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They are fearful maybe because they might be beaten by the small player.

reaganing 14y ago
Samsung's a bit larger than Apple. And Apple has said before that they'd rather have these companies (Samsung, HTC, etc) make a license agreement for the patents (like Microsoft's and HTC's deal with each other) rather than sue them or try to block the sale of their products. It's not like Apple's the only one that does this either, most recently Motorola/Google tried to block iPhone/iPad sales in Germany over iCloud.
- bad_user 14y ago
  Our industry is quickly becoming a clusterfuck of lawsuits, so I don't understand why you feel the need to excuse Apple's behavior by pointing fingers, when they started this whole mess in the first place. I don't see how the old proverb "you get what you sow" doesn't apply here. Also, what was Google's involvement in this? Stop reading the blogs of shills.
  - reaganing 14y ago
    Google owns Motorola Mobility, one can assume they have some say in these recent suits. I think this whole thing (companies suing each other over things like this) is wrong, but It's how the system works and so Apple has to play as well.
- novalis 14y ago
  Suing over "auto-correcting typed text" features, come on. I think they are the only ones doing this sort of thing at the moment, it is patent trolling at its worst with entry level features. We are not talking about defending any sort of innovation here, it is simply gaming a flawed system to hold on to sales while keeping direct competition down.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y ago
  1) Apple is the largest company in the world (by market cap - Samsung $120bn approx, Apple $540bn). Specific to smartphones, Samsung ship more smartphones (by unit), Apple have higher revenues and profits from smartphones. 2) Apple have expressly stated that they have no interest in licensing their patents to Android manufacturers.
  - reaganing 14y ago
    They offered to license patents recently, http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/03/though-steve-jobs-famously-told/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/03/though-steve-jobs-famou... And the Samsung conglomerate is huge, with $220 billion in yearly revenue and ~350000 employees. Apple's revenue in 2011 was half that.

Samsung's a bit larger than Apple. And Apple has said before that they'd rather have these companies (Samsung, HTC, etc) make a license agreement for the patents (like Microsoft's and HTC's deal with each other) rather than sue them or try to block the sale of their products. It's not like Apple's the only one that does this either, most recently Motorola/Google tried to block iPhone/iPad sales in Germany over iCloud.

bad_user 14y ago
Our industry is quickly becoming a clusterfuck of lawsuits, so I don't understand why you feel the need to excuse Apple's behavior by pointing fingers, when they started this whole mess in the first place. I don't see how the old proverb "you get what you sow" doesn't apply here. Also, what was Google's involvement in this? Stop reading the blogs of shills.
- reaganing 14y ago
  Google owns Motorola Mobility, one can assume they have some say in these recent suits. I think this whole thing (companies suing each other over things like this) is wrong, but It's how the system works and so Apple has to play as well.
novalis 14y ago
Suing over "auto-correcting typed text" features, come on. I think they are the only ones doing this sort of thing at the moment, it is patent trolling at its worst with entry level features. We are not talking about defending any sort of innovation here, it is simply gaming a flawed system to hold on to sales while keeping direct competition down.
Tyrannosaurs 14y ago
1) Apple is the largest company in the world (by market cap - Samsung $120bn approx, Apple $540bn). Specific to smartphones, Samsung ship more smartphones (by unit), Apple have higher revenues and profits from smartphones. 2) Apple have expressly stated that they have no interest in licensing their patents to Android manufacturers.
- reaganing 14y ago
  They offered to license patents recently, http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/03/though-steve-jobs-famously-told/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/03/though-steve-jobs-famou... And the Samsung conglomerate is huge, with $220 billion in yearly revenue and ~350000 employees. Apple's revenue in 2011 was half that.