Apple wins a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus; we're giving one away right this second!

Since the Galaxy SIII got the marketing push it did and sold in the numbers it did, the general public are gonna learn about this. Seems a stupid move from Apple. They lose either way - even if they win the case they come across as litigious swine to the millions of potential customers out there who they're trying to court. No one's impressed by litigation. It's toxic for pr

Wow this is a lot of comments

So much money being made why can't both parties call a truce ......if not I'm pulling off my belt and spank some butt! !!!!!!

I hate the patent wars and love the Nexus!

That blindfold Justice wears is full of tears. Oh there are many reasons Justice weeps, but a more than a few stem from all these frivolous lawsuits. Here's hoping this one also is dismissed with prejudice for failing to show damages. For Justice's sake.

This whole patent thing is like BMW suing FORD because they have a 4door car that open the same way as a BMW, hey Apple lead or get the hell out of the way, on second thought just get out of the way!

Truly a sad day in the technology world. These companies are simply ruining the enjoyment within the mobile world.

They should scrap the patent as all phones are similar and nothing is unique anymore. Apple should be ashamed of themselves, They just seem to be getting behind with bringing technology to the market. Long may the Android onslaught continue!!

This is just getting stupid! I'm getting fed up with all this nonsense! And all over a tiny search thing! Thankfully in the UK its still available! And this has made me want a nexus even more, just to spite apple

Apple is losing ground and android is becoming the top dog. Since they cant beat them might as well try to destroy them.

Banned and forbidden...this makes me want to get a Galaxy Nexus even more. :)

so much money and resources wasted in courts..

but count me in for the nexus :)

Man this is as ridiculous as it gets. I remember how apple was complaining about Samsung stifling innovation by copying apples' design and now that the tables have turned and apple is playing catch up with every major android oem they fail to point out that they are now stifling innovation. I'm gonna laugh when the injunction is repealed and apple has to pay that 2.6mil fund money they had set aside to Samsung. Hopefully Google will start taking a more rigorous stance with their new patents from Motorola and deter apple from being such pussies.

From Job's autobiography... 'I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,' he said.
'I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2051793/Steve-Jobs-vowed-...

This is probably why I guess.

The whole patent thing has gone too far. Something needs to change. Ultimately, it hurts us - the consumers.

While Apple had accused Samsung of "blatant copying" of its design and look, the South Korean firm has alleged that Apple infringed its patents relating to the way phones and tablet PCs connect to the internet.

Apple and Samsung are two of the biggest manufacturers of tablet PCs and smartphones in the world.

Sales of the iPad more than doubled to 15.43m for the three months to 31 December 2011.

And in the first quarter of 2012 it sold 13.6m, giving it about 63% of the global tablet market, according to research firm Display Search.

Samsung sold 1.6m tablets over the same period, giving it a 7.5% share.

The success of Apple's iPhone and iPad has seen the firm recently become the world's most valuable company.

Meanwhile, Samsung has enjoyed considerable success in the sectors with its Galaxy range of products.... i While Apple had accused Samsung of "blatant copying" of its desig... n and look, the South Korean firm has alleged that Apple infringed its patents relating to the way phones and tablet PCs connect to the internet.

Apple and Samsung are two of the biggest manufacturers of tablet PCs and smartphones in the world.

Sales of the iPad more than doubled to 15.43m for the three months to 31 December 2011.

And in the first quarter of 2012 it sold 13.6m, giving it about 63% of the global tablet market, according to research firm Display Search.

Samsung sold 1.6m tablets over the same period, giving it a 7.5% share.

The success of Apple's iPhone and iPad has seen the firm recently become the world's most valuable company.

Meanwhile, Samsung has enjoyed considerable success in the sectors with its Galaxy range of products. i

I wonder how this is going to end. :-P

Apple knows that it cant compete with a straight Google phone that runs pure android. I finally decide to get a nexus to develope on and it goes and gets band. Ok Apple take you ball and go home already. I am soo tired of this crap.

I dont give a fck.
All that shit about the money.
Please give me a good phone with the best of apple and the best of BlackBerry and the best of Android and i am sure it will be great.
I dont mind that apple wants money from Google and backwards.
Comon the smartest people cant even deal about it.
I dont care that apple winns some money again but hello world live together..

