Apple May be Banned in the US

Ray Toombs / August 19, 2012

Apple over the last few months has sued Samsung, HTC and Motorola making it very difficult to make a device that doesn’t supposedly infringe on any patents they claim are theirs. Well, at the U S International Trade Commission, Motorola Mobility has filed its second lawsuit against Apple. If Moto is successful, this will effectively ban the sale of all iPhone, Mac and iPads from being sold in the United States.

Google Owned Motorola Mobility made this statement:

We would like to settle these patent matters, but Apple’s unwillingness to work out a license leaves us little choice but to defend ourselves and our engineers’ innovations.

Apple has been accused of breaching Motorola patents pertaining to location services, media playback on phones, (voice command)Siri, push email notifications and many others. Google knew what they were doing when they bought Motorola, with a case already under their belt against Apple in Germany. The success of this case over data synchronization, stopped iCloud users from receiving push email notifications while in Germany.

Apple, you created this monster, now you are going to have to face the fact that you may not win the battle.

GOOD LUCK APPLE

Source: Iphone Informer

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By Ray Toombs

I have been a Droid addict since I got my first OG Droid (Motorola A855), it took me about 3 months to root and I was hooked. I now have multiple devices and each one of them supplies me with my daily dose of Android love. Outside of Android I also love reef aquariums and I am a workaholic to support my family and three beautiful girls and would do anything for them and love that they are always interested in daddy's Android toys.

Applemaniac

Good Luck droidmaniacs!
- Wendell Goldsberry
  
  Fuck you MacFag.
- Wendell Goldsberry
  
  Name one thing that Apple did not steal and you will convince me.
- Squeaks
  
  Says Applemaniac.
bobby

Apple deserves this. Such a tyrant of a company with brainless followers.
- Allen Lendzion
  
  there seem to be a lot of downvote trolls here lately.
  I hear you bobby, they have been griping about everything new lately they and everyone knows karma is a bitch.
  Let’s see how surprised they look once the (if the) gavel falls.
mm

yeah right just a lot of gossip
Coda

Suck it, Apple.
DontBeASoreLoser

You must not be from America. We drive on the right, carry guns, and we let people who have tons of cash do whatever they want…Welcome! If apple wanted to pump out Galaxy S IIIs and Nexus 7s the government would drag their feet all the way to slapping Apple on the wrist, just in time for Samsung, Google, and Motorola to go broke. HA!
Boob

Fuck apple and the ipad i typed this on! Good 4 nothing money grub destroying industry
- Apple Luvr
  
  why use an ipad if you hate it? sell it now if you really hate apple.
  - David Luedtke
    
    could be the joke…
  - conqueror
    
    Apple Luvr, you are misunderstanding….Boob hates apple but finds the product convenient…. There is a difference. Apple’s aggressive business structure is revolting. Their reputation is what he hates.
    - http://twitter.com/nuk3d Brock
      
      so.. you stop using their products to try to make them see they’ve done wrong. there’s enough devices out there now to easily replace it/them. without even losing any functionality.
      - http://www.facebook.com/robyn.banx.5 Robyn Banx
        
        There’s enough customers out there now to easily replace the <1% or so with exceptional morals.
- Agent W
  
  you SOB!
Wendell Goldsberry

I hope this does happen. Nothing good about CrApple.
http://omgdroid.com/ Tony Simons

LOL! You fuckers keep it entertaining. That’s for sure.
Kenny Gee

Ohh I love it. How does it feel Crapple? That’s what happens when you are solely based upon other companies ideas….
http://thekonietzkystrain.tumblr.com/ NeuroMan42

Turn about is fair play, and hilarious on so many levels too. So damn fitting.
http://www.facebook.com/kaolinfire Kaolin Fire

