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  • Yikes… Now that Jobs is dead looks like Apple is going the way of Yahoo, with buying up patents and then suing other who use tech similar to those patents. This is totally wrong and needs to be outlawed in the US, because the only people it hurts in the end is us, the consumer. I hope they lose then then Google turns around and not only sues them for Apple using the notification bar, but also sues them for costing them millions in having to hold back their device.

  • I don’t get how they can sue Samsung for something that is built into Android? The Judge should have dismissed this and Apple honestly should have sued Google not Samsung.

  • I just had an idea. Apple should employ the use of that search patent they seem so fond of and try and find their balls… cause their actions are straight bitch.

  • My fandroid friends, I offer you this quote from the late, great Steven P. Jobs when he introduced the iPhone to the world in January 2007:
    “We have filed for over 200 patents for all of the inventions in the iPhone…..AND WE INTEND TO PROTECT THEM”.

    Obviously they didn’t take him seriously……I bet they do now. As in the words of Malcolm X, “The chickens have come home to roost” 🙂

  • Apple still doesnt get it. While they are spending weeks or even months trying to get one phone or one phone company banned about another 50 android phones are being built and released from different companies. and most of them are better then the phone they are trying to get banned. Don’t get mad at news like this. Just laugh at Apples stupidity.

    • The problem here is that it’s a Nexus device, and (at least some of) the particular patents that they are trolling are basic Android functions. So while they may be suing Samsung, they are going after Google and Android at a pretty basic level.

  • I’m just curious to know how a former criminal law attorney and newly appointed judge, is the right person to be making a call on a technology case… especially one that could have such a big outcome on the industry? How can a decision on any topic be correct if the deciding party has no knowledge of the subject matter? I wish *pple as a whole, was a person, I’d kick him (goal kick) in the nuts.

  • Smh wow that’s really crazy apple really has nothing better else to do but go around suing people what’s next they are gonna start suing me for not purchasing their wack expensive products foh

  • What are those three dots on the bottom of that nexus??? must be for some accessories or something…. lollolol

  • google is going to retaliate and reign total fcukn annihilation down on apple with either their next smart phone or tablet because of this nonsense

  • Google must not be to upset, they were using a Mac to display Google+ at the conference!!!

  • Patiently waits for crApple fanboys to flood the site with bragging. Then I can track their IP address………..

    • While not an apple fan boy, I do work in networking and would love to know how you plan to track addresses with out server or network administration rights at the hosting facility for the droid life website?

  • Y’know… I was going to post a long diatribe about how Apple’s corporate culture has ruined their products for me and how I’ll never buy one of their products till they change policy but… I think I’ll just say…. This is bullshit…

  • I can’t think of a smartphone nowadays that doesn’t involve a swipe to unlock. Our justice system is actually taking this shit seriously? Don’t they have other stuff to worry about? I mean Christ almighty, this is outrageous.

  • I’m so depressed about this news. It makes no sense. Someone tell me a reason not to worry.

  • And because of apple being unfair tools and wanting everyone to have a small screen out of date peice of glass that breaks when u hold it to hard is why apple can take all their products and shove em. Maybe instead of spending money on sueing everyone else how about they worry about their own piece of crap phone and improve on it. Its been 5 years and what has changed the shape? What a bunch of losers.

  • Enough of Apple pulling this crap. They should not be allowed to ban ANY phones. A fine okay, but banning phones from a country is taking it to far. Apple wants to destroy Android and these idiot judges are playing into it. Vote for me as President and I will Ban Banning phones, except iPhones. I’ll ban them from themselves

    • I doubt Google or Samsung are worried, probably just annoyed that they have to deal with this BS.

  • I see a potential loophole here. Isn’t this issue tied to software only? Theoretically, if Google updates the Galaxy Nexus to Jelly Bean, wouldn’t they have to review the issue, especially since Jelly Bean brings the new device-wide search Google Now?

  • Could I have a bracelet that says “I use banned phones” instead of the one that says “I read banned books”?

  • The patents in question have to do with Siri like unified search, slide unlock, data tapping, and auto correction when typing. This loss will hurt both Google and Samsung since GNEX was developed by Google and made by Samsung.

  • Why stop there.. Should have banned all Samsung POS devices from entering the states.

  • Now I don’t even want to go to work because I’m forced to work on a Mac. Apple you go to hell, you go to hell and die.

  • My Galaxy Nexus speaker has been going bad… now I waited too long to ask for a replacement. They can’t replace them. They offered me a LG Spectrum as a replacement. NO THANKS.

