Apple Suspends iCloud/MobileMe Push Email in Germany Due to Lawsuit

Yeah, why don't just sue Google over their Google Sync Push Mail too?

Cause Google owns Motorola now?

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Live by litigation, die by litigation.

Unfortunately, it can't go both ways. Apple can't sue everyone else, play industry victim to "copying" and "only enforcing the right to defend its own IP" and then not suffer the consequences when they violate someone else's IP. Apple isn't the only IP owner in the world.

This is why patents have forever been a MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) type weapon. You bring them out in defense of yourself, not in offense against competitors. Otherwise, you get the situation we're in now.

And don't get me wrong, Motorola, Google, Apple, Nokia, Kodak, RIM, Microsoft, name the corporation, I don't care whether they win or lose. In the end, the true loser is the consumer, us.

Really? Seriously, I didn't know that.

Really : http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/kodak-wins-again-over-apple-rim-in-itc-patent-ruling/51776

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And there you discovered the entire "reason" for this lawsuit.

Google's thugs strike again.

The lawsuit was filed prior to the acquisition. And to call Google thugs after Apple's actions against Samsung and others these last years is quite ridiculous. They're all thugs, and the consumer is the victim.

stop this **** already

And there you discovered the entire "reason" for this lawsuit.

Google's thugs strike again.

Yeah because Apple never bullies other companies :rolleyes:

I live in Germany, and I am signed up to iCloud, but I have not been contacted in any way by Apple to let me know about this, which is a bit annoying. If I were to rely on iCloud for business, I'd be genuinely pissed.

They probably emailed it to you, but it didn't get pushed to your phone. :)

Apple should focus on innovating, and keep the good products coming.

I'd love to feel sorry for Apple, but frankly I lost all respect for them after reading https://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/15/apple-seeks-bankruptcy-courts-blessing-to-sue-kodak-over-patents/

Time for Apple to grow up, and stop trying to bully/beat people in the courtrooms. Do it with better products.

Before Apple entered the phone market, most damn handsets looked similar for gods sake, now they are suing each other over BS.

The IP system is broken, the only people benefiting from all this crap are the lawyers.

Have to say that the way iCloud 'push' email has been for me recently, if this happened in the UK I don't think I'd even notice.

iDislike :mad:

... ONE point of having a smart phone is to let do it some of my brains work even when it is easy to bypass. I just set 'get email' to a 15min interval. Even important email can wait 15min ;)

I know Apple is going to pay whatever it will take to get push back so I will sit this one out :)

They don't have to sell.

Yeah, why don't just sue Google over their Google Sync Push Mail too?

Licensing, perhaps. You're allowed to use someone elses **** as long as you just get an agreement going about it - something Apple are notorious for refusing.