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[OCBucksFan]

Apple and AT&T: Together forever?- Top Stocks - MSN Money

Sorry, New Yorkers and San Franciscans. Break out the hankie, Fake Steve Jobs. Despite rumors to the contrary prior to the iPad unveiling, analysts are predicting that Apple (AAPL) will extend its exclusivity contract with AT&T (T) -- burdening millions of iPhone users with the very unpopular carrier. (See "AT&T responsible for Apple's beating.")

Perhaps the only ones relieved are Verizon (VZ) users who are satisfied with their service and don't want a flood of iPhone owners clogging up the network.

On Tuesday, Barclays Capital analyst Vija Jayant shared his thoughts on the matter with investors. He stated that the iPad was proof of Apple's dedication to the partnership and was "a vote of confidence in AT&T's network by the equipment maker." Jayant said that the iPad deal suggests an extension of the iPhone's lock down nature "at least through the end of 2010."

 

[OCBucksFan]

The New App Store Rules: No Swimsuits, No Skin, And No Innuendo

1. No images of women in bikinis (Ice skating tights are not OK either)

2. No images of men in bikinis! (I didn’t ask about Ice Skating tights for men)

3. No skin (he seriously said this) (I asked if a Burqa was OK, and the Apple guy got angry)

4. No silhouettes that indicate that Wobble can be used for wobbling boobs (yes – I am serious, we have to remove the silhouette in this pic)

5. No sexual connotations or innuendo: boobs, babes, booty, sex – all banned

6. Nothing that can be sexually arousing!! (I doubt many people could get aroused with the pic above but those puritanical guys at Apple must get off on pretty mundane things to find Wobble “overtly sexual!)

7. No apps will be approved that in any way imply sexual content (not sure how Playboy is still in the store, but …)

 

[jwinslow]

1) does this mean they'll stop opening themselves up to ridicule by approving sexy apps that are virtually identical to other banned apps? That was a staple of gizmodo.
2) do they think conservative consumers don't understand what a browser can find, or is indirect support of porn surfing more acceptable?

 

[jwinslow]

1) does this mean they'll stop opening themselves up to ridicule by approving sexy apps that are virtually identical to other banned apps? That was a staple of gizmodo.
2) do they think conservative consumers don't understand what a browser can find, or is indirect support of porn surfing more acceptable?

3) banning winter olympic pics during the event? Communists.

 

[OCBucksFan]

Post padder!

 

[OCBucksFan]

While Other Bikini Apps Are Banned, iTunes Promotes Sports Illustrated’s Sexy Swimsuit App

Apple is getting more prudish and pulling sexy apps from iTunes. One of the new rules is no more bikini apps, unless you happen to be Sports Illustrated (or FHM or Playboy). Sports Illustrated, for instance, just released its 2010 Swimsuit app on iTunes on February 9, before the ban really started. The SI Swimsuit app is filled with pictures of bikini-clad models.

If you fire up iTunes right now, you will see the SI Swimsuit app being promoted on the main App Store homepage. It is currently the No. 1 Sports app, the No. 13 free app, and the No. 35 Top Grossing app (you have to pay $1.99 to unlock all the free photos and videos). FHM’s $1.99 appis also filled with bikini and panty pics via its “Girl of the Week” and “Non-Stop Honeys” features. It also offers videos with titles such as “Young and Hardly Innocent” and “Lucy in Naughty Nighties.” The Playboy app is similarly salacious. Yet other non-name-brand bikini apps such as Bikini Blast are nowhere to be found on iTunes anymore.

So the rule seems to be: No sexy apps, unless you are magazine that can’t make money any other way. I can’t wait to see the SI Swimsuit app on the iPad. Maybe they will develop new touch gestures for the bigger screen.

 

[OCBucksFan]

Apple Looking to Bring iPhone OS to More Devices

A recent Apple Inc. job posting has revealed that the company intends to focus on bringing the iPhone OS onto new gadgets, devices and platforms.

The job posting from the Cupertino, CA, company specifically calls for an engineering manager to handle “platform bring-up.” In the job description, Apple states that it’s looking for a manager “to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms.” It seems like Apple wants some outside talent with very strong technical experience, especially when it comes to bringing software onto multiple hardware devices. Computerworld first caught the job post.

