Tag: Apple

Nerd News: Apple Wins Billion Dollar Lawsuit Against Samsung

~ Pharmer

A U.S. jury has found that Samsung infringed upon Apple patents. Unlike the decisions in other countries, Samsung lost its countersuit against Apple here. This case has huge implications, but the long term results are unpredictable. Samsung makes microprocessors for Apple. Its a huge company, selling a wide variety of products around the world, and this decision is a setback but certainly not a death knell. Their company officials note that U.S. consumers will lose the cost advantage that comes with competing companies and products in the tech toy market.

The patent battle against Samsung is a facet of Apple’s larger war against Google, which provides the operating system of many of Samsung’s tablets and phones.

Apple’s stock jumped to a new high at the news of the victory.

Apple Wins $1 Billion as Jury Finds Samsung Violated Patents – US Business News – CNBC.

Apple Rejects Manhatten Declaration App. A Financial Issue

~ Pharmer

Baptist Press – ‘Appalling’: Apple again rejects iPhone Christian ‘app’ – News with a Christian Perspective.

Apple has a need to address the encroaching competition from the Droid series of smart phones, hence the projected Feb 23 launch of iPhones with Verizon.

Recently the gay-sex community has pressured Apple into rejecting the Manhattan Declaration app, which it had originally accepted as containing no objectionable content.

Many gays find the Biblical restrictions on sexual activity  to be offensive, and Apple has  complied with their demands.   The Manhattan app has been resubmitted with 47,000 signatories petitioning for its distribution, and rejected a second time.

The Android operating system and Droid Line of phones work just fine, and supports  many thousands  of great apps.   The most significant app producers are using both platforms for their wares.   Android’s platform is open source,  and  more accessible to programmers.

Pharmer operates the original Droid, and more than one Ipod touch, and is fairly familiar with both markets.

If you subscribe to the Christian teachings on the issues of the sanctity of human life and its generation,  you might wish to  let Apple know that you’ll stick with your Droid, unless they cease their  specific suppression of Christian teaching on these issues, while continuing to host opposing viewpoints.

More on the removal of the Manhattan Declaration from Matthew Warner

Gawker comments on Apple/ATT security breach

~ Pharmer

Apple’s Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed.

No claims from here of any expertise in hacking, but ATT and Apple have mud on their faces.   The rich and famous early adopters of the 3 G iPad/phone will be PMS-ing when they understand that some of their personal information has been made available to the public.

The scoop from above comes from the folks at Gawker, and this tech tabloid feature is worth the read.

And, a little bit about those Gawker guys, who ribbed Rush Limbaugh on the occasion of his  4th wedding this past week. (He’s still honeymooning).

They are paradoxical, like so many other techies.   There is an orderliness to the techie mind which allows the logic of programming.    However, it seems that every brain needs a little  perverse pleasure, and this is provided to many techies through dabbling in leftist politics and feel good ideology.

There has to be at least some disorder in every brain, it seems.

The folks at Gawker like to abuse Rush Limbaugh, and he seems to take it in fairly good humor.  He likes their scoops on the latest electronic  and programmable toys, to which he remains  addicted.