  • All I know is they are gonna have to pry my Nexus out of my cold lifeless fingers!!

  • wow, this just makes me want to go out and buy an iphone so much more… its because of this type of temper tantrums of apple is the reason apple products are not in this house, and not one computer here has itunes on it (ok, there is a G4 in the corner running yellow dog linux)

  • This is precisely why I will never, ever own an Apple product again. Since owning an iPhone 3G an iPhone 4, and an iPad 1, I am convinced Apple cripples older hardware on purpose via iOS “upgrades.” My once speedy and stable iPad 1 has become a crash pad and nothing more. Why, look no further than iOS 4 and 5. Oh, I had to upgrade, too. It’s not as if I had a choice. Many of the apps I depended on required the latest iOS release. Plus, Apple won’t let you roll back on a device you supposedly own … supposedly. Last time I checked anyway. Apple is treading on serious thin ice here if you ask me.

    I traded in my iPhone 4 for a Galaxy Nexus, and I don’t miss my iPhone at all. In fact, I am so glad it’s gone. I can do so much more on my GN than I ever could on my iPhone. Being able to replace my battery is a good start, btw. My iPad 1 is getting sold and replaced with a Nexus 7 tablet. Apple can eat shit as far as I am concerned.

  • So if they ban galaxy nexus is it all nexus ban brand what about the galaxy nexus 2 are we going to have that if they do end up making another one

  • So what happens if I break my phone and use the insurance to replace the phone. Will I get a Galaxy Nexus or something else?

    • I have the insurance, too. If this ban actually comes to pass, and I don’t get a replacement Galaxy Nexus, then I’m going after Apple. I’ll sue them on grounds of extortion and theft.

  • it doenst make sense to me that you can patent something so simple as the “slide to unlock” really? come on man! apple is just a fucking joke. why do these fanboys overpay for icrap!

  • so will apple people chase us around like kyle on the southpark episode humancentipad trying to get our phones?

  • They can have my Galaxy Nexus when they pry it from my Cold, Dead Hands… after my M4 is empty and melted.

  • Just wait until Apple makes a TV. when someone makes one better they will start patenting things like Power button to turn on. The possibilities are endless. Apple could start making doorknobs and then sue everyone for turn the doorknob to open door.

  • Apple may be innovating on the hardware front. But iOS is stagnating and they apparently don’t have the talent to take it beyond what Android offers so they want to sue them out of existence.

    Other than that lame Slide-to-Unlock patent, anyone know what the other three claims are? NM, it’s in the original Verge article: slide-to-unlock, aggregated search, actionable linking, and touch screen word suggestion. Actionable linking is what they nailed HTC with. Aggregated search is the Google search widget basically – searching across multiple sources through a single interface. For iOS this is basically Siri. This could have HUGE implications for the improved Google Voice search and Google Now unleashed in Jellybean. Not sure what the last one means.

  • potential ban on a vzw device that is about to be discontinued…awesome.

  • Sort of off topic: A few weeks ago, it would have been obvious to me that the S3 > GNEX. But after seeing JB, and just realizing how much sexier and cheaper the GNEX is, I don’t know anymore. Help, anyone?

  • I hear apple is getting the patent to send and receive MMS. they claim they had it before everyone else

    • I also hear their working on a patent for the power button. From now on all other phones will ship with a crank to power on the device.

  • i dont understand…why would goggle put goggle chrome/drive ect and all that stuff on iphone and ipad when apple keeps trying to block ever thing goggle doing?why dosnt goggle allow all android phone chrome before they give it to apple?is goggle going to the dark side?im losing hope….should i be buying a iphone?

  • For a company so loved.. why are you so hated? Because of crapple like this…

  • I got an email from the judge. Her signature says “Sent from my iDevice”

  • OH GOD NO WHY! I WAS PLANNING ON BUYING ONE! I will never EVER! Even think of buying an apple product again EVER! *RAGE MODE ACTIVATED*

  • I imagine the Nexus is almost EOL for Verizon, seeing as the GS3 is right around the corner, so this isn’t that big a deal (for VZW customers anyway).

  • Why is the Galaxy Nexus the only one included in the ban? All androids have “slide to unlock “?

  • So, what, Apple can’t innovate anymore so they choose to attack technology that’s well ahead of them? This is the perfect way to tell consumers never to buy from them again. Apple will shrink to nothing, lose their investors, and punch Tim Cook in the face on the way out.