Greets from a stupid guy from the netherlands..

I dont give a fck.
All that shit about the money.
Please give me a good phone with the best of apple and the best of BlackBerry and the best of Android and i am sure it will be great.
I dont mind that apple wants money from Google and backwards.
Comon the smartest people cant even deal about it.
I dont care that apple winns some money again but hello world live together..

Greets from a stupid guy from the netherlands..

Here again is APPLE! Trying to be the shining star! Like Steve Jobs once said "Good artist copy, great artist steal" Apple and its patients. The nonsense of apple is nonsense. YES. It doesnt make sense. APPLE! You can't have the world by yourself! Dont be scare. Google is triumphing! and YOU KNOW IT! America is FREE! This is ridiculous! The patient wars are just a waste of time and money! Its hurts only consumers. Copying is good, if its good. The Galaxy Nexus is GOOD! The iPhone is ok! Lawyers are lawyers, consumers are consumers, and Apple is just pure stupitity. Apple, please dont try to be king. You'll always be dethrone by ANDROID. Freedom, Customization, and Unlimitations will always win. Poor limited Apple.

ANDROID RULES!

OMG shoot it to me! I NEEED a NexuS!
I think Apple is posessed by Satan.
SATAN SATAN SATAN THE dEVIL lmao- joking- am atheist but IF there was an invisible evil entity that consumes its prey and should have its head cut off and burned, it would be Apple. F Apple= I will never own an apple product, never made an Apple ID, and I kind of dislike my friends that have apple products lol

iPhone: You look surprised to see me, again, Mr. Samsung. That's the difference between us. I've been *expecting* you.

Sammy: Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But I think I may have a better one. How about, I give you the finger [he does]

So tired of this nonsense! Obviously a slide to unlock method or minor search function isn't the deciding factor between getting a galaxy nexus over an iPhone. Can't believe an actual judge would rule for an injunction based on the thought that apple is losing sales over this! Common sense and logic go a long way...

It's unfortunate that we have to stifle innovation in order to be competitive. Can you imagine if patents were used used in this manner during the industrial revolution. We would probably be 50 years behind in technology. Shame on any "technology" company that uses this method.

What Apple is doing wrong is they don't only demand financial satisfaction but use every opportunity to harm other companies by blocking their sales for every little stupid patent they posess.
Patent infringement is a general issue, but it's made to ensure that companies can protect their intellectual property and not to destroy other companies with it.
At the end of the day, Google doesn't sue Apple for a "pull-down notification menu".

Oh wow I am so late to this post. But I want a Galaxy Nexus. So here I am!

Here is my feeling on the whole patent thing. Patents are here to protect innovation and proven theft of ones IP. The issue is of course these patent laws were made years ago, decades even. We need these things examined by people that use the internet, use modern technology including, but not limited to, phones, tablets, computers, and every other form of gadgetry out there. Things need to change. The tech world is moving too quickly for patents on things like swipe to unlock (which Apple made popular in 2007) to still be protect-able. It's 2012. Every phone and tablet operating system under the sun has some form of swipe to unlock. How is this still even a debate? In my honest opinion, as Apple winds down innovation, (lets be honest iOS hasn't changed since 2007 in the look of the user interface and 2008 in breakthroughs, I am referring to the App Store) and ramps up patent trolling, they are showing their hand. What is their hand? Their hand is soon to be what is happening to Nokia, RIM, Palm, and Motorola. Once you can't innovate, you have to lawyer up and "protect" what is yours forever because you cannot come up with something new.

All in all, I say this, let Apple have their win today. Because in the end, Google will dominate on innovation. It is very clear where both companies are headed long term in the mobile space.

P.S. I hope I win!

The people in Apple seem so confident that nothing can destroy the corporate image in the public eye. But it is obvious that they are wrong and this patent nonsense is becoming a major nuisance. They may be experts on Law but they probably skipped Management 101 and PR 101.

Screw apple,android is where its at.

This has become a war in a court room instead of a competition in real products. G Nexs has been a hit because its pure Google and apple's Iphone is getting old with 3.5 screen. Apple need to compete with their products and not court rooms. Soon Android will beat apple :)

Apple should compete on features not lawyers. I really want a Galaxy Nexus.

