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  • I’ve loved apple products for a while. Had an iPhone, hated an iPhone and have used anything but since. apple does not, and cannot logically apply for a patent and it was CLEARLY copied tech.

    IF the patent office approves this, we were supposed to be gone in 2012.

    This is beyond sad for apple!

  • Apple is really good at bribing the Patent Office. Unlike the Google one that has yet to be approved, Apple’s one will be approved in 10 seconds. this is a huge threat if actually approved because of Obama’s patent reform which allows which ever form got processed first, even if sent in later to get control of said patent. And lets face it, the patent office approves all Apple crap patents without even looking for prior art.

  • The only thing sadder than Apple trying to patent a technology they didn’t implement first are the blind religious Apple-devoted in that thread who are jumping in to defend them and to try to convince everyone that Apple didn’t really steal this idea…

    • Hah! And I was banned from their forums for posting that. The truth really does hurt sometimes.

  • This inspired me. I went ahead and patented the light bulb and the telephone today.

  • Wow, has anyone read the facebook notification? That is some name – Kimchikraut d’Ayodhya and 2 other friends also commented on Sabrina Gabel’s photo: “Resist the nakie machine!”

    WTF?

  • when has apple sued google?i see them working on things together all the time even android they play off each other to clean up shop

  • ….and it was accepted? I think American should patent Kim Kardashian butt too, coz now adays every girl wants have same butt as her! Sweet mother of Odin! What a joke law system in this country!

  • Going from RIM, then iOS & finally settling on Android. This makes my decision to happily stay with my 1yo Razr Maxx all the more justified.

      • INSANELY good, really like my phone. I don’t believe in the “perfect” phone nor platform. But I really do like ICS on the DRM. I think this will be the first phone I’ve kept for over 2 years for quite a while.

  • Here’s what I hope happens: Apple’s patent gets approval, they try to back-date infringement on all Android devices. Courts recognize that Apple is maliciously filing patents in order to gain an edge in the industry. Patent office is torn apart and tech patents are completely reworked to prevent companies from filing frivolous patents. Tech industry is shaken up and forces carriers to stop locking down devices because of an onslaught of similar devices that work across any carrier. Carriers are forced to provide service with value and not act as another Best Buy to buy electronics from, at MSRP prices……..

    ….OK I went a little overboard, but the trickle down effect would be amazing.

  • *Reads comments at Apple Insider link*

    What the… I don’t even… *passes out from stupidity overload*

  • Apple and Google riding in a car together:
    Apple: Stop Touching Me
    Google: You Stop Touching Me!!!!
    Apple: Stop Touching Me
    Google: You Stop Touching Me!!!
    And this is going to go on forever……………………………………..
    🙁

  • Just wait….Apple will do a commercial about the notification center and say it’s’ “their” new technology.

    • Hey, don’t knock a company that revolutionized smartphones with a second, noise canceling mic. *snicker*

      But seriously… C’mon Apple. Pull your head out. It’s not gonna happen.

  • not to mention that MOST of apples patents were bogus and were not worthy of even being recorded, yet they were… There lays the end problem, only BIG companies get WHAT THEY WANT… That is, until Google says other wise lol

    • You assume they are not? Look at all the past patents they gave Apple. Round black corners, face unlock (Despite Android doing it first), green call phone icon etc.

  • I’m guessing the patent was not awarded to Google, or we’d be reading that patent right now

  • This is getting stupid. I’m hoping for the next disruptive market that the major players properly patent their ideas so that there’s significantly less copying.

  • Apple is lucky Google hasn’t sued them for their blatant rip-off of the Android notification bar.

  • I hope this is fake. As an Apple fan. and Current Android Phone/Tablet user. I have used both items and Apple’s notification system looks strangely similar to a Jail Broken Iphone App. The icons and layout is almost exact.

    I dont know how they have claim over this. Give it up Apple, Android or whomever got this first. Even I personally agree with that.

  • “As notifications arrive, the top of the phone notifies the person, …”

    This is, unfortunately (for iOS users), untrue. The lack of this feature is one of — if not the — major downfall of the iOS notification bar.

    iOS has android beat in the stock lockscreen notifications game, but there are plenty of android apps to remedy that.

  • They also can’t even think about using it in lawsuits because its just a patent application…and one that would be hard to see how it could be accepted.

    • It’s not hard to see how it would be accepted, patent examiners have their performance evaluated by how many initial patent applications they process. If they reject a patent and the filer re-files it goes back on their desk but doesn’t help their metrics, so they’re inclined to approve when possible.

  • I wouldn’t worry Android fans. Android’s notification center is, safe to say, safe from competition from anyone else.

  • Apple’s implementation is much different and much less useful. If they do get a patent approved, it will be much different and probably won’t affect Android.

    • Well apple isn’t going to invest in it until it has a patent to protect it. If Google got their patent and told Apple to remove it or pay up, Apple could just remove it and most iOS users would never know….

    • because ANYONE is allowed to submit a patent, it is UP TO THE PATENT OFFICE TO LOOK FOR COPIES OR ALIKE IDEAS… again as I stated up top, ONLY BIG COMPANIES GET WHAT THEY WANT, i.e. apple… most patent from apple are bogus and were rubber stamped… Google could sue apple for all the features they basically stole years after it Google made them, however seeing how Google is open sourced, its a bit different to steal open source but it shouldn’t be allowed to have an idea already out there, and then apple comes and takes it and then patents it… NO ONE SHOULD be allowed to patent NON TECH BREAK THROUGH’s… Meaning NO ONE should be able to patent ROUNDED CORNERS, you can only have 2 types, Chamfer or fillet type corners… one is a arc and the other is a line… rounded corners have nothing to do with a break through in technology and or features…

    • Well apple did think of everything first…android is stealing all of apple’s good ideas especially the notification light on phones…total apple copying…and customizable software…totally apple…the list can go on but I will refrain for time’s sake.

      • ummm what?! what notification light? apple doesn’t have a LED in the phone except the rear camera and that probably was developed by third party developers prior to iOS 6. and customizable, psh, don’t make me laugh. There’s a reason why people call it jailbreaking, cause iOS is essentially prison, IE no customizing to the way customers like, except the wallpaper and it took 4 gens of iphone to get that.

          • And iOS will have widgets? iFanboys will cry out in hatred over that, they all rip on androids widgets in every forum and comment section and saying there is no need for it. I guess until apple implements it to their own os it is awful then turns out to be innovative.

          • I forgot to add widgets! Another thing that Apple had to have come up with first! And yes, obviously my whole “Apple first” thing was sarcastic…for those that couldn’t figure that out… IE open source fan

    • They could, but Google isn’t being an apple. Google is innovating, not being idiots lashing out at people better than them.

  • “Resist the nakie machine” huh? They should be denied patent just for putting that in their drawing!

  • So Google “attempted” to patent it, I am assuming they didn’t get an actual patent for it, was it denied or something? Off Googling it I guess…

          • “To all the people who claim Apple cribbed Android’s Notification Bar: WebOS had it first, and Apple hired WebOS’s notification engineer. Moreover, you can’t get in trouble for taking somebody’s work if that work was a derivative of your own copyrighted work. Go ask the guy who wrote an unsolicited screenplay for Rocky 4 and sent it to Stallone in an attempt to get hired. Stallone just took it, made the movie, and didn’t pay the guy. The guy sued and the Court ruled that because the guy’s work was a derivative of Stallone’s work(e.g. Based on character’s Stallone created), the guy had no case.”

            Holy crap. Just like most of the stories I read about Apple these days, my reaction to this is “what a giant douche.” This guy was right on the money with his analogy, I guess.

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