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The only way one can get a deal with Apple that relates to all of its patents is a cross-license. However, Samsung is, on the current basis, rather unlikely to win injunctions against Apple. It may not obtain any at all, or just some that don’t have enough strategic impact to force Apple into an all-encompassing cross-license agreement.

It’s not surprising that Samsung pursues a multi-platform strategy. However, without a backer with a powerful patent portfolio behind them, any other platforms may also draw Apple’s ire at some point, though Apple’s enforcement activities are exclusively focused on Android so far.

‘Thicket of patents’ | The Loop

Apple to Samsung during negotiations.

産業界におけるライセンス契約の動向及び経済学的問題に関する調査研究［知財研紀要 2003］ | www.iip.or.jp

Charlie Rose の SJ 追悼番組と Eric Schmidt の変わり身の早さ

shiro — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:49:51 +0000

A Tribute to Steve Jobs | Charlie Rose

A Tribute to Steve Jobs with Eric Schmidt, Ken Auletta, Walter Mossberg, David Carr, Walter Isaacson, Lawrence Ellison, Bob Iger, Marc Andreessen, Marissa Mayer, Steve Wozniak

Google’s Schmidt Says Jobs Merged Art, Science – Video | Bloomberg

Schmidt, Seriously! | Om.Is.Me

That said, I do think by placing a link to Steve Jobs 1955-2011 on the Apple website from the Google home page was one helluva crazy gesture.

What Is Up With Eric Schmidt’s Revisionist History of His Relationship With Steve Jobs? | Forbes

Why is Eric Schmidt doing all these media appearances? I agree with Om Malik’s conclusion, he’s trying to re-write history. He’s trying to insist that everything was always hunky-dory between these two men, when that’s clearly not the case.

If Schmidt truly knows that things didn’t go down between them as he is saying, I find it pathological and scary that he would seemingly be waiting by the phone for Steve to die to hit the talk show circuit giving his view of history — all seemingly so we think highly of Schmidt as a smart guy and friend of Steve’s.

We will see what Walter Isaacson’s book says in a few weeks. We will also see, over time, what people who were on the Apple board before and after Eric’s tenure have to say. The truth will come out.

iOS 5 は舞台裏までスゴい！

shiro — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:39:02 +0000

《アイコン》

30 iOS App Icon Designs for iPhone & iPad | DesignM.ag

iPhone and iPad have taken the world by storm. Developers and programmers from all around have flocked to using the Objective-C language in programming their own iOS apps. Similarly web designers have begun the transition into mobile apps with specs layed out entirely from Apple HQ. Below are 30 examples of great App Icons for the iOS platform. I highly recommend taking a peek to draw out your own creativity.

iOS app icon designs | The Loop

The detail on the close-ups is just incredible.

《フォント》

iOS Fonts | iosfonts.com

iOS Fonts | Daring Fireball

Starting with iOS 5, the same 58 font families are now installed on both the iPad and iPhone. Hooray for more Gill Sans on the iPhone. (Fonts installed on Android: 3.)

グーグルの収入源

shiro — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:21:56 +0000

How does Google make money? | SplatF

In a word: Ads.

About 85% of Google’s net revenue comes from ads running on Google sites. About 10% comes from ads running on other sites. And about 5% comes from “other”…

Google’s money | The Loop

グーグルが Jaiku、Buzz などをバッサリ

shiro — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:05:59 +0000

Google Voice Pulled Amid iOS 5 Massive Fail | ParisLemon

I have hundreds of apps. The only one that I’ve seen that’s affected by the move to iOS 5 is Google Voice. It crashes every – single – time.

I know I bitch about this a lot, but I really can’t understand for the life of me why Google doesn’t take more pride in their work on iOS. Yes, I know the focus is on Android. But it’s still their own name they’re sullying. Always better to release nothing than to release shit.

Google Voice pulled from App Store following iOS 5 crash | Engadget

Google+ – Buzzkill As you may have read, today we announced our… | Bradley Horowitz

Google’s Buzz kill completes shift to Google+ | CNET News

A fall sweep | Official Google Blog

Google Axes More Services: Jaiku, Buzz, Code Search & More | TechCrunch

Google Seppukus Jaiku, Buzz | ParisLemon

With Jaiku, what a shame. Just imagine if Google would have realized what they had all those years ago. Instead they let the product rot as they tried to squeeze the founders into other failed social projects.

Even sadder, I just assumed they had killed it off years ago.

As for Buzz. Finally. It’s been dead for ages, Google just refused to admit it until they were sure Google+ would get some traction. Massive fail.

A fall sweep — We aspire to build great products … (Bradley Horowitz/The Official Google Blog) | Techmeme

インターネットがピンと来なかった（？）Steve Jobs

shiro — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:15:20 +0000

Working With Steve Jobs | Businessweek

Steve Jobs was a genius, but he knew his limits.

“He was never a guy who tried to make believe he had expertise in something,” said Barry Schuler, now a partner at venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

That was clear to Schuler when he got a call from Jobs in early 1997 to come over to his old offices at NeXT Software in Redwood City, Calif. Jobs, at that point, hadn’t yet agreed to run Apple on a permanent basis.

“What’s this Internet thing?” Schuler recalled Jobs asking. “I don’t get it. What are people doing on it? What do they like about it?”

Speaking of Grains of Salt Regarding Businessweek Stories | Daring Fireball

Steve Jobs didn’t get the Internet? In 1997? OK, sure. Here’s Steve Jobs, in his classic interview with Wired in 1996:

The Web is exciting for two reasons. One, it’s ubiquitous. There will be Web dial tone everywhere. And anything that’s ubiquitous gets interesting. Two, I don’t think Microsoft will figure out a way to own it. There’s going to be a lot more innovation, and that will create a place where there isn’t this dark cloud of dominance. […]

If you look at things I’ve done in my life, they have an element of democratizing. The Web is an incredible democratizer. A small company can look as large as a big company and be as accessible as a big company on the Web. Big companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars building their distribution channels. And the Web is going to completely neutralize that advantage.

Yeah, he didn’t get it at all.

iRig MIDI and SampleTank

shiro — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:39:53 +0000

iRig MIDI in action with SampleTank and GarageBand | YouTube

iRig MIDI and SampleTank | The Loop

魔法使いの弟子 Scott Forstall

shiro — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:01:10 +0000

Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice at Apple | Businessweek
《Forstall をミニ Steve として描く》

In many ways, Forstall is a mini-Steve. He’s a hard-driving manager who obsesses over every detail. He has Jobs’s knack for translating technical, feature-set jargon into plain English. He’s known to have a taste for the Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG, in silver, the same car Jobs drove, and even has a signature on-stage costume: black shoes, jeans, and a black zippered sweater. (He favors Reyn Spooner Hawaiian shirts for normal days at the office.)

Scott Forstall described as mini-Steve | The Loop

Tony Fadell Statement Appended to Businessweek’s Scott Forstall Profile | Daring Fireball

This statement from Tony Fadell was appended to Businessweek’s Scott Forstall profile late in the day:

“I inherited the competitive iPhone OS project from Jon Rubenstein and Steve Sakoman when they left Apple. I quickly shuttered the project after assessing that a modified Mac OS was the right platform to build the iPhone upon. It was clear that to create the best smartphone product possible, we needed to leverage the decades of technology, tools and resources invested in Mac OS while avoiding the unnecessary competition of dueling projects.”

That pretty much directly contradicts the story laid out by (anonymous) sources in the original story. Fadell has long been gone from Apple — no reason for him to speak up now other than that he wanted to.