This little war was ridiculus all the time and every court decision changes nothing. Samsung and Apple change the name of their Gagdets and the game starts all over again.

These patent suits hurt the consumers and limit our choices. It's ironic to me that Apple sues one of the suppliers that has helped make its device successful. IMO, it gives Apple a bad image when they sue these companies just to fight off the competition. I understand maintaining a competitive advantage so the company's products perform well but continuing with the patent suits is a cheap way to go about it.

Patents are patents...nothing more. Just a word. Make money by saying you designed and you created something. Reality is, yes, one individual or a group created something but if people didn't use those ideas and products and implement them into their own, there is not way we would improve our ideas and way of life. What If the touchscreen was patented and the maker went after every single person or company that tried to use it like apple and so forth go after companies....we wouldn't have the wonderful products we have today. I understand that if something greatly impacts your income but do you really think that the nexus will impact apples or asus, or toshiba, or anyone else's income? I sure don't think it will!!!

terrible you can patent anything. i should patent locomotion by use of a left foot then a right foot.

I hate this patent war what Apple is doing. They should focus on improving their products instead of banning competitors. They're losing their public image + market share + promoting Android. LOL! Galaxy Nexus is a lot better than iPhone 4S, they're having nightmares I guess.

I wonder if anyone has done any research into the relationship between company's success / innovation and their adoption of aggressive patent legal action? Suggests desperation to me.

Down with Patents!

Patents are to protect real innovation, not specific implementations of the same stuff everyone is doing!

I'm just waiting for when we are forced back into feature phones because all smartphones infringe on someone elses not specific patent.

DOwn with patents...they suck...this would only lead to monopoly..meaning by that the consumers would be at losing end atlease in terms of prices they pay.... Competition leads to advancement in techology, innovation... Patents suck a big time!!!

lol this has to be 1 of my favorite posts ever! an up side to this crap! oh yeah, back to the rules. this patent crap is crappy. doesnt matter if i win, this postvwas awesome!

I can't express this idea any more eloquently, so I'll borrow words from the EFF.org and defendinnovation.org instead: "Patents are supposed to foster innovation, but modern software patents have been turned against inventors." This nonsense simply has to stop.

IMHO this is all nonsense by both the companies to get ample 'facetime' (pun intended) across the news.

There should be a way for Consumers to sue companies for frivolous suits against each other, because at the end of the day, they are the decision makers!

This Happy-sue campaign from Apple needs to come to an end. It's just hurting the consumers more and more.

Like someone said (sorry not sure where exactly I read it): Do Apple actually think that I will buy their products if I know they are the reason I can't buy the product that I couldn't buy because of this legislation crap? Absolutely not.

I just think the whole thing is ridiculous, and to those that actually follow any news about patent war proceedings I find that Apple just seems foolish, with only the rare straggler crying, "It's good that they're protecting their work!" or something similarly inane. I think if more people knew how much of a pouting child Apple was being throughout all of this they would be mortified. I think it's even sillier that there's an injunction against the Galaxy Nexus. I'd love to have it as my daily driver....

This is really annoying! It has to come to an end!

Appletarded - That's what the design patent system has become.

If I thought anyone stole my idea,I would have done the same. I hate apple for other reasons. Still I see why they do it.

Free phone? Why not

I Feel Like Apple...Which In My Opinion Is A Relative New Comer In The Mobile Market Is Threatened By Any Phone That Threatens Their Share In The Mobile Market. I Think Samsung Is Their Prime Target Because Of Their Innovations And Raising The Bar In Mobile Technology! Lets Be Honest Here...They Have Been Trying To Sale A Phone Basically With The Same Chassis For Years Now...They Add A Feature Or Two And Call It The Latest Greatest Technology On A Phone!!!! We The Consumer...Which I Admit May Have Been Fooled In The Beginning By The Marketing Juggernaut That Is Apple, To Believe That What They Were Saling Was Something More Than What We Actually Were Getting! Now Consumers Are No Longer Going With What Sounds Good But What Actually Has Proven To Work As Advertised And Risen The Bar In Mobile Technology! This New Wave Is Coming From No Other Than Android...And What Are The Top Android Brands??? HTC, Motorola, LG, And Samsung. Now Outta That Group Who Are The Top Dogs??? Non Other Than Samsung And HTC! The Two Companies That Have Been And Will Continue To Create The Quote On Quote "iPhone Killers!" Classic Case Of Take Out Our Biggest Threats BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY! Bottom Line: Its About The Bottom Dollar For Apple...Or The Bottom Dollars They Are No Longer Seeing! #Sheeesh

Apple is like that kid who looses at a game and then cries to their parents that others cheated. But really, can't we just use phones and be happy with eachother, respect the competition?

