of the world to just stop operating in competition-hostile countries like the US, and let the patent extortionists litigate themselves into oblivion.
Re: I completely disagree
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I think Motorola would be be pretty pissed off if Apple sued them for their Dock and Keyboard Transformer device....... They didn't make it, Asus did.
Re: Well what do you know!
"Anyone who wasn't a completely blind fandroid could see Samsung was copying Apple in every way they could."
Just like Apple have copied their competitors and just like every large company from Olympus to Ford to Tampax have bought, disassembled and learnt from the products of their competitors for centuries.
The question, the important question, here is why is it suddenly bad when someone does it to Apple?
The answer is that it isn't. What's bad is the abuse of patents to protect "inventions" that companies did not in fact invent.
Re: I completely disagree
By that logic, ios is a clone of earlier platforms like Symbian, or my 2005 feature phone, which let you launch the apps from a grid of icons. Hell, I'm not sure which phones out there didn't use such a system. Maybe ancient dumb phones
Re: I completely disagree
Indeed, and i suspect there are people who buy Macs, then take them back when they can't run Windows apps. This effect will always happen with naturally similar products, but where one platform is more commonly used, it doesn't mean the others are copying. It just means some ppl are stupid
Re: "creates confusion for these buyers"
I bet apple think those flat screen tvs copied apple too - rounded rectangles!
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