    Apple has yet to amaze me in two years. I doubt they will with anything else from this point forward. At least Google innovates. They’re too busy worried that products have a screen to view things on in the shape of a rectangle and a flat surface.

  • There goes Apple again, throwing their weight around, claiming that everything they have was theirs to begin with…all because they have the paperwork. I have no kind words to say about Apple, especially since most of those words are inappropriate for this setting.

    How in the world can people continue to support a company whose main strategy for their competition is “sue, sue, sue”? They aren’t interested in advancing their own interface and product as much as they are interested in blocking the competition by using litigation. Apple needs to get a reality check; they aren’t God.

  • Bring on the outrage! I can’t wait to see how this one unfolds! Who knew *pple was so good at making people hate them. I hope more line workers riot in the *pple factory. They deserve it, at the very least.

    • I may just buy a Nexus 7 out of spite now 🙂 My contribution to el Goog’s legal fight against the fruity oppressor.

  • Isn’t there a law where the competition can’t prevent the competing company from making profits? Something about becoming a monopoly. Can we start a petition so that this bull crap ruling gets overthrown?

  • ok serious SH*t HERE PEOPLE…who here knows some damn good hackers…i say bring them down…attack siri servers and apple servers every other day until they stop with this crap…im sure most hackers use android anyways for it hackability as apposed to Icrap..im serious here…i dont know enough but i am just planting the seed…either that or create a G+ account and make it an anti apple site and have everyone join and convince them to trade away their Icrap..i dunno im just spitballing here…GOD i HATE THEM

    • POS? Don’t like it? Wanna trade? I’ll give you my Xperia Play. At least the GNex has ICS and is getting (or has if you root/flash) JB. I sadly won’t be seeing either. I might have a near vanilla Android experience but unless I root I’m stuck on GB 🙁

  • aphole is just trying to sue their competition out of existence while they still have the cash since they cant out develop them, just like good ole steve said he would try to do. I think aphole should move their offices to Deuche Bagistan.

    • Maybe Steve Jobs isn’t dead…. Think about it, he “died” 1 day after the release of the disappointing 4S? It might have been a publicity stunt! He “died” to gain sales!

      • “The iPhone 4S becomes the quickest-selling iPhone ever, with pre-orders
        topping 1 million in the first 24 hours and sales numbering 4 million in its first weekend.”

        I’m sure they were horribly disappointed.

        • It was disappointing in terms of differentiating itself form the iPhone 4 specs wise. The only reason it was “successful” is because more people are born, and more people are adapting cell phones. I think if you were to run the numbers PER CAPITA, it would definitely disappoint.

          • I was hoping we could have had an endless cycle of buddy and pal. Way to throw a wrench.

          • “The iPhone 4S propelled what is now confirmed to have been the most
            profitable quarter any technology company has ever recorded. Apple on
            Wednesday reported record earnings for the December quarter, revealing a profit of $13.06 billion on revenue that surpassed $46 billion.”

            I think not; best not to lie to ourselves. I’m a harsh critic of the Evil Empire but the truth is they’re making hand over fist money. In this economy success is measured by $$$$.

      • I hated the guy with every fiber of my being, but I have to admit he is the greatest salesman who ever lived.

  • This might just be what android needs.. there’s no way Google can sit idly by now.. they’ll have to take a stand.

    • Watch, Google will put the SMACK down on Apple, I think they are piling a case right now, will all those Motorola patents! It’s gonna be such a big patent suit, that Apple will cease to exist! They will pay through the nose for trying to FACK with GOOGLE!

      • “that Apple will cease to exist” – THIS I would LOVE to see! Or not see?

        Sure, thousands of Apple employees would be out of jobs, but guess what, they knew what they were getting themselves into.

        • They’re just a bunch of sunglasses-wearin’, duck-face makin, fedora-capped hipsters anyway. Maybe they can go protest somewhere.

    • And a stand they shall take. Google vs. Apple — TO THE DEATH!

      SPOILER: Google will have their heads on a spike. If this happened in the olden days, and Google was in the North and Apple was in the West, I can tell you that they would have fought it out by now, and Google would have been victorious.

  • At least by the time a court bans a device its at the end of its sales life anyway.

  • Much like the notification bar, Apples slides in too late for anyone to care. Nexus is already on its way into the dust bin for the SIII. Anyone that wants one has one by now. If not, move on over to the SIII and support Samsung anyway. Win-win

    • By the way, I am by no means saying tbr Nexus is outdated. I am just saying that those of us that really wanted one have one.

