It would be naive to think that Google doesn't put its own interests first. That's the nature of any public corporation. However, there's a world of difference

It would be naive to think that Google doesn't put its own interests first. That's the nature of any public corporation. However, there's a world of difference between corporations competing in the marketplace and winning by providing superior value for the customer and using a patent system pretty much everybody acknowledges is broken to have a second turn at bat after their own product strategies have failed. Until recently there was a gentleman's agreement among the big tech companies that patents weren't to be used offensively. We all suffer when every trivial detail of any software product is open to expensive litigation.