HTC loses to Apple, several Android phones banned in the U.S.

The U.S. International Trade Commission finally issued its decision on a patent dispute between Apple and HTC. The determination states that several of the manufacturer's Android-based handsets will be banned…

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The Nexus One was an HTC phone, not Samsung. Regardless, this is a sad day to be sure.

Go Apple, GO GO APPLE! Your place is over the android phones. They are weak and slow!

If there is such thing as "Divine Justice" I assure you that Apple and all those at Apple responsible for all the misery they cause in the IT&C and mobile phones&tablets sector, will pay for it, all that you do one day will backfires at you Apple.
Apple is an abomination to this world and they should be exterminated.

Not sure about divine justice but I would say if it does it would not apply in this case, it’s conquered by blind fanboyism.

But how much rotten apples a fanboy can eat before going sick ? LOL

I don't know...if you copy and steal you pay for it! Simple as that! Doesn't matter which company you are!

Wait a moment since Apple wasn't a telecommunication company like Motorola, Nokia, and others they had no history, experience or any other research&development in the field of mobile phones, what they did in 2007 with their first mobile phone released aka iPhone was to copy and steal all the technology that others like Motorola, Nokia&CO have invented and developed through decades before Apple was ever thinking on producing a mobile phone.
So look who stole all that mobile phone technology in the first place, Apple stole it.

The ITC's decision favors the Apple believers... yet this could carry a dangerous precedent towards the developing future... if you can patent stuff the way Apple does , then the outline of the future will be very Apple-like coloured...
Believe me, eventually Apple will run out of bright ideas and the rest of the developing community couldn't be bothered anymore...

The patent-war should come to an end before the End-User choice and experience is determined by just 1 manufacturer.

Diversity is what we need, so imho the ITC should be overruled by some judge that has a clear view on what technology could bring us in the future.

... Are you sure all of you want to drive grey cars and all wear the same grey clothes, because this is what we are working on with this whole patent bullshit.

US protectionism is action, The tablet computer as apple saw it is a direct copy of Kubrick's 2001 space odyssey prop. The iphone was a simple evolution that if apple hadn't made there were many others out there that would have. I find their shotgun lawsuits and patent trolling to also be very distasteful. not a company i would ever support.

HTC don't seem worried, so neither am I. HTC is a powerhouse and they will get through this. Cook must of been forced at gunpoint to continue the Android hate. I do feel sorry for Apple though. Before Jobs passed away I wanted future iPhones to fade into the sunset... now I just hate them outright.

Patents were heralded as an aid in innovation and yet here we are with Apple patenting an idea that many developers already done in the 1990's via Perl scripts and parsing of screen data.

Thank god our patent system was not around in the caveman's time otherwise all of us would still be waiting for lightning strikes to get fire due to the patent for original fire, in essence killing all innovation...

First let me preface by saying I really like HTC. I have owned more than one of their phones, but the bottom line is that if HTC (or any other company) held those patents they would do the same thing. Its unfortunate but true. I don't think it's fair to say that Apple is evil because of this kind of stuff. They just happen to own certain patents. Now whether Apple actually developed the technology in question or purchased it, or stole it is another discussion. Also, before you flame me, I am NOT a Apple fanboy. Just a realist...

I understand needing to protect your "IP", but, Apple is receiving a lot of bad press about their way of going after copyright claims. It makes Apple look like they can't beat "android" with their devices without trying to get the droid style phones banned. Innovation use to be Apple's strong suit, but the iPhone 4S didn't really "innovate". Except for iOS5, redesigned antenna (fail on the 4), it's just a warmed over 4. If 5 doesn't "wow" the non rabid iPhone fan, Apples days of "leader" might be a thing of the past. The era of Steve "I can't do anything wrong" Jobs could be over, which is bad for the entire industry. Before the iPhone came along, the "cool" phone was a Razr...look how far it has come.

As long as we have a humanity so daft as not to recognize the all pervasive interdependence then we will continue in this massive nonsensical struggle to possess creation. At worst it will drive us to the brink of extinction just as we have already driven so many other life forms and at best it will leave this planet a misery where the dead will pity the living.

Do not be so foolish as to trade long-term happiness for fly-by-night rectangular blinkers that go "ping".

Well, Apple is the no.1 US company so they have to find ways of protecting it from powerful asian competitors. There`s no philosophical debate here on patents or other potential means of achieving its goals, just follow the money imho. After all it`s a war out there for controlling a huge market and unfortunately the causalities are us, the customers.

Im sure steve jobs left some sort of "if i die tomorrow" agenda to cover a course of a few years, once that runs out, appletonians everywhere will be scrambling like chickens with no heads.

You are so silly.

Nobody's flaming you. That's a good point of view.

It just seems that HTC won't have a big job dealing with these changes so who cares - especially if this really only concerns Android 1.6-2.2.