“Notice of the complaint was posted yesterday on the Web site of the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington,” Decker reports. “Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, filed its own complaint last month at the ITC, seeking to ban imports of Apple’s iPhone, iPod and MacBook products.”
Decker reports, “The ITC is a government agency whose job is to protect the U.S. market from unfair trade practices, including patent infringement. If it agrees to consider Apple’s complaint, it could complete the investigation in about 15 months.”
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Tarmo Virki reports for Reuters, “Nokia said on Saturday it would defend itself vigorously against Apple’s complaint to United States International Trade Commission, filed on Friday. ‘Nokia will study the complaint when it is received and continue to defend itself vigorously,’ said a company spokesman.”
“Nokia has stumbled badly in the fast-growing smartphone sector and relative newcomer Apple has gained ground against the market leader thanks to the iPhone,” Virki reports. “Apple, which entered the industry in mid-2007, overtook Nokia in the September quarter as the cellphone maker generating the highest total operating profit.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Jokia.
The wheel is spinning…
Nokia = Desperate
A costly ritual dance, and it would seem to be wanton waste of time.
Good. Nokia is coming off as so phony and desperate.
How many of us used Nokia phones just a few years ago and wondered if they would ever bring order to one of the most convoluted user interfaces in technological history?
I know I did. Thank you Apple, for again rewriting the rules.
Nokia is the “Microsoft” of mobile handset manufacturers. Slow to respond to a changing marketplace, and dismissive of threats posed by smaller competitors.
Much like Microsoft, this dinosaur is big and has far to fall – but fall it most certainly will.
I still use a Nokia phone on t-mobile. It works until iPhone goes to t-mob.
I owned several Nokia, and a few Motorollas before my iPhone. I don’t see anything bit another iPhone replacing my iPhone.
But. Sorry. Blame the iPhone! LOL!!!
If only Microsoft were as ready to fall as Nokia. However the decline of Nokia will show how it will likely happen eventually.
Nokia == SCO. Ha ha
Apple could seek to have all existing Nokia phones in service turned off. If Apple goes worldwide, it becomes the new Microsoft and the biggest target. The message would be sent that Apple is ready to launch the nuclear option if pushed.
Don’t forget this very appropriate MacDailyNews Take:
Can’t compete? Litigate.
If it [the ITC] agrees to consider Apple’s complaint, it could complete the investigation in about 15 months.
And in 15 months, who knows what the fast-moving smartphone marketplace will look like. This doesn’t look too good for slow-moving Nokia.
When I had nokia 8800, I was trying to use it as my modem on iMac. But there was no driver for mac os x. So, I called them and ask if they can help me or if they have plan to support os X. They just didn’t have a clue. I was a bit upset and told them that I will never buy any nokia once apple release a phone. My whole family used nokia and now my whole family using iPhone. Even my wife who is scared of tech, happily using an iPhone 3GS and she said she’s proud of her phone. Thanks Apple. And GOOD BYE NOKIA……..4EVER:-)
As far as GUI, Nokia phones are way easier to use than Siemens-Ericsson ones. Siemens (cf. the C25) used to be dead simple, but with every generation of cell phones, they gradually added additional menu levels and layers of complexity, and it was a pleasant surprise when I switched to Nokia (while I was waiting for the iPhone 3GS to come out… — Needless to say, I then found that the iPhone outclassed them all, there simply is no comparison).
Recently I helped someone out to activate MMS on her Nokia phone. It took zillions of steps, while on the iPhone, one only has to check a checkbox, fill in a MMS server URL, a user name and password, and that’s it.
well u know the U.S. gov’t is not into allowing a whole country to ban a profit maker for the U.S.
Fins: hey, lets ban all Apple stuff…
Yanks: oh yeah… well lets ban all Nokia stuff..
Fins: that’s not fair your population/consumer base is larger than ours…
Yanks: and you point is?
Steve: it’s ok… people will will just smuggle them in like they did in China… it’s all good. Or they can buy them in another country that will benefit from the sales tax themselves.
yanks: hey steve… u’r smart.
Steve: yup, my company in fact is smarter than both your countries combined…
Guy listening in the background: who cares… the market will crash and all of you will be messed up…
…. moral of the story… nothing… i just was a bit bored.
i am waiting for the next market crash… so pay off all your debts now.
I think it is time for CRAPPLE to start respecting the patents and the technology that others have developed. I don’t know if people remember, but there were mobile phones before the iPhone…Don’t listen to the hype
I smell fear in <b>CRAPPLE<B> headquater and I’ll be happy if they lose. I side with Nokia on this one.
http://www.bing.com When it comes to decisions that matter, Bing & Decide
CRAPPLE is showing it’s true colors again. Steve Jobs takes open source code, revises it to his liking, names it a MacIntosh, and is charging people for it. He has been doing this for a long time. It’s no wonder CRAPPLEtook code from Nokia to run the iPhone, CRAPPLEcouldn’t invent the technology on their own. This counter suite by CRAPPLEis nothing more than delaying the legal process so there will be a settlement – however, Nokia will not back down, this is Pyrus they are dealing with, this is a major technology company protecting their proprietary hardware and software. CRAPPLEis going down with this one, and hard. IT’S ABOUT TIME!
CRAPPLE stealing ideas, marketing them in a pretty way and charging 300% above market, so whats new?
http://www.bing.com When it comes to decisions that matter, Bing & Decide
Don’t think it was a smart move by Nokia to bring the ITC to the party. ITC is an institution set up to protect US companies from unfair competition. And Apple is as american as ditto pie.
“When it comes to decisions that matter, Bing & Decide”.
Your allegiance to Bing is indicative of your ignorance. Did you not realize that Microsoft’s new motto is repackaging and spinning the fact that their search engine is simply incapable of indexing the internet so they limit your results to what little bits they can handle? That part is fact but I’ll go on to speculate that they concentrate their efforts more on results that benefit them, not the person searching.
MDN Magic Word = remember
As in, remember ignorance by choice is often shouted by the loudest voice.
If you would like to know who originally stated as fact that Bing and its MS predecessors is by far the slowest at indexing, that would be Brett Yount, the Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Center.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/01/microsoft-outlines-plan-to-improve-bings-slow-indexing.ars
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021475.html