Author: GMills

Samsung Blinks

The Apple lawsuit against Samsung has taken an interesting turn, suggesting Samsung is ready to settle with Apple, behind the scenes. Samsung has just withdrawn its main counter-suit against Apple.

Apple sued Samsung for stealing the look and feel of both the iPhone and iPad devices and operating user interface. Indeed the pictures of Apple iPhones along side Samsungs recent Android entrys are so similar it is hard to tell them apart. There are numerous patents Apple cited including design elements that Samsung copied “lavishly”.

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Samsung Blinks

Posted by Greg Mills

The Apple lawsuit against Samsung has taken an interesting turn late thursday, suggesting Samsung is getting ready to settle with Apple, behind the scenes. Samsung has just withdrawn its counter-suit against Apple.

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Mac OS X Lion goes Golden Master

Posted by Greg Mills

Lion is coming soon. Developers have gotten a version of Lion that is a “Golden Master”. In the language of software, that means the version thus designated is free of known issues and will be the version shipped to the public. Various rumors regarding the release date have been circulating for a while now. Some have mentioned July 6 as being the release date.

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Greg’s Bite: Why Android has Peaked

When the Motorola/Apple cell phone came out in the summer of 2005, it was a great disappointment to both Apple and Apple fans. You might as well have taped an iPod to a standard cell phone. It sucked. Apple, by that point in time, already knew to do a cell phone right, they would have to start from scratch. The first thing they did was junk their cell phone engineering relationship with Motorola and also scrap conventional notions of what a cell phone was.

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Greg’s Bite: Why Android has Peaked

When the Motorola/Apple cell phone came out in the summer of 2005, it was a great disappointment to both Apple and Apple fans. You might as well have taped an iPod to a standard cell phone. It sucked. Apple, by that point in time, already knew to do a cell phone right, they would have to start from scratch. The first thing they did was junk their cell phone engineering relationship with Motorola and also scrap conventional notions of what a cell phone was.

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