Actually you would all be driving Mercedes and wait everyone was driving Mercedes' during the time Karl Benz's patents were still in effect. Your argument wouldn't suck so bad if you weren't an ethnocentric and ignorant boob.
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Karl Benz had a patent on the automobile, and two versions of the internal combustion engine. Others had to license those patents until they ran out. Your ideas are absurd and you obviously don't bother to do any research.
If it doesn't matter: do it differently. If you didn't come up with the best way to do something first, that's your problem. If you want to make cheap knock-offs like some Chinese handbag maker then you aught to be run out of the market.
You realize that your argument requires all patents to be invalid, and therefore it will be impossible to start a business at all? You invent something but you can't bring it to market because an hour after you do some multi-billion dollar company has cloned it at no R&D cost to them and is selling it for a fraction…
So much more reasonable than all the other crap people are spewing around here. Good idea!
You make the mistaken assumption that something was obvious before it was invented and patented, just because when seeing it in action it makes sense. That is of course absurd. Otherwise all software would be written in its final form and then only bugs would be ironed out from that point forward.
And Samsung needs to stop copying and getting away with it, oh wait...
He can't ban you anymore.
Inventions, especially the good ones tend to be mistakes. Some good examples: http://www.businessinsider.com/these-10-inventions-were-made-by-mistake-2010-11?op=1
Yeah the interaction in Android is finally not beta quality, but other aspects still are, there's still a lot of unreliable aspects to it, especially in networking.
It depends on the company, I run FirefoxNightly as my day to day browser, it's never had issues (And I started back when it was Minefield). However I won't run a beta of iOS on my devices, those are so unstable as to be as unreliable as Android *shudder*.
Because people are even close to 90% reliable? Funny guy.
It sure does considering like-speced OEM pcs cost the same or more as Apple laptops you must be really enjoying how much more you pay for software and thus more overall.
Wasn't this thing in Armageddon (the movie)?
They might, but if they do they'll be putting the better tech at a disadvantage. Which they sometimes avoid for long periods of time (see firewire vs usb).
Meh I hope it's not NFC, bluetooth4LE is much more secure and takes no additional work on my part to use as compared to NFC.
More like the vendor will have to, just like they have to pay shit tonnes of money to visa and mastercard.
Nope, go watch the WWDC videos on bluetooth4 (if you have access that is). They specifically call out Bluetooth4 LE as their preferred payment system because it is far more secure.
Why not? I've got things I'd rather do than fuck around with a music player (or a certain mobile operating system). Seems legit to me.
Innovation is bred from hard work. You won't get much done if you spend all your time fucking with your tools instead of doing work. That is all.