An initiative to standardize the way touch enabled devices interact with web content has had a wrench thrown into the works, at least temporarily, by Apple.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Events Working Group was created last year and tasked with standardizing the way touch devices, from smartphones and tablets to drawing pads and spatial sensors, interact with web applications. ... [ read the full article ]
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What Apple is doing is trying to put themselves ahead of the competition. When you and your opponent are neck and neck, forcing your opponent back to the starting line gives you that much advantage in the race. Thus Apple waited as long as they reasonably could to make their poor quality patents known to maximize their advantage. Now Apple can claim to be "lightyears"ahead.
I say this is a ploy to call the competition out to show their hand first. this way Apple gets to randomly throw out the first lawsuit claiming copyright/patent infringements.
It just goes to show they're the big bully on the block & why other companies seem to have more lawsuits garnered on them as apposed to CrApple having imposed on them.
Look at it as legalized pole positioning & who gets ahead in the bloating of the 1st quarter gains.
Apple has a legitimate right to protect their intellectual property.
Apple took the risk of created a new type of smart phone which is wildly successful. Then Google and others slavishly copied it without any risk or effort.
The Anti-Apple bias is starting to drive me and others away from AfterDawn which is going to leave them with a very narrow audience. And not a very desirable one.
So Samsung, LG, Motorola, Windows, HP, Blackberry... none of them took the plunge at making a smart phone? Apple took their chances just like everyone else, their just using a different operating system. Palm, HP, & Windows were at it LONG before CrApple even got into the mix.
Whining that a technology is intellectual property, elite over another because you waited months for someone to make the first sales move doesn't make you an innovator. That's like saying you're a hunter because you wait ten feet from a 'sure-thing' baited trap.
CrApple has so often scooped up "hackers" slave labored apps & technology and claimed it as their own so often I could puke. So stop whining like they actually have a research & development lab. They sit just like the same vultures you are calling Google & suck the life force out of whomever they can to vacuum the marrow right out the hollowed bones of whomever they can to save a buck, just like the next vampiric corporation.
