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Comment: Re:Not about apple (Score 1) 327

This article is about google and amazon in the UK. In an attempt at link baiting, there is a single line about apple in the US in the article so they would write Apple in the headline for clicks.

And slashdot fell for it - and so did I.

Actually the summary refers to the fact that Apple do this too.

Just because it's not specifically mentioned in the linked article, doesn't mean it's not happening.

Comment: Re:Pain (Score 1) 610

by Macthorpe (#42495205) Attached to: 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over

Do you actually use Office with the Ribbon? On Word 2013, Bold, Italics, Justify, Bullets and Sort are all on the Home tab. The only option on a different tab is Table, which you can right click and click "Add to Quick Access" to put it in the top bar if you use it so often. Even if there wasn't a quick access bar, the customise options are still available, in Options -> Customise Ribbon.

So, to counter your post, there are 2 ribbons for your six commonly used features, with the option to easily add the 6th feature into the first ribbon.

Comment: Re:Apples' response to the reprimand (Score 5, Insightful) 241

by Macthorpe (#41842687) Attached to: UK Court of Appeal Reprimands Apple Over Mandated Samsung Statement

An analogy (sorry, not a car analogy).

If you spoke to a misbehaving boy, and told him to write 100 lines saying "I will not call the other kids bad names", would you accept his response if he wrote his hundred lines followed by "BUT THOSE OTHER KIDS ARE STILL POOPYHEADS"? No, you would ask him to do more lines, or come up with a different punishment entirely.

The behaviour of Apple in this instance is equivalent to a petulant child, and they are the only ones to blame if the court has to treat them as such.

The Courts

+ - Apple's Samsung statement reprimanded by UK court of appeal-> 6

Submitted by Macthorpe
Macthorpe writes "In the UK, Apple were previously ordered to add a statement to their website stating that Samsung did not copy their designs, following a previous case where this was ruled by the UK courts. However, today the same court revealed that Apple's statement is not good enough. From the article:

The acknowledgement put up last week, linked from the home page by a tiny link, was deemed to be "non-compliant" with the order that the court had made in October. The court has now ordered it to correct the statement – and the judges, Lord Justice Longmore, Lord Justice Kitchin and Sir Robin Jacob, indicated that they were not pleased with Apple's failure to put a simpler statement on the site.

It appears the main objection is the statement is on a separate page and only linked from the hompage — and that the statement is buried in marketing blurb, and also put next to references to a case Apple won."
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