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Earlier this week, Nokia released a press release stating that they were suing apple over patent infringements. Elsewhere freedom fairies and apple fanboys were feverishly slitting their wrists in bathtubs. Even though this specific piece of corporate news stunned half the world, experts emerged claiming that such lawsuits happen all the time, the only problem here being that Apple is not just a fruit company and neither is Nokia just a $1000 AUD shrimping outfit based off an obscure beach in Finland. We’re talking about world domination here! Anyone who watched The Dark Knight would agree on the fact that whichever company has their products in the hands of every man, woman and child, has control over the world and subsequently its economy.

The press release which can be found here, mentions that iPhone infringes on GSM, UMTS and WLAN standards. Even though detailed information is not available, from whatever information is available, we know this: “The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007.” So the question arises, why would Nokia wait three full years before attempting to juice Apple for what it’s worth? One could hardly believe that it takes three years to file for a lawsuit regarding patent infringements. Surely not in the same country where major hostile takeovers are committed at a rate of atleast 4-5 a year!

Come on Nokia! Is this a desperate attempt at staying afloat or are you going the Motorola way? Are you’re CEO’s playing golf and sifting away (shrimp) boatloads of money away?  Hell even Motorola’s attempting to come back. Even though this should have been another story, it makes sense to mention here. Droiddoes.com is a website dedicated to dissing Apple’s iphone and everything iDoesn’t do. (Visit website to get a clearer idea, sniggers not included with this article)

Considering how Nokia may barely be competing in the super duper smartphone race, Nokia may not even be the choice of brand in cell phones for a majority of consumers in 2012, not even if the demographics include old people. (The author’s grandfather uses a Samsung, so I guess atleast we know Samsung will still be alive then)

What does this mean for consumers?

Nothing, absolutely nothing. As of now, we might just see that Apple may not release another model of their iPhone again for an extended period. The greatest outcome of this seemingly epic lawsuit will be to end up as case studies in business courses, or law courses in universities around the world. Coming back to the consumers, Apple’s products will still be operational and its softwares well updated many more years to come, the simple reason being that if Apple pulls the plug on their products, there will be a big backlash (Enron anyone?). Thus proving the point and rumours about that notorious bad apple.

Note: Anirudh Asher, the author of this article, uses an HTC Magic which runs Google’s operating system, Android and could not resist adding that bit about Motorola running Android to keep itself alive. It is a happy day in Google Fanboyville.

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It surely must not be easy to see the next generation take over. Today’s post is not about sarcasm, cynicism and definitely does not malign anyone or anything except the foolhardiness of youth.

Who ever said, “Youth is wasted on the young” was so correct, he or she might actually have been wrong. Youth in its most basic sense is not an option on a form you fill out before entering the world, goey, wet, hairless and cranky. As the clocks tick and scientists wither into Alzheimer patients, there’s not much you can do to stop the transition of time and of the world with it.

As I sat and placed Clocks by Coldplay on infinite loop on youtube and listened to it for the infinith time(yes, I just made that word up), I casually scrolled down to the comments section where screwynickname1990 and hip-hopcoolioname1992 had written the unmentionable, unforgivable word of the century, the “Eff” word. This word at the moment it was discovered by one’s generation felt like it was invented, copyrighted, even bred by us.  But seeing the youth that came after 1988 dominate the flowery language of all time, it was as if I had grown a 10-foot beard just reading the child’s profane “fad” word.

I bet it mustn’t have been great feeling to see young’uns walk into the ol’ western parlour like they own it (and you), steal your thunder, and we wonder why there are so many sour, pissed off old people around. Your back hurts, your teeth fell out shortly after your hip dislodged itself in attempt at escape, your memory is starting to make you feel like a goldfish and the younger people around you all think you can’t catch up to them. Which in the saddest sense is a reality.

So what is it that makes the geriatric generations give up? Whats keeping these wise people with such an abundance of knowledge from re-claiming their respect and “fonzi-ness”? Is it that they know that the youth are going to screw up anyway? Could it be that they’d rather chill out and watch a soap on TV with a whisky on the rocks in one hand and their partner (of many generations) in the other.

I guess you don’t need much more pain or complaining from you’re grandkids when you kick their skinny jeans arses at Wii. Long strolls on the beach hand in hand with the person you always wished you would grow old with and the feeling of accomplishment that you did are all that you could ever wish for.  Kudos to all those who made it through life with their heads held high and their feet in the soft soft sand.