APPLE FAVOUR AND NOT FLAVOUR

It seems Apple have been in court yet again...

On this occasion they were taken to court by Motorola, prior to being Google owned, for infringing six of its patents.

Now I care not what these patents are and ask this squabbling in court leaves a bad taste in the mouth?

You should all be aware of how I will about these battles by now?

But I found myself wanting to post the link on this one for a couple of reasons...

1) It is Apple being TAKEN to court and sued as opposed to Sole taking Samsung to court.

2) I find it funny that when Apple sues anyone they end up winning and when being sued they end up winning?! Bizarre that.

The above is especially bizarre because they sued Samsung over their Galaxy line being copies of their own phones?! Well all I can say to that is that both Apple and the Judges that found in their favour must have got a head start on that legalisation of Cannabis?!

Quite his anyone with two brain cells with a successful set of synapses between then can find in favour of this is being all reason. I have used both of then I can tell you that they are miles apart in every way except one..,

... surprisingly I did not like either of them and shocked I actually said that! Though I have not used the iPhone 5 it is not going to be any different in its operating system as far as appearance goes. Samsung, on the other hand, is somewhat unrecognisable as an Android phone and far worse off for it.

Based on this I can promise you that if this continues and indeed the rumour turns out to be true they are working on their own Operating System then this week be corporate suicide!

I have stated this before and I will say it again. Four people I have heard if with these new Galaxy S4s. One migrated from an Xperia Z and rather wishes he had not. One migrated over to the Xperia Z from a Galaxy S4. The other two just simply do not like their phones!! Lol.

Considering I openly admitted on her that I once lived Sony and then hatred then for years and that Apple had become the new Sony I will also repeat some other things I have said.

I now own not one but TWO Sony products and given the choice I would dearly like a Sony Xperia Z and I am somewhat surprised at this. If the iPhone 5S had caught up with the rest of the worlds smartphones of the last 5 years and stopped being so fecking greedy and monopoly chasing I would probably like an iPhone 5S. Based purely on its looks. Bit dues not look 800 quid gorgeous and it's all tray looks 50 quid DULL!

It still remains a fashion accessory that is oddity proof for.... well Isis and fashionistas, lol.

Sorry but it's true.

Oddly I have just remembered as well as realised something else?!

When I started hating Sony I started to admire and love Apple as a company! Yes this IS true and fellow students at college and university rubbished Apple and their computers.

So over time Sony and Apple have switched places in my admiration. Though I do not Sony again par se but I have edged a little closer. That would have been several steps closer had my body Walkman A Series still looked like it did with the newer models and has an SD Card slot and not had the volume buggered being recognition!!! Grrr!!

Umm cannot remember but if the sd card slot is also missing from the Xperia Zs then the same applies.

I do not need to even LOOK ON THE INTERNET to tell you that this capping at 32GB for the past two years on devices has been noted. It will not end well for companies that use this very annoying practise. There is absolutely no reason for this other than forcing upgrades and if Android upgrading every five minutes is not bad enough. If Kitkat is as svelte, compact and speedy as they say then I see no reason any longer for all these frequent upgrades.

There is something else to note too regarding all this...

I have had apps updating automatically despite the fact that my older version of Android is not capable of running it smoothly or even running it at all?!

Once again it would be extremely easy for your version of Android to be recognised by Google Play and sticking with the version that works!!

So strange is it not that single core phones are still on sale and yet my dual core phone wire literally crawls asking and stuttering with it fairly often the last few months?! Yet I have used single core phones with a lower frequency than those in mine that rather bizarrely run smoother and quicker?! For those that do not know this is impossible!! Therefore either the apps have been rugged to show the system down or something else does.

A terrible attitude of controlling what you have sold has been rife of late! In my case it is even worse because I was sold a used and refurbished phone that still had a great long list of faults! They still wanted the new price for it with a large amount of interest on top of that and I am still being rigged by software?!

