Probably a defensive action because Apple has a patent on black.

Apple winning sure, Apple winning 1 billion dollars absurd. Course by the time this is all done and said both companies will probably shell out several hundred million between fees, market delays, image issues, etc. I am sure companies like MS and Google are happy to be on the sidelines in this fight.

Just by Pinterest and call it a day.

Steam and the like are scared because MS is going to be a massive competitor and they are also the gateway to these companies. Steam is essentially a game only version of mobile stores so I think they are yelling fire not because MS is killing games but probably killing their business.

Is this why the coffee is too damned high?

Potential is overrated and if the studies are real world true, vastly so. Valid experience (the real kind rather than most lies on a resume) in a great number of jobs takes years if not decades to acquire. For example, I wouldn't hire a young promising but inexperienced programmer over one with 5 years experience to…

Nobody owns most of these ideas as this isn't new technology. Ford copying the look of a Chevy and creating a car that looks similar isn't and shouldn't be a patent issue. Apple copying Xerox Park and MS copying Apple is what got us here. Had patent law of today been in full effect in the 70s there would be no Apple…

The patent system was designed to protect a little guy's innovation from getting swallowed up by a big company. Now it is used for big companies to crush little guys under a mountain of technicalities and fees. If the patent system is in place to foster innovation, it is failing miserably. It was once a great system…

Windows changes were market driven not patent driven so the answer is yes. MS would have come out with "win8 style" regardless of the patent system. Also without the patent system in its current state smaller companies could have come out with their own implementations without worry of getting the patent hammer…

and the point would be to remove that from the courts and let the marketplace decide. If consumers really felt this way, they wouldn't buy Samsung products.

I would guess buyout before closure. Lots of potential in this idea so hard to imagine it being shut down entirely.

My guess is they are young and full of free outrage. That said they do have some great articles in the mix. However if this self involved blog path continues there are a lot of other good sources of tech news without all the "drama".

IMO if a person wants to contribute, they should not complain about 1st world white people problems that have virtually no impact on a persons life other than the weight they give them.

The crazy thing to me is it took at least two horrible decisions to get here. One to create it in the first place and then somebody looking at it thinking it was a good idea. Without a doubt this is one of the worst commenting systems I have every seen.

I am shocked that these unskilled laborers are having a rough time competing with the massive amount of content that has been recorded and is readily available. I don't harbor any ill will towards the industry but to not see where this was all headed is extremely short sided. I am sure there is still money there but…

"Apple TV is one of the most competent set-top boxes you can find" - That statement must mean this person has never used the myriad of other offerings out there. Apple TV is further behind than virtually every other set top box in terms of services offered. IME those other offerings are every bit as easy to use and…

Another reason people pirate is simply because they wouldn't watch it any other way. If a movie is good, they will catch it at the theaters or first run on TV. Otherwise they may suck it down just because it is there much like channel surfing of days gone by.

If a complaint about a product revolves around a preference and lets be clear the whole screen text thing rather than a blinking LED is a preference, it really isn't a missing feature and isn't proof of some deep gaping hole in the OS.

How this wasn't in the actual article I don't know.

Simply put there are more of us which means we should be finding better athletic specimens just from base percentages. Compound that with better diets (often enriched with hormones and steroids that inevitably work their way up the food chain) , improved specialized training and technological advances and the result…