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HTC Sues Apple Using Google Patents
AlienIntelligence writes "Apparently to stay viable in the IP wars, HTC secured some patents from Google (who purchased them originally from Palm Inc., Motorola Inc. and Openwave Systems Inc.) on the 1st of September. The patents were used to fire a new salvo of shots across Apple's bow today, September 7th. HTC filed infringement claims against Apple in federal court in Delaware, suing based on four of those patents that originally were issued to Motorola. Additional complaints were filed with the U.S. ITC based on the other patents."
No point in agruing with Apple loving sycophants like Node3, for them Apple is always right. The funniest bit is his piss poor attempt at denying his blatant Apple can do no worng fanboyism in his sig.
Are you dense? They got these patents from Google on September 1st. Six days later, they're suing. Read between the lines, which you would likely do if these patents were from Microsoft, Apple, or some other Google competitor. If that was the case, this entire comments section would be nothing but talk of "proxy lawsuit."
No, I think very little of Apple and its management but even I trust that Apple knows this.
Why do you imagine Apple cares what you think?
Android is growing in popularity, Iphone has been stagnant over the last year
Selling as many as you can make is anything but stagnant. And iOS is still ahead of Android in marketshare when you include all iOS devices - yet another vector you refuse to consider but is indicative of anything but Apple being stagnant. You can't simply cherry pick which market segment to consider.
Apple has never been able to cope with competition
Becoming larger (in market cap) than any other mobile handset maker, and bigger than Microsoft to boot, coming into the middle of a cutthroat mobile business and handing everyone their asses - all of these things in fact shows not only that Apple can compete against one or many companies, but that few other single companies are capable of really competing against Apple. It takes a consortium like Google and the mass of Android handset makers to even try.
This isn't simply Apple taking it's ball and going home, they want Samsung's bat too.
All they are asking is Samsung to stop making devices that look EXACTLY like the equivalent Apple devices. And they appear to have enough of a case that a few courts agree, which means your assertion has been tested and failed in a court of law.
At best, this is a ruse to keep stock holders from figuring out that Apple has peaked.
Oh really. Well try shorting them then. I think Apple has just gotten started and recently bought even more stock. You truly have no idea what is about to happen, do you?
The reality is there are easily multiple places in the mobile market. The other reality is that very soon Windows Mobile 7 is going to start eating up Android marketshare.
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