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

So tired, no energy to left, the ridiculousness has defeated me...

These patent wars reminds me of kids in kindergarden who couldn't stand that other kids had better toys than them!

"This patent is nonsense" - Wise words from a wise man, Phil Nickinson

Eff Apple in the capital A, now gimme a GNex!! :)

Personal Opinion: Apple is a giant corporate douche.
Not to say that this crap wouldn't happen without Apple, I just don't believe it would on the same scale/severity.

Thanks for picking me.

I have never won anything worth over $20, so this will be a nice surprise.

Where should I email my shipping address?

thanks! :)

I hope ALL Apple iPhones and Apple iPads get be banned in the U.S forever via an ITC patent review that will be finalized in August. Apple is acting like a spoiled brat because people are spending their money else where. Apple needs to get bitch slapped like the greedy F**kers that they are!!!!

Apple needs to get off their soap box!

I was gonna order the gsm nexus for my GF as an anniversary gift since it went on sale but looks like I'm a little too late... I put the order in anyway just to see if it will go through. Apple is garbage.

I'm certainly no legal expert, but with what seems like a new case everyday, things seem to be getting more and more ridiculous.
I understand that companies need to protect their rightful property, but where do you draw the line? Also, is the patent system abused/broken? Are the people who control this sort of thing asking these questions, or do they see all this action as proof that it's working properly?
This is one citizen who doesn't think this is how things are supposed to be working, for what it's worth...

yes this is bull crap to the 3rd power. I don't even understand why a major company like apple that shouldn't have to worry about their customers leaving them because they have a "so called great product". Please apple just go with the rest of them and play it by ear. Not everything you guys thought of first and trust me there are going to be people buying icrap...just not me. ban apple and support Samsung and android

Oh, Apple. The Orwellian super company who seeks to force consumers to purchase only the devices they wish to push on them. Any other device manufacturers will be sued for no good reason. I think it's quite hilarious to be frank. It just shows how scared they are that some other company will take away a precious slice of their current market. Screw Apple and screw their business ethics. I appreciate the slight amount of innovation they've added to the market, but otherwise they're just capitalizing on something lesser known and adding it to their products as some "new amazing feature." Classic Apple. And this lawsuit is no different.

Oh, and I'd LOVE to win a Galaxy Nexus!

Want a sure fire way to stifle innovation, patent it.

I just don't understand this, I'm fed up with both sides. This entire situation is more ridiculous than the fact that it's illegal for us Brits to eat mince pies on Christmas Day.

Boycot Apple Products
they think as if they invented the world , sick of Apple Attitude

Apple will have its a day when they fall hard. Eventually they'll produce another Newton or Lisa.

Listen, i had an iphone and honestly i i prefer android over apples toy. too many innovations in apps alone the access to the web and the fact that photos film and music industry people can achieve great thing being able to go from phone to pc is SO worth staying dedicated to the brand. Apple seems very selfish in the way they put the phone together. i hated the fact i couldn't use my sd cards and when my phone got crused (tee hee) it was over for recovery unless i purchased another (boring) iphone. I'm a music fanatic so android defintely satisfies my addiction.

Tech companies should be competing via technological one-upmanship. These legal jokes are just lining up the wallets of lawyers with absolutely no benefit to consumers nor the companies. In the end, these companies will still be making phones one way or another whether they get sued or not. The real losers here are us consumers, from the slowing down of technological competition and advancement.

Also I'd love to have a Galaxy Nexus!

It's frustrating because the uninformed end up thinking Apple is right.

Just a terrible situation all the way around, and it's really mind-boggling how far Apple has fallen. I used to just not use Apple products but still respected the company and what they have done for the tech industry, now it's gotten to the point where I am actively rooting for them to fail.

Apple have forgotten how to innovate, now they just litigate. I have either given away or sold all of my Apple equipment because of all the lawsuits. I'm sick of Apple. I no longer want to help fund their patent trolling.

Galaxy Nexus rules! Would take one over the iPhone anyway....

The fact that this nonsense is still going on, is proof that apple for all of it's supposed technological innovations and discoveries are still lagging far behind Google and android as a result. Apple knowing that its rapidly losing market share to an operating system that continues to become more and more intuitive to the end users needs and wants. Meanwhile apple loses touch with its target demographic by making itself seem petty with these patent litigation proceedings. If they're inability to notice the overall result, results in my getting a galaxy nexus then so be it! :D

Patent this!!!!!

