The one question I want answered is why Lenovo chooses to make stupid shaped keys.
i like Lenovo’s keys tbh
The keys look weird, but they don’t impede the typing experience. But yeah, I’d prefer normal square keys instead/
Yeah I guess it’s honestly not that bad, just takes time to get used to the feel. a more legitimate gripe would be overall quality and mushiness of the keys on their cheaper options.
It’s because fingers are rounded and not square.
Get a load of this guy who hasn’t figured out how to turn his fingertips square
Ironic considering they were screwed themselves by the german patent system
Google only exists in its current form because of the antitrust lawsuit that broke up Microsoft in the 90s, forcing Microsoft to allow Chrome and Firefox browsers.
…and now Google is trying to stop similar antitrust suits into its own monopolies
Captialism is full of examples where companies/individuals take advantage of every opportunity, then pull the ladder up behind themselves.
the antitrust lawsuit that broke up Microsoft in the 90s
You have entered the wrong timeline. Go back to where you came from
Microsoft successfully appealed the antitrust lawsuit and wasn’t broken up. To this day, Microsofts win is used by tech giants everywhere as president when fighting against current antitrust investigations. Microsoft always allowed other browsers to be installed. Today Microsoft tip toes around monopolistic practice’s. In the end, Microsoft got a slap on the wrist and a were given rules they had to adhere to, which have since lapsed many years ago.
Precedent
fixed
Alternative title: Chinese company attempts to materially damage a Taiwanese company over frivolous patents that said Chinese company knows are absurd
Fuck Lenovo. I hope the patents in question get invalidated and Asus gets a ton of money from them in return
If you’re going to troll, maybe find a different sub. But why am I not surprised coming from you…
I’m not trolling though? You yourself stated elsewhere in this thread that the US Patent system is a farce, and based off the fact that they granted Lenovo a patent on scrolling directions on a trackpad I think it only further proves your point.
It is also no big secret that the Chinese government exercises a fair amount of control over the companies that operate within its borders, and that the CCP takes particular issue over Taiwanese independence.
You yourself stated elsewhere in this thread that the US Patent system is a farce, and based off the fact that they granted Lenovo a patent on scrolling directions on a trackpad I think it only further proves your point.
That has nothing to do with your claim that this is some kind of proxy war between China and Taiwan. Tech companies sue each other for this kind of shit all the time. Were the Apple-Samsung lawsuits secretly a proxy war between the US and Korea? No? Then why would this be?
It is also no big secret that the Chinese government exercises a fair amount of control over the companies that operate within its borders, and that the CCP takes particular issue over Taiwanese independence
And you think part of this grand plan is a minor patent scuffle between two laptop OEMs? On what planet does that make sense? If China wanted to do something to Taiwanese tech companies, they could do so far more directly.
That has nothing to do with your claim that this is some kind of proxy war between China and Taiwan.
that’s just your interpretation man
It is also no big secret that the Chinese government exercises a fair amount of control over the companies that operate within its borders, and that the CCP takes particular issue over Taiwanese independence.
Put on your tinfoil hat and stay in your mom’s basement. What a stupid comment!
Is this why blackholes exist too? Can CCP throw you into one? You are obviously the publicly enemy number 10384937, CCP must hate you to guts.
Yep, 53 million companies in China are under direct control of Xi. He works 38,000 hours a day.
He’s Chinese so that’s just a normal workday.
The hardware design one could be legit. But including frivolous gesture claims is weird. Maybe they need something for the courts to toss in negotiations. But from a country well known to copy designs its kind of hypocritical.
Here I was hoping Armory Crate would be removed
Not sure if you know about this, https://github.com/seerge/g-helper
Holy shit thank you
The two only companies in hardware I boycott suing each other, what could be better?
I think this is the hinge but I don’t really see how it’s such a novel idea that Asus is infringing on it. I know that complexity isn’t a direct factor but some of these other hinges are much more involved so I can understand that they needed to innovate hinge. The more I look into it, the more I think this lawsuit will fail, Lenovo seems like they just tried to patent every possible variation of a gear hinge for a laptop.
This is the abstract from a patent for ‘Hinge assemblies’ (also what I will be calling dates from Hinge from now on) - “An apparatus can include a processor; memory accessible by the processor; a first housing that includes a front side and a back side and a thickness therebetween; a second housing that includes a front side and a back side and a thickness therebetween; a first gear operatively coupled to the first housing; and a second gear operatively coupled to the second housing where the first and second gears mesh to orient the first and second housings in a front side to front side orientation and in a back side to back side orientation.”
I am not saying that they do or do not have LEGAL claim to what they are saying but it seems like when you have 59,571 patents globally, it seems unlikely that they are genuine innovations and if if another company has a similar design its because they stole Lenovo’s unique ideas, especially with how generic some of their patents for hinges are.
I don’t know really but its my opinion that you should have to innovate on something pretty drastically to own the right to license its use for 20 years, especially when you’re clearly patenting everything you touch. Anyways down the rabbit hole I go