Meizu in Trouble - Raided by German Police

parena

Patents used to be about being able to get your investment back. After that, the patent was 'gone' and everybody was equal. But nothing of that anymore: patent trolls rule the world, sort of. Mainly with software patents, that's the case. Software patents should be banned.

parena

Another good example of how bad patents (and so called standards bodies) can be, you can see at a groklaw article. It says that if Microsoft's OOXML is accepted as a standard, one of the requirements for an OOXML document is that sound elements should be... MP3! Very nice towards the Open Source community! This is not an open standard, it's a license encumbered standard.

The article also mentions CeBit:

"German police raided 51 booths at the CeBIT computing show this week because of breaches of audio compression (MP3) patents....

Italian firm Sisvel, which itself has a booth at CeBIT in Hall 19, filed patent complaints in Hanover on behalf of big companies including Philips and France Telecom. The company says that through its agreements it can demand a licensing fee for consumer electronics devices sold in Europe."

Unregistered

they are not going to sell the m8 looking like an iphone mockup. this is the way chinese companies doing business. they are copy cats more than any japanese company during the in the early days. they don't spend time and money on development, but using the work of other companies to bring something with a just a fraction of the quality of the original product. there are similiar problems in the car sector. mocking up BMW and Mercedes but you getting dangerous, low qualitity and compared to the original one high priced junk. heard the m8 should sell in the $350 range. nobody would be a mockup for that price. 150-200 just be the max. price anyone would pay for a mockup. guess they are getting a lot of trouble with patent issues. so they should finally forget about the m8 for the next 2 years. change the GUI, change the hardware design and they would end up with something nobody would like. cause there will be a next gen. iphone on the market even more advance than any of this meizu crap.

Sammy

It's clear you've never purchased a Meizu product. Meizu are good quality mp3/4 players. My M6 has barely given me any trouble, I'm not locked down to itunes and have lots of money left over because I didn't spend more money on an ipod nano, with a tiny screen and that looks really ugly. People like you make me lol. This is a meizu forum, not an apple fanboy forum.

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Pytak

Right, so tell us 3 reasons why do you think iPhone is better than the M8. Oh, and just so you know, iPhones are being made in China too.

hotboxx

The only difference is that the iPhone profit goes to an American bank account, the Chinese people and industry seems only to be good enough to work as slaves for the big multinationals. Slavery still excists.

SteveMB93

Patent issues? Get with the news. I'll be buying a 16GB Meizu, because it will be approximately $400, have a removable battery, will be unlocked, and has support for third party programs out of the box. It is still a prototype and I suggest you to check out the new pictures of the GUI. They are much more nicer.

Rhodekill

Ironic that Meizu would get its booth shut down for the MP3 patent/license and not the M8's design/UI.