PS. Seems like Google got their revenge in some way. Seems like Macs with Chrome are crashing, and that, my good friends, is hillarious :)

Apple sucks! Androids are the best. Get over it Apple!

When will this all end. Man It would be sick if I won

Current patent law is bad because it allows companies like apple to patent not on innovations but on necessities to evolve technology. Whats worse they patent a lot of stuff they know they wont use just so their competitors can't use them too. Who ever allowed such patents to be patented is bad and it should feel bad.

But lets be real, what else did you expect from company who's biggest feature of newest iteration of its mobile OS was facebook integration.

This Apple vs Google and Samsung and and any one else who dare innovate is becoming a bit ridiculous! If it can't accept healthy competition then one can only conclude that Apple is insecure.

I am so sick of Apple and their stupid patents!!! They are running scared because they know they can't compete with Google/Android. All they have are flashy products, and money for commercials!! I can't go one night without seeing a stupid Apple commercial!!! ANDROID ROCKS!!! And I'm spreading the love!!!

Force Apple to pay for their low wage production line in China or force them to produce stuff in USA. This will reduce their margins and make them concentrate on better products. I think their R&D has stagnated so they are afraid of the competition catching up easily.

The technology industry is fast becoming the profit vehicle of the patent litigation industry.

In my country nobody cares patents, no one wanted to walk to the courts, because of the Polish judicial judgments that were taken as the product would have long since withdrawn from the production;)
In the U.S. the law is on a completely different level, but by the fact that you can sue someone for anything, odd things happen.
As if the only companies that were losing, it would not make sense to worry about, but unfortunately it is an ordinary consumer loses the most ...

I would argue that the whole concept of intellectual property rights needs to be reworked from the ground up to prevent all this nonsense!

At the end of the day its all about the user's experience. Take it out on the field...show me what you got!

Cannot believe how ridiculous this is all getting. So many of these patents are just a logical progression of any of these systems, it's ridiculous to allow one company to claim ownership! Let it go apple.

To be honest who cares. Move on apple... keep it up androids of the world.

Oh wait did apple patent sleeping too cause then we all owe royalties now.

I 'love' the world we live in :D

Apple needs to stop this nonsense.

Like many already said, the patent controversy is nonsense because companies are now using it to gain money, and using it like it's a game of chess, instead of striving for innovation and just developing products consumers enjoy.

There is also the quote that pisses me off extremely about how Tim Cook still quotes Steve Jobs for saying they just want companies to stop copying them... They DIRECTLY copied the notification system from Android into their interface, and now want to turn around and call them out?! They copy eye candy and features from Linux Distro's all the time. Did you know they bought cover flow off this guy who made it? They didn't even develop that themselves.

iPods copied the intelectual properties of Creative Media Players, but Apple is GREAT at marketing and advertising, and thats all that matters in this world... which it shouldn't. The consumer should be priority.

Patents were designed to be a formal recognition of where a concept or product came from without someone stealing your invention or idea... but see Apple is now trying to patent things strategical to GAIN money, not to preserve innovation. If Apple wants to sue for patent infringement because another device is a screen with a black border, then why can't monitor companies sue the iPad for looking like their product, why can't phone pioneers sue Apple for their UI being an icon view order of app, like almost all color phones were already. Apple didn't invent the square, they didn't invent the color black, and they sure as heck didn't invent the touch screen. Sure they have a great user interface but that doesn't mean they can just own a generic design that has existed way before the iPhone.

Apple is in the whole patent nonsense to make money. Heck even the iPhone 4 was DESIGNED to make them more money than any other phone on the market based off of the planned obsolescence (I.E. Glass front AND back, drop equals broken phone).