I hate them all so much. =/
http://profiles.google.com/divij.durve divij durve

I’ve been saying it to a lot of ppl and no one believed me. Well I support Google completely on this one. Apr should have just sat quietly in their space ship shaped ha coz they are and always shall be wrong
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Allen Lendzion

it’ll never happen.
i would love to SEE it happen, but it won’t. plain and simple.
Pj Almonte

while i dont personally expect this to go through as depicted (banning all sales of apple products) i would like some type of resolution between apple and the android makers. these lawsuits are pathetic because round corners should not be patentable in the first place, and many of the things claimed have prior art. Im not going to lie, the iphone put these things together in a package that had not been seen before, but the sum of the pieces were already in the wild. I saw multitouch on the surface by microsoft before the iphone, cameras where there, touch screens, light sensors, front facing cameras, but the iphone managed to wrap all these up in what really was an amazing leap of standars to make a phone. In short, let them win and lose, have to come to an undisclosed settlement worth $$$ and call it a day. There is seemingly no way to create a device which dodges each patten, so these things are going to happen. The courts should re-examine what constitute FRAND patens and force the settlements between them so these stupid litigations cease to happen.
- http://gniw.ca Ambrose Li
  
  It’s earlier than that. I was told that multitouch was in fact a 70’s technology. Buried in a research lab for sure, but still much older than we’ve been led to think.
- http://www.facebook.com/Dhooverphotography Destry Hoover
  
  I see Google shooting down any licensing offers just as Apple has done to every other company that has supposedly infringed on it’s technology. Apple started a war by attacking android manufacturers and getting their technology banned in the US and Germany. They are only getting the same treatment and it’s about time.
http://www.facebook.com/churchill.fortunato Churchill Fortunato

charming discussion. How old are you guys, 16?
- mega
  
  Fuck off bitch
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1368032580 James E. Burkett
    
    LMFAO
    - mega
      
      That’s right if you don’t like the discussion why comment? Dumb mother fucker.
Patrick Herendeen

Haha!
DanHigson

If nothing else, this will be a fun case to follow.
mcmixmaster

You’re an idiot. Pure speculation and not founded. Junk blog.
realist

YOU ARE SO DREAMING.
mcmixmaster

Please know what you are talking about first. The USITC does not have authority over US copyright or trademark law. They deal with import export issues.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1368032580 James E. Burkett
  
  Uh yeah… And Motorola is going to have all iJunk banned from Import. You didn’t really think this “American” company actually made their hardware in America, did you?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1216503093 Bao Giang Tran

fu%k apple!!!!!!!!
http://profiles.google.com/adoool92 Adel ,,,

google will give apple a dose of their own medicine lol
Mat

I have a Macbook Pro which I have bought back in 2010. My next PC laptop is going to run Linux.
- Topher
  
  The MacBook Pro does run a form of Unix/Linux..
  - http://twitter.com/nuk3d Brock
    
    “form” of, is the keyword. It’s entirely closed, nothing at all like linux is now, honestly.
lakis

Lawsuits and patents are only harm consumers. I dont understand why should i have an iphone to experience “Scroll to unlock” or have a motorolla to have “push emails”. Its insane, brands should stop suing each other and start sharing licences between their discoveries and technologies so that consumers may benefit all the available features up to date.
- k5kid
  
  That’d be awesome if anyone other than consumers wanted consumers to win.
nico

so … peace was overrated huh? we love war, lets kill !!
J Nano

Eye for an eye. oh the irony!
Jason Lewis

I recently bought an iPad 2 for my son to help with his speech and math as the apps he needs are only available on the iPad. I’m an Android user through and through, although I am writing this on my son’s iPad as we are over at my mother in laws house. I really do hope that Apple gets a taste of their own medicine.
- Benjamin Heath
  
  That drives me nuts. It is extortion to make an app that could help a lot of children (I recognize that not all kids learn the same way) only available on a $400-$830 device.
  - http://twitter.com/StephenESC StephenESC
    
    Sorry, but you can’t really call it extortion when someone finally puts the effort into making helpful learning apps for children but only for the iPad. Besides, they’re apps. You’d be hard-pressed to find ANY app-running device less expensive, regardless of OS.
    - redkubu
      
