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imagine all that money they spent on lawsuits to be spent on research and charity?
by amaks 12y ago
imagine all that money they spent on lawsuits to be spent on research and charity?
- melling 12y agoImagine all the time wasted here that could be spent on research, charity, and product development.
- rayiner 12y ago> http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303997604579242393615502208?mobile=y http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303997604579242... Apple spent like $60 million on the Samsung litigation. Its a drop in the bucket compared to how much they spend on R&D (50-60 times as much).
- sillysaurus3 12y agoDoes Apple really spend $3B+ on R&D? That's interesting.
- sroerick 12y agoYeah, but the Samsung litigation is not the only patent affairs that Apple has. http://www.androidauthority.com/google-apple-spend-patents-120824/ http://www.androidauthority.com/google-apple-spend-patents-1...
- rayiner 12y agoI've seen that article and its bunk. It takes too completely different things and adds them together to say "Apple and Google spend $20 billion on patent litigation." For example they count the Motorola acquisition as $12 billion (IIRC) towards that amount.
- jolohaga 12y agoThe worthless iPhone argument
- jscheng 12y agoYeah, so worthless that it created an entire industry.