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"Are you trying to say, that Apple was not aware about the thing called turn-by-turn navigation before Android?" Are you trying to say that Google was not awar
by SquareWheel 14y ago
"Are you trying to say, that Apple was not aware about the thing called turn-by-turn navigation before Android?"
Are you trying to say that Google was not aware of universal search?
http://www.google.com/patents/US8086604 http://www.google.com/patents/US8086604
- fpgeek 14y agoWell, to be fair, the filing date on that patent is Dec 1, 2004. Absent genuine industrial espionage, it would have been rather hard for the Google Desktop team to have been aware of it in October 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop Or are you saying Google should have checked for new patents (and patent applications - this wasn't issued until December 2011) before re-implementing something they'd already done on the desktop on an Android phone?