Reality 1) Apple is not submitting patents around what the application does. The patent has nothing to do with what the app actually does, even though the illustration is used.
So in fact it's just another annoying software patent.
Reality 2) This is actually the bad thing, that people seem to be overlooking - isn't it copyright infringement on Apple's part to be lifting app screens basically wholesale?
So the summary (and most of the posters here) are totally wrong about what is bad about this.
So you see, Apple users can easily admit when Apple is doing something wrong, and in fact even correct you about why it is wrong - because we are thinking more rationally about the real problem, and not just about how much we hate Apple and hey here's an awesome negative article on something Apple is doing.
I was just going to mod you into oblivion... however. You are trying just a little too hard, and I think I'd rather let everyone else notice for themselves.
To be fair, you make a good point. (2 actually). To still be fair, you are probably the most rational Apple fanboy I've seen in years.
To be fair, you make a good point. (2 actually). To still be fair, you are probably the most rational Apple fanboy I've seen in years.
See, if you had down-modded me you'd simply be making the point I laid out at the end. So I respect you for acknowledging there were reasonable points in there. As for "letting everyone else notice", I don't mind letting other people judge the ratio of useful content to verbal jabs.
I'm glad you saw reasonableness in the points themselves. I think if you look carefully as p
Are you this annoying even in real life? God! I hate apple fanbois more than ever.
When hate is your foundation for interactions all before you crumbles.
I don't hate Apple Haters at all. I think they are misguided. That is the difference between us I guess, that I can't sit there and hate someone because of the computer they use.
Translation: "I hate it when people have measured, rational arguments and don't resort to ad hominem attacks, it makes my retorts look silly."
If it's "annoying" to debate an issue with actual arguments and no name calling, then perhaps you are not suited to debate? If the peak of your arguments are "fanbois suck, apple sucks!" then I can see why it might be annoying if an Apple user actually comes back at you with more than "nuh uh!".
I once worked with an Apple fanboy back in the day (when Apple had barelly started their latest run of success with the iPod) and he was the person most pathologically incapable of reciving criticism (of himself or Apple) that I ever met.
He was also a never ending source of entertainment for those of us mean enough to bait him...
"So why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here."
-- Biff in "Back to the Future"
It'll be fun seeing (Score:-1, Troll)
how the loyalists try to spin this one as a good thing.
It's not a good thing but not the problem stated (Score:1, Troll)
Reality 1) Apple is not submitting patents around what the application does. The patent has nothing to do with what the app actually does, even though the illustration is used.
So in fact it's just another annoying software patent.
Reality 2) This is actually the bad thing, that people seem to be overlooking - isn't it copyright infringement on Apple's part to be lifting app screens basically wholesale?
So the summary (and most of the posters here) are totally wrong about what is bad about this.
So you see,
Re:It's not a good thing but not the problem state (Score:3, Funny)
So you see, Apple users can easily admit when Apple is doing something wrong, and in fact even correct you about why it is wrong - because we are thinking more rationally about the real problem, and not just about how much we hate Apple and hey here's an awesome negative article on something Apple is doing.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA. BWHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA....
wipes tears...
Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
You're welcome! (Score:1)
Like all the best humor, it's funny because it's so true.
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To be fair, you make a good point. (2 actually). To still be fair, you are probably the most rational Apple fanboy I've seen in years.
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To be fair, you make a good point. (2 actually). To still be fair, you are probably the most rational Apple fanboy I've seen in years.
See, if you had down-modded me you'd simply be making the point I laid out at the end. So I respect you for acknowledging there were reasonable points in there. As for "letting everyone else notice", I don't mind letting other people judge the ratio of useful content to verbal jabs.
I'm glad you saw reasonableness in the points themselves. I think if you look carefully as p
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Are you this annoying even in real life? God! I hate apple fanbois more than ever.
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Are you this annoying even in real life? God! I hate apple fanbois more than ever.
When hate is your foundation for interactions all before you crumbles.
I don't hate Apple Haters at all. I think they are misguided. That is the difference between us I guess, that I can't sit there and hate someone because of the computer they use.
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So that's a "yes" then.
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Translation: "I hate it when people have measured, rational arguments and don't resort to ad hominem attacks, it makes my retorts look silly."
If it's "annoying" to debate an issue with actual arguments and no name calling, then perhaps you are not suited to debate? If the peak of your arguments are "fanbois suck, apple sucks!" then I can see why it might be annoying if an Apple user actually comes back at you with more than "nuh uh!".
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With what? You can only apply one mod point to it. You can't mod anything any oblivion.
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I once worked with an Apple fanboy back in the day (when Apple had barelly started their latest run of success with the iPod) and he was the person most pathologically incapable of reciving criticism (of himself or Apple) that I ever met.
He was also a never ending source of entertainment for those of us mean enough to bait him ...