OK...Ok...Good evening guys, good evening. OK I'm certain you guys remember my rant quite a while back about apple and their quest to stomp all other competition by constantly suing them? And I'm also sure you guys remember the proview injunction against apple and the iPad in china? Proview claimed they patented the name iPad, and they had the courts in their favor to halt sales against apples great tablet...Well of course this injunction continued for a few months, and apple just dished out 60 million dollars to proview, they were asking for upwards of half a billion but apple quickly settled for the 60 million. BUT THAT ISN'T WHY IM HERE TODAY...
Immediately after reading this news, I continued my scrubbing of news feeds, and the one article that caught my eye? JUDGE GRANTS APPLE TEMPORARY BAN OF GALAXY NEXUS (IN US). Now even if you've been living under a rock, it's impossible to miss the news centered around apple lately, and I'm speaking in general. From questionable sales, to news that not many consumers are on their side...To just recently #BoycottApple being the #1 topic on Google+. Now i can understand how fear sets in for apple, especially with Samsung more than likely being their #1 facing competition. With the newest news out of google i/o about jelly bean, Apple did choose a great time to win in the courts for a ban. It still doesn't necessarily hurt Samsung, but i can see how apple would fear them with the release of jelly bean, and the price drop for unlocked Galaxy Nexus in the Play store, albeit the Gnex in the play store is GSM only.
More scrubbing of the news, i learned that the successor to the Galaxy note Will be released, and the original date of released moved up to and ahead of the iPhone 5. One more reason i can understand that apple would be fearful of Sammy's power. To be honest, i cannot understand how the courts can grant the ban against sammy, the total dispute would be against the operating system in terms of android correct? Or is it because touchwiz uses a branded version of android? I understand this article references apple, but with apple suing all competition, I have to bring others into the discussion, HTC, Motorola, Samsung. Since the untimely death of jobs, apple has just been walking blind, They released the new macbook with retina, but they also raised the price by 400$ and it doesn't eve arrive in a 13 inch flavor meaning the new macbook is 400$ more than THE OLD 15inch macbook. I've seen many consumers that i follow on twitter already uploaading photos of them unboxing their new macbooks, but simultaneously apple removed the optical drive to make the device more portable. SO now, on top of paying 400 extra bucks pretty much for the screen alone, you also have to fork over extra money for an external drive. I mean i understand cloud technology is booming right now, but all consumers still aren't comfortable yet.
In this time where windows may make a comeback, and many consumers are possibly jumping ship to android. Apples following is beginning to dwindle down to longtime cult fans. They still provide premium products, at the continued premium price, which is still UNACCEPTABLE. I still say apple meeds to release the ipad mini, and follow suite with amazon kindle fire and the now nexus 7 tablet brought to us by asus and google. But i guess they really do not want to do that huh? It honestly needed to be done this year. Who cares about the iPhone5?
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