Did you guys know they even are patenting the tear drop shape of their Mac Book Airs?! How crazy is that, almost all the netbooks I have seen and many other laptops used this generic shape. It's to make them money because IMHO they have ran out of ideas.

I mean lets take a look at the iPhone 4S, its only notable upgrade from the 4 was Siri... a Voice Activated AI (which has existed for a long time, Apple is just now making it "cool" and popular so people will use it now...). The iPhone hasn't really seen a crazy UI upgrade since the addition of the notification center (which was a direct copy-cat of the Android UI).

Everything they are claiming for infringement, any other company could do the same to them, but no one has the money, or layer base that Apple does, when people try they fail. Google is the only real competitor in this whole mess, and I honestly just wish it would stop. I like both products (my boyfriend has an iTouch and I have my Android). I like how simple and error free iOS is, but I LOVE the freedom of Android, and I love the integration of my Google services and pretty much any service that googles account import supports. I want innovation again, I want that giddy feeling I got when I heard about the iPhone even coming to exist, or when I wait so long to get the T-Mobile G1 when they came out. I want that excitement again, of following these blogs to guess and leak and talk about these AMAZING and futuristic innovations. Nowadays, there is hardly any innovation except for the physical design of phones... the UI is generally the same, the only real innovation has been from Windows surprisingly and I don't even like Microsoft products... I want that excitement back of anticipation for new UI's and amazing new features.

They need to patent NEW IDEAS AND INVENTIONS, not generic ideas that haven't been patented yet so they can make money... patent things like Dashboard for iOS, create and make innovation. Be more specific in your designs, not generic like "tear drop shape" and "black beveled squares"

Thats my 2 cents... wow got a lot longer than I wanted it too... sorry about that haha.

Apple doesn't know how to play fair at all. Rumor has it that the upcoming Iphone is going to look similar to the current Galaxy III. Samsung needs to get a group of lawyers and play the Apple game. The funny thing is majority of Apple's patent are not created nor purchased by Apple, they just beat the creator to the paper work.

We all know how much Apple stinks, and the further they let this go, the more people around the world will.

Just look at the developer conferences, Apple needs to try and mock Android but
Google didn't even mention them during theirs. Yes Apple we know you're scared and that you realized that you lost the mobile market war and try to hang on with everything you got but will only push people away..

I have no idea what is going on in the world these days! Why are the courts not throwing this stuff out? If apple want to sue anyone, it should be Samsung for their S Voice feature but apart from that it just seems that they are suing everyone for everything in a pathetic attempt to slow the competition down. Its like me shouting horrible things at Usain Bolt in the Olympics to try to slow him down so I can have a chance: not going to work, and pathetic.

I think Apple products are good but it's things like this that stop me from even considering purchasing one.

Can't we all just get along?

Cr'apple doesn't just suck. They swallow. I will always loath them. Long live Android!

It just sad, but you can only blame Samsung. You don't see some of the other companies getting sued as much as they are. But it goes to show that apple really don't have clue.

Time for all Android manufacturers to become allies to fight the axis of evil Apple has become with these patents.

My chances are slim, but what the heck bring on the galaxy nexus!

This is so pathetic, both about Apple and about the judicial system that it's barely describable on how wrong this all really is. If this were criminal proceedings you would be forced to prosecute without a possibility of reasonable four or they would throw the case out. But here, apple can press issues just because and hinder

You know the way patents work now, all you have to do is be really vague on an idea and you own it. Unified search is something apple owns? Wow, next thing you know they will own the color white.

Why? Why! I can't get a Gnex here in India, and i can't get one in the US either. Can you please tell me when nexus no.4 will arrive? Please!

This is where Apple just gets ridiculous. Make your phones better than competition, stop trying these low shots.

Actually, we've been seing lots and lots reports of apple winning these trials, but has anything lasting come from it? Atleast the lawyers are winners, also, swallows.

I can ONLY imagine how much LESS these fking devices could cost if Apple would stuff all this belly-aching & whining away & stop wasting EVERYONE's money on stupid-ass-complaints!!!

If they even concentrated HALF as much on R&D and original ideas as they do on law/patent research, court fees, & bullshit trials, they might be able to pull their heads out of the anal orifices long enough to ACTUALLY LISTEN TO CUSTOMERS instead of telling them what is best!!!!

...just sayin'...