      Google makes a really nice one for $200.
  - conqueror
    
    Yes yes yes… it is….. It is the monopoly of business, – - Business is who can make the most coins out of the poorest beggar!
  - Topher
    
    So that is Apple’s fault??? Maybe blame the developer of the app not making it Android!!
Squeaks

Fight with fire, unfortunately. Though, they did have this coming.
Benjamin Heath

This will not happen the way the blogger claims it might. Motorola does not have a blue shell for Apple. You have to understand, these lawsuits are all just a big turf war that will never really end as long as they all exist.
- conqueror
  
  All last, somebody with knowledge …thumbs up Benjamin… absolutely true
Ress

The winner is the law firm. Others are moron
- Philip Breytenbach
  
  100% correct
  - conqueror
    
    Yup… they make money whichever way.
gavinc

Apple loves to claim that the iPhone is a huge innovation that they are responsible for and Steve Jobs called the Android operating system “a stolen product”. I had a Sonyericson W950i, which was released in February 2006 (11 months before the iPhone was even announced) and it did pretty much everything that an iPhone does, all be it on earlier generation hardware. It was a phone, an organiser, did email, could browse the internet, and it was an mp3 player as well. When I got it I thought “they should make the screen bigger and have a virtual keyboard”. It even had an app drawer that worked just like Androids launcher and looked like the iOS home screen. You could even download apps for it. It ran Symbian and had a UIQ 3 user interface. I don’t know what Steve Jobs was smoking but this and many other examples show that he was certainly not shy about “stealing” other peoples products.
- Benjamin Heath
  
  And Microsoft stole from Apple, and Apple stole from Xerox, and all this nonsense never ends.
  - Itsallcircuitsmadeatfoxconn
    
    Microsoft actually started it with fucking over IBM back in the day, it’s been a big ol’ circle jerk of IP lawsuits ever since for all tech companies.
- conqueror
  
  Business is about theft and reputation. The business world is not about who stole, but about who got caught stealing. They are all monsters. Its all a war for money. Its about who can get the most coins out of the poorest beggar.
- Abhijeet Mishra
  
  Exactly, I would still prefer to use my Symbian phone over getting an iPhone. iPhone was an innovation in that it made touchscreen phones that famous and easy to use, but otherwise there was nothing innovative about it. How Apple fools people and how people worship them is saddening to see.
WaRuss

Make sure that no one forgets, Apple owns the patent rights to the external moisture sensor and uses this to control warranty expenses for the IPhone product. This gives Apple an extreme advantage over any Droid phone in that warranty costs can be greatly decreased as Apple will void you like the plague if your external sensor is ever shown to be pink on the outside.
- http://www.uragon.com/ Bogart
  
  You are 100% right and agree completely. Except, if they take this feature out, any android phone will still work 100%, so your argument doesn’t fly.
screw_android

Yeah.. write the comments here and pray.. because Apple and its lawyers are idiots. God and the Judge will read these comments and ban Apple.

We are Android dumbheads, who think they understand everything, and are the only rational creatures on the planet earth.
- mega
  
  Uhhhh your a fuckin dickbrain. Yes I saved that word to the dictionary on my nexus.
Colin Smith

no chance. This is just hype to get publicity. Really? The US economy needs Apple now. And if Apple lost, the only loser is the consumer. All corporations are there to make money including Google. It would just trade one tyrrant for another. Its funny how we don’t learn from history.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1368032580 James E. Burkett
  
  Apple pays less than 10% of the taxes it Should pay into the US economy due to outsourcing and tax loopholes. We need Apple like we need a hole in our heads. All Apple does is make money for itself and lawyers- Certainly not the US treasury. Idiot
zecha46

The Hatfields and Mccoys. How will it end?
Knlegend1

I’m all about android, but I really don’t want Motoroogle to destroy them. Apple stop the BS.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1368032580 James E. Burkett
  
  I do. I hope they cut their fucking throats out, ban everything, show Apple how it feels to have their shit cut off for taking Real innovation, not rounded rectangles and colorful fucking icons!
smilingsteve

