http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/ Engadget Comments for Nike, Apple hit with lawsuit over ripping Nike+iPod idea http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/
- I hook up to a projector, it flickers in and out of resolution at random.

- I load a certain Java applet in a web browser, Aero turns off glass. For everything.

- Speed is terrible... I've timed it, a completely new Vista system takes nearly 3 times as long to startup as a 7-month old OS X system, from OS boot to the point that the hard drive stops being accessed after login. I'm pretty sure it's also slower than XP.

I could go on... I have a whole list of issues. I'm just tired of folks like tits comparing a supposedly "stable" production Vista system to beta products coming from a Mac, running in a Windows environment, and pretending that the experience is that same as on a Mac itself. My experience says the opposite.

Oh, by the way, I use Firefox all the time on my Windows box... but Safari is 10 times as stable as Firefox on Mac. And Firefox is more stable than IE on Windows, so far as I've seen (number of crashes and such). Not a completely fair comparison, but certainly no less fair than yours.

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let me ask you something... when you first installed vista did it have any problems on their machines? nope. I was on the beta for vista too, and i can verify that there were alot of stability problems. The only thing i would say negative about vista is the fact that it didn't have enough development time for 3rd party devs before release.

And Thats a large cause of the problems. Back in the 90s unix people had to go through the same problems when they learned that you can't stay logged into root. Same idea with vista, thats why it comes up with the annoying UI "are you sure".

whatever I've been using vista for a few years and i love it... don't blame the OS for the program/driver instability though. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying its a perfect program... what i'm saying is its a great improvement on a lot of ideas that have been due 10 years ago! ABOUT TIME!

just my 2 cents.]]>Oct 3rd 2007 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/
i guess thats what you get for not being innovative ]]>Oct 3rd 2007 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/
The suit talks big but I bet Apple will toss those losers a couple mill to settle and this whole thing will go away and the Nike+ kit will live on and those jerks will disappear. ]]>Oct 3rd 2007 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/]]>Oct 3rd 2007 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/
Think of all those poor Asian sweatshop owners won't ya?

Between the two of them they probably employ a great deal of them.]]>Oct 3rd 2007 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/
By that token, Tim Berners-Lee should sue every other browser maker even though the implementation code is different.]]>Oct 3rd 2007 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/
1. Because they're asstarts

2. Big companies copy ideas that are presented to them all the time. When you're a small company and have a good idea, you generally have to go to a bigger company to get the product off the ground. And a lot of the time, the big company just says "nice idea, screw you".
Apple have done it before aswell (Remember the photographer who presented apple with a photo idea, and they just nicked it and told him they didn't want it).

I work for a high-tech start up company, and the one thing that keeps me soiling my pants at night is the possibility that one of the companies that we're working with will just nick our ideas, and without the funding they have, we aint got any real defence against it.]]>Oct 3rd 2007 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/This is why you draft up and go into a contractual agreement with a company who is interesting in your invention. If your dumb enough to give them your idea without any strings, you deserve to get it stolen in my opinion. And if your company doesn't like it, go elsewhere, its a free country.]]>Oct 3rd 2007 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/If you cant match them £ for £ in court then you cant sue them, sure they pay your legal fees if you win, but you cant take a risk like that else you can get completely burnt]]>Oct 3rd 2007 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/For all you armchair patent attorneys out there, you might be interested in knowing that a letter was sent to Nike in 2000 in an attempt to integrate the technology into a pair of shoes and Nike said they weren't interested in the idea. Then, 6 years later, they released a 'similar' product in that it is a tracking method for various actions using 'similar' technology. The term similar has obvious personal bias and is open to interpretation based on your particular tilt towards technology protections. As others have said, feel free to patent something after investing 6-15k for a basic patent alone, add into that all your time, money, effort, blood, sweat, and tears... then let a megacorporation take the fundamental concept and technology after you notify them that you exist and have a technology they can use. We'll see you on the cover of Engadget and Ars, and a whole host of other blogs immediately after you discover they've made millions while you struggle to get your product seen. No, that won't happen of course, you'll blame yourself for not marketing adequately or that your product sucks. Yah, I'm sure.]]>Oct 3rd 2007 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/
What exactly does it take to qualify as NOT sitting on an idea? You know, not everyone has 4 or 5 million sitting around. I suppose I'm just in the unfortunate minority of those that don't have that kind of cash laying around because it's hard for me to relate to people that do.]]>Oct 3rd 2007 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/
all your sweatshops are belong to us!]]>Oct 3rd 2007 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/nike-apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ripping-nike-ipod-idea/Oct 3rd 2007 3:54PM