This is a video of the original iPhone reveal featuring Steve Jobs. In this video, Jobs mesmerizes the audience and viewers by introducing a revolutionary device. The iPhone. Jobs also goes on to say that "and boy have we PATENTED it" referring to the multi-touch technology that Apple engineered.
This is an article from Forbes in 2011. It talks about the different patents that Apple owns and the royalties which Google has to pay to license and create products that use them.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greats...ake-billions-on-googles-android/#78bf9d3b2d17
The irony here being that Android solely exists because of patented innovations that Apple introduced in 2007.
In essence, every Android device ever created is a direct payment to Apple. Apple is Android's daddy.
I didn't watch, and I didn't read this thread. I love my 8 plus, but I think this is a silly statement to make. I don't understand why people invest so much in spending time on forums to prove that their product of choice is the best product. I don't really understand, but anyway....
One can make the argument that Google owns Apple. Google's services are simple the best. Maps, Google Search, Gmail, etc. If, theoretically (because it would never happen) Google removed their services from Apple, Apple would be in trouble (just ask Microsoft and their mobile platform). It a simple truth. Just recently Apple moved its base search via spotlight/siri on the iPhone back to Google. These two companies, IMO, are done fighting like they used to. Now they are just happy making money off/with each other.
None of these companies would be happy if the other disappear/refused to work with them.
- No Google = no google services, world leading AI, etc. People buy iPhone and expect access to Google products. I'd be out the door if Google services disappeared. You may not agree, but a large % of the user base does. Ever been told to go "google" something?
- No Apple? No apple hardware which leverages Google services and makes Google money.
-No Samsung? Google is unhappy, as Samsung provides class leading hardware on the Android side, and is the largest o face of Android. Apple (as well as google, and other companies) would be in trouble as well. No Samsung? No iPhone X, at least not yet. Samsung provides screens, cameras, memory, ssds, etc. Literally every single phone OEM probably uses something from Samsung. At least a large majority.
-No Microsoft? No Office....Macs and iPhone would loose a large professional base. Companies are not going to switch to Apple's work suite over Office.
-No Sony? Their goes the majority of camera sensors we see in high end phones.
-No LG? Their goes Apple's future supply of OLED, Google's supply of OLED, etc.
-No Qualcomm? There goes the processors for most high end android phones. There goes Apple's may supplier of wireless modems (for now at least).
Do you see the point? Beyond this thread being useless, these companies literally depend on each other. These companies also do what they can to be independent of each other. We can see benefits from this, such as the A11 processor, and possible lower cost. But you never want this dependence, as well as competition to disappear. It works in favor of the consumer.
Apple doesn't own Android, not even a little. The patent war is is in the past, and good thing. The more royalties a company pays, the higher price the consumer pays.