You can see where this is headed right?
http://twitter.com/Mayzse Dave Amburn

All competing companies steal from each other. Apple is the one who decided they would sue everybody instead of compete. I guarantee Google would have never bought Motorola if it weren’t for Apple suing everybody.I hope they crumble from they’re own medicine.
- conqueror
  
  EXACTLY!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000301381615 Antonio Saverio

Bad Luck Apple!
Ping

I don think the government will allow the market not to have an APPLE- theres a huge market share for this company and its products- so as the contribution of sales tax towards govt’s fund
- Notsomuch
  
  Wroooong. CrApple pays less than a tenth of the amount of taxes it should do to outsourcing its revenues to bypass us tax laws. But nice try though.
  - Yeah well
    
    To be fair, most multinational companies do this.
Paul

Apple core who’s your friend UK tose them bitches out of the u.s
wololo

yes yes yes yes yes.
http://twitter.com/Chickensareevil R’Shaun Alladice ツ

Hahahahaa, apple is just over-priced piece of **** anyway, the only good thing they did was the iPod. Since then all they did was add a phone to it, (iPhone) make the screen a bit bigger (iPad) and just added numbers and letters to get more sales.
- hrrry
  
  Do u know what a processor is?
  - conqueror
    
    Yup…. CPU – Central Processing Unit, the heart of calculations and processing… why ask? — Apple is aggressive towards money making. Their new war on Google is disturbing, about the rumors of releasing an iPad mini/iPad nano (release date unconfirmed yet) all in a gesture to flush out Google as a competitor with the android tablets…
MR.Z

Apple is 100% more advanced in there technology then motorola will ever be in there life in the universe.
- Gerry
  
  Flicking idiot. That makes aposolutly no sence
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1368032580 James E. Burkett
  
  Are you kidding me? Without Motorola, NO ONE would have a cellular phone… Motorola Invented the cellular phone you Moron!
Jon Takaki

THis is why I never bought a Mac nor an iphone..Buying a product made by a stingy company that tries to bully its way to market domination is like voting for a dictator. This attitude of Apple reflects the late Steve Jobs approach to life and business. Without him innovation will stall and patent infringement lawsuits might be the only way for Apple to remain dominant. Using the “cool factor” they’re known for and the fashion trend they’re riding will help them for a while unless consumers realise Apple is not as cool as they make themselves to be. However and luckily for Apple, most consumers are stupid as Steve Job knew all too well.
- conqueror
  
  AGREED remove the A and you get GREED, that’s what drives them all.
- Abhijeet Mishra
  
  Exactly why they said “consumers don’t know what they want” while designing the iPhone/iPad, because they think the consumers are fools and can be told what they can and cannot do with their devices.
  - Land-Mine Hare
    
    Wow, you couldn’t have got that quote more wrong.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507973810 Martin Cataldi-Rogers

hahahha apple you may of met your match … win a battle loose the war
epikvision

Apple is giving a run for its money.
cybergod

And so the worm turns. Finally, someone (Google) is big enough and has the ability to slap Apple and tell them they DO NOT OWN EVERYTHING! Good luck to them I hope they win.
- Land-Mine Hare
  
  So much for “do no evil”, hmm? And then when your beloved google is declared a monopoly five minutes after iOS devices are banned from the USA, and google is forced to break up, then what?
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1368032580 James E. Burkett
    
    Oh stop your fucking crying. Apple has been suing everyone and everything they can get their hands on for YEARS. Google is sick of watching them attack Android manufacturers. They are about to put a stop to it. So STFU
    - Land-Mine Hare
      
      Samsung lost. Jury’s decision proves Apple’s suits are justified. Google is shaking. Get over yourself.
      - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1368032580 James E. Burkett
        
        Samsung has far from lost. The decision will be overturned in Washington. How would anyone expect a fair trial out of a court situated 10 miles from Apple headquarters, with 9 people from a city that practically Worships Apple, with a judge that Represented Apple in it’s IPO? Conflict of interest?
MK

