My knee-jerk response was "an escalation of Apple's holy war on Android," but perhaps this is the first phase in a deescalation. Tim Cook has said he prefers to

My knee-jerk response was "an escalation of Apple's holy war on Android," but perhaps this is the first phase in a deescalation. Tim Cook has said he prefers to settle rather than battle, and what better way to bring HTC and Samsung to the table than with the acquisition of a not-so-subtle guillotine forged from key LTE patents?