Please please please

Not knowing anything about patents or laws or any of that jibber jabber, I think it's ridiculous any company would want to ban a product from a country. Unless you're blatantly ripping off someone, don't bother with this stuff. It ruins competition and makes us as consumers have fewer choices.

This is the reason why I don't like Apple, they just sue everything, they have no real case, they should just quit, I was just Gunna buy one

I remember ordering my Galaxy Tab 10.1 and heard about the ban online I was about to flipshit and smack the next Apple fanboy they are lucky it didnt get banned in the USA. I think Apple does not like competition, their patent disputes are covering a board range of a function and not specific enough. i should just buy a nexus and walk into a Apple store holding it in people's faces.

They just need to all smoke a j together.

Don't blame the lawyers, they're just doing their job.

Blame the execs and board at Apple where the business plan is to fight competitors that have a better product in the courtroom, not with innovation or actual product competition.

This is ridiculous. Oh, I'd love to win a free Nexus!

I really wish thaborn. e US justice system would come to realize that software patents, granted by un-informed lawyers who get paid by the number of patents they approve, are no longer becoming viable. Heck, if I recall correctly, the means of searching files and folders (or, you know..... Different sources for information) was even available back in the days of Win98, quite possibly before! Yet when the all mighty Apple says they're the ones that came up with it and place it in a patent request, the lawyer goes "seems good to me!" And a lawsuit is born

I'm a lawyer and embarrassed by this sad state of affairs...

Apple is just throwing away money right now. Anyway, Android is moving forward, Samsung too. It doesn't matter if someone sues them...

I have no problem with Apples product, but the reason I despise them is for actions like this. They have this snarky attitude about themselves, like they cured cancer. Get over yourself Apple, the sweetness of Android is taking over.

This patent is why we can't have nice things.

Crapple makes me sick. I get what they are indicating they want to appear as but its not working. When you talk to people who own a Crapple product, even they are indicating nausea when reading about Crapple this and Crapple that.. A good thing they weren't around when Ford was building cars, they would patent cars or anything with 4 wheels etc!

All i can say glad I live in the great white north. Just picked up a nexus today and loving every sec I use it glad i made switch from a Blackberry. As for crapple those dushbags should worry about their product rather then suing every one. Karma is a bitch all I can say.

Anyone that hasn't read judge Posner's ruling and opinion on the Moto/Apple case really should, I think judges are getting really fed up with all this useless litigation and it'll be them who eventually put a stop to it.

WIth all this tomfollery, I finaly decided to purchase a G'Nex from the play store. Out of spite, you see.

And for all the talk about patents being abused, there isn't all that much being linked or said on the subject of what to do about it.

But the EFF has a few ideas of note. https://defendinnovation.org/

Cheers!

Everybody knows apple's new patent is "We've got a patent for that." Pretty soon they will be claiming they have a patent for how people open doors or use a phone like a phone. I bet the judge that is giving apple this injunction is an apple junkie! Why don't you say Siri resembles the Voice search that google has had for the longest time! Apple should be penalized for improper use of patenting gestures as its not exactly a invention but only a human interaction characteristic its like fridge companies patenting a way to open the fridge....

I dont even use or own an android phone (even though id really like too!) And i think this is ridiculas! Go away Apple, your useless!

Patents are an aged system that prevents innovation. For a great historical example look at the story of edison and tesla.

US judiciary system is the finest that money can buy

Who won????

I think you cite Star Trek as an example of 'Prior Art' for most smartphone patents.

When will the recipient of the free Galaxy Nexus phone be announced? Thank you.

Really shame on Apple
Ideas are free to fly
I wanna win please :)

This is ridiculous. Apple is going to look like RIM in a few years....

apple wants to take over the world

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If you think patent trolling sucks, join EFF: https://www.eff.org/

I agree the current patent complaints are dumb. It's one thing if it was technology that was created and incredibly different and then copied but stuff like 3G patents are just odd.

on one hand these companies have the right to sue each other, but on the other they realy shouldn't do it over small things/this is so subjective/. I believe that their companoes would gain so much more if they invested hese same effort and money in developing better products. Peace.

