Apple won a decision today from the ITC in its suit against HTC. The complaint, being able to click on phone numbers or dates from the touch screen to make calls or open calendars.
Now I’m not a wizard when it comes to programming, but its not hard to write applications that look for dates and phone numbers, and hook an application api to call an app specific function. And I am sure there are several different ways to code it.
HTC already has 4G, faster CPUs, and just an all around better interface. But Apple would rather litigate than innovate. Granted,the iPhone was a marvel when it came out, but how many years ago was that.
But, I have never liked Apple, probably for the same reasons I don’t like Microsoft. Scratch that, there are many more reasons to loathe Microsoft. But back to the original point, Apple has always been riddled with proprietary hardware, multimedia codecs, and other software. Case in point, we still have not found a way to get music on my son’s Ipad2 yet, (which I did not purchase for him) short of jail breaking it. And I am not about to build a Windows PC just to put itunes on it so we can transfer his Amazon and Walmart MP3s.