The question is who will be the judge and what media format does he or she use.
azimm

There’s worm in the Apple.
http://twitter.com/ArrreRaza El Semental

Andele!
humanspida

Apple dont innovate, they only market wots already available.
Oh and charge you a fucktonne for it… small point about apples ethics – linux = free, but every apple OS is bazed in the linux kernel but they charge hundreds of dollars for it. On top of that, you can build a mac for about a third of the price – the reason they dont want you cracking their shit open is coz nothing inside is actually apple – it will all be either intel/nvidia or amd/ati depending on whether its a mid range or high end machine. If you put linux on it, it wont have cost the earth but will perform like a mac and, oh yea – theres a whole software centre full of over 33,000 apps also for FREE.
You buy apple and you are willingly spending unecessary money making you a fool of epic proportions or just a status whore. Neither is particularly good.
#boycottapple
For no other reason than they are taking the piss out of everyone with the way they go about everything.
Michel Duhaime

What is this Apple hate club, Apple and Android amongst many others, make great products. Politics is the problem, there going to need to share the market to keep innovation alive.
http://robcypher.blogspot.com/ Rob Cypher

I would LOL myself unconscious. The hipsters would be crying for weeks. Apple is bad and is greedy.
RZ203

seriously, “banning apple”. I do not always agree with their sales tactics but what are we North Korea?? Last time I checked this is America, go to court and figure it out but banning a product is absolutely absurd. While (call me crazy) but I’m sure this article was written by an “apple hater” just trying to anger apple users, if this actually does happen it would go to show more-so how this country is going to the crapper.
- adc2223
  
  Apple is getting other companies banned though, so I think it would be fair to have at least some of their products banned unless they agree to have the government lift the ban.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1368032580 James E. Burkett
  
  Banning is wrong?? Why dont you tell that to your precious fucking Apple who is attempting sales bans of every phone they come across with rounded rectangles and colorful icons! Fuck off!
Israel Lai

It’s evil but serves them right.
Ann

I hope apple goes down.
They force their tyrant ways for too long.
They force restrictions on your phone so you can’t do some of the simpler things, now they’ve messed too much with the big boys!
I hope they get banned for trying to seize the market place. Hope the brainless followers, will wake up that their tyrant marketing and business model ploy to attract potential customers will be revoked.
pissed

i do [not] love how anti Apple this article is, it’s blatantly obvious. the evidence is seen at the end of the article, where the very first line of the author’s description is ” I have been a Droid addict since…” A biased writer is as bad as the government run media stations. You are a liar, a fraud and should not be allowed to publish any form of media EVER. I will not be reading another article from this site.
http://twitter.com/gitanjalirana gitanjali rana

good luck moto…… finally someone all set to slap apple……
http://twitter.com/ko_numbers joey numbers

Hopefully this leads to a settlement and all these silly trials can come to an end.
http://www.facebook.com/whogivesash1te Martin Hammond

As they say “What goes around comes around” It seems that Apple is just greedy and if they do get banned in the USA it will no doubt be the demise of Apple for the rest of the world.
rohan

at last apple gets its share of the tyranny !!!
stav

brilliant, make sure the company goes into liquidation!
neville chidawanyika

fuck apple…golddigga….android baby….windows phone I see yah
Chris Puddester

Obviously this is a legal ploy to get Apple to pull back from their aggressive tactics. I have always been waiting for Apple to get to the level that Microsoft was at for many years. Haters just wanting to tear them apart because they are industry leaders. We’ll see how Apple deals with it when they lose the title of “Everyone’s Favoured Underdogs”
- Abhijeet Mishra
  
  I don’t have any respect for a company that makes me buy a $800 phone then tells me what I can and cannot do on it and puts so many limitations on it (BT can’t transfer files, seriously? And yes, people still use BT, so don’t give a stupid excuse like no one uses BT). Good product as it may be, it’s overpriced and too boring for me. Apple are the industry leaders? How so? They were leaders once, not anymore, innovation from them is hard to come by now.
jay tenefrancia

