Galaxy Nexus ban remains, Apple posts $95.6M bond, Google stops selling

Sigh. I've been planning on getting a new notebook and was leaning toward one of Apple's products... but this has shifted me away.<p>I know, I know: no one cares about nerd ideologies. But I'll do my part and lower their monthly revenues by 0.00001%.

Despicable. That's really the only polite word I have for both Apple's actions, and the current state of our patent system.

I don't understand why Apple is going after the Galaxy Nexus. In terms of UI, it's not really very similar to anything Apple makes, and to me at least, I don't think that either Apple or Google are trying to exploit consumer confusion to sell it.<p>The Galaxy S2 and S3 with TouchWiz, OTOH, are a different story. I would imagine that what Apple is really pissed off about is being the target of Samsung's shameless copy-and-undercut strategy that's worked so well for them in mobile in the past. TouchWiz is a really gauche copy of just about everything iOS. I'm actually quite happy that Samsung is getting called on this bullshit.<p>But the Galaxy Nexus? Huh?

Can we find better sources?<p>Florian Müller has failed to disclose when he is consulting/working for companies he is writing about and has been pretty seriously wrong in his "predictions", most notably the Oracle v. Google case over Java/Android.

Isn't it ironic that the Galaxy Nexus (along with the rest of the Nexus line) is almost the only Android phone that Google can quickly update the software, remove/change the stuff that Apple supposedly "own" and sell it again quickly? If the ban happened for almost all other Android devices the pain would be much bigger. I am an Android phone and Macbook owner and I am really ashamed by Apple actions, I will not buy anything of them again until they change their attitude.

Irreparable harm seems to imply that this could hurt Apple in a major way.<p>But it's easy to see what game-changing technology is. Look at what people want in a phone:<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2011/10/03/iphone-5-wish-list-starts-wit.." rel="nofollow">http://mashable.com/2011/10/03/iphone-5-wish-list-starts-wit...</a>.<p>There's tens of similar surveys published online. None of them include "search-as-u-go". In fact Apple doesn't seem to think that it's that big enough of a deal to promote. They advertise tens of features &#38; this isn't one of them. And that's because it's expected (everyone uses it already) or it's not that important to a buyer when choosing a phone to purchase.<p>It's just not reasonable to assume that the "search-as-u-go" technology could give any sort of significant advantage to Samsung to be the cause of a shift in market share or something with similarly "unascertainable" consequences, which is precisely what the ruling of irreparable damage relies on.

First of all this makes me want one even more. Secondly I wonder if Steve Jobs would have cancelled this BS? I've been curious about Android development for the nearly four years I've been doing iOS development. I'll start porting my free ad-supported app to Android now. Bye Apple!

This quote by paulg playing in my head today: <a href="http://webquotes.tumblr.com/post/251619085/the-other-reason-programmers-are-fussy-i-think" rel="nofollow">http://webquotes.tumblr.com/post/251619085/the-other-reason-...</a>

I actually had added the Galaxy Nexus to my shopping cart yesterday and then tried to buy today but couldn't. It was only in reading this that I realized why.<p>Does anyone have any insights into how many days/weeks before Google will be able to sell it again?

Other than my own prejudice against the absurdity of patenting common sense software features, I don't understand why this suit doesn't affect all Android products?<p>It seems like the patented feature in question is pure software available on other Android phones.

Just remember Apple clutching people all around: You paid for that bond!

I believe the original title said Galaxy Nexus. Way to be misleading by implying it's the Nexus 7.<p>Also, people still read Foss Patents, the guy paid by Microsoft and Oracle to write negative stories on Google, and who was completely wrong on anything he said or suggested about the Google and Oracle trial?

The Galaxy SIII is still available and basically the same phone. Seems like there are just too many Android devices for Apple to block them all, they're just picking on the Galaxy Nexus to take a pot-shot at Google directly.

How is banning a product that might possibly be in violation of an absurd law be in anyones best interest other than Apple's? Patent laws were intended to benefit consumers, not predatory capitalists.

anyone have a link to the order? I want to read it.

This is just Galaxy Nexus, right? My Nexus 7 will still be shipped in 2-3 weeks?

Begun, the phone wars have.

Please let this case turn into a hideous disaster, so that the patent system is revealed to the public at large as the hideous disaster it is. Many a small company's dreams have been quietly smothered by this patent system; the public only starts to care if something nasty happens to a big corporation.

The elephant in the room is that Samsung did, and is still shamelessly trying to make a carbon copy of the iPhone and the iPad. The similarities go beyond casual coincidences. Right from the charger to the packaging to the layout to .. almost everything. It is so obvious they are doing that. It is no surprise Apple is going after them, and of course they should.