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Google, Motorola Ordered To Provide Android Info To Apple
snydeq writes "A U.S. judge has ordered Motorola Mobility and Google to turn over information to Apple on Google's acquisition in 2005 of Android, its development of the Android OS and the proposed acquisition of Motorola. According to Motorola, the information Apple seeks regarding Google's acquisition of Motorola and Android is not relevant to any damages asserted in the case."
This comes alongside news that Apple has offered licensing deals to Motorola and Samsung that would resolve some of the patent litigation. Apple is reportedly asking for $5-$15 per device sold.
What....wait a minute. Neither company as in Apple and Microsoft???
Microsoft has leeched for years off Apple. Google its todays Microsoft and they are leeching off Apple now. Get your story straight!! Google is stealing and now buying companies for their patents because Google can't innovate and create anything.
They are copying Apple, hopefully that is what you meant!!
Except that android is a blatant rip of apple from when schmidt was on the board. Pretty cool when you're a board member and have access to source code.
Everyone who whines about the design and interface patents that Apple is enforcing needs to look at this photo of "smart" phones before and after the iphone introduction:
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/24/photo-of-phones-before-and-aft.html
Now yes people may have had the odd feature that kinda sort looked like an iphone or worked a little like an iphone. but Seriously are you going to argue that apple did not set the standard as it were. Don't you think they have a right to profit from taking that risk, developing thier human interfaces over decades and applying those to the iphone to create such a seamless interface. If not then why did everyone copy it?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Microsoft has a product that you may have heard of. It's called Exchange. Both Apple and Google pay a licensing fee to Microsoft to use Exchange ActiveSync. It mutually benefits all sides (seller and buyer). Now Apple has products that you may have heard of. They're called iOS patents, which are a proxy for the iOS features. Google and its minions should pay a licensing fee to use them. That is how capitalism works. If you think that's crazy, then I know where you stand, comrade.
A case of Google abusing their patent repetoir. Though it is not a lawsuit involving a search patent, it does demonstrate the GP's point.
hey andydread or should I say android-head? if schmidt didn't get a DVD with the source code, how were they able to create android so quickly from scratch? how come so many of the features and API are the same word for word? and how come he used to be on the board, but was fired?
I don't contest that the system is screwed. I do contest that Google is innocent. Even this company that strives to do no evil falls into the same pattern as everyone else, as that is the only course of action that allows survival in todays market. There is indeed no chance in hell for us.
sorry, i didn't realize that clearly articulated logical points were considered trolling,,, but maybe that's the new standard these days? is it easier to throw around ad-hominems than reply to straightforward assertions?
Jeez. If you are going to bash Apple for suing Samsung for copying the form of the iPad almost completely just using inferior materials then at least get what the legal action was about right. The suit was based on copyright, not on a patent on a device with rounded corners. Samsung have pretty much tried to make their devices look like iPhones/iPads and skin Android to make it look like iOS which was pretty dumb.
You may think me a tired, old, cynic. I'd have to disagree about the tired bit.