Oh good I am glad. This is exactly what Apple deserves. If Apple is going to play the 'lets block it's sales' tactics then I'm very glad Google will play the patent game but quietly.
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HTC Cites Patents Obtained From Google in New Lawsuit Against Apple
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Who are 'people'? People from the US? I live in Taoyuan Taiwan and people love Apple products here but they also hate paying an arm and a leg for an unlocked phone (all phones are sold unlocked here). Some just want a cheaper phone with less features and go for android. Anyway we need some competition in order to have innovation. If not iPhone 4 4ever.
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Who are 'people'? People from the US? I live in Taoyuan Taiwan and people love Apple products here but they also hate paying an arm and a leg for an unlocked phone (all phones are sold unlocked here). Some just want a cheaper phone with less features and go for android. Anyway we need some competition in order to have innovation. If not iPhone 4 4ever.
I won't say who I think is wrong or right in this specific instance, but I do think the patent (and copyright etc) system in fundamentally broken.
It is supposed to encourage development, healthy competition and giving an incentive to people/companies to make the world better for all of us.
Does it work that way? Nope.
Instead it hinders competition, hurts the real inventors, creates these kind of crappy "patent wars" and in the end stifles development and makes the world a worse place. I think it's time to reform the patent (and also copyright) laws so they work like they're supposed to.
Unfortunately I thinks it's going to be much worse before it gets better.
It is supposed to encourage development, healthy competition and giving an incentive to people/companies to make the world better for all of us.
Does it work that way? Nope.
Instead it hinders competition, hurts the real inventors, creates these kind of crappy "patent wars" and in the end stifles development and makes the world a worse place. I think it's time to reform the patent (and also copyright) laws so they work like they're supposed to.
Unfortunately I thinks it's going to be much worse before it gets better.
oh those pesky facts get in the way. Android was liked over seas.
I was glad when AT&T lost its iPhone exclusive. Right after the threat became real AT&T started selling some real Android phones. The first good Android phone AT&T got was the Samsung Capitivated and this year they started selling quite a few and added a lot to the list.
Simple fact is Android is popular and people like it.
My brother who has a 3GS has been talking with me and has pretty much desided to say screw the iPhone 5 because all signs point to it being a minor update and he is thinking of Galaxy S 2 when it gets on AT&T
LOL! Nice try.
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HTC is clearly not a patent troll. I'd say they're more of a Google sock puppet.
"Hi, we're HTC--quietly brilliant... and also doing whatever Google tells us to do."
What is wrong with you guys?
What is it with people thinking software, files and ideas-put-into-practice should be free? Apple is in the business of invention, and they deserve what they earn. Someone actually wrote on this thread that what HTC has done by copying just about everything that Apple has created as being "good for competition". Geezus, man, go criminals, go.
What is it with people thinking software, files and ideas-put-into-practice should be free? Apple is in the business of invention, and they deserve what they earn. Someone actually wrote on this thread that what HTC has done by copying just about everything that Apple has created as being "good for competition". Geezus, man, go criminals, go.
I believe Apple OS with graphic interface came first but others like Commodore or Atari (not the current one, Inforgames bought the name Atari and renamed itself) might have been before Apple.
Don't believe me? Klick here!
Microsoft owns zero of Apple. They had a one time $150 million infusion of non-voting share investment, back in 1997 that Bill and Steve announced in Boston.
They sold it the next year.
They sold it the next year.
Nothing's happened yet.
Not yet............
Apple will loose, they are going to loose market share to Android sooner or later too, and when Samsung have it's day in court and beat Apple........
I would imagine Google is beginning to get annoyed with Apple, it's gonna be fun watching them slay each other!
Reading the comments of these butt-hurt apple fanboys is really entertaining. Its like they willingly and blindly support Big Brother at any cost and Big Brother can do no wrong. Also, choice is a bad thing apparently.
Nah, it's all fair and square. Let the courts figure it out and help everyone clarify their positions.
This is actually a good thing. We'll see who stands where and who owns what, and who needs to change up their game.
This is why the system exists. Let all parties test each others' IP.
I have no facts, but wouldn't MS have to of done that anyway under competition rules? As in sell the shares after a set period?
Again for the people just tuning in : Android is an operating system, a piece of software. iPhone is a mobile handset, a piece of hardware.
Android is not a copy of the iPhone. That would be like saying Photoshop is a copy of a Logitech mouse.
Now I know why Steve Jobs resigned as CEO. Go out while on top, cuz the future looks bleak for Apple. Its only a matter of time before Apple's locked down 1984-George-Orwell like ways are taken over by... you know, CHOICE.
I think you'll find Apple has started more of these little patent lawsuits than HTC...so based on your own definition of 'patent troll', Apple is worse
if you want to create a phone that looks and works like the iPhone, maybe ... just maybe you should license some patent from Apple.
Who are you to say that there's no other way to make a smartphone? go spend some R&D dollars on making a brain controlled smartphone. Collect money from Apple when they want to make a brain controlled smartphone.