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This is a good point. $600m is nothing for Apple or Google. Could they have legally bought them without getting into a monopoly mess, though?
by kingcharles 5y ago
This is a good point. $600m is nothing for Apple or Google. Could they have legally bought them without getting into a monopoly mess, though?
- 908B64B197 5y agoMaybe BlackBerry tried to charge too much (because they know Apple or Google have deep pockets) and Apple or Google decided it would cost them less to litigate or pay the troll. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if BlackBerry had more lawyers than engineers at this point.
- prepend 5y agoI think they couldn’t monetize because of the reputational damage of trying to extract over them. So it would just be defensive. Thus my thinking that they looked it and didn’t think they needed defending.