Having read thousands of comments on other sites...

It is hard to say who I am annoyed at more, Apple, Google, Samsung, the patent system or the commenters.

The obvious target is Apple and that’s the immediate reaction we all felt, that this is Apple simply litigating instead of innovating. And while that is true, how come no one is calling for patent system reform?

Where is Google, that has such a large stake in Android’s well-being that they haven’t lobbied for patent reform yet? It’s like every day I wake up and read my usual tech blogs I see Apple suing one Android OEM or another. And that is fine whatever, business as usual, be a douche to the consumer because you want to proliferate your ecosystem.

But why is Google not fighting back? I keep asking this very question every time I see Apple attacking core Android functionality, or basic computer evolution (slide to unlock or multi-touch). I have read, in this very thread, at least 50 posts of you guys saying stuff that amounts to “oh just wait till Google wakes up” or “Apple needs to stop poking Google”. And you know what; it won’t because I hardly doubt Google has anything to keep Android out of the fire. You cannot keep bringing up the notifications patent as it has yet to be granted, and it has been revised so many times as to imply that it won’t be granted anytime soon. Everyone keeps saying that Google will step in any day now and put Apple in its place.

It won’t.

Google has far too much at stake in iOS users profit-wise to touch Apple. Apple knows this and it pretty much has it by the balls. It attacks what is pretty much the vanguard of Android, Samsung, and what do most of you guys call for? “HURR SAMSUNG SHOULD STOP SUPPLYING APPLE”. Let’s be honest, that is dumb. Apple is its biggest customer so why would it just cut the production lines because of this litigation against a division? It is still a business and anyone who calls for nonsense like this needs to wake up and realize it will never happen no matter how bad we would like it to.

And this is where we will see some huge problems in the near future. I say so because what I see is Apple fishing to set legal precedent by successfully suing an Android OEM somewhere in the world for using infringing tech that would be considered core functionality to Android. And I sincerely believe it just did with the 604 patent. Apple does not want to license its tech (that it did not invent) to anyone. It isn’t like Microsoft that is simply making deals with the OEMs. Apple wants zero competition so that its ecosystem is the only one out there. It has no more good ideas to improve its product lines with. What was the biggest newest thing they put out? Retina Display. What is it? High resolution screens. Really? That’s it? That’s the best they could come up with? They’re running out of ideas that modern technology can allow, they need to kill competition to stay on top. They will not license anything to OEMs as its utopia is a reality where phones are no more advanced than a Blackberry. Once the legal precedent is set, it will start picking off other core functionalities to reduce Android to nothing, going from one OEM to another.
I have a Galaxy Nexus, had it since the day it was released. I am heavily invested in the Android ecosystem so screw everyone and their stupid nonsense about Apple hurting innovation or reducing choice for the consumer. While true, I don’t give a damn about that, I am not looking at the big picture. Let’s be honest, this is going to affect the horse we all bet on. The apps ecosystem we all invested in over the years. This is what we’re mostly concerned about, that and the fact that Apple just got what it wanted…an injuction against a Nexus device which is pretty much like going after Google itself.

All I can say is, your move Google. What do you really have, if anything, that will help at all? Cuz you know Apple is going to go after the S3 and Google Now next.

Patents, Shmpatents...

It's not that the patent system is broken. The reality is that patents never worked. All information is serial - meaning that every new discovery is based on prior ideas and knowledge. Therefore claiming ownership of an idea is simply absurd.

For example: Steve Jobs didn't get the idea of the iPhone out of thin air. He likely merged the Palm Pilot with Mac OS X and replaced the stylus with a capacitive touch screen. Now when you think about it, the inspiration for the Palm Pilot came from a simple paper notebook and the stylus came from a pencil. The pencil and paper, in turn, were based on prior knowledge going back to cave drawings.

The bottom line is that no-one truly invents anything. "Inventors" simply take known elements and use them in novel ways. Just like one shouldn't take the full credit for mixing two existing drinks into a new cocktail, "innovators" should not be given ownership of ideas the elements of which are not their own.

Written by an iOS user.

Apple reminds me of my girlfriend, when things are not going the way they want they resort to tactics that make you think twice about that person. Either way I would never be able to go back to a 3nice inch screen and no 4g ( I have Sprint )

The patent situation is out of control. imagine how much better Apple products could be if they actually focused on innovation, as they claim, verses giving it lip service. I give Apple credit for packaging and for dumbing technology down.

