Comment Re:Technically correct (Score 1) 262
Who is this guy? I'd like to get some out of court settlement funds.
Who is this guy? I'd like to get some out of court settlement funds.
Not to be insensitive to people with vestibular disorders, but why is this the first I'm hearing about this?
Because now it's about Apple and the iPhone and that generates page views and drives advertising. Now it's a real story where, before, it wasn't.
I'm guessing you already knew the answer but I'm stating it to make it official.
Most analysts don't know their ass from their elbow so why should anyone give a rat's ass what they think? Seriously, as an example, look at analyst Peter Misek's track record and you see a long history of utter cluelessness that makes you wonder just how he manages to keep his job. And he's far from the only analyst who would do better if they just randomly guessed at things. So why should we care what an analyst thinks?
Yeah! Exactly! I mean, that's precisely what happened when Apple started releasing new less-expensive versions of their iPod alongside their top of the line iPods. When will Apple learn from their past mistakes. Stoopid Apple.
You're right. They shouldn't have done anything to move their hardware forward. They should have just released the exact same device they did last year to ensure nothing ever became obsolete.
And, by "you're right", I of course mean "you're a moron."
Mod away.
Translation: I've pumped the value of Dell stock as high as I'm going to get it to go so I now have my eyes set on pumping the value of a different company's stock through my "activism".
I do appreciate that he air-quoted "activism"...
Just be ause the headless chicken continues to run around the yard does not mean it's alive.
Blackberry is dead and has been for a while. The body just hasn't realized it yet.
Carl Icahn is one of the worst sorts of people when it comes to stocks. I would not be the least bit surprised to find that he's been a driving force behind many of the negative stories which have served to drive down Apple's stock price (while Icahn has been snatching the stock up) and, now that he has a "large" position in the company, I expect to see a radical shift in the media as he manipulates things to drive the stock price up.
He's a corporate raider. He cares nothing for the grapple grommets that a company makes nor the people who work for a company - all he cares about is squeezing every extra cent out of a stock investment that he can get whether it's through lawsuits, rumours, or any other form of stock market manipulation he can wrangle.
While it will help drive Apple's stock price up, I'm disappointed to see him invested in Apple now - he's going to create a circus sideshow over the coming months.
I really would be surprised if Obama does Samsung the same favour he extended to Apple last week and overturns this ban.
I know it's fun to quote the campaign contributions and imply the decision was all about the money or to imply that Obama is protecting the American company from the evil foreign company but the simple reality is Samsung obtained a ban using Standards Essential, FRAND patents. Apple's ban is not related to Standards Essential, FRAND patents.
That is why Obama is not going to step in and overturned the ban on Samsung products.
That, and only that, is the reason.
If you actually believe that driving while on the phone does not distract you and impair your ability to safely drive, all I can say is you're a moron and ask that when you do get into a accident, please do your level best to ensure that you, and and only you, are injured. There are other drivers on the streets (with passengers, like kids, in their car) who would like to get home alive and unharmed and we'd appreciate it if you'd risk only your life rather than ours.
You may not respect the responsibility attached to driving around a massive machine capable of killing people so we'd really appreciate it if you could do your best to keep the destruction and injury focused on yourself, since you are the one taking the risk.
Sadly, it almost never is the moron on the phone (or texting or drunk or whatever) that gets seriously hurt - its usually some soccer mom with a car full of kids or some grandpa going to visit his grand kids who pays the price for this myth being wrong...
The ITC fucked up.
If their ban had been allowed to pass, everyone would have lost. Including you.
A $12 chip which was made by Infineon (who had already paid a license fee to Samsung) for which Samsung was requesting MORE THAN THE PRICE OF THE CHIP.
Yeah, Apple refused those terms. Those terms aren't fair nor reasonable. Anyone who thinks 100-plus percent is a reasonable fee _FOR A PRODUCT THAT IS ALREADY COVERED BY A LICENSE_ is a moron. Samsung was attempting to double dip on the patent - get a license from the manufacturer of the chip and then get a second license from clients who bought the chip.
Further, the fact that Samsung specifically targeted Apple with this outrageous demand is the very definition of discriminatory which, in total, is an absolute breach of their FRAND promise.
There's a reason that Samsung is being investigated by the EU. The ITC fucked up.
It's not about the patent being "a widely held technology standard" - it's about the fact that Samsung offered the patent for inclusion in an industry standard technology with a promise to license the patent under FRAND - Fair, Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory - terms.
Samsung AGREED to those terms to include the license in the industry standard.
Now they are breaking that agreement by specifically targeting Apple.
The President is arguing that if a company is permitted to break their FRAND licensing promise to specifically target certain companies, the implementation of industry standards will be drastically affected and that will adversely affect consumers.
And he's right.
Make headway at work. Continue to let things deteriorate at home.
