Apple's Samsung patent dispute: is a good thing and a bad thing

According to a new study conducted by the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States, using electronic devices such as mobile phones and tablet PCs two hours before bedtime will resist melatonin and cause sleep problems. Scientists point out that young people are particularly vulnerable. Melatonin is a chemical that controls the biological clock.

In the study, scientists tested the suppression of melatonin on self-illuminating tablets. A total of 13 people participated in this test, using a tablet computer to read books, play games, and watch movies. The study found that the use of tablet PCs for 60 minutes caused melatonin suppression to be equivalent to one hour in the sun without significant impact. However, the melatonin secretion was largely suppressed after the exposure time reached two hours.

The research team used a tablet computer to conduct their tests, but they thought that any electronic device with a backlit display would have a similar effect. The vast majority of mobile phones, tablets, and many e-book readers use this display.

Researchers said: "It is recommended that users reduce the brightness of the display as much as possible when using electronic devices at night, while reducing the time to use electronic devices before going to bed."

The reason why Apple put Samsung and its own hardware vendors with many partnerships, not Google's “righteous”, in court, is largely because the market share it’s competing for is not limited to the operating platform but the entire mobile market. Digital product market. Even if Google promotes itself and harms its own brand mobile phone developed after Motorola, it can also benefit from the cooperation with hardware giants through the promotion of the Android platform. And Apple is the closed relationship between the products and the operating system. If the other party doesn't use an Apple mobile phone, it means no Apple system. Because of this, the Apple series of lawsuits can achieve the purpose of allowing some mobile phone manufacturers to abandon Android, but can not occupy these Android abandoned market; if the latter does not want to completely out, it is bound to choose other systems - not afraid of Apple series of lawsuits lethal system.

And this kind of system, the real choice probably only has Microsoft WINDOWS8 system. As an overlord of software, Microsoft has no fear of Apple's "patent destruction" and, like Android, it can be used on different platforms. Some analysts have predicted that the "home and away" ruling will allow Microsoft's mobile operating system, which currently only has approximately 10% market share, to increase its market share to 25% within a few years. In fact, at present, Huawei, ZTE, HTC and LG are all seeking to diversify their roads and develop mobile electronic devices using Android and Microsoft systems. As Andrew Mirói, vice president of Frost & Sullivan, a consulting firm in Singapore, said, after this battle, no one would dare to put all the "eggs" in the same "basket."

It should also be noted that in terms of matters, the essence of the dispute between the Apple-Samsung lawsuit is, of course, the game of the operating system market, but the form of expression is the appearance of the small design and other creative details of the "pick the bones." The enormous lethality of this judgment will force hardware developers to pay special attention to the "creative design" of the appearance of the product, so as not to be caught in the handle and become an unlucky fact that "the gods will fight and the devil will suffer". If this "drug is not in the wine," the lawsuit, can eventually lead to hardware manufacturers have to strengthen the concept of independent innovation, and the development of more distinctive product results, it would also be an unexpected gain.