I purchased a nice Office Suite sometime ago called Quick Office. I purchased the Pro version for £10! Buy it all went wrong when I it my new 7 inch tablet to do my work on. I went to the Play sure to download Quick Office only to get a surprise as it was already installed?! Only when I ran it, on a 7 inch screen remember, the interface was utter crap, there is no select all option in highlighting, which is hit and miss at best. Also the saving of documents is a bit odd, by default wants to save to the cloud, except many tablets do not have built in phone you morons.

I was not the only one that thought they ruined it and not the only one that felt cheated no doubt. Quite his you can get ahold of something good and ruin it in just about every single way is quite an achievement, in fact it gets better still. Remember I have a 7 inch tablet and yet when I start typing a word document the letters are tiny on the screen and hard to read!!

I did have a look to see if I could change done things in the settings but could not find anything! I tried to find a way of contacting Google but like everyone else the God Complex prevails!

Hmm I think I will go and have another look at the settings to see if I can change anything?

Appeals court rules Apple didn’t violate Motorola patent http://gigaom.com/2014/01/10/appeals-court-rules-apple-didnt-violate-motorola-patent/

APPLE TO BE WHIPPED AND SKINNED

Sometimes they way stories pop on the my radar is nothing short of bizarre. Very bizarre.

I had been thinking the last few days about chargers and how they attempted to standardise them only for this to make no difference whatsoever.

A eee nights ago I had been searching high and low for a lead to charge my battery back up device. It seemed to vanish into thin air?! I also started using my Sony Walkman again realising that it paired with the Fiio has a much better quality of sound than the Apple iPhone S4 I had been using previously. The pain in the rear with the Sony is that normal chargers will not charge it and I never got around to ordering one off Amazon. After it came back in favour and relegated three iPhone into being left being I wondered what would happen if I plugged it into the charger that was supplied with the Sony Cybershot Camera and lo and behold it worked.

I also had two plugs with USB sockets lying around that did not work, well one did not at all and the other one did work on my faulty and used Motorola Atrix craftily sold to me by Very Catalogue. A friend of mine has a Nokia 620 Windows phone and had list a charger plug. So I took one of my two plugs that I had thought no longer worked just on the off chance. Would you believe one worked?! But I tried it and still dies not work with my Motorola phone!! Now he needs one for his wife LG Android phone and another friend stated that she was changing her iPhone for a new one and that he could have that one in a few days. I stated it might not work and that I have terrible trouble with things being different amps. They had found that they had the same issues and I stated "Well that was a bloody waste of time standardising things was it not?!"

The funny thing I'd they all switched to the Micro USB port apart from Apple and I never stopped to wonder why this was. Added to this you have to be careful buying back up batteries two because of the difference in amps. I think one is 1 or 1.5 amps and the other is 2 Amps. But then the Sony units do not work with the chargers that power other Android phones so not sure what they use.

That conversation took place yesterday and I was flicking through my new app and discovered a report that those that standardised things before were going to have another go at it?!

Hopefully they will get it right this time or they will turn it into a trilogy and therefore another big mismanaged waste of time and money. It also states that they are going to force this upon Apple too and they will have to comply or face having their products banned, albeit only in Europe.

They will not like that.

To be honest the reasons for these specialised sockets has gone out of the window of late. I see more and more accessories like HiFi like speakers using the ever growing and improving wireless technologies available. WiFi itself is about to have the 'ac' version is soon to be released once standards are agreed. This will nashe it the fourth version after 'b', 'g' and 'n'. Bluetooth is commonly used for connection especially for speakers and then there is NFC, Near Field Circuitry where you can even store cash on your mobile and use the NFC technology to pay for things. Sometimes, Lol. So reasons for the use of specific plugs and sockets have been rendered pretty much redundant and I do not think anyone really cares that much. Well except for Apple that is.

Apple seem to have succeeded in using some very lame and very loose reasoning to get their own way, including in court.

Yet many companies provide you with a USB to Micro USB in which you can plug your device into a computers USB socket and it will charge. It had been this way since the beginning with all of them and some devices do not even come with an AC plug at all!