Why is Apple stooping so low to get competition banned? Just because they can't produce better products... they resort to sue competition over little issues. Apple sucks!

I don't care about the patents! I want the GNex badly!

The amount of patent/IP lawsuits filed has become farcical. It's not just Apple either, as there has been a plethora of crazy lawsuits filed over the last several years. The system is beyond broken and needs to be fixed. Where's Judge Posner when you need him? 20-30 years ago many functions and software/IP was shared in the interest of furthering technology and improving the whole ecosystem. Now it's a bunch a 5th grade finger pointers who don't want anyone else to use anything that they "created" (or bought from someone who actually invented it).

It's not about protecting your IP/patents, it's about not wanting to admit that someone else took a part of (or most/all) of your idea and improved upon it. Many of these patents are so broad that they could encompass nearly anything, and the fact that the patent offices continue to approve, then enforce them, makes a mockery of the current judicial/patent system.

Plain and simple, all this patent business bites the big one, to show how much I don't care as well, I will gladly accept a chance to win a Galaxy Nexus.

APPLE.... CRY CRY CRY.... Damn Android Phones is better and sell more than ours. Let Take a Couple of Items From Android and Then Sue Them for Make Something Better Than Us... CRY CRY CRY.... APPLE Will Continue to SUE Any Android Phone Maker. Thats What They Do When There are no longer in First Place...

Buck up APPLE and Start Innovating Something... For The Last 3 Years you have Purchased or stole something and Fake That You Innovate. ALL YOUR Hardware LOOKS THE SAME... SO SO SO LAME...

APPLE YOUR TITANIC PHONE HAS SAILED AND SUNK... Deal With it...
Don't Blame Someone Else. That's Just Showing Your True Colors...

LONG LIVE OPEN SOURCE. LONG LIVE ANDROID....

This patent war is a load of crap. Everybody steals from everybody anyways. Apple shouldnt pretend like they havent done that on enough occasions. I really couldnt give a damn about their petty little battle except that it's us (the consumers) who are paying for all of it.

Let me be clear on this: I DON'T WANT YOUR HANDOUT GALAXY PHONE!

Having said that, I look forward to the judge reversing this preposterous ban, Google winning the trial, and software patents dying a horrible death.

I'm madder than hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

this is just crazy!

Im tired of this patent bull. You shouldn't be able to patent trivial software elements such as they are doing here. I swear if apple could patent "A method by which a person can continue living by inhaling oxygen into and out of there lungs", we would all be handed cease and desist orders. The entire patent system is broken and corrupt.

It is very tiresome and frustrating to read that just because apple is unhappy with the fact that they are losing the cell phone war, they attack any rel IPhone competitor. Why don't they focus their efforts on innovation? I hate seeing that a phone cant be sold or is held up because Apple is lazy.

Patenta are rediculous nowadays. I understand companies and individuals getting compensated for their ideas, but it's getting to the point where companies that took ideas from each other sue each other rather than focusing on innovation. Hopefully we can get some patent law reform soon, as it's so needed!

Guess Apple got jealous of the success of Android that they needed to try and find a way to stop it from over taking iOS, People are still going to buy Gnex's too late apple!!

To me the reason patent suits sucks is that if they invested as much money into new features/hardware/programming as they do the suits, said name manufactures devices would be better than the competitions and would by default sell better, thus negating the need for the suits in the first place.

This patent nonsense needs to stop.

This is absurd...i get that you wanna protect your ideas but my god patent wars must end!

Apple sucks

Apple can suck Android's dick

Just straight screwballness!

It's too bad Apple is now able to only release transition products and prosecutes people trying to actually *do* something. I´m curious as to when´s Apple going to release a true re-evolution of their product line. So far, we´ve only seen revolutions, literally. The Earth makes revolutions around the Sun : it goes from point A and comes back to point A every once in a while (every 365,something days). Apple only revolves around its own fat !ss, period.