Let them taste their own medicine! Such greediness claiming something thats not even theirs!
Anyway i just got my new samsung galaxy s3 despite the coming of iphone 5 in a few weeks. Im not faling for apple. Its just the name thats making them popular. What for? Status symbol? No way! Im loving my galaxy s3!
I heard about banning apple? Well whoever said that, youve got my vote!
Dump my plan of buying a mac desktop.
jay tenefrancia

Go android! Apple is scared!
Joshua Pape

too be fair Apple didn’t create the monster Nokia did… they have just been the most litigious since Nokia broke the seal
http://www.facebook.com/tommy91764 Tommy Vigil

Apple is trying to monoplize this industry which is illegal in the U S
freakqnc

The only prescription that can cure what Apple has become today it’s a large dose of their own medicine.

iSteve was the first to change, might have been his comeback with a vengeance after his baby was taken away from him, but in the process he did lose something unfortunately… proof is that he forgot where he came from and how hard people stood behind his company even when he had long been “forcibly removed” from it by a bunch of egregious imbeciles. Sadly Apple has forgotten what it means to be the underdog, what it means to have the backing of dedicated supporters who will stay with the company no matter how hard it is not to be able to find a printer or other peripheral that works with your computer, no matter how much you would like to use some applications that are not available to your OS and despite of having to pay through the nose for Apple specific hardware and having to buy limited expensive system upgrade that sometimes took weeks or months to get.Those who remember those times are the people who are definitely not proud of the new Apple and the shameful throwing money to patent lawyer sharks who feast on the billions the company collects on products… instead of prices going down for their products as sales soar and instead of putting those funds to good use Apple rather engage in endless patent battles with companies that are not even close to dominating the market. A very sad display that for the old school Apple supporter is the exact opposite of what Apple used to stand for.An iSteve stating “I am willing to go thermonuclear on Android because it’s a stolen product” not only makes an entirely false statement, but it completely forgets that he himself admitted to the fact that the Mac OS (Classic pre X) had been almost entirely lifted from the OS that had been developed back then by Xerox… in his own admission he even repeated Picasso’s famous quote “good artists copy, great artists steal” justifying himself and saying that even if Mac OS started from something already existing the Apple completely revolutionized the initial concept. If Xerox was to use the same practices that Apple uses today, there simply would be no Apple. And what to say about those who troll in favor of Apple across the web? They are most likely people whose first Apple purchase was an i-Something. Or even worse… they are the same people who before the iWorld were bashing Apple and Mac and were trolling against Apple in favor of Windows. Times do change indeed… and it’s not always for the best.
No Name

Apple Won! its official
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1368032580 James E. Burkett

I hope they refuse to settle…. I HOPE they refuse to settle and push for a full ban on Apple’s products! PLEASE go for the throat and make Apple back the F**K off everyone over rectangles and icons!
Keiff

“Colin Smith • 8 days ago−
no chance. This is just hype to get publicity. Really? The US economy needs Apple now. And if Apple lost, the only loser is the consumer.”
No chance? Apply already got an injunction against the Galaxy Nexus and other devices, despite it not looking or functioning anything like an iPhone . While it’s currently being stayed, it WAS the goal of Apple. That’s all Google is going to do. They aren’t after licensing fees. They want Apple to feel what it’s like with the shoe on the other foot. A 1-day injunction is enough of a gesture to tell them to chill out and play nice. The US doesn’t NEED Apple right now. The economy needs affordable options… not luxury devices. The patents Google is asserting are pretty iron-clad in this case.
I say more power to them (Google) for their attempts to stop this “litigation not innovation” crap that Apple has taken to of late. They deserve to feel the pain, even if it is only for a short period of time.
Jack

can’t wait to see/hear all the hipsters blogging about boycotting apple…on their iPhones.
Joe Merrick de Castro

cant wait for that expensive cheap gadget to be banned
Jmoneybags

Oh please, They don’t stand a fucking chance. You saw what Apple did to Samsung right?

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