I don't believe this, but you can make what you want of it. It's against everything apple stands for, they build the hardware and the software, therefore, they insure they stability of the system. Sun is the same way, it makes sense, so I doubt they are going to change that idea for the iphone OS, but I have been wrong a few times in the past.

 

[Dryden]

It's against everything apple stands for, they build the hardware and the software, therefore, they insure they stability of the system.

You say stability, I say "end-user experience." Stability probably doesn't headline the list of Apple's stongsuits.

 

[jwinslow]

Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On 20 iPhone Patents: The Complete Documents - Apple htc lawsuit - Gizmodo

Whoa, Apple just sued HTC for infringing on 20 patents "related to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware." UPDATE: The patents Apple's claiming are incredible. We've got the full filing below. And HTC's comment. They're surprised too! ohn at Digital Daily's got the ITC filing against HTC as well. It lists the 10 other patents Apple's suing over, and spells out all the phones at issue—which looks like basically every Windows Mobile and Android phone HTC makes, from the G1 to the HD2. Nilay at Engadget notes, crucially, that while Apple names a whole bunch of HTC phones, the phones they call out repeatedly as infringing on specific patents are Android phones. Meaning that the bigger issue could be with Android itself, and Google, though it's not exactly clear yet.

Update: Apple's asking for a permanent injunction, which would bar HTC from importing or selling phones here that use these patents, along with triple damages with maximum interest (read: a lot of money). As you can see, some of the patents are fairly broad, like "unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image," which seems to cover like every touchscreen phone ever. Here's a gallery of the full suit, followed by a breakout of the patents. Notably not among them? Anything pertaining to multitouch.
...see site for full legal writeups

Sound familiar? Of course it does, because Nokia's being accused of the same thing, and Apple had similar nasty comments for Palm as well, though they haven't led to a lawsuit (yet).
We're digging up what exactly HTC is in trouble over, with Apple merely stating it's related to the "iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware." However, it's worth noting Apple won a fairly huge multitouch patent just a couple of weeks ago, and now they're nailing HTC for twice as many patent infringements as they busted Nokia on in that countersuit.
Apple's original set of iPhone interface patents were actually fairly limited when you drill down, but we'll see pretty shortly what, precisely, they're suing HTC over. Which should give us a pretty good idea of whether or not this just the first of many lawsuits, since HTC's not exactly the only other multitouch game in town.

 

[jwinslow]

Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On 20 iPhone Patents: The Complete Documents - Apple htc lawsuit - Gizmodo

Whoa, Apple just sued HTC for infringing on 20 patents "related to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware." UPDATE: The patents Apple's claiming are incredible. We've got the full filing below. And HTC's comment. They're surprised too! ohn at Digital Daily's got the ITC filing against HTC as well. It lists the 10 other patents Apple's suing over, and spells out all the phones at issue?which looks like basically every Windows Mobile and Android phone HTC makes, from the G1 to the HD2. Nilay at Engadget notes, crucially, that while Apple names a whole bunch of HTC phones, the phones they call out repeatedly as infringing on specific patents are Android phones. Meaning that the bigger issue could be with Android itself, and Google, though it's not exactly clear yet.

Update: Apple's asking for a permanent injunction, which would bar HTC from importing or selling phones here that use these patents, along with triple damages with maximum interest (read: a lot of money). As you can see, some of the patents are fairly broad, like "unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image," which seems to cover like every touchscreen phone ever. Here's a gallery of the full suit, followed by a breakout of the patents. Notably not among them? Anything pertaining to multitouch.
...see site for full legal writeups

Sound familiar? Of course it does, because Nokia's being accused of the same thing, and Apple had similar nasty comments for Palm as well, though they haven't led to a lawsuit (yet).
We're digging up what exactly HTC is in trouble over, with Apple merely stating it's related to the "iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware." However, it's worth noting Apple won a fairly huge multitouch patent just a couple of weeks ago, and now they're nailing HTC for twice as many patent infringements as they busted Nokia on in that countersuit.
Apple's original set of iPhone interface patents were actually fairly limited when you drill down, but we'll see pretty shortly what, precisely, they're suing HTC over. Which should give us a pretty good idea of whether or not this just the first of many lawsuits, since HTC's not exactly the only other multitouch game in town.

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U.S. PATENT NO. 7,633,076
Automated response to and sensing of user activity in portable devices
The various methods and devices described herein relate to devices which, in at least certain embodiments, may include one or more sensors for providing data relating to user activity and at least one processor for causing the device to respond based on the user activity which was determined, at least in part, through the sensors. The response by the device may include a change of state of the device, and the response may be automatically performed after the user activity is determined.