Apple does the very same for a few years now. It seems to me they´re just resting on their laurels and it begins to be quite boring, honestly. I´ll take myself as an example : I live in Europe. No full 4G nor LTE here, and not gonna happen for a while. There are talks to start covering big cities likes Paris by 2013 but it´s still all theory. The iPad 2 was released here one year ago. And now Apple´s selling me basically the same product ("the new iPad"), save for the 4G and the upgraded display so I should pay $500 (400€) for a few pixels more ? And let´s not forget that by the time 4G and LTE fully hits Europe, there will be maybe 2 new iPads released, then what´s the point ?

It looks like they're trying to bring this part of industry to a grinding halt, to a statu quo from which they'll be the only ones to profit. No one blames them for trying to make money, but when the "money making" part implies behaving like a whiny spoiled brat that wants all the attention to himself and then proceeds to only fart with his armpits, that's when it starts to be very annoying.

We should abolish patents which are the real nonsense. You can't blame the companies from using them to stop competitors as they are allowed to do so. They idea of patents itself is wrong especially in an open source platform as android should be.

Once you can't complete on the same level, you try to bring down your competition in other ways.

Who do Apple think they are, I know patents are the bedrock of technology but for heavens sake Apple see the light. Just because Google are hot on your heels and you have no ace up your sleeve you think you can try and bully people in to submission. Grow up this isn't a school yard you can't always have it your own way.

Patents are great, but when a company is allowed to patent something on a very broad scope, like Apple, with the intention of leveraging them against competitors, it's deplorable and should be dismissed. The fact that some features in the patents existed in the broad scope of the ones granted to Apple before the iPhone, should be proof that there should be a comprehensive reform to the patent system that includes OEMs.

Blah omg fucking blah . Apple please stop you look like a little baby ...... Your stuff is better then mine so you can't sell it WA WA WA that's Apple. Sell them give them away do it all gnex for life baby

Apple can't win with better (or even equal) technology, so the turn the battle over to their bottom-feeder attorneys!

Those patent wars are horrible. Every company is registering patents on bs like slide to unlock and other stupid stuff, and just because that the us federal court allowed it to happen. Go ahead "free market", show us what you can do!
Software patents suck, hardware patents should be monitored. Otherwise monopoly will be created and we won't have good innovations with reasonable price.

fix the system!

System is very broken.

Poor Nexus phones.. Apple are using their power to over rule here. They need to except technology improves and phones are gong to end up with similar features. Would love to own a nexus!

Funny that the mechanism meant to protect innovation (patents) only stifle innovation.

let me just tell you something apple is way behind google right now that's why its banning the galaxy nexus from the us and probably she's preparing to ban the nexus 7 this is stupid i mean google should've banned iphone 4s sales because siri imitates google search back in november 2011 when 4s was released apple is just scared and trying to protect itself and probably the iphone 5 will be the same as the 4s but with a bigger screen so apple is really in trouble in my opinion the galaxy nexus with android 4.1 could destroy apple's iphone 5 and i really want this device i would do anything to own a galaxy nexus and get android 4.1 it's amazing and this new google search it's simply fantastic i want one so bad, i think that android 4.1 isn't imitating siri in anything they're just making google search better i think that apple should focuss on their new iphone but in my opinion in both cases the new iphone will take a beating so APPLE leave google and its amazing galaxy nexus alone IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS !!

Show some maturity apple

actually this news always makes me happy.... why, because it reminds of the days Microsoft used to spend all their money on ads which we all know how it turned to be (win vista) so goodbye apple hope it will be a nice journey

Maybe they should sue every damn phone-manufacturer because of the use of some technology allowing devices to send and receive audio-information, thus allowing users to interact in the most human way: speech. I'm sure they patented it.

Apple has become the Big Brother in their 1984 commercial with all of this nonsense. I think in my opinion from what I have seen online that Android is the better operating system. Apple with its roundabout way of going after Google through the OEMs over Android is cowardly to say the least and downright anticompetitive at the most. The only Apple products I own are my MacBook and iPod. Since I have seen how Android is in my opinion, easier to use and has more options than the iPhone. I will go with Android every time. Besides, seeing how the iPhone works in my local Sprint store makes me feel juvenile like Apple wants everything to be just so with no room for self improvement.

Long Live The Galaxy Nexus and Jellybean can't come soon enough.

Support from Germany!

Apple: "We invented everything, now give us all your money."