Sadly probably not a single dime. Sweden's politicians are starstruck whenever they meet an American politician. They will happily bend over and take it. This is pretty strange considering Sweden being on the socialist side of the scale and the US on the fascist side. You would think atleast the Social democrats would have objections but no, as shown in the wikileaks cables, they cant wait to get that Uncle Sam schlong deep into their ass.
"Were there ANY mono applications EVER developed?"
Novell did their network client in
I have yet to see a good app written in
"In the Windows world, just like in the *Nix universe, there are a million and one ways to do the same thing."
And while there are millions of ways to do stuff in Windows, its rarely more than a couple that works IRL. The standard methods that gets a routine bug check works but as soon as you stray from the narrow path you are in for a world of hurt from all the bugs.
Seriously, you do not want a Windows fan at all in any position ever. What you want is a pragmatic person that knows to use the best tool for the best job, not someone running around with a hammer using it like a drill or a shovel. And believe me, the Windows fans are the absolute worst in that regard. Anything not from Microsoft is heretic to some of them.
Imho the best Windows administrators are the ones that has used and worked with multiple systems in the same place. They know each systems strength and also have knowledge of how to interconnect them. Trying to get that Windows fanatic to connect to your *nix system is not going to be fun when they just tell you its impossible, but fails to tell you its impossible using the way he is used to connect a network of only Windows machines and Microsoft services.
The system is broken but its on purpose. The idea is to hoard patents in the US and get agreements with the rest of the world honoring the patents. The downside is that this seems to hurt the US a lot more than the rest of the world.
You are right that it did not have a capacitive touchscreen, it had a pressure based touchscreen. I would not call it tiny compared to other phones at the time. as it covered the whole phone. There was a cover that you could take off that had physical buttons for those who prefered them. When it was closed the screen was tiny, but taken off it was not small at all.
As for speed, it was as fast as any other phone at the time. You could very well install software from all over the net, no problem, as could most other similar phones of that era. I bought and installed tons of software, i still have some receipts left.
When i first saw the iPhone the first thing i thought was that it was so similar to the phone i already had, but without things i took for granted like multitasking and stuff.
Unlike Apple, everyone having patents on things Apple do infringe upon has not yet started to sue them. There are thousands of patent owners who has not sued Apple that has patents that Apple do infringe upon. This is not disputable, its a fact.
Apple only license Nokias patents, there are countless others that pertain to a mobile phone that Apple do not pay for. Nokia has patents on much of the radio parts of a specific implementation of a mobile phone, others have a lot of the other bits and pieces. That they have not sued Apple is in no way a sign that Apple does not infringe.
The SE 990i had a cover with physical buttons that was detachable. Without the cover my phone worked and looked very similar to iPhone did later, as did a bunch of other phones before iPhone. The wizard is dead, its time you let go of the reality distortion field.
I know! But it is extremely expensive and that's a bit sad.
"the OP's point still stands... if you use a little creativity it's no problem to skirt these patents. and it will make for a more vibrant marketplace."
The problem is that almost whatever you do, someone has a patent that you will infringe upon because they are so vague and broad. You skirt one patent and step right on top of another one. Slide to unlock was among others implemented on the Neonode but still granted a patent. Multiply that with a couple of thousand overlapping patents and step right out on the minefield. Good luck!
First off, if Apple paid every patent owner that has a patent Apple infringes they would have to charge ten times as much as they do today. You talk about two patent owners when there are thousands of them, many with far more impressive patents than Apple has ever dreamt off. If a crappy feedback is worth billions what would patents regarding using the mobile phone to actually make a call be worth, a googolplex? You are totally missing the point.
My old SE 990i looked very similar to the iPhone a full year before it was even released. It had animations, capacitive touchscreen alone but thankfully not a web based interface. Side by side the two are very similar, but where the iPhone severely lacked many features it is slowly gaining and still has a lot to catch up with. There are countless of other phones to compare with outside the US that is strikingly similar.
Ever heard of SonyEricsson? Didnt think so. They make mobile phones. There were ample amounts of SonyEricsson products to copy, and many aspects of them is similar in the iPhone. They should have sued the pants off of Apple but in those days people in the mobile business weren't dickheads like Apple.
I hope someone will make a phone like OpenMoko. I loved the design on it and i really miss the way it was very nice to hold in your hand. http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko
In the end this might actually hurt Apple as someone is bound to come up with a better design and it will give even more choice in the echosystem while Apple is the communist version, you get once size fits all or nothing.
The problem is that whatever you might think of, someone has already a patent on it or a patent that's broad enough to cover what you do. Not because they ever thought of using the phone like you, but because they sought to cover as broad base as possible with their patent.
If Apple had been held to your standards they would never have gotten into the mobile industry at all since its impossible to build a mobile phone without infringing on thousands of patents on hardware alone from thousands of different companies and private inventors. If a fucking bounce effect costs billions to use, how fucking much do you think a fucking complete mobile phone would cost? Its not like Apple waddled into a vacuum and suddenly made a phone nobody had ever done before with never unheard of components.
Regardless of what you think, going back on all the other cases Groklaw has been following has made people like you put to shame. Every single time they are right on the money. Ofcourse they have to be wrong some time but so far, grade A+ every single time. Ill think i wait this one out and see who is right.
Lulzec is not Anonymous. Anonymous is not Lulzec.
Anonymous is a moniker used by hackers all over the world. It's not a group. Lulzec was a group that used this moniker, as does countless of others. In fact there are other branches of Lulzec even.
We are not a clone.