So why on earth had our been so difficult to achieve this one side fits all?! After all that is the only way toy are going to have to reduce the amount of chargers being built and therefore better on the environment?

However I get yet another hidden message asking all this crafty shifting to not comply...

Harming the environment is not on the list of agendas of any big company but they lie and say it is. Two faced is what I call this. Someone true to standardise it and reduce the bed for manufacturing as well as costs and the big guns go and nice the goalposts or come up with work arounds. It is high time that large companies should get the same punishments that would be forced upon small companies. To many times I have seen actions taken that could not even be classed as a wrist slap, while a small businessman or trader would be banned for years, given a fine of a huge proportion of what he or she makes, maybe a year or two even, or even prison.

I also see this shifting positions as no different to putting two fingers up to everyone.

It is like the decision in an American court to rule that the Galaxy S4 phones are too similar to iPhones in looks and use. Well someone somewhere that came up with this must be using LSD or some other mind altering drug...

I have been using an iPhone 4S and I unusually know four people with a Samsung Galaxy S4. These phones are world's apart in differences, nothing alike whatsoever. I can tell you something else that is write unusual about the Samsung Galaxy owners that is unheard of until now...

... nine of the owners like them and even those I know who have used then do not like them either!!

Now here is where you just cannot go around abusing a legal system to get your own way, sometimes you just need to wait by forcing the demise of a rival does not automatically mean you will prosper. Shit I'd still shit at the end if the day and Samsung is not the only people making mobile phones!

Samsung have been alerting the Android OS more and more with each phone and have rendered it very confusing even for me! I have also heard rumours that they are going to cone up with their own OS. Based in what they have done this would be a mistake as their designs have been awful of late. I can understand why I just do not think it a good idea. If they do take this route I do not think it will go well for them.

Based on these facts and from the phone I have seen I fully expect HTC, Motorola (now owned by Google) and even LG to increase they're sales and therefore market share. Provided one does not sink in the meantime?!

Google missed out on capitalising on the Moto X in the UK (not sure about Europe) but the Moto G is now out. The Moto G is nigh on the perfect phone apart from two things, the memory sizes available are bizarre at just 8GB and 16GB and no SD Card slot. These phones are listed at £129 for the 8GB version but Tesco are advertising it at £99.00.

This sends amazing value but I could never understand why phones in the £100 to £150 range were only ever so slightly better than one costing £50?! With the Moto G having quad cure and a 720p 4.5 inch screen and the while thing nano coated SDI water resident from what I read on the Internet it just send to perfect.

Saying that my current crappy Motorola has 32GB and I would have liked my next phone to have more. Oddly I have yet to see a 64GB Android phone despite there being a 64GB iPhone!

I also really do hate it and see red when an SD Card slot is omitted. This would not be so bad if there were 32GB and higher versions or the MotoX was available here. Though I do have a tablet now which has a 7 inch 800p screen, Tetra 4 quad core with GPU and co-processor, stereo speakers, 16 GB and an SD Card slot and is only missing nano coating and a built in phone and not only did this cost only £180 brand new from PC World but had now been reduced to £100!!

In perspective the Moto G dies not look that much a bargain?! So what does this day for the rest of the crap?! Lol.

Phones seen to have been deliberately stalked of late and I read about Samsung's 8 cite Exynos CPU some while ago now, maybe a year or more, and yet only a very expensive tablet uses this chip! Hilariously it is still way cheaper than Apple's lame lot even at £550!

Sony do some nice things but can behave like Apple far too much and added to this is their stuff is just so expensive. After a few years of no one partying the extra Sony will no doubt throw another hissy fit and threaten to stop making mobile phones, like they did with TVs a couple of years back, Lol.

Europe’s set to mandate common phone chargers — so where does this leave Apple? - http://pulse.me/s/Jlg3m

BINGEING INTO DEBT

Hmm interesting link this one?!

It states that British shoppers have been spending bucket loads? Actually beating the US in this regard too? Maybe they have had so many bad Christmas' they thought what the hell? But borrowing had to be paid back.

