So this has been going on for years/months (I'm not sure which) but it's been getting a bit crazy right about now, so I thought I would have a little talk about it. Apple are a bit like Marmite when it comes to the internet; people either love them or hate them with a fiery passion.
Now I use an iPhone and yeah it's an okay phone, it does what I want and I like how it does it. It has a few problems, but what doesn't technology wise these days? I am in no way an Apple fan-boy, the iPhone is the only thing I own and yes, I agree they are overpriced for what they are but I don't mind paying for it because I think it's worth it.
However, I don't like Apple as a business... They make a lot of overpriced stuff and although I think (I may be wrong but don't kill me!) that the iPhone revolutionised what a smartphone was and brought them into the public spotlight, they haven't been the first to create a lot of what they claim and they are a bit crazy when it comes to enforcing patents...
Now I've never understood patents or copyrights, I'm a very sharing-is-caring kind of guy and think that although competition is good for innovation, so is sharing. Now I have a limited knowledge of the past to all this, the first thing I heard about anything was a lawsuit between Apple and Motorola concerning the slide to unlock function... Yes, it's that's stupid! I can't remember who won that but I think it was Apple?
The second lawsuit I know about all this was between Apple and Samsung concerning the Galaxy S and the iPhone 4/ iPad... Apparently the Samsung Galaxy stuff look mighty similar to the iPhone and iPad... I personally don't see this, but courts did and awarded Apple $1BILLION for patent infringement! Now I can't help but ask myself, why? You're a billion dollar company Apple, why do you need to sue people over stupid things? Slide to unlock functions and phones "looking similar", all of this just seems childish and a bit absurd...
Now Google and Android, who have connections with Samsung and Motorola are very annoyed about all this. Google bought Motorola and are now suing Apple and wish to stop the sale of Apple products in the US? I would say Apple bought this on themselves, but is this really a mature reaction? Patent laws are crazy and things like this will keep happening, with people suing each other into oblivion until there are no phones for anyone.
And as if that wasn't crazy enough, a company in China got their hands on some leaked photo's of the iPhone5, which Apple were hoping to announce in the coming weeks. They've banged out a quick copy (only China...) called the GooPhone I5 and are threatening to sue Apple if they release the coming iPhone in China...
My mind is just like... WHAT?! To all this... This is quickly getting out of hand, and honestly I think this will all end in Apple getting into serious trouble, if not going bankrupt. And they only have themselves to blame in all this! I honestly think this is bad... I didn't care much for Apple but honestly after using the iPhone1 almost 5 years ago I can't go back to using something else... People have told me that Android is better but I've invested a lot of money into my Apple product, through buying the phones and the apps, even recently going as far as purchasing some Hank Green on iTunes...
If Apple were to go bust, I (and many more people) would possibly be left with useless phones that wouldn't get serviced any more, wouldn't get upgrades any more, wouldn't get replaced or fixed if they broke any more... And I would hate that, I've paid a lot of money for my iPhone 4S and I don't want to see it become a brick that I can't use...
So I honestly hope that this gets sorted out soon before either Apple or Android become a thing of the past...
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