 

[jwinslow]

some comments from the above article...

How can Apple patent a technology (capacative multi-touch) that was developed by the University of Toronto in 1985??

"The ‘599 Patent, entitled "Object-Oriented Graphic System"

Seriously?

If anyone else here is a software developer, you know how crazy this is.

If this patent simply gives Apple the rights to object-oriented graphic systems, that is INSANE. This is basically the equivalent of Apple suing the creator of C++. Almost every single graphic system is object-oriented. I don't know if it is even possible to not have an object-oriented graphics system.

"Object-Oriented Event Notification System With Listener Registration Of Both Interests And Methods"

Apple should sue the creators of Java as well for implementing action listeners.

Seriously, I am scared to use object oriented programming because I might get sued by Apple.

I think the dumbest party involved here is the patent office. How can you grant someone a patent over something so generic?

I read up on patents before, and I heard that you had to make your patents very specific.

But come on:

"The ‘849 Patent, entitled "Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image," was duly and legally issued on February 2, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office"

Isn't this way too generic?

Does anyone have a patent on the a circular device that allows a vehicle to turn based on rotation?

The ‘586 Patent, entitled "Talking to another human being over a cellular network" was duly and legally issued on July 01, 2005 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘586 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit K.

The ‘101 Patent, entitled "Any information displayed on a mobile device" was duly and legally issued on October 31, 2001 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘101 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit L.

The ‘420 Patent, entitled "Everything else" was duly and legally issued on November 14, 1999 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘420 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit M.

The ‘875 Patent, entitled "something like that thing they did," was duly and legally issued on March 09, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘875 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit N

 

[OCBucksFan]

Glad you posted this Jwins, this is funny to me, Apple really doesn't know how to fight a war do they? There's a reason Microsoft destroyed them 13 years ago, and there's a reason that Google may end up doing the same this time.

13 Years ago, Microsoft released a nice Gui that was somewhat stable, and worked to get windows 2000 out, thus creating a product that was beneficial to the customer, bring them more revenue. Apple sat around and sued Microsoft after losing a law suit to IBM for OS/2 leaving themselves in a bad spot.

And here we see them doing the same thing again, Google will just innovate and continue to work to make customers happy, bringing in more money and preparing for this fight.

Gotta love Steve Jobs out of the box thinking. Pull all your employees together and badmouth everyone, then talk trash on essential web products that could hurt your sales, and when all is said and done just find a way to sue people.

 

[OCBucksFan]

Here's 10 of the 20, funny, if Apple wins this lawsuit does Microsoft have to go back to command line? Because "Object Oriented Graphics System" is a fancy way of saying GUI as best I can tell.

Patent No. 7,362,331: “Time-Based, Non-Constant Translation Of User Interface Objects Between States”
Patent No. 7,479,949: “Touch Screen Device, Method, And Graphical User Interface For Determining Commands By Applying Heuristics”
Patent No. 7,657,849: “Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image”
Patent No. 7,469,381: “List Scrolling And Document Translation, Scaling, And Rotation On A Touch-Screen Display”
Patent No. 5,920,726: “System And Method For Managing Power Conditions Within A Digital Camera Device.”
Patent No. 7,633,076: “Automated Response To And Sensing Of User Activity In Portable Devices”
Patent No. 5,848,105: “GMSK Signal Processors For Improved Communications Capacity And Quality”
Patent No. 7,383,453: “Conserving Power By Reducing Voltage Supplied To An Instruction-Processing Portion Of A Processor”
Patent No. 5,455,599: “Object-Oriented Graphic System”
Patent No. 6,424,354: “Object-Oriented Event Notification System With Listener Registration Of Both Interests And Methods”

 

[MaxBuck]

Here's 10 of the 20, funny, if Apple wins this lawsuit does Microsoft have to go back to command line? Because "Object Oriented Graphics System" is a fancy way of saying GUI as best I can tell.

Dig out your old Commodores, boys and girls.

(For you younguns, the "64" in the model name referred to this baby's robust 64 kilobytes of random-access memory.)

 

[jlb1705]

My mom still has her's in the garage. It was completely modular - monitor, CPU and keyboard in one piece.

She got it for free when my parents bought this car (1978 Ford Mustang):