      • I’d agree but Apple will more than likely bring another case against the GSIII (and taken from this), will be granted an injunction against it as well. Although that depends on timing, introducing a new case would likely delay the trial for this one at the end of July. Hard to say at this point what Apple will do.

  • So what is apple going to break down my door and pull my nexus out of my hand? ROFL!!!! Apple should learn to quit messing with Samsung. Its like punching your business associate that you do tons of business with in the NADS!!!

    • Naw…the Internet got itself broken after witnessing the single greatest live demo ever to grace the net…when Google live demo’d Glass with skydiving!

  • F it. More reason for people to pick them up before the ban and more reason for google to get the new Nexus phone out asap.

    It’s a 6-7 month old phone. Plenty already in consumers hands.

  • Other sources are saying it is because of the unified search capabilities (aka Google Now) which Google has pretty much always had in one form or another.

  • This confirms that the iPhone 5 will be lackluster at best since Apple is trying to block every device that already has it beat.

    • they hit their ceiling quite some time ago. When your commercials barely show your physical product and focus on only 1 feature because it’s the only tangible new thing on it, you’re clock is ticking…

    • The 4S was a disappointment, so what can they possibly do to make a better phone? add another “S” to it?

  • Piece of trash Apple can go run in front of a horde of wild freaking kangaroos for all I care. All I know though is that I will NEVER buy a single Apple product for as long as I f’n live. Not one more.

    If my next job is in an office and they use iMacs, I will destroy said company owned iMac, pay for it out of my a**, and go home, get my own great Windows-based PC, and that would be it.

    Apple can “suck it” from here on out.

    • I feel the same way. Prior to this week, i tried to be unbiased in my comments about Apple, but as of now, it’s on!

      • Yeah, for sure! EVERYTHING was going great for Google, Galaxy Nexus, Android, etc, then we get this horrific news to end the fu**ing week.

        I sort of use to like Apple(maybe 1% of me did), but that 1% is long gone after hearing this news. They are just scared that Google is slowly taking over the world with Android and all their ORIGINAL devices(iPhone is just a ONE hit wonder) and Apple wants a piece of the f**king pie.

        Well, I say, they can have a piece of the pie; I hope they choke on it!

        The sons of bitc*hes.

      • I actually think Apple’s engineers and designers do great work, but the leadership at the company is very unethical. For instance:

        – They claim they’re really trying to change the world with their products, but if that were true, their products wouldn’t be priced twice as much as their worth.
        – They squeeze their suppliers to the point that their workers commit suicide because of working conditions while they rake in billions.
        – They claim they can’t afford to manufacture in the US but they have enough cash on hand to buy Switzerland (I think it was Switzerland, correct me if I’m wrong).
        – Whenever there is a defect with their product, they try and sweep it under the rug yet still claim to have the best customer service.
        – They spend ridiculous amounts of money on patent cases over overly broad patents instead of buying assets, paying their engineers or designers more, or sharing more money with suppliers (see second point).

        And I’m sure there’s countless other things I can’t think of at the moment. In one corner, you have Apple who is sitting on something they invented 5 years ago and using the court system to compete. In the other corner, you have Google, who is continually invested in improving Android for OEM’s, carriers, developers, and consumers alike all while working on truly futuristic and innovative technologies like self-driving cars and Project Glass. People like to think of Apple as this perfect saint and Google as this big bad bully, but they couldn’t have it more wrong.

        • Yes, thanks for that summary. If you don’t mind, i want to post this summary in other places. This is spot on.

        • Talk about a +10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 comment.

          Absolutely brilliant!

          Also, I’m going to read what you wrote every time I start getting pissed off when I hear anyone talk about how great Apple and their so-called iPhone is. Then look at my Galaxy Nexus, a fully customizable phone. I can do whatever the heck I want with it, while iPhones remain the same year after year, design after design(granted, with a few new features each time).

          I honestly shouldn’t care though, and should just enjoy being a fan of Google, Android, my Nexus, etc, and leave it at that, but it just sickens me that Apple has gotten this out of control over the years. They use to be a respectable company, but no more.

          But oh well, that’s the way it is. Poor people get poorer and rich people(like Apple top execs) keep getting richer by the day.

          And that’s just the world we live in.

  • I want the iphone banned because it infringes on the phone: the ability to make calls to people near and far….

