Light a candle for dead Apple tablets

Summary: Heat in excess kills overpriced tablets with a glorified logo; a remark on Apple's resorting to patent wars

THE sarcasm aside (and parody too), while Apple denies -- as usual -- that its tablets are defective, customers speak out and they are not happy. As one British Web site put it:

It appears that in some cases, excited new iPad owners are being disappointed by a Temperature message after their iPad got too hot to use, according to many users on Apple's forum.

Apple is already suffering because of Android's momentum. That's why it is suing using patents, in vain even (because it does not know what else to do). As a Red Hat employee puts it, we need a patent reform. Apple is exploiting a rogue system at the moment, hoping to impede fair competition using bogus claims on trivial things. Here are some suggestions:

#1: “All proceedings from infringement MUST go to the original inventor.”

#2: “Ownership of a patent is bound to the inventor named in it and this is a non-transferrable right.”

#3 “Only the original inventor as named in the patent can decide on the licensing terms and royalty rates and must state these a priori as part of the filing process.”

Whereas the original inventor MUST be a natural person.

Think about that for a second. There is a whole market of selling and reselling patents between trolls and other NPE (Non Practicing Entities) based on income from supposed infringement. To stop this madness we can either hope for a reform in the patent system that leads to superior quality (has been tried for quite some years, has not worked so far) or, and this is the beter approach IMHO, we start to change the fundamentals by making patents inalienable and thus dry up the troll market completely.

Since Apple hardly ever invents what it markets, under the above criteria it deserves almost no patents. All Apple has become is a parasite. It doesn't respect the law, let alone ethics. ⬆