felipeko

I don't have the same experience as most people here. I usually just study by reading or trying to recreate the scene/code/history in my read, and works greatly to understand and memorize. When i write it takes time and feels like wasted time.

This is just a PR gamble with the numbers. They are saying for the past 2 years.

And that probably means that Android outsold Windows this year, or else they wouldn't have used "last 2 years". Going by Android's growth rate and Windows' saturation, i would say this is a good guess.

Samsung profits very little from Apple, maybe they will profit more now, but as it stands, i would like to be the one to report shareholders that we lost the biggest customer, but we have record profits because of that, selling smartphones is way more profitable for Samsung (they are close to Apple profits) than selling chips to Apple will ever be.

Brazil actually has a very organized election. Aside from bad politicians we have to chose from, the election does not have many problems. We have a judicial system just for election (with judges and clear laws) ready to take actions (and they do take) when something goes wrong. All election occurs in one day, a sunday so everyone can vote, and the results usually come in less than 4 hours, because all vote is electronic.

While i agree with you on almost everything... Why didn't Apple accept to be bound by the courts (supposed to be fair and reasonable) rate? Something smells here about this, and it's coming from Apple.

Apple and Microsoft both are trying to make FRAND patents become cheap, so they can just tax Android to hell with their utility patents.

What Motorola's patent they promised to give for cheap? FRAND does not mean cheap. It never meant. Microsoft and Apple are trying to change the term now, because they want to tax Android products, and cheapening SEP is the easiest way to do that, because that would disarm all others OEMs, and they would be able to tax them with "utility" patents.

First, a corporation is not someone. Second, forcing a corporation to repair the damage they done is the right thing to do.

Oh yes, i read that now. I (kinda) apologize to the parent post.

I'd argue that Apple is the one needing to do its own thing now. Their patent is being invalidated, that means that what they though it was original is not.

Really doubt it (about Win8/RT having more users than Android, ever), Smartphones are already selling more than PCs. Windows 7 took 2 years to reach 500 millions, and Android is already on that many hands (counting only OHA devices, ignoring Amazon/Nook/China Androids), will be on 1 billion by middle next year.

I agree with most of what you said, except that Nokia taking the Windows Phone strategy and keeping it mouth shut would've killed Windows Phone before they could even ship a phone.

Which makes the decision to go Windows Phone (and kill the company in the process) even more intriguing.

"According to Yahoo, 40% of searches are simply searching for what you saw before."

https://www.seenbefore.com/pages/faq#currently_do

They should link to the study.

Google is using Java language and its API, not JVM or its libs. Google never called Android a Java compatible or Java. Google has written all of its libs and the Dalvik VM.

Now look at this story, it's a company claiming to be Android compatible and using Android runtimes. All they did was a fork and customization of Android. Not there's anything wrong with that, but if you are a member of OHA you agree not to do it.

So there you go:

Google never agreed to anything, Acer did.

Google wrote code and used non-copyrightable part of Java, Alibaba did not (but they still didn't do anything wrong).

Google got sued, Acer/Alibaba did not.

You don't need to develop neither have a pratical thing to have a patent over it on USA.

You can read a time machine patent here: http://www.google.com/patents?id=hNHIAAAAEBAJ&printsec=f...

If you ever happen to develop this machine, this person who just imagined it can ban you from selling. So tell me, who do you think worked harder on this invention? And why would this paper (the patent) be worth more than the real invention?

Are you sure there's any FRAND law? I was under the impression that was just an agreement by the company to a standard body.

Orkut had this same problem. They started showing who looked at your profile. For a lot of people that was when they crossed the line and they started getting tired of the social network. I'm from Brazil, by the way, Orkut was dominant here until last year.

Just for correctness, Oracle made 7 patent infringement claims against Google, and was left with only 2 by the time of the trial because of the reexaminations.

And Google didn't argue invalidity because they agreed (to streamline the trial).

They probably didn't believe this "technology" was worth a patent.

If Windows Phone ever get a good market share, you can be sure that Samsung (and others) will take notice, turning Nokia in a me too. The only company that has to gain from this situation (Windows Phone getting bigger) is Microsoft, not Nokia.

Doesn't copyright law already cover this?

The previous CEO compared using android as 'peeing in your pants to stay warm', i wonder what using WP would have felt for him.

And pretty sure Elop's memo is evidence enough he was the one changing Nokia (Symbian -> Meego) strategy.

Patents/FRAND pools are just a way for big old companies tax the little guys, not for inovations, but by making an standard encumbered with patents. Completely the the opposite of what patents where supposed to do. So, in a way, FRAND is actually a abuse of the patent system in more ways than not.

Because of FRAND you already have products that do not exist and products that become significantly more expensive.

Google's best defense is that API can't be copyrighted actually, and that will be decided by the judge if the jury find Google's work is not fair use.

I think he was talking about forks. As you see, when Sun opened it's language, people said at Sun said some interesting stuff:

"But I think there’ll be lots of forks, and I approve. I suspect that basement hackers and university CompSci departments and other unexpected parties will take the Java source, hack groovy improvements into it, compile it, and want to give it to the world. They’ll discover that getting their creation blessed as “Java” requires running the TCK/trademark gauntlet, which isn’t groovy at all. So they’ll think of a clever name for it and publish anyhow."

Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, 12/11/2006 [ Source: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/11/12/OSS-Java ]

This sound exactly what Google did, so why are they suing now?

You do know that he was agreeing to have copied 9 lines from one file, Timsort? And you do know that those 9 lines are just a range check? I mean:

    private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
        if (fromIndex > toIndex)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
                       ") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
        if (fromIndex < 0)
            throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
        if (toIndex > arrayLen)
            throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
    }

Literally a rangeCheck.

And not only that, 9 lines written by the stealer himself ( http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk7/timsort/... ) and given to Sun/Oracle!

Still, i agree with, Sun/Oracle do have the copyrights for that. Google needs to pay up, is ten bucks alright for this?

The analogy is better if you use dictionary.

The language must have words with meaning (API specification).

A dictionary is a book of words and their definition (API implementation). You can have two different dictionaries from the same language. They both have their copyrights, and they don't infringe each other copyrights.

Harmony's Java API implementation (used in Android) and JDK's Java API implementation are just two different dictionaries for the same language (Java API specification).

You will use a dictionary (API implementation) of a language - its symbols and words and the rules between them - (programming Language and API specification) to write a book (programs).

Both dictionary and book are subject to copyright. The language is not.

Google has almost 90% marketshare in Brazil. People love Google here (only this year Facebook overtook Orkut as the main social network), Chrome is also marketleader already.. Yahoo barely exists in Brazil, aside from a few emails.