http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/ Engadget Comments for FUD alert: Apple allegedly scared Google out of using multitouch, 3.5mm jacks, batteries, displays, love 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/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
Also, I have to say that as much as I love my iPhone, if Apple's allowed to stifle other companies' designs, we may never end up seeing the device that beats it. And Apple won't have to compete by adding missing features like FRICKIN MMS. ]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
Does any company has a phone patent? ]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
Inventions are protected with patents (like it or not). Having a patent protects your hard work and investment from being thrown completely down the tube by competitors. The multi-touch thing took a significant amount of resources for Apple for perfect. Without patent protection no company would invest any money in developing new technology because someone else would just sweep in after the release and make a cheaper alternative.]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
The problem is companies are patenting things that are not the result of hard work other than the hard work that goes into finding ways to patent things that are already in common use or are so obvious that they work the way a five-year-old would assume they would work.

Patenting the gesture of moving something by pushing it is not genius.]]>Feb 10th 2009 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
Lots of mp3, CD, and even a couple cassette players may have been able to control playback through the 3.5mm jack, but I think Apple is the only one to use it for microphone input as well. If they did in fact patent the idea, then Google likely went with the ExtUSB to allow for both headsets and in-line controls (can an ExtUSB port use in line controls?) without infringing on anyone's IP.

In any case, since the 3.5mm jack is available for use to anyone, wouldn't any modification be free to use as well? That's Apple for you...]]>Feb 11th 2009 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Self help to answer your questions :)

http://doestheiphonesupportcopyandpasteyet.com/

and

http://doestheiphonesupportmmsyet.com/]]>Feb 11th 2009 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
There are already countless devices out on the market that destroy the iPhone in terms of capabilities and functionality.

Touch HD.
Touch Pro (with a custom ROM from XDA-Devs/PPC Geeks)
Omnia
Xperia

to name a few]]>Feb 11th 2009 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
Yeah, that's existing art in the Nokia gear anyhow. Music controls, call controls, microphone - all in line. ]]>Feb 11th 2009 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/In 2005 when i bought a Nokia 6630 i got a headset with a microphone with it. And i'm sure that wasn't the first one ever so that isn't a new invention.]]>Feb 11th 2009 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
"without being able to contribute any authority to the story,"

I think you forget that a large proportion of your stories are built around rumor and innuendo.

Just saying...... let's not take ourselves to seriously all the time.]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
I wish you were that careful with what you frequently make up. And don't worry about your credibility, it's already down the drain.]]>Feb 10th 2009 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
Did you guys forget the imfamous Blackberry Storm incident where you did take somthing that for all intents and purposes was "made up" and ran it anyway, only to get a monster backlash to the point where you threatened to cut comments out completely?]]>Feb 10th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
I'm absoultly sure that an Article like this one would've got "Lowest Ranked" in less than 10 minutes. You can't assume that 20 readers are all wrong and 5 of you are always right! Otherwise each one of you writers would have owned their own business and became a millionair by now, but for all what I know that you and us read a lot about technology, and sometimes the readers, such as JB here, make more sense than you do. You are all great at writing but not so much at chosing the right content to post, somtimes.

If you are very convinced that what you guys write makes sense then you shouldn't worry much about being low ranked.]]>Feb 10th 2009 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
The same would happen with article rankings - the rankings would never reflect how good an article is! Any article that even mentioned Apple would get low-ranked, you just know it would, and that alone should demonstrate why the article-ranking idea is not a good one. The same would happen with any article that dared to question Android in any way. And as has been pointed out, sometimes authors are criticised for doing something they plainly are not (like substantiating rumours) and this inability of many readers to properly comprehend and analyse what has been written, would cause the rankings to be utterly meaningless.]]>Feb 10th 2009 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
that is all. unless i forgot something...]]>Feb 10th 2009 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/can we lower the thresholds on comment rankings back to where they were? i want highest ranked back.

ty,
maveric101]]>Feb 10th 2009 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/should be reworded to
"I am curious to find examples of where this is true and hope to find that you are wrong."

i mean, come on, are you 15 years old? 'Understood?' ?? wtf]]>Feb 11th 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 11th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/

Just kidding. I dunno wtf im talking about. I do like Dan Brown though. Good author. ]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/ the moon.

hope the G1 can do well in the marketplace and improve enough to be a true competitor to the iphone ]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 11th 2009 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/
How can Apple patent something that has been used on at least one device before them?

I get the feeling that that's not a problem with companies, but with the US patent office, because from what I hear, they have an attitude that is summed up as 'Award everything and let the courts sort it out.']]>Feb 10th 2009 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/I will go back to my cave now.]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php?title=Who_Wants_to_be_a_Millionaire%3F
See under "Key Moments"]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/fud-alert-apple-allegedly-scared-google-out-of-using-multitouch/Feb 10th 2009 6:33PM