Friday, August 24, 2012

Apple vs Everyone, #boycottapple

So for those of you who didn't follow this up till now, Apple is suing everyone for patent infringement and everyone is suing Apple back in a defensive manner.
The biggest one right now is SamsungVSApple which led to a 1 billion decision for Apple.
I wont enter into much details about what patent were seen as infringed and which one were not, but I don't understand how a jury can say Apple invented icons, when my old Motorola pebble already had icons...

Anyway, giving this kind of trial to a jury made of random people who apparently know nothing about technology was a bad idea in my opinion. Apple is viewed as a great innovator by people who ignore they never innovated in anything, they are just really really good marketers. I don,t think any jury could be made of people who don't have a biased opinion on this.

Anyway I really hope Google success in his trial with Motorola's patent to ban the ipod/ipad from the US just so they taste their own medicine. But what I really want, like most people, is a patent reform of course. The patent system in the Us right now is really flawed, and has been abused on numerous occasions by patent trolls.

As a sing of disagreement with the way Apple conduct it's business I will boycott their product starting now, and this will start by me finding an alternative to iTunes, and selling my Macbook Pro.
Suggestions on what computer and what software I should use to replace them are welcome.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Finally!

I finally did it!
I beat Touhou 6: Embodiement of Scarlet Devil! without using any continue! (on Normal)
my first 1CC of a touhou game!
I'm Happy!
Thanks to the Otakuthon Touhou panel for making me realize I need to play play more.