Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by kodablah on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:57AM (#18067480)

> still blows my mind in it's capabilities.

Just to jog people's memory, patent threats were sent to others doing similar things [0]. Not sure if that represents Shazam or not, but if so, they'll fit in perfectly with Apple.

0 - http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/07/patent-infringement/

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by jakobegger on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:45PM (#18067978)

I thought Apple only went after big companies that copied their design?

I've never heard of Apple threatening individuals in the Open Source community -- am I missing something?

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by kodablah on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:58PM (#18068108)

> am I missing something?

Not particularly. With conditionals added, we can differentiate any behavior and pretend similarities don't exist.

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by nielsbot on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:50AM (#18072866)

Do you have examples? I am not personally aware of any...

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