First, this is great news for Microsoft and Meego. When manufacturers will start to get really sued for all the patent issues Google ignores, they will look at other possibilities. HTC has always been both Android and Windows Phone 7 supporter, so they will drop Android and just make Windows Phone 7 devices. So will all the other manufacturers. Developers will also jump ship to Microsoft and WP7 when they see the development platform - it's free of all the malware, piracy and other shit that Android market and freeloader userbase is filled with. They will absolutely love to use Visual Studio and C# instead of that crap and slow programming language called Java. Developers matter and Microsoft takes care of them.
Secondly, this is also bad news WebM. It's clear, like the summary states, that Google doesn't care about patent issues and this shows it even more. This careless approach from Google is just going to make manufacturers, website owners and companies avoid WebM at all costs. This will lead them to take H.264, which is pretty much guaranteed not to have any legal issues. Google is destroying their other projects too, not only Android.
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There are actually two issues here.
First, this is great news for Microsoft and Meego. When manufacturers will start to get really sued for all the patent issues Google ignores, they will look at other possibilities. HTC has always been both Android and Windows Phone 7 supporter, so they will drop Android and just make Windows Phone 7 devices. So will all the other manufacturers. Developers will also jump ship to Microsoft and WP7 when they see the development platform - it's free of all the malware, piracy and other shit that Android market and freeloader userbase is filled with. They will absolutely love to use Visual Studio and C# instead of that crap and slow programming language called Java. Developers matter and Microsoft takes care of them.
Secondly, this is also bad news WebM. It's clear, like the summary states, that Google doesn't care about patent issues and this shows it even more. This careless approach from Google is just going to make manufacturers, website owners and companies avoid WebM at all costs. This will lead them to take H.264, which is pretty much guaranteed not to have any legal issues. Google is destroying their other projects too, not only Android.