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Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features
walterbyrd writes "The latest in the ridiculous saga of the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung, which has resulted in Samsung phones and tablets being banned from sale in the U.S. is that Samsung, with the help of Google, has been pushing out an over-the-air software update to make its phones worse. Yes, the OTA update is designed to take away a feature, in an effort to convince the judge that the phones no longer violate Apple's patents. The feature in question? The ability to do a single search that covers both the local device and the internet."
It's not nice to say this about Google & Samsung.
But they should really licence the patents required to keep the full functionality of the phone and not take away features from the end users.
If Samsung's profit margins are so slim on those devices that they cannot afford a few pennies for this patent, they are doing something wrong.
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People seem to forget that Motorola AKA Google's mobile division has threaten to sue people over patents that they agreed to license under FRAND. Half the reason that Google bought MMI is because they threaten to sue other Android manufacturers.
That sort of behavior only needs defending against the government. It is right and proper for private citizens to attack it: saying "Apple is evil and bad and you shouldn't buy their iShit" is very different than adding "... and the government oughta stop them".