Just as I said the games consoles have been selling. Maybe because the guys are buying them the girls are spending on stuff they want too?

Could not believe the price of the Apple tablet at £700 plus! I just bought the most powerful tablet that chores with a stylus and has for cores, a co-processor and a GPU for £180 new from PC World!

But then I did read a report, not sure if I posted it, stating that Apple was heading for trouble and that there sales have now consistently dropped for like the thief year in a row! Their share of the phone market had dropped to 12%! Samsung has a way bigger share now hence Sim the court battles. Apple do not want to bring out better AND cheaper products they want the sole monopoly of the smartphone market! Now where did I leave that anti-trust lawsuit file?

Lmao.

Under the iPads and PS4s the ghoul of debt is lurking | John Harris - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/08/christmas-spending-ghoul-debt-ipads?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

SOUR APPLES FOR FIVE CENTS

I have no idea if this is true but I received a text message today stating that Samsung were forced to pay Apple $1 BILLION.

Annoyed at this Samsung sent 30 Lorries all loaded with only 5 cent coins?! A billion dollars worth delivered to the doors of Apple's HQ?!

LMAO!

I hope to God above that someone got a video of that?!

Lol.

FROM APPLES TO GRAPES

This idiot, Schiller, from Apple tells a jury that people now question Apple's innovation and designs which had resulted in loss if sales. He blames this on Samsung?!

What a moron!

I have said this before and will say it again...the only thing I can think of that Apple created might be the accelorometers. Nothing else was invented by them and the memory chips are all Samsung!

Even crazier is that at least two Chinese firms manufacturer Apple iPhones. I know not of a single phone by any other manufacturer and not just Samsung that makes a single phone that looks anything like an Apple!

Protectionism in action from the country to first plead with other countries not to do it! Well it appears now that they only said this to get a head start on protectionism on the rest if the world.

I should start up a wall of shame and list companies, likely mostly American, that behave like they are the master race and just strive time after time to create their own monopoly?! Lol.

This also classifies under anti competitive issue too! Hmm come to think of it another American company was taken to court over anti-competition practises and my old favourites Microsoft and Steve Ballmer. But I have realised I have not heard of an American company being ruled against in an American court? But then I do not really part close attention to these things. I could not even tell you how many times Apple and Samsung have had legal battles against each other?

Here is another theory for you Schiller and Apple...maybe, just maybe the reason that phone sales are dropping us because your phones are shit?? Added to this they have barely changed much in hardware, operating system and screen size in over ten different phones released? Maybe it is down to the fact that Samsung's Galaxy phones have only had four phones and only the third and fourth sure even remotely similar?

Worryingly scary these phones are and its funny as I used to joke that other countries are bring invaded by the United States stealthily by using businesses instead of armies to invade them? This used to be a simple joke but I am stating to wonder just how many unsavoury things and how many companies Americans have bought up?!

I was speaking of the stream of refurbished and faulty cameras from Argos to some women friends I know. I mentioned that when the recession started and Woolworths went under there was talk of others and the Argos name came up. When I said this everyone showed shock as they recalled hearing this too. I then said that maybe companies agreed to sell the crap to the British public that other countries returned as faulty so that the companies do not go under?

This theory was will received as making a great deal of sense. I surely cannot be the only one realising all these things and informing others about it? The more this behoves widespread the more concerned consumers will behove about what they are receiving four their hard earned cash?

I said to someone today over this damnable phone and Very Catalogue. I said when you pay the RECOMMENDED RETAIL PRICE you expect a brand spanking new product. Especially if you are paying cash! But I have shown that not only is there no guarantee over this but that the stores that DO sell genuinely new good look to be in the tiny minority!

They agreed and said it was shockingly worrying.

This is a powder keg waiting to blow because crimes are committed to allow the pursuit of monies over a crime, or even NOT, that is far less severe than those that courts are turning a blind eye to! So you create a crime, even if it was unintentional or even you are innocent, but they will commit a far greater crone which involves large scale tax fraud on top of that to punish you four yours!

