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Friday, September 1, 2017
Steve Jobs Android rage can be used in patent legal row
Steve Jobs Android rage can be used in patent legal row
Jobs thermonuclear war biography comments may haunt Apple Steve Jobs Android rage can be used in patent legal rowSteve Jobs explosive comments on Android can be used in patent battle A judge has ruled that explosive comments made by the lateSteve Jobs, can be used against Apple in a patent battle with Motorola. Apple co-founder and former CEO Jobs made the angry comments to biographer Walter Isaacson, claiming Google had ripped off the iPhone with its Android operating system. In the passage, which proved to be the most newsworthy part of the book,
Jobs said: "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apples $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. "Im going to destroy Android, because its a stolen product. Im willing to go thermonuclear war on this,"
he revealed, in a series of interviews prior to his death in October 2011. Apple lawyers shot down Now those words could come back to haunt Apple, with a Chicago judge refusing to grant Cupertino lawyers request to forbid these quotes, and others, from the book being used by Motorola. Apple said in a filing to the court: "To avoid any potential prejudice to Apple if Motorola attempts to use the book to appeal to the jurys passion. "Apple asks that the court prevent any reference to the Jobs book during the trial." However, federal judge Richard Posner was having none of that. He shot down Apples request without explanation.
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Friday, June 12, 2015
Apple Patent Hints At iPhones That Can Flip Themselves During A Fall To Protect Vulnerable Areas
You don’t know the true meaning of pain until you’ve dropped your shiny new iPhone on a hard surface. If you’re lucky, it will land on its back and your case will protect it, but if you’re not, it’ll land flat on its face and you’ll need a new display. But what if there was a way of ensuring it landed on its back every time?
A new Apple patent that covers a “Protective Mechanism for an Electronic Device” describes how future iPhones and other mobile devices could have built-in motors that automatically flip them over in mid-air after they’ve been dropped to protect vulnerable areas.
Here’s how it would work: Inside your iPhone there would be a special motor that was in communication with the processor. When your iPhone’s sensors detect that the device has been dropped, the sensors tell the processor which quickly determines the orientation of your device.
It can then trigger the motor “to alter the angular momentum of the device during the free fall to change the orientation of the device towards the orientation that would avoid impact at the vulnerable area.”
Apple describes a number of ways a device could be protected during a fall, and one of its more interesting ideas includes a fan or jet propulsion system that could change “slow or stop the impact of the device with a surface.” Think jets of air that would cause your iPhone to hover above the ground when you drop it.
It seems more likely, however, that Apple would employ a special motor that could flip the device onto a “safe zone” during free-fall. So, providing there is enough distance between the device and the hard surface when you drop it, and therefore plenty of time, your iPhone could ensure it always lands on its back to protect its display and other components.
With display manufacturers working on “unbreakable” panels, we may never need technology like this — in just a few years, our smartphones could be significantly more robust and less likely to break after a fall. But while we continue to use devices made of fragile glass and plastics, this kind of system could save a lot of smartphones from expensive repairs.
Data source: via CultofMac (By Killian Bell)
Origine source: FreshPatents
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