Apple Granted SIM Connector Patent

[okibrian]

Just start charging 10% of their current R&D (or cash reserves) per patent application. That should slow them down a little and give the little man a chance in hell!

Who's the "little man" here? Google's Droid? Samsung?? Really?? I don't think any player here can be called a "little man". It's a fight of giants and all are taking the gloves off to be the top dog. All are taking the other to court for this or that.

 

[Guest]

PATENT, PATENT !!!

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]doctormojomojo[/nom]PATENT, PATENT !!!, FOR NOT METOOSAMSUNG COPIES [/citation]

 

[dthx]

[citation][nom]homiedontrightclick[/nom]Apple is in trouble? Check the recent windows phone/win 8 fail, and lets talk about trouble. Lets talk about having to adapt your entire new OS to fit a world that already moved ahead long ago, and still failing overall. Windows 8 is gorgeous, but is absolutely worthless in almost every other respect. I love having a "start" screen before having to switch back to "desktop" mode. What a calamity. We all know Microsoft isn't going anywhere. We should also assume that Apple isn't going anywhere either...[/citation]
Of course Apple has a large (but eroding) customer base and will nut plummet into the ground anytime soon. But in the professional market, people are less driven by the emotion and will buy a product for other reasons than "it looks cooler" or "I hate those coloured tiles". Many IT specialists not convinced by iOS devices had to buy them to fulfill some specific mission profiles because there was a pressure from management to find such solution. Two years ago, you wouldn't find any suitable alternative to the iPad, so they bought those in a desperate move. Now, with the tablet hardware becoming better every day and Windows 8 Pro working fast on tablets, it becomes possible to buy Win8 devices that are correctly integrated into Active Directory, can be secured and run all the company's tailor made applications while still getting the same kind of user acceptance the iPad has. Is Windows 8 perfect ??? No, far from it, just like many other Windows before, but it works quite fine and I have no doubts that Microsoft will eventually become succesful with their new platform. It's just a matter of when...

 

[Guest]

Ridiculous, Patent office is full of idiots.
what Nokia should do? to bring in court Apple and Patent Office - Check Nokia E7 and you will see Apples new "PATENT" in use
shame on Nokia

 

[GreaseMonkey_62]

So they're trying to patent a system to more easily swap SIM cards, when they don't even allow you to swap out a battery on one of their phones. WTFFFFFFF. It's stuff like this that makes me dislike Apple.

 

[virtualban]

Seems I cannot find it online, but there was an old version of sony-ericson dumb phone that was able to do that exactly, with a single sim card that could be swapped and mechanically very similar to how Apple here seems to have patented.
So, yeah, among other things why this patent is stupid, this is not even prior art, this is prior tech.