  • These companies are acting like children, I swear. It’s MINE MINE! Hey bozo, YOU’VE got something THEY created, too! How bout this, you all can take what’s YOURS YOURS YOURS and that’ll leave you ALL with useless piles of junk because EVERY unit has something that some OTHER company created on it! MOTO’S radios, APPLES stupid azz swipe to unlock, SAMSUNGS screen tech, on and on. But keep fighting and making yourselves look like asses to your customers…..

  • Don’t worry. You will all get shiny new iPhones and be just like everyone else! Happy days! Happy days!! Yay!

  • google needs to slam them for the notification bar. I’ve had about enough of this “open source” thing when one side doesn’t care if people use their stuff, and the other person sues the hell out of people.

  • 2 major blows to Android devices this week. First the Galaxy Tab 10.1, and now the Gnex. I hope Apple’s Headquarters gets sucked into the ground during an earthquake. And then i shall take a plss down that sink hole.

  • I really think this Judge Koh is clueless about what’s being litigated here. I understand she’s a judge with 100000x more legal experience than me, but she clearly knows jack about mobile/computing devices. This is an outrage.

    • I read something somewhere that 51%+ of the people making the decisions of the us can’t even send there own email’s. It really is getting outrageous. When the world’s future is in technology and the future of computing is mobile, the one’s making the decision’s should at least understand what’s being decided on before making the decision. It’s just beyond ridiculous.

    • They will. Eventually people will stop buying iCrap. Especially if the iPhone 5 will be a disappointment like the 4S.

    • i was actually just talking to an apple fanboy whos a friend of mine and said that it will happen. bc apple is now not innovative and are wasting their money on suing everyone for frivolous things

  • Couldn’t Samsung/Android just update it so that it doesn’t “infringe” on “their” patents and start selling it again. For instance… update them with JB

  • patent 604, which is know n as the siri patent. Android is a stolen product..google under investigation by the EU and ftc for SEP abuse, they are losing court battles…

    • Even though google had Voice recognition and text to speech before siri…

    • Siri is a bought product you fool. Apple didn’t invent Siri as much as they invented pull down notifications..

    • Apple bought Siri, you dummy. Siri was once an app you could acquire via the App Store and install on an iPhone. Once Siri was bought, Apple pulled the Siri app from the App Store and made it “exclusive” to the iPhone 4s, even though Siri could run on an iPhone 3g just fine. Now, that being said, explain to me how Apple doesn’t fuck over their user base?

  • The judge obviously didn’t take this patent battle serious when one the iPhone slide to unlock is clearly different from the Galaxy Nexus and that’s only available for those who are not using a pattern lock. The patent process is flawed and corrupt!

  • well hopefully the price for the phone drops like a rock so they can get there stock of the phone out before the ban takes place

  • Soon apple is going to file a patent for firing off knuckle children and we have to pay them every time friggen A.

    • No, it means that potentially the Galaxy nexus can’t be sold in the United States. You can keep your Galaxy Nexus if you have one now.

  • Cant wait to see how the plan on enforing this ban. Nexus owners will get a letter in the mail to surrender your phones. LMAO

    • No, Nexus owners will not have to surrender their phone. It means that the GNex might not be able to be sold anymore in the US.

    • As Kellex said, we don’t know which patents the judge has ruled on. Just stay cal…. OHH MY GAWD! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!! HOW COULD APPLE DO THIS?!

  • If you can’t beat them, block the sale of their devices. Such a shame that a powerhouse company like Apple would have to stoop so low for so called intellectual properties.

  • Hmmmm……I am pretty damn sure my nexus outperforms my wife’s iPhone in all ways but battery life. Nothing about our phones are remotely close except for the pull down notification system on hers is a bit cupcakeish…

  • Damn.

    Well hopefully this get’s Google’s attention and they decide to help out OEMs here. An attack on the Nexus is an attack on Android itself. Google must not let this stand without a fight.

  • I want to Ban iPhones for the patent that they infrigne on: using a screen to view your phones information.

    • I was wondering about that, do you think i can get more for it on ebay now?

    • I’m pretty sure it means ban from sale not on Nexus’ already sold. Google could always just sue them back for blatantly copying the notification system of android.

    • AMEN to that! I will fight whoever to the bitter f’n end. They will not take my Nexus away from me.

        • I would fight big ass angry apes before my Nexus leaves my hands.

          No, I will GLUE my Nexus to my left hand, and they will have to literally rip off my hand if they want my Nexus. Damnit.

    • Yes, it’s a potential ban on sales in the US. They aren’t gonna take it away from you. That’d be unconstitutional!

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