Lol! Do not do anywhere near what we do, just do what we say. We sure a law into ourselves while you shout 'How High?!' when we shout 'JUMP!'

Apple's Schiller testifies in case against Samsung - http://pulse.me/s/y2IOe

BATTLE OF THE BLIND

Oh got the love of God  not again?!

Right now let me put this as simply as I can. Neither of these companies are anything like going downhill. Otherwise they would not fork out for teams of lawyers after teams of lawyers again and again.

Someone should work out the combined costs from both sides of the legal bills they have run up! Then publish this and then do a run down of the good that could have been done with this amount of cash! One simply wants to put the other one out if the game but it is but going to happen. Instead greedy people without empathy or compassion our indeed a redirect for the law just get paid huge amounts of money to sit listening to this crap. Lawyers and the like, lol.

One is more to blame than the other on this and I can guarantee that I know ego started these battles and that would be, or highly likely in my eyes, Apple. In fact it is this crush all others and all newcomers that the U.S.A has that should sure many that this is the sole, or primary, reason for the National Security Agency spying and collecting data. An unfair insight into companies from other nations so that there own rich and powerful can possibly do a hostile take over, crush, or buy out. Or of course get their competitors tired up in court on a constant basis.

Funny though is the fact that all the memory in Apple's devices were manufactured by Samsung, or st least they WERE. But you never saw Samsung complaining that the phones should have their name on them? Lol.

Oddly enough I also find it both strange and humourous that Samsung keep bringing out ever better phones, in features at any rate, while Apple....DO NOT! Their offerings have been pretty lame really and even though the iPhone 5S is nice it still had took small a screen and I still do not like iOS I am afraid, sorry.

That does not mean to day that there us something else I think perfect, no way. This Android phone is a real pain in the arse. It had been from day one and many are down to being knowingly sold a device that was refurbished (umm no?) Sourced from America and sold to be as new. But some of these frustrations are down to Google and it's Android OS.

One is bland and boring while both have become anarchic with the apps and no proper regulation of what if on offer. Unless out infringes upon themselves that is then they react like Gazelles on speed! Faster than their own iGazelles that go running to the stores to buy certain phones the moment they are launched, lol.

Apple and Samsung back in court http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24855829

SAMSUNG TAKES THE HIGH ROAD FIRST

You know I KNEW they would act first!

Lmao!

Samsung nice to end the patent wars with offers.

Samsung offers to end patent wars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24567049

LEGAL RIGHTS TOO EXPENSIVE

Here we go again with something that has not only irked me for the longest time but knew was going to be reduced again.

The very idea of the abysmal Legal Aid that had existed was that human beings who could not afford them could get there legal fees paid for! It's a natural given right everyone should have.

However for some time now consecutive, and yes I did say CONSECUTIVE, governments have decided, or those that really pull the strings, have made it clear that a person's life is worthless if they have no money. Nor is any of their family members. Think about that. Think very long and hard about that.

In all honesty it was shit anyway and needed changing for years but for the better as did the whole legal system! You see the industry is a laughing stock and yet another example of an industry that has become a gradual mess while opportunists have been able to trick and rob both government and members of the public out of cash based on bits of paper that states that these people are competent lawyers?! They are NOT!

From just before my daughter was born until the present day I have had five run ins with the crap lawyers that legal aid affords you. On each occasion much was promised and nothing delivered, not ONCE. I even have letters from one lawyer from 18 years ago who pursued a case for months before calling me in and apologising as they did not know they could not take it on according to the bloody laws themselves! Quite how they failed to realise this as did the legal aid board I will never know!

So here they are after cutting it back several times they are cutting legal aid back again! Why? Because like everything else they run they are shit at it, really shit and after thirty years they have only gotten worse! This is because they are lazy and uncaring and nothing more. All because one industry thinks it has a right to a huge hourly few because they attended university, so did I, while the government thinks it can give poor people, disabled people and benefit claimants more than enough legal help by awarding far less than HALF the lower rates of average solicitors?!

