Aaah, Nokia, we thought better of you. PING!
Apple iPad Mini on the left, New Nokia Tablet on the right.
Apple iPad Mini Trade Dress Infringement by Nokia? Ping!
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Posted on 11/19/2014 11:35:22 AM PST by Swordmaker
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What a troll.
We have a president about to engage in one of the biggest usurpation of power in history, and you are more pissed off that some damn tablet looks like some crap from Apple.
Oh boo hoo! Should we riot in tbe streets today or tomorrow?
The folks at MacRunors are making a big deal out of this.
Look guys, you are buying your screens from the same vendors, in standard sizes. There is nothing ingenious abour rounded corners and a chrome-colored edge with basic black providing the trim color.
Decades ago, every 12” B/W television set had the SAME setup:
Three small knobs for Volume/Brightness/Contrast (in that order)
Click-stop VHF knob above the non-click-stop UHF knob
Speaker below all
All knobs were in the upper right
The speaker was always in the lower right
Most models came with fake wood grain for the body, though grey and white were also available.
And NOBODY sued or complained it was a rip off.
Apple’s primary distinguishing feature is iOS and custom chips inside, just like General Electric TV’s was VIR and Motorola’s was “Works in a drawer”.
Troo dat!
I thought the whole point of micro-electronics was to get smaller and handier.
Crap, the ladies in line at the grocery store in front of me are hauling around their personal flatscreens!
Like moths mindlessly attracted to the light, Apple haters are irresistibly drawn to any threads having to do with Apple products. They enter posts attacking Apple products and/or users of Apple products. Here, they simply enter a post attacking a person for merely posting a thread related to Apple.
These Apple haters really can’t help themselves and deserve our pity.
Oh blah blah blah!
Apple loons are the $hit of the tech world. Whether you turn up you sink up the place and then feign suprise when people point out to you how much you stink.
This latest load of swordmarker crap is just typical of how utterly myopic and child-like most of you are.
I am not an Apple hater. I have an iMac and three iPod Touches in my household. I have no Android products because I think Google is NOT to be trusted with an OS for privacy reasons.
The OP (Swordmaker) knows I have come to Apple’s defense numerous times.
I just don’t think that basic design elements are off-limits to competitors.
You have to wonder why Nokia [and others] didn’t introduce a tablet or ipad much earlier.
Jeez, take a pill.
Apple has excellent attributes. So does Android. And anyone who believes one or the other is more or less protective of privacy is, IMHO, dreaming. At the very least, requiring the uploading of your fingerprint into an ID database to start the device should give you a clue. As for Microsoft, well, someone had to be at the bottom of every category.
Shaddup robotic troll. Swordmaker has a following here that likes his Apple and tech posts. He has stimulated many healthy debates. Stop being so nasty and go post on some other threads. Take your nastiness elsewhere! I wish I owned an iPad so I could smack you over the head with it.
Swordmaker has a channel here while you have none
“Oh blah blah blah!
Apple loons are the $hit of the tech world....”
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Yep, just like moths drawn to the light.
Oh I’m sorry. i forgot that Apple loons on FR craved out a but of DU here where you aren’t allowed to dissent from their little cult. Shut up, peons! Dont you know the greatness of apple, and the crime that Nokia has commited by making a tablet! Gasp!
I guess when I see stupidity like this article, from a guy I can just imagine was running around flailing his limp-wrists over this total injustice against Apple, That pointing out how petty it is must have violated some rights of his. The only debate he has “stimulated” is Apple = God, everyone else = Satan.
I suppose that’s why we are referred to as “Apple haters”. It seems to go with how the left referred to people that aren’t part of the cult as homophobic, racist, sexist, or whatever. Hopefully Tim Cook, when he gets back from the bath house, can phone up emperor Obama and make it illegal to say anything critical of that company.
This is a retarded thing to even care about. Sorry if pointing that out hurts your feelings. I dont need a “channel” to do that either. I dont see FR as an outlet to post PR and propaganda for a computer company. But I have no qualms saying so when stupid stuff like this gets posted.
If you had a clue, you would not post such nonsense.
Facts make no difference
so quit posting them,
you racist.
Calm down and go post elsewhere. Your opinion is irrelevant here.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Find something else to be so serious about
You hate filled Apple haters piss everyone off. Go post about your xbox or chromebook and do something original instead of being a robotic naysayer here.
What do you have that is better than an Apple product. Go for it!!! Toot your own horn instead of wallowing in negativity
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