Antitrust Investigation of Apple Led Nortel Patent Purchase

[alent1234]

I think the bids Google made were good geek fun. Round numbers don't imply anything. In the background Google had a max $ amount on what they would pay and the bidding eventually went over it.

Good luck to the companies who won the bidding on getting their $4.5B back. I'm sure the analysis done at Google went something along the lines of we'll just infringe, get sued and then pay the few hundred million + licensing and still pay less than $4.5B. And before you jump on Google for this, all companies make these risk/ROI decisions everyday. It's exactly what Apple did with respect to the Nokia patents.

google is not going to infringe, HTC/Motorola/Samsung/LG and other handset makers will.

the idea is to make android too expensive and get them back to WinMo/WP7. RIM and Apple and a few others having access to the patents is just icing on the cake

 

[dethmaShine]

I can't answer the first one, but the second two are pretty easy.

Google can't count a device that is not running any Google services.
Their system is unaware of it.

Calculating activations is similar to how Apple does it.
When you fire up a new Android phone that has official Google apps/services installed, you have to register the device in order to use those services.
Example: It is impossible to access the Android Market via the Market app on the phone without activating it first.

Software upgrades don't require a new registration.

I've upgrade the OS on my Atrix a couple of times already and my registration data is always preserved.
It's kept on a separate partition.
Even if you wipe the phone clean with a fresh install, Google still knows it has been registered before. IMEI numbers don't change

Sounds great. That's what I'd expect but I was quite doubtful of what Google was doing.

Cool.

 

[Dbrown]

Sounds great. That's what I'd expect but I was quite doubtful of what Google was doing.

Cool.

You thought he was lying?

 

[h4lp m3]

I really wish Apple could put aside their differences with Microsoft and Nokia and gang up on Google. I really hate how they operates (especially their non-existent support. ) "Don't be evil" my ass. Google rakes in billions and offers no customer service whatsoever- not even for Android customers or business owners using Google Checkout.

I will laugh when they fall and cry tears of joy.

 

[PhantomPumpkin]

Ssshh! You'll get banned with that talk. Er,... for the record... Apple is wonderful! Apple fanboys are wonderful! All hail Chairman Jobs!

I'm wondering why some people come to a Mac forum simply to troll users. Anything Apple related tends to get it fairly often. I rarely see people trolling any forums for the Windows based machines, or any distro of Linux or Unix either.

I've seen trolls here that have been here for ages. They really must enjoy riling up the crowd.