said by sonicmerlin:They're suing to prevent worthless copycat companies from ripping off their IP. Why weren't there touchscreen-based phones before the iPhone?
Windows CE/Pocket PC/Mobile was running on smartphones in 2002, if not earlier. I remember having a T-Mobile Wing in 2006, and T-Mobile had the MDA and SDA a year or two before that. iPhone wasn't released until 2007.
Or mobile OS running tablets before the iPad?
Windows Tablet PC, ProGear, Apple Newton...there were tablets before the iPad running operating systems that were tailored to the tablet environment.
Why is it before the iPad almost every tablet had ugly buttons, shapes, designs, etc.?
Because the technology wasn't at a state yet where a sleek design was viable? Why is it that, even after multiple generations of iPhones many phones still have buttons, corners, etc? Because not everyone wants a iPhone and it's design.
Look at LG. They hired Prada to design an LG Prada 3.0, which will be a useless, overpriced niche product for overly fashion-conscious people with too much money on their hands.
If by useless we can also include technologically inferior, I would say that you most Apple products fit that bill too. For the record, it looks like the Prada LG 3.0 is £500 in the UK, the same price as the iPhone 4s.
They don't think design or style is important at all. Apple is completely different from the vast majority of companies in this respect.
Obviously LG didn't think design or style is important. I mean, they don't work with a designer or anything. Oh wait. I don't by Apple products because
I want to be the one that decides how something looks, acts, or performs. Not what Steve Job's vision was. You are right though that Apple is very different from many companies in that respect.
Or look at Intel's vaunted "Ultrabooks". Every one of them is a ripoff of the Macbook Air. Intel invested $300 million into creating the initiative, and every single company in the program grabbed that free money and shamelessly ripped off the MBA.
Ok. And? Do you really want to get into argument about who has a tendency of
ripping off using other's work?
Android has become the Windows of smartphones. It's an abomination with exponentially increasing amounts of malware.
Easy way to almost eliminate malware. Don't just randomly click on every single link you get and install apps you know nothing about. The same principals that apply to a desktop or laptop computer apply to a phone.
The strength of Android's market as compared to Apple's App Store is also it's weakness. Walled gardens are nice as long as they contain everything that you want and don't want anything on the other side of the wall. Once you do, the garden can be confining.
It will always lag because it was built on the same framework as RIM's Blackberry OS.
That's a new one to me.
They're trying to hide its ridiculous flaws (inefficient battery use, battery-draining multitasking implementation, laggy UI and frequently dipping framerates, etc.), with increasingly powerful hardware rather than rebuild the OS's foundation.
Yup. Seems like issues plague all phone manufacturers:
Battery usage,
crappy multitasking implementations,
reception issues "solved" with arrogant responses, ...