




I. "Free" Market?







II. Despite Netherlands Setback, Apple's Monopoly Plans Move Ahead








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RE: Before and after iPad
By phantom505 on 8/29/2011 2:48:44 PM , Rating: 3
Wait, you're admitting that there was in fact tablets before iPad? Blasphemy! The Jobs will see you struck down!

RE: Before and after iPad
By Reclaimer77 on 8/29/2011 3:07:59 PM , Rating: 5
Tony is an idiot who believes one should be able to patent simple geometric shapes and colors. The fact that this isn't done all the time is only because nobody else is as big of a delusional megalomaniac as Jobs and Apple's legal staff. They couldn't prove that Apple invented the tablet, so they are settling for Apple invented the flat, black, rectangular one.

If Apple's patent strategy were applied to the rest of our products, our society would be in shambles. Fridges would have to be round or triangular, because the vertical rectangular shaped black refrigerator would "belong" to someone else, etc etc etc. We would be ruled by a select few monopolies, with no hope of competition or innovation.

This was the exact thing the patent system was created to guard against. Stiffing innovation and productivity. Yet Apple fan boi's like Tony are so obsessed with living vicariously through Steve Jobs instead of their own pathetic lives, they could care less. It's apparently a spectator sport, with each blow to freedom and consumer choice by Apple's legal team a score in the "win" column.

Look at Tony, that shill, and tell me I'm wrong. It's almost like he gets a cathartic high from this stuff. Really, get a LIFE people.

RE: Before and after iPad
By portalair on 8/29/2011 3:24:26 PM , Rating: 2

explains better than my social network reference

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"Stop playing stupid and answer the question!"
"Maybe he is that stupid Randy!"
"Nobody's this stupid!"

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RE: Before and after iPad
By TakinYourPoints on 8/30/2011 3:09:22 AM , Rating: 2
Tablets existed for a decade before the iPad, everyone knows that. It was the argument that people used against Apple whenever rumors of a tablet would come up.

The differences between the two are significant. Windows tablets ran an operating system and applications designed around mouse+keyboard input, needed a stylus or sometimes had resistive touch input, required power hungry x86 CPUs that ran hot, all of which resulted in poor battery life and extra weight/bulk to accommodate components and allow for thermal dissipation.

People didn't buy them because they were basically really bad laptops running an OS and applications that weren't designed primarily around a touch interface. There was no reason to get a Windows tablet when you could get a laptop with a keyboard and trackpad interface that was much faster and cheaper.

The iPad was different in that the physical and software interfaces were purpose built expressly for touch, all applications were designed specifically for touch, and the ARM based hardware allowed for very light hardware with insane battery life. That is the software/hardware model that everyone emulated after the iPad came out.

Again, the differences between prior Windows tablets and current tablets running iOS, WebOS, and Honeycomb, are massive . They aren't even the same class of machine.

I am very very interested to see how Windows 8 works out on tablets, and if they get it running quickly on ARM based hardware that is as light as the iPad/Touchpad/Transformer/etc.