If there exists a book on false economies a few thousand copies need to be ordered, sent to the Houses of Parliament and all Members must be fluent and familiar with EVERY WORD before being allowed entrance to either the House of Commons or the House of Lords. Added to this should be a simple arithmetic test, common sense test and added to that a test that they possess an ounce of morals and humanity.

Hmm come to think of it you could add this to journalism too and stop opportunists making a beeline for journalism?!

Of course the constant barrage of reports of the recent legal battles I have mentioned, like Apple and Samsung, will only infuriate more of the public of which more and more are realising they are being told their lives are meaningless and worthless. Especially when there is currently a big legal battle over the colour purple between Cadbury's and Nestlé!

I think that bow is now beginning to creak somewhat!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24410807

WORKING YOUR BACKSIDE OFF

I am going ti blog about this back for the two reasons and first and foremost us it is wrong you and immoral.

Secondly I want to refer back ti this story/report at a point in the not too distant future, lol.

Thirty odd seconds to assemble a mobile phone you pay 600 pounds or more?!

Considering the cpu chips are around 50 screen 50 they are making a big profit and I always maintained they were deliberately over - priced.

Samsung faces labour law allegations http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23689836

ROTTEN TO THE CORE

Touch Screen and Audio Jack infrigements?!

Have these American judges slept in a cave for ten years?!

Let us get this clear from the outset...there is NOTHING about the iPhone that they invented and half the phone at least,  memory, is made by Samsung!

Touch Screen?  No
Operating System? No
Mobile Phone? No
Portable Music Device? No
Portable Media Device? No
Voice Recognition? No
WIMP Graphical User Interface? NO AND THEY COPIED RANK XEROX BUT THEY ARE NOT THROWING TOYS OUT THEIR PRAMS!!!!

You would have the best devices in the world if you had not spent all your time and money destroying everyone else over something you copied off others anyway that was a full gone conclusion for fecking years a dozen companies would end up making!

What with you, Intel and the NSA you American firms are really pushing other countries around purely because you want sole control of a popular area?!

Go and ask Sony how that has worked out for them?! Nitwits!

Is it me or are all the major names run by incompetent morons or just have incompetent blood sucking lawyers advising them?!

This will not end well continuing on this path believe me, lol.

Apple victory in Samsung patent case http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23643700

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

Well what do you know?!

Only a few days back I was spieling it all off about how nothing bloody works today and they do not care, I noticed Boris Johnson now having a go at Telecoms companies over rising crime of stolen mobiles, lol.

I mentioned how I have several things that do not work properly and there is one thing in my house that I thought would continue to work for at least 3 years without failure as it costs three to six times as much as most others and yet...today it failed while I was out and it did not even last a year, or maybe just over.

My Bionaire electric fan I use to keep cool and for my Orchids has FAILED!

Leaving myself and my Orchids hot, bothered and bloody cheesed off!!

Now I bought this at my local B&Q Store but god knows where the receipt is?! I know the box is in my loft and maybe the receipt is up there too?! I looked in another set of folders but could not find it and it got a bit hot in their so I will leave it until one evening.

Jesus Christ this is bloody annoying and at £60 each really, REALLY DISAPPOINTING?!?!

Looked up on site and one that looks the same but slightly different model number has 3 years warranty?! Odd that as I was expecting it to last at least three years, lol. If I cannot find the receipt I hope I paid by Visa and can find the item on statement?!

SO another failed brand new item to go in the list of others that include

Second Hand Refurbished and FAULTY phone from Very Catalogue?! (started asking for the cash again?!)
Refurbished and faulty Nikon Camera from ARGOS?! Real surprise that one!
Faulty Technika Freeview BOX from Tesco.

Hmm trying to think I am sure there are others, lol. The only things that have worked OK are my Sony Walkman I bought AS USED, in other words did not buy as NEW and receive USED AND REFURBISHED AND FAULTY as listed above, lol. My Samsung Blu-Ray Player and OTHER Samsung items, lol.

Here are some pictures of it, in pieces mind you, lol.