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If you don't like Apple you are in trouble!

  • 10-11-2012 12:32am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭


    It may sound as Fool's Day news, but it's true. Apple Finally Patents the Round-Cornered Rectangle device:

    http://gizmodo.com/5958762/apple-finally-patents-the-round+cornered-rectangle

    You can say it's just this stupid Americans, but they are (unfortunately) biggest and most important market for mobile devices, and this means problem for us all.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,244 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    zom wrote: »
    It may sound as Fool's Day news, but it's true. Apple Finally Patents the Round-Cornered Rectangle device:

    http://gizmodo.com/5958762/apple-finally-patents-the-round+cornered-rectangle

    You can say it's just this stupid Americans, but they are (unfortunately) biggest and most important market for mobile devices, and this means problem for us all.

    Does it really?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    What a good thing I only buy spherical MP3s.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    zom wrote: »
    It may sound as Fool's Day news, but it's true. Apple Finally Patents the Round-Cornered Rectangle device:

    http://gizmodo.com/5958762/apple-finally-patents-the-round+cornered-rectangle

    You can say it's just this stupid Americans, but they are (unfortunately) biggest and most important market for mobile devices, and this means problem for us all.
    Hi-fcukin-unliky to mean a problem for me. I no longer produce Round-cornered Rectangle device thingies. No longer nor ever. So, what's the big deal? I also don't like Apple. Bring on the trouble.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,958 ✭✭✭Mr. Rager


    That's bullshít. Shouldn't be able to put a patent on shapes. In that case, I'm gonna patent the humble triangle.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    how do you know when someone has an iphone?




    they tell you


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    how do you know when someone has an iphone?




    they tell you


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    How the hell could someone patent such a generic shape. I can think of hundreds of things shaped just like an iPad that existed before an iPad was even thought of.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Me hole


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,704 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Its this kind of sh!t that makes me dislike this company more and more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    zom wrote: »
    and this means problem for us all.

    Us all? Cop on will ya.

    Thankfully, the only apple that goes into my hand is the edible variety.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Aggressive litigious dickheads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    IMac unt


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    Just another reason for me to never buy their products I guess.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Bags the nonogon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭Stroll


    Read apples instead of apple, severely disappointed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    IMac unt

    Imac untpuncher



    Also, I'm patenting the straight line.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭kirving


    Idiots. You can't patent a simple shape. It's not like a rectangle can be used as a tool where specific geometry for a screw thread might.

    'We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas' - Steve Jobs


  • Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭KenSwee


    Well, if this is true and people continue to buy their their products then I think they are fools.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,527 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    Scioch wrote: »
    how do you know when someone has an iphone?




    they tell you

    That's bollox...
    how do you know when someone has an iphone?




    they tell you

    Jaysus, it's not bollox after all.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    I don't care if I bleed everyday from using razor sharp edged smartphones, I'm not buying an iPhone


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 65 ✭✭Ottway




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭zom


    J. Marston wrote: »
    Does it really?

    Well - of course if you don't have any phone/tablet/laptop and don't intent to have one in the future it doesn't mean problem for you.
    Hogzy wrote: »
    How the hell could someone patent such a generic shape. I can think of hundreds of things shaped just like an iPad that existed before an iPad was even thought of.

    There is this crazy American logic to kick ass of everyone just in case it can make profit in the future. I am sure that everyday at least one yankee is trying to patent the wheel. In USA of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭magma69


    If I make a rectangular poo with a curved edge, will Apple sue me?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    I prefer my corners more angular anyway :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Mr. Rager wrote: »
    That's bullshít. Shouldn't be able to put a patent on shapes. In that case, I'm gonna patent the humble triangle.
    Really? Not the Wheel?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    I bags the circle :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    magma69 wrote: »
    If I make a rectangular poo with a curved edge, will Apple sue me?

    Pics or gtfo


  • Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Whilst I'm sure they have their patent and are happy with it, I'd be certain that if they ever actually brought anyone to court (say Samsung, for example) they'd be laughed out of the building and their patent be ruled invalid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    How would this be a problem outside US?
    If this is ever used it would crumble under the pressure


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I just patented the rhombus.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,060 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    Apple invented the apple.

    True story.


  • Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    I just patented the rhombus.

    I just patented the Phallus.


  • Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    Bags the nonogon.

    I wish this was my username.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,437 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    Samsung have just overtaken apple as the maker of the best selling smartphone. Android is outselling ipads. Apples shareprice is taking a huge dump and their precious leader is not around to mindfcuk the world into believing that Apple are still the dominant player as he is currently being told by a Creator even more powerful than himself, just exactly who really owns the patent to Apple,apples,rectangles and anything else he cares to mention. Soon enough, the only thing Apple will be able to flog, are the stupid accessories for their overpriced crap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Apple is finished...it's Banana all the way now


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭steve9859


    KenSwee wrote: »
    Well, if this is true and people continue to buy their their products then I think they are fools.

    Why?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,556 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Whilst I'm sure they have their patent and are happy with it, I'd be certain that if they ever actually brought anyone to court (say Samsung, for example) they'd be laughed out of the building and their patent be ruled invalid.

    I wonder if it can be used to hold up another companies sales though. I doubt they'd do it if it wasn't going to have some use down the road. A small company developing something new and clever doesn't necessarily have the legal department or the money to throw away to fight dumb, but expensive battles. With other large tech names it might just serve as a delaying tactic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Would this not somehow conflict with some sort of U.S. law that would put Childrens safety first?
    Tablets might not be targetted at children, but if manufacturers have no choice but to put sharp edges on them, as opposed to rounding them, first kid that gets injured (In America), Sues, as it's standard coming of age stuff over there, who gets the blame? The Parents won't, even if they throw it at the Kid, So the Tablet Manufacturers, unless they make some sort of hexagonal corner.. ? Ah, America..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Mr. Rager wrote: »
    I'm gonna patent the humble triangle.
    I've got dibs on the arrogant triangle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    Writing this post is the only effect this news will have on me. Meh


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    I'm going to patent the shape of a human being and sue everyone on the planet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Shryke wrote: »
    I'm going to patent the shape of a human being and sue everyone on the planet.
    Good luck with that. There are some truly bizarrely shaped people scattered about the planet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,693 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Samsung have just overtaken apple as the maker of the best selling smartphone. Android is outselling ipads. Apples shareprice is taking a huge dump and their precious leader is not around to mindfcuk the world into believing that Apple are still the dominant player as he is currently being told by a Creator even more powerful than himself, just exactly who really owns the patent to Apple,apples,rectangles and anything else he cares to mention. Soon enough, the only thing Apple will be able to flog, are the stupid accessories for their overpriced crap.

    Don't hold back now...tell us what you really think:pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭Mensch Maschine


    I don't think they are pantenting that shape... like this guy writes...
    Maybe I'm wrong here, but this looks like a lot less than patententing a rectangle with rounded corners and more about a patent for a _device_ with rounded corners, a non-flat back, vent holes, a home button, etc. Without a patent like this, what's to prevent a company from making an exact copy of the iPad?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭CaSCaDe711


    Definitely time the US Patent Office copped on, and stopped accepting this crap from Apple. Idiots :rolleyes:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    How is this a unique shape? Laptops have always done this as well as many electronics? It's just a safer shape in general to not have a pointed edge?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    so which is better ps3 or xbox360 ?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Snowie wrote: »
    so which is better ps3 or xbox360 ?

    PC


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Its more of a long rectangular edged oval IMO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭james142


    I dont like apple.


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