Apple is preparing apps to demo the iPad 3, claims report

by Esat Dedezade  |  Sunday 12 February 2012
Apple is preparing apps to demo the iPad 3, claims report

The tech wizards at Cupertino are frantically tinkering away in preparation for the iPad 3's big reveal.

Apple is busy whipping up a whole host of apps to show off its shiny new iPad 3, according to The Next Web's anonymous sources.

The iPad 3 is expected to be announced in early March (following the pattern of the iPad 2's launch last year) so it would make sense for Apple's app wizards to be working on apps already.

We expect that the new apps will aim show off the long-rumoured Retina Display, but we won't know for sure until it's showtime.

In the mean time, catch up on our iPad 3 rumour roundup for all everything you need to know about Apple's next-gen slate.

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Comments: 7
photohounds
13 February 2012
 I see they're suing Samsung for predictive text now - wow that IS a "new innovation" on a phone ...
It highlights the problems a legal team with unlimited funds faces: probable result - 90% of claims dismissed - the remainng 10% (uif any) will be easily worked around as they are inconsequential. This has been demonstrated in other cases.

Ho hum. Ya can't patent my fingers, particularly the "arrow" finger.


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Apple is preparing apps to demo the iPad 3, claims report?
The tech wizards at Cupertino are frantically tinkering away in preparation for the iPad 3's big reveal.

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rubaiyat
13 February 2012
 You need to do your research better, I hear they are suing Samsung for the use of the word "the".

Also for using electricity in their devices and every third week of the month as Dress Down Friday.
amcmo
13 February 2012
 Photo

rhubarb,rhubarb,rhubarb,rhubarb,rhubarb,rhubarb,rhubarb.....

The thread is about rumours Apple is preparing apps for the rumoured iPad3. Don't get the connection between that and some patent stoush.:-k

Then, that's never stopped you before.

If you wish to comment on Apple daring to sue your favourite company, why not start a thread...

But then, that might stop you from turning every thread remotely connected to Apple to so much rhubarb,rhubarb,rhubarb.

The movie by the same name was substantially more entertaining, despite the only word in the whole movie being 'Rhubarb'!
photohounds
13 February 2012
 AM,
True, this thread is not about patent disputes per se, but it IS about apple. Tenuous perhaps, but there's the "link" (he says tongue in cheek).
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/289925,common-home-wiring-mistakes-using-the-wrong-cable-in-the-wrong-socket.aspx
The thread above was not about consumer devices as far as I could see, so your clever android quip ,(presumably also tongue in cheek), is even further off-topic.

Even though apple are innovative in some ways, it is pathetic to copy others foundations, make a slight mod and then bleat retro-invention.
The courts see through eventually this as do most people. It IS a pity that Sammy feels "forced" to jump on this grimy legal bandwagon too - losing some moral high ground in the process.
The kindergarten defence that it's OK because xxxx is doing it just lowers their legal team to the level of apple's - now THERE'S a race to the bottom for you, Ruby :(


So to continue with a little reality .... Four Apple "patents" for technology that allow:

Users to touch a phone number on a Web page to dial the number
- Palm TREO did this well before Apple I have the manual that PROVES it. I think Nokias did it before that.
- I think the principle is called a "HYPERLINK" - like a browser and phone makers merely APED this open source technology.
- Apple merely copied existing (successful) phone makers' features (including installable apps) but added a few nice touches.
- After copying features form this brand and that and the LOOK of the LD PRADA, let's advertise we invented this" - pathetic.

word placement
- The feature that SWYPE developed from various basic technologies, whose progress thus far is patented?

"Siri voice recognition and unified search"
- seems to imply Sori was the first feature that can search using voice as input
- this dates back at LEAST to the original Galaxy ... but I seriously doubt Sammy "invented it".
- old nokias searched through your phone directory at voice command and did other neat stuff on command.
- OS/2 had voice dictation and system control in 1996 - give "retro-inventing" a bleedin' rest will ya?


Ability to unlock a smartphone by sliding an image from one location to another
- Nokia N900 has it too (but not being sued - curious) - BIG *(&( deal - you can patent my index finger ...
- one of the most popular hacks is to get RID if it, apparently.

Really?????

irreparable harm?
- No more than loss of revenue as a reward for sitting on your hands and playing legal games1 instead of the former good work.
- Another pathetic example - almost all efforts have universally been thrown out of court.


I like Rhubarb, actually ...
amcmo
13 February 2012
 I'm not going to comment on the veracity or otherwise of Apple's patent claims.

Unlike some, I don't profess to know better than the designer,or the patent examiners as to what constitutes a patentable invention. No doubt the courts will rule on that. You can patent a SIGNIFICANT advance on existing tech.

So Sammy felt forced to breach FRAND rules because they got caught copying. Thats a pretty long bow.... They didn't just loose some mythical moral high ground. If correct, it appears they broke the law!

You missed that the Prada was a rectangular black glossy phone......

I too like Rhubarb, both the film and the pie!
photohounds
13 February 2012
 If Sam broke the law, they will be made to pay in one way or another and that's as it should be.
Whatever the outcome, it doesn't negate the sheer grupidity (greed+stupidity) of many iClaims that are merely minor tweaks of preceding work.
Patents that should have never been granted (patent examiner laziness), are thrown out of court with ever increasing regularity. These form the basis of so many retro-invention copying claims.

Frand? The word "reasonable" appears in the definition of frand, copying claims would do well to follow that principle when applying dubious "patents".

Veracity? Whenever there's a new iClaim, a simple look reveals almost identical prior art - there's no legalese or claim of expertise on my part other than the common knowledge - that "Prior art" negates or dilutes the ability to enforce any patent because said "invention" isn't novel, but is mere adaptation.

That's the state of "play" these days - sigh.
The Goons liked Rhubarb too as I recall.
amcmo
13 February 2012
 Of course Photo, we only have your assertion that Apple's patents are iClaims as you put it.

Some of the 'prior art' you have claimed is a serious stretch.

Oh, Neddie!
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