Apple, Now trying to Block and Stop: PROTESTORS

[QuantumKiwi]

Apple will always be a king, unfortunately...

They stole the touch screen technology from microsoft, then put it into a phone.

Of course another tech company is going to come along and make a similar smart phone, but with completely different software - samsung did it.

Apple whipped out their huge dick and decked samsung with a pathetic excuse.


and now, our technology age is slowing down due to what? GREED.

Thats all it is, GREED and its every where. Money Systems, Banks, Economy, govts, local govts, corporates....

[blakdawg]

Basically, If you own an "iDevice" Apple will soon have the Right to disable your camera if you are in an area where protests are taking place

I do not like the technology or its application, but let's at least be clear about what the patent does and does not do. The patent has absolutely no bearing on what Apple can and can't do vis-a-vis consumers' devices. The patent actually makes it so that Apple can sue other companies if they use this horrible anti-freedom technology without paying a fee to Apple for the privilege of so doing. This makes it tougher for those companies to make anti-freedom devices.  

IMO, Apple is a dying company

Does the calendar on your wall say 1996? Here are some news updates: George Bush's son was elected president. Bad guys flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A black guy is now President. Gas is $4/gallon. On August 20, 2012, Apple's valuation was the highest ever recorded for a publicly traded company.

If that's dying, pretty much every other company wishes they were dying.

If you want to take a long view, all people and all companies are dying. Some of us are going faster than others. Apple has a long, long way to go before they run out of juice.

[QuantumKiwi]

Basically, If you own an "iDevice" Apple will soon have the Right to disable your camera if you are in an area where protests are taking place

I do not like the technology or its application, but let's at least be clear about what the patent does and does not do. The patent has absolutely no bearing on what Apple can and can't do vis-a-vis consumers' devices. The patent actually makes it so that Apple can sue other companies if they use this horrible anti-freedom technology without paying a fee to Apple for the privilege of so doing. This makes it tougher for those companies to make anti-freedom devices.  

IMO, Apple is a dying company

Does the calendar on your wall say 1996? Here are some news updates: George Bush's son was elected president. Bad guys flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A black guy is now President. Gas is $4/gallon. On August 20, 2012, Apple's valuation was the highest ever recorded for a publicly traded company.

If that's dying, pretty much every other company wishes they were dying.

If you want to take a long view, all people and all companies are dying. Some of us are going faster than others. Apple has a long, long way to go before they run out of juice.

All it could take is ONE really SHIT product and everyone will gap, so far there is already a lot of people moving to android because of the " clone " like idol towards apple iphones.

[Fiyasko]

Basically, If you own an "iDevice" Apple will soon have the Right to disable your camera if you are in an area where protests are taking place

I do not like the technology or its application, but let's at least be clear about what the patent does and does not do. The patent has absolutely no bearing on what Apple can and can't do vis-a-vis consumers' devices. The patent actually makes it so that Apple can sue other companies if they use this horrible anti-freedom technology without paying a fee to Apple for the privilege of so doing. This makes it tougher for those companies to make anti-freedom devices.  

IMO, Apple is a dying company

-Snip- On August 20, 2012, Apple's valuation was the highest ever recorded for a publicly traded company.

-Snip- Apple has a long, long way to go before they run out of juice.

@ the underlined, Uhh, Are you.. Uh, Serious?

I will never disagree with charts, Correct on the Apple company status.
Where my sense of "apple is dying" is coming from, Is that the world is slowly waking up the how big the "iOS bubble" is, And that apple (i feel) is trying to keep people inside that bubble, When we dont even use Apple products.
And they make Pissant lawsuits over Look and Feel? Im suuuurrre the trial just Had to be held in silicone valley, <10miles from Apple HQ!
LOOK AND FEEL, Guys fucking c'mon, I'll sue you and all your Monitors for having a simmilar look and feel as my companies
And your TV's
And your microwave ovens!
HERESY! they will call it!

[Garr255]

I've only read the first sentence of OP, and this is absolutely sickening.

[blakdawg]

Basically, If you own an "iDevice" Apple will soon have the Right to disable your camera if you are in an area where protests are taking place

I do not like the technology or its application, but let's at least be clear about what the patent does and does not do. The patent has absolutely no bearing on what Apple can and can't do vis-a-vis consumers' devices.

@ the underlined, Uhh, Are you.. Uh, Serious?

Yes. Absolutely serious. The patent has absolutely nothing to do with what Apple can do with its own devices, in terms of what they build or what they enable or disable. It's just totally unrelated.

Think of the patent as a hunting license that lets Apple's lawyers go hunting for other companies who build phones with the "disable for protests" feature without paying Apple a license fee.

Patents aren't permission from the government for an inventor to use or sell their own device: they are permission slips from the government to sue everyone else who makes that device.

[paulie_w]

guys stop picking on apple, they r a gr8 company

[Garr255]

The first thing I am taking out from a laptop, Notebook or phone is actually the camera and the mic...
 

*Takes mic out of phone*

"Call not work!"

[hottweelz]

I now feel guilty for typing this post on a Macbook Pro....

ok over it.

[Badonkadonk]

just me or is this patent thing getting a bit out of hand?   

[Garr255]

just me or is this patent thing getting a bit out of hand?   

Corporations get bored, too

[camjenk]

They have more money than god! With this new iphone coming out soon they will have plenty of money to crush the billion dollar lawsuit. Who knows they may actually pull it off:(

[scintill]

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-patent-could-remotely-disable-protesters-phone-cameras-7000003640/
Basically, If you own an "iDevice" Apple will soon have the Right to disable your camera if you are in an area where protests are taking place
So you will be unable to use your "iDevice" to takedown Proof and Evidence of the protest and its actions

With this comes the question, If they can Turn it off whenever they want once this "patent" goes through, What stops them from turning it on?

In 2084: On January 24th, Apple will release the Big Brother Phone, and you'll see why 2084 will be just like "1984."

[URSAY]

AAPL pays much better then Bitcoin.   

[paulie_w]

does it actually?

[dotcom]

as much as I don't like apple as a company, why does everybody rail agaisnt this lawsuit they have agaisnt samsung.

it wasn't just the phone hardware that fueled the lawsuit, the software works almost EXACTLY the same. has anybody
even seen the comparison videos? it's like samsung mirrored the phone and then changed 2 things before shipping.

as much as i hate apple, they had every right in the world to sue samsung.

[JoelKatz]

Basically, If you own an "iDevice" Apple will soon have the Right to disable your camera if you are in an area where protests are taking place

Umm, what?! That's like describing me buying a gun by saying that I "will soon have the right to shoot people".

[tronics]

It's pretty sad a company like apple has so much power

[Badonkadonk]

They have more money than god! With this new iphone coming out soon they will have plenty of money to crush the billion dollar lawsuit. Who knows they may actually pull it off:(

i realy dont belive god has money! he has BITCOINS!

[Gabi]

Apple: