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Apple Overturns Motorola's German iPad and iPhone Sales Bans
SpuriousLogic sends this excerpt from a BBC article detailing the suspension of a sales ban on certain Apple products in Germany:
"Motorola Mobility had forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store [yesterday] after enforcing a patent infringement court ruling delivered in December. An appeals court lifted the ban after Apple made a new license payment offer. However, Germany-based users may still face the loss of their push email iCloud service after a separate ruling. 'A suspension like this is available only against a bond, but Apple is almost drowning in cash and obviously won't have had a problem with obtaining and posting a bond.' ... A statement from Apple said: 'All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple's online store in Germany shortly.'"
Reader DJRumpy points out that Motorola is seeking royalties of 2.25% for Apple's wireless devices in exchange for a license to use Motorola's patents.
Just makes them seem like hypocrites and frankly, douches.
Doesn't matter. Just like nerds feel proud to be nerds, Apple douches feel proud to be Apple douches.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
2.25% of a billion dollars is 22.5 million dollars. that is just enough money for some hedge fund douchebag to buy another house in connecticut, pay his child support to his 3 ex wives, hush money to his two favorite prostitutes, and still have enough left over to buy a week's worth of cocaine and diamond encrusted ice cream at some shitty, over-baroque palace in Las Vegas or Dubai.