I used to be an apple fan boy until I found out how shady they are. I had a lot of respect for coming up with things like the iPad and Siri. Then I was Interneting about and found out that other companies had made a similar tablet device with the same specs as the iPad in like 1995. Then one day we had a guest speaker at our college and he was from the military and explained to us that Siri was a military project that Apple bought from them. my point being Apple copies a lot of things from other companies and its about time someone brought attention to it. The fact that they are perusing legal action against Samsung just proves they are too childish to try and win by the rules.
PS please pick me for nexus. Thanks for your consideration.
=)

The thing that makes Android superior in every way is that it is open source and anyone with the right knowledge can make a contribution. That's what has allowed my original Incredible to run ICS right now! My carrier said it wasn't going to happen, as did HTC, but the developers out there did it. Where else can that happen? Not within Apple's universe, and they know it. So they have to go after anything that they think can help them to slow down the migration from their products to someone else's, but we all know this won't slow it at all. I hope all of this stuff goes away, I am tired of hearing about it.

I don't see the sense of all this war. I use to like apple, now I just don't feel getting a product from them.

Patent law needs to be revamped, the rules and function of the patent office are no longer good for inventors nor the public!

Please let it be my first android phone!!

I feel for the American public who have to live with such a poor patent system. Hopefully someone will have the balls to put an end to silly software patents.

In an unsurprising move, Apple sues every culture using the letter 'i' in their vocabulary, claiming someone may confuse this with their popular iEverything brand.

Only got one statement for Apple, quit stifling competition and JUST MAKE SOMETHING BETTER and quit trying to force everyone else on YOUR development cycle!!!

Google, skip a year of R&D and bitch slap apple down a notch or two. If anyone has the resources to take on that bully, you do. Next thing you know, apple will be suing ihop for trademark infringement. Now that I think about it, I can't believe it hasn't already happened.

Thanks

Blah blah witty comment, blah blah Google for the win, blah blah gimme gimme. But in all.seriousness I would ADORE a S3 :)

The patent thing is just getting old...I don't want to hear any more about it, except I do. :-)

Ideas are free to fly
I wanna win,
When will you announce the winners?

I can't help but think that if patents weren't so impossibly busted at a fundamental level, Apple might come up with a really innovative way to manage them and their limits.

This is what gets my goat especially with the nexus patent suit. To block the sale of the device the patent in question must majorly be responsible for the sales of the device. We are back to slide to unlock? the nexus runs stock android, they aren't even suing the right people. I hope one day the courts start laying down the ban hammer.

Apple Smapple....

It seems like Apple's legal team would undergo gender reassignment sans anaesthetics rather than have a reasonable thought

This whole thing is silly and immature. Let the phones ship, and let the consumers make their choice!

Apple is continuing its journey as the new old. Time to call patent busters.

In other news, patents are so hip these days, the patent office is opening 4 more locations: Dallas, Silicon Valley, Detroit. Denver. True story.

Apple is threatened by Google for software and Samsung for hardware. IOS 6 does not have much to offer compared to Jelly Bean. They are behind in screen size and 4g capable phones on the hardware side. These lawsuits indicate their in-securities.

The patents need to have a shorter lifespan and you should not be able to sit on them and not use them. They should also not be able to block products but if its fair they should get some money from each sale.

This patent nonsense makes it difficult for people to earn a living. I work in wireless (AT&T - full disclosure), and I had several customers mad at me when I told them the HTC One X got held up due to Apple's injunction. This makes everyone look bad: Apple looks like a bully, HTC looks like a criminal, the salespeople look like idiots because of launch dates that change on the fly.

Apple reuses designs and gets called geniuses. Someone else does it, like Samsung, then they are criminals.

So who won the phone? :P

poor apple!

Well here's the gist of the effed uppyness.

The patent office is a lazy butt.
Boom Apple comes in and boom a patent.
The patent was super general.
Now that one patent can rule all other ideas.
But wait, do the judges actually analyze what's happening?
Is there possibly another way to accomplish what the patent accomplishes?

They've made their crap SOO GENREAL and SOO GENERIC that it's virtually impossible to get around legal punishment! They are patenting the fundamental ways we interact with devices. They are patenting generic shapes. They are being complete d!(^s!!!!!! Just because they don't want to change what they already have and spend a hair more time creating an original idea.

Mother effer!!! My twitter feed is filled with effing hate posts because of their filthy rotten tactics.

Whole patent system is screwed and unless it changes soon custumers will be screwed.

Apple is a walled garden full of rotten apples. (typing this on a Macbook). iShall never buy Crapple again. Give me sweet jellybeans!

Booo hooo!
C'mon Apple, put on your big girl panties.

So Steve Jobs, ever the fox, persuades Xerox to let him have a glimpse of Xerox’s innovative graphic’s user interface, and then returns to Apple and orders his company to copy and improve upon it. By the time the first Apple Macintosh is introduced, Apple has not only improved the interface but also lowered the cost of its little computer. And we are reminded that this is not theft—it is innovation.

America and the American dream, Apple tells us, is nothing if it is not about innovation.

Now years later Steve Job introduces yet another Apple product—a remarkable little pocket computer he calls the iPhone. And companies around the world see its potential and rush to copy and improve upon it. And improve they do. New phones come out that are not only slimmer and faster and more functional but also are much more affordable.

And what does Apple, the lover of the American Dream, do? It tries to squash the competition. It finds a judge who can be persuaded that its competitor’s phone is mostly just a reproduction of its own little device. And on these grounds the judge issues a judicial order restraining the manufacturer from selling its phone within the borders of the United States.

America and the American dream, Apple now shows us, is nothing if it is not about protecting its market and keeping its pot of money all to itself

So America in the end is about politics. And here Ambrose Bierce’s definition of politics will do quite well: “a strife of interests masquerading as a conflict of principles.”

As my grandmother used to tell me, “Every fox smells his own hole.”

My wife loves her iPhone, I love my Androids. I was telling her about the lawsuits and she says: "They are suing because whoever makes those droids you like is making improvements? Improvements that could potentially even boost their sales...and suing the same company that makes the hardware for the iPhone? Ok, that is just dumb. Can you buy me one of those droid phones when I am due for an upgrade" I am going to pay full retail for a new Android for her this weekend--just to get the iPhone4s out of the house.

I love my wife!

Is this a patent law issue or pour judgment of the judge?
This is the question!

Apple always tries 2 put everything on lock. Thank God it didn't work:-)

Apple really needs to stop they already have so much money as it is I'm pretty sure they can afford to loose a couple hundred besides they don't have any reason to complain they're mobile is has the same design since day 1 all android istrying to do is make the user experience better instead of just adding useless features like most of apples iOS releases you can't blame anyone for trying to be fun. Apple simply needs to back of every once in a while I'm sure they violate patents every now and then to I mean no one is perfect.

ACTUALLY apple is jealous as hell after s3 and they dont want competition.(by the way so many comments that thers almost one in a hundred chance any1 wud get gnex. :)

psssss ( i want me a galaxy nexus for the past 6 months.... ;) )

Is it still possible I could get a galaxy Nexus and your give away? I was given the samsung fascinate smartphone after my stroke in May of 2012, but it is not connected to any network. The part of my brain that died in te stroke was my memory, & vocabulary. And I am already disabled with rheumatoid arthritis, so having the option to speak into the phone makes it easier for me, though I can type, do to a spinal birth defect I cannot sit up long enough to use a PC or laptop. The reasons I joined this form tonight, is because I don't think this phone has much time left, and it keeps freezing up, after it gets so physically hot to the touch, I have to pull the battery. That is why I joined this formum to see if there is a way to reboot this phone without pulling the battery. Because I do not know if I am doing more harm than good. I have been wanting the Google Nexus tablet, saw a commercial recently, and actually first heard about this tablet in Aug 2012. It would be light enough for my hands to hold. I am only 43 try old, and a single parent of 2, and I am on SSI, so I can't afford to just go buy a tablet, or a phone. That's why this 1 was given to me after the stroke to help me store things I cannot remember, doctor appointments, phone numbers, school events, medication reminders, etc. I was so afraid tonight when it got really hot, and friends stopped again, I am not connected to a network so I have no way to have all of this backed up if it fries, so I did a google search on how to reboot a Samsung phone and found this formum. I am very glad I did because I've read a lot of posts, and you guys know your stuff. So I joined, and added you to my pocket app. I love that app, especially since I cannot find how to open my bookmarks! LOLOL! So hopefully you're still giving away that tablet!!!!! But before I go, I would just like to say I don't really know how to answer about that apple versus Google Nexus Injunction, I don't really know anything about Apple, Except I have never used 1, Only thing I really can say Is that a must be anal asses To pick on something so small And insignificant, And they must have a lot of money to throw away, They would have been better off to just give it to charity For example So organizations That take care of sick and injured animals That are homeless, And have been neglected, Can get the proper treatment, medications, food and housing because they deserve love more than a lot of humans do. People can be very cruel.
well thank you for listening, I apologize for going on and on, please forgive me this is jus t 1 side effect the stroke has had on my life. It's only been 4 months, and I'm doing the best I can, because my main priority is to be the best Mom I can be.
Sincerely, Joanierose. I will include my email address that doesn't consist of my full name because this is a little embarrassicom
whitetigersoul216@gmail.com