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Are you saying that shareholders are twisting Steve Jobs' arm, forcing him to sue HTC? My humble guess is that Steve Jobs would, in fact, not have been thrown
by tjogin 17y ago
Are you saying that shareholders are twisting Steve Jobs' arm, forcing him to sue HTC?
My humble guess is that Steve Jobs would, in fact, not have been thrown ass-first out of Apple had he not.
Apple did this because they wanted to, not because anyone else pressured them into it.
- dustingetz 17y agoapple did this because they thought enforcement would make money for its shareholders
- lucifer 17y agoNo, he's saying that Jobs has a fiduciary obligation to protect the interests of Apple, and that given the reality of tech business, he must play the patent game. Every other tech company does it; why hold Apple to an exceptional standard? The OP is not making an ethical or moral critique. As regards to Apple, he's merely saying "in the long-term" it is bad business as Apple will experience a brain drain, and, there is an implicit shaming aspect (remember those blue boxes Steve? ;) by pointing out past actions of Steve Jobs himself.
- anatoly 17y agoEvery other tech company does it; why hold Apple to an exceptional standard? Is that really true? Can you cite Google suing to enforce a patent? What about HTC iself?
- lucifer 17y agoGoogle is a pretty young company: can you cite a consistent pattern in their past that would argue they would never do so? (I can cite this: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-03/google-wants-u-s-to-weigh-challenging-china-in-wto-update2-.html http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-03/google-wants-u-s...) How about this? http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=an%2Fgoogle&d=PG01 http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec... Why is Google applying for patents? For fun? HTC was already mentioned in the article: they are young and do not have the patent portfolio to play with the big boys.
- anatoly 17y agoWait-wait-wait. So is every other company doing this or aren't they? You're moving the goalposts pretty fast here. Google is young (>10 years), but they have a large portfolio. But you can't find a "pattern that would argue they would never do so"? And that proves that Apple is doing really just the same thing everybody else are? The fact that others really aren't, but you can't find a proof that they never would?
- barrkel 17y agoHow do you know that this action by Apple will result in a positive outcome long-term? It's already hurting their public perception among developers, and in time, it'll hurt their workforce. And that's assuming they don't lose.