I was under the impression suicide rates at Foxconn were lower than e.g. suicide rates at American universities. Maybe we should replace students with robots as well... :)

Yeah, because no inventions have ever come based on someone else's. An "idea" can have dozens of patents that implement it, but there are people out there - like you most likely - who are convinced that patents apply to ideas. And so the quarrel continues.

Your "essentially" is a willful mis-reading and intentional misunderstanding. What was the purpose of that? They are not patenting radio. However, they are paying Nokia millions a year for "patents on radio".

Yes, the patent is vastly different from the Qi proprietary standard that Nokia uses. So it is new. Thinking that "adding a meter" makes little differende is just being ignorant. Do you think inductive pans will heat a meter away from an induction stove, too?

And it's not "Nokia's standard" just because Nokia is one of over 100 companies in the consortium behind it.

Ah the accurate and detailed description "things". It is obvious you know how patents work.

"Marconi invented radio ages ago, so we cannot have any patents related to that field ever again."

The wireless charging in those phones uses a different method. Nothing to sue over.

Has it occurred to you that perhaps Apple's method is different from Tesla's? You do not patent "ideas". For a given idea there can be dozens of patents, each expressing the idea differently.

How far away from the touchstone did it charge? This is a different method.

There is no law against patenting something inferior to other technologies much as there is no law against making inferior movies based on the same public domain sources that a successful movie uses.

Well, the change was to match touch movements on the trackpad (the large accessory one at least). But it was easy to revert.

This is also why they eat Cheetos: It is cheaper than steak. And dwelling in your parents' basement is cheaper than having your own apartment. And being a virgin is cheaper than a girlfriend. All in all, quite cheap individuals. Pirating Android apps is just icing on the cake.

But you seem to lack knowledge about iPads. The number of Android tablets that can be called "better" is minimal at best.

That was uncalled for: the poor man might be an Android user with no sense of humor.

but hopeless for working on while carrying them around. Well, compact desktops are useful, too, I guess...

No, bovines (bulls) are even further removed from humans than primates are. But perhaps you belong to the select few who feel that a bunch of nomads sitting around a camp fire three thousand years ago with no concept of genetics had all the answers...

They are not uneducated, they are just largely educated as lawyers.

Now, that is interesting, because there are rules against giving legal advice without having a license, typically associated with said profession.

I wonder if we could enact rules for science as well, where you could not give scientific "advice" (like parroting long-debunked denier myths) without